On this week’s Quotes of the Week: SD Times editorialises on the ISO debate, another wide-affecting software bug is found and a introduction to a new practical software testing method.
Editorial on ISO 29119
“The grand joke around the entire ISO 29119 hubbub is that the vast majority of testers have no dog in the fight.” – SD Times
The Editors of the SD Times wrote an editorial piece on the software testing standards recently. The editors suggest that the disagreements about the ISO standards within the software testing community have left a lot of testers sitting in the middle ground that have not or decided to not engage in the debate. You can read the editorial here.
Another Week, Another Serious Software Bug
“If Heartbleed and Shellshock were a 10, this is about a five,” – Alan Woodward, security researcher, University of Surrey.
A new software bug has emerged that may danger users online activities including email, banking and social media. The bug is embedded in web-encryption technology. The bug named “Poodle” an acronym standing for Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption was discover by Google engineers in within an 18-year-old encryption standard known as SSL 3.0. Google have released a security notice about the bug. However as SSL 3.0 has been replaced mainly by TLS, it is believed only about 1% of internet users could be affected by it.
The most embarrassing Software bugs in History
“The Washington Monument moved across the street. Riverside Hospital appeared in Jacksonville, Fla., even though it had become a Publix supermarket 11 years earlier.“
Scientific American David Pogue highlights some of the widest reaching and most embarrassing software bugs in history including Apple’s famous Maps App that launched in 2012 but was not as accurate as it hoped to be. You can read the full article here
A new Practical Method of software Testing
“This software could help us speed up the claims process and help put people back to where they were before the event” – Kathleen Swain, USAA property and casualty group underwriter
Lead researcher Christopher Paulk of Texas A&M University’s Automated Fabrication & Design Lab, along with some student employees is helping an insurance company test software used to evaluate storm-damaged roofs from a drone-mounted camera. He along with other employees have built a 30-foot-long, 10-foot-tall trailer, with a number of separate roofs on hinges that can allow the researchers to examine the effects of hurricanes on roofs via drones. The idea behind the software is that machines can get to a damaged aread quicker that humans and thus damage can be assessed remotely. Read more about the work here.
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