On this week’s Quotes of the Week: Bugs that lasted too long, Testing on the Toilet spreads to a winder audience and more…
The Oldest software Bugs in the World
“For a variety of reasons, bugs can go undetected, or sometimes simply be ignored, for quite a long time in even the most widely used and critical pieces of code.”
Jounalist Phil Johnson compiles a list of the 10 “Superbugs”; software bugs that stayed around for a much longer time than they should have. Read the Full List here.
Ex-Googlers brings Testing on the Toilet to a Wider Audience
“Every week, a group of Googlers would plaster the walls of bathroom stalls worldwide with one-page sheets that shared the week’s testing tip.”
Former Google engineer Edmond Lau describes how the testers at Google got software engineers thinking about different approaches to testing. The “Testing in The Toilet” initiative has too on a life of its own and has now spread to other companies in silicon valley and beyond. Read more here.
Bug Accidentally shuts down Military Open Source Portal
“We believe little or no data will be lost as a result“
A military spokesperson reacts after a software bug accidentally shut down the U.S. military’s own open source software development portal. A automated script run on Sunday damaged the system with the back-up system also failing. The portal site is similar in design to to open-source code repository SourceForge.com and lets military personnel worldwide securely access and tweak code for various military projects. Read more about the story here.
New Nexus 6 Features New Software Bug!
In the U.S. the newly launched Nexus 6 had a software bug that prevented it from booting or it constantly rebooted. Stranglely the issue was only a AT&T problem suggesting that the phones shipped to that network only had this bug. Read more about the story here.
A software bug spurred the birth of Twitter’s search Engine
“Paul Burstein was trying to fix a software bug, and Twitter was helping him out”
Thus begins the story of how Burstein came to work for Twitter and build its new search engine that has the ability to search every tweet ever sent on the platform. Burnstein was not even working for Twitter at the time of his idea to build the search engine. To read the full story of how the company managed to build a database that has to accommodate millions of new tweets sent every second, see the link here.
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