Welcome to the this week’s Quotes of the Week: What’s a Tester’s Job, Poor software screening, Google and “Dogfoods” and more.
What’s a testers’ job?
Testers: your job is not to verify that the product meets the requirements, but *to challenge that idea that it does*. #testing #agile
— Michael Bolton (@michaelbolton) June 28, 2015
Michael Bolton asks a question that received a lot of debate. What do testers work to?
Pakistani Bank Fined for Poor Software Screening
“The bank agreed to settle the “apparent violations” of sanctions with US authorities on Thursday without really investigating the reason for the penalty”
A report by Masood Haider on how a failure to implement the correct screening of its software resulted in the bank being fined by the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). The bank had inadvertently allowed money transfer by the Kyrgyzstan airline, Kyrgyz Trans Avia which have been blacklisted in the U.S. Read More here
Another Report on the Growing Software Testing Industry
“The report also covers information about the geographical segmentation of the Global Software Testing market in the Telecom sector based on three key regions.”
A report by TechNavio specifically looking at the Telecom industry has suggested that the industry will grow by 7.5% up to 2018. Looking at both the fixed Network Software Testing and Mobile Network Software Testing as well as different regions, the report suggests that the market for software testing in telecoms is growing steadily. Read More here.
Google and “DogFoods”
“To get a product to launch, you have to garner the will of a bunch of Googlers…so, it had to be something that Googlers would want to use.”
A former executive at Google explains why some products at Google don’t succeed with the general public. Like other software companies, Google use the process of “Dogfooding” its own products to its staff. This basically internal testing of products before they are developed further. The problem as this former executive suggested is that as many at Google come from an engineering background, they want a product with lots of features whereas the public may want a simpler product. Read More here.
Use Your Face to Make Purchases
“The new generation, which is into selfies . . . I think they’ll find it cool. They’ll embrace it”
MasterCard are working on creating facial recognition software that could be in use as early as this autumn in the United States. Ajay Bhalla, MasterCard President of Enterprise Safety and Security states that the company is designing sofware that will allows a MasterCard holder to simply hold up their phone, see a mirror image inside a designated circle, blink once, and have the transaction complete. Read More here.
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