QA & Reengineering

Primarily for students of Software QA and Reengineering courses at @UoLInformatics.

[QA & Reengineering @SoftEngLeic]

"A million-row limit on Microsoft’s Excel spreadsheet software may have led to Public Health England misplacing nearly 16,000 Covid test results, it is understood." – Who is in fault when the row limit is written in the specs? https://t.co/jS7SfySBTi

[Kamil Kisiel (кисель) 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @kisielk]

When you're getting ready to start refactoring some legacy code...

[BadTesting® @BadTesting]

American Airlines passengers stranded after software update glitch cancels hundreds of flights https://t.co/1ERp8Yr0E1 via @Fox35News

[BadTesting® @BadTesting]

High tech lock is "invincible to people who do not have a screwdriver" https://t.co/yqXuOL257n by @Frauenfelder via @BoingBoing

[QA & Reengineering @SoftEngLeic]

Welsh police using facial recognition wrongly identify thousands as potential criminals

https://t.co/wlkRfYqNfB

[Hacker News Bot @newsycombinator]

An API Journey: From Idea to Deployment the Agile Way https://t.co/gIRFVOsqti

[David Amador 🐙 @DJ_Link]

Bugs that were turned into features:
GTA 1 was initially planned as missions played as cop or criminal, testers felt game was boring. Later a bug started causing police AI to drive more recklessly and pursue the player persistently. They polished that part and changed the game

[QA & Reengineering @SoftEngLeic]

https://t.co/tNklTWmygI

[QA & Reengineering @SoftEngLeic]

Botched software migration leads to data breaches and leaves scores of users without access to banking services:
https://t.co/cMxu4kQpq8

[BadTesting® @BadTesting]

Facebook Blames a 'Bug' for Not Deleting Your Seemingly Deleted Videos https://t.co/cQsPCy49av by @paleofuture via @gizmodo

[John Arundel @bitfield]

If you think you're on the project from hell, this will cheer you up:

* 6M lines of obsolete flavour C++
* 50K classes
* CORBA
* 48hr build time
* Average dev turnover 3 months
* 35 managers for 25 developers
* Fired if you arrive at 9.01am

https://t.co/2GwkLCcYCT

[University of Leicester CMS @UoLCMS]

We are advertising two European Council funded Ph.D. studentships in Formal Verification (Automatic Generation of Programs) with Dr. Nir Piterman:

https://t.co/3WGbVuum9j

Please RT!

[Max Di Penta @mdipenta]

Software glitch cost Hamilton victory – Mercedes https://t.co/A4NxCSL1bP

[Moshe Vardi @vardi]

Self-Driving Uber Car Kills Arizona Pedestrian https://t.co/LUXzzoP2gC

[Arie van Deursen @avandeursen]

Frederieke Ubels (https://t.co/AdjMqpaLE8): “When you’re estimating effort, what are you estimating? Have you ever thought about that?” https://t.co/IxEUDZSqF0

[Drew Conway @drewconway]

Never deploy on a Friday night. https://t.co/QVYtgsZ7kB

[Ian Stark @ianstk]

Favourite Javascript of the day.
https://t.co/5la3SrHPme

[QA & Reengineering @SoftEngLeic]

New generation of Swiss SBB trains by Bombardier plagued by software problems (in German) https://t.co/nTP18OuqVv

[QA & Reengineering @SoftEngLeic]

Microsoft disables Spectre patches by Intel due to 'instability': https://t.co/cnuUiNUU0Z

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

In 1999 NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter accidentally entered Mars atmosphere and disintegrated due to ground-based software which produced output in non-SI units of pound (force)-sec instead of the SI units of Newton-sec. This bug cost NASA $328 M.