Welcome to our weekly software testing Quotes of the Week and testing news where we bring you all the latest headlines related to software testing. This week MIT new Ruby on Rails bug finder, Microsoft fix an annoying bug and the f-35 fails to take off.
MIT have developed a Bug Finder for Ruby on The Rails
“When you look at something like a Web application written in language like Ruby on Rails, if you try to do a conventional static analysis, you typically find yourself mired in this huge bog”
Researchers at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a bug finder for Ruby on the Rails. Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Daniel Jackson, explains why his researchers tackled this problem. The team plan to demonstrate their findings soon.
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BugCrowd Raises $15 Million for Bug Bounty Efforts
“How we do things today is we prove a concept manually first, apply human intelligence to the problem set and then take the repeatable learnings and codify that”
BugCrowd CEO and founder Casey Ellsi explains how his BugCrowd platform works. His company was in the news at they have just raised $15 million in Series B funding. Casey has picked a great time to raise funds as the importance of bugs for large corporations has become more of a public matter. Read More here
Microsoft Eventually Fixes That Skype Bug
A bug that has been in Skype for about two years has finally been fixed. The bug which meant that the web version of Skype would ring continuously if a call was answered on another device. Brad Sams reports on how he tested to see if the bug was fixed. Read More here
Developing The Diamond Project
“The problem is that these systems’ complexity, openness and dynamic nature makes it hard to test them—it’s extremely difficult to assess what a new system’s security risks will be, or test the security of a system when it’s ready to deploy.”
A new project has brought together twenty-two industry and scientific experts from six different countries to develop new security testing paradigm and methodology. The project enables the consortium to release a number of projects from it. Read More here
Failed Take-Off
“The Air Force attempted two alert launch procedures during the Mountain Home deployment, where multiple F-35A aircraft were preflighted and prepared for a rapid launch, but only one of the six aircraft was able to complete the alert launch sequence and successfully takeoff”
The troubled history of the F-35A continues with attempts at a rapid launch failing for five of the six aircraft that attempted it. The F-35A has had a troubled history with it’s software. Read More here
Bug Hunter Discovers Major facebook Hack
“At the time I discovered these, there were around 300 logged credentials dated between February 1st to 7th, mostly ‘@fb.com‘ and ‘@facebook.com‘. Upon seeing it I thought it’s a pretty serious security incident.”
Orange Tsai, a consultant with Taiwanese penetration testing outfit Devcore explains how he figured out that there was a breach in facebook’s security recently. He started out by mapping facebook’s inline properties but managed to get access to one of the company’s servers. Read More here
