Welcome to the this week’s Quotes of the Week: Mobile testing in an Agile world, Another bug in Bloodborne, and the U.S. Military aim to create self-enhancing software.
IBM testing AI software that mimics Human Brain
“It can make sense of data more quickly than competitors, which have to be fed tons of examples, before they can see patterns and handle their jobs. As such, Numenta’s algorithms can potentially give rise to more intelligent software.”
IBM are currently testing Numenta, a new software developed by Numenta. The software has gained a reputation for being remarkably similar in its working to the human brain. IBM’s tests in the software include feeding it satellite imagery of crops where the software can spot early signs of malfunctioning field machinery. The software has been suggested to be more like the human brain as it does not need hundreds of thousands of examples before it can spot a pattern. Read More Here.
Mobile testing in an agile world
“Agile increases the relentless rate at which new application releases and updates are generated, which must be tested against a plethora of new mobile devices continually being introduced to the market.”
Tom Fisher comments on the rise of mobile testing and how using an Agile methdology can be difficult when testing in mobile across many different platforms. Read More Here.
HP’s New Software For Mobile App Developers
“The challenge of delivering quality applications is made more difficult by the number of devices each app needs to be tested on, as well as the proliferation of networks, operating systems and platforms in the market.”
HP have announced a range of new software for both Mobile developers and testers. The HP App Pulse Mobile solution is designed to make developing and testing App easier and quicker for users. Read More Here.
Another bug in Bloodborne
“A new bug was discovered recently that makes the game’s bosses as easy as Sunday morning.”
Probably the two most talked about software bugs this year both relate to the same console game. Another bug has been discovered in Bloodborne. This bug reduces the ability of the bosses in the games to sometimes single moves which can be easily overcome. The bug occurs if the game is left running for 12 hours or more. Read More Here.
U.S. Military aim to create Self-Enhancing Software
“Dubbed “Building Resource Adaptive Software Systems” (BRASS),the project will look into the creation of a new software stack that can automatically make use of hardware upgrades and advancements in software engineering without the need for major rewrites, or the addition of layers and layers of hacks for decades on end.”
The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) branch of the U.S. Military is planning to develop a software that can self-enhance without the need for humans to re-write code for the software. In what sounds eerily similar to the plot of the Terminator films, the plan is for the software to outlive its creators and be able to manage technology crises like the Y2K bug. Read More Here.
Why does Google Have Bugs in Its Products?
“Even great engineering teams can “fall behind” on feature development and bug fixes because of the huge amount of maintenance work that accrues as code bases increase in size.”
Andrew Cohen offers his opinion on why large companies still encounter bugs and can afford to ignore many of them while small companies and start-up’ do not have that luzury. Read More Here.
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