Welcome to the this week’s Quotes of the Week: An Alternative life of one software tester, New report on the future of software testing and more.
The Most Surreal Alternative Life of a Software Tester
“This week, though, Wansley started a new job — but it doesn’t have much to do with music. Instead of belting out “this is f–king awesome” on stage in front of thousands of screaming fans, the musician will now spend Monday through Friday at a desk inside Tableau Software as a quality-assurance engineer.”
The singer of the chorus on the Mackelmore song “Thrift Shop” Wanz is returning to his former career as a software tester after three years dedicating himself to music touring with Macklemore and producing his own music. He explains in an article on Geek Wire how he adjusting returning to software testing. Read More here.
A New Report on the Software Testing Market
“Global Outsourced Software Testing Services Market 2015-2019 to grow at a CAGR of 10.25% over the period 2014-2019.”
A new report has just been published on the outlook for the out-sourced software testing market in the coming years. The market is set to grow by a rate of 10% over the coming years. Read More here.
Nokia are Hiring
“CEO Rajeev Suri is internally preparing and building the teams he needs for a jump back into the mobile phone market when a non-compete deal with Microsoftends in late 2016.”
Nokia are planning a return to the mobile market in 2017 when their non-compete clause ends with Microsoft. The company plans to bring out some new products to the mobile arena. Once the largest mobile phone manufactures in the world, the company now make most of their revenue from selling telecom network equipment to operators like Vodafone. Read More here
RayGun hits 10 Billion Bugs
New Zealand company Raygun has celebrated identifying 10 Billion Bugs. The company works as a third party for large software companies to identify bugs in software. Their clients include Apple and Microsoft. Chief executive and co-founder John-Daniel Trask says the biggest challenge the company faces is “working out how to handle the three to five billion pieces of data the new service was expected to generate each day.” Read More here
Microsoft Upgrades its Bug Bounty Programme
“Microsoft is offering a bonus for Authentication vulnerabilities in the Online Services Bug Bounty. Payouts during this period will be twice the normal amount meaning researchers can, for example, earn up to $30,000 for an Authentication vulnerability submission”
Microsft has made a number of changes to its bug bounty programme which means that there are potentially more rewards for bug hunters this year. As well as raising the maximum Bounty for Defense reward from $50,000 to $100,000, the company is also offering the above bonuses. It’s no coincidence that this comes at the same time as the launch of Windows 10. Read More here
Apple’s Mac OS 10.10 vulnerable to AdWare
“The latest security problem for Mac OS originates in the code that Apple wrote in the 10.10 system software that bypasses the kinds of privilege checking done in other parts of the OS.”
Mac users are beginning to face the same issues that Windows users have had to face for years. Another vulnerability has been found on the latest version of its OS which leave it exposed to AdWare. The bug was found by Malwarebytes who discovered that the bug is hidden in an adware installer the firm was researching. Read More here.
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