Welcome to our weekly software testing news and Quotes of the Week from the testing field. Spotify bug, Army wants security testers, software testers demand change and more.
Spotify Bug Causes Junk Data to Be Written to Hard drives
“This is a *major* bug that currently affects thousands of users”
A software bug was causing issues for users of the Spotify platform. The nature of the software bug meant that the Spotify platform was writing huge amounts of useless data to users hard drives eventually rendering their hard-drives useless. Read About the Spotify Bug here
Now you can hack the U.S. Army
“We’re not agile enough to keep up with a number of things that are happening in the tech world and in other places outside the Department of Defense”
The U.S Army recognises its lacking when it comes to the latest developments in the tech world. So they have announced a bug bounty programme for its recruitment sites and databases of personal information. Anyone applying to takepart has to be personally vetted. Read More about the U.S. Army Hack programme here
Phone Data Heading to China
“This is a provate company who made a mistake”
Lawyer for Adups, Lily Lim states the defence of the company accused of sending customer data including text messages, contacts and more to a server in China. The quirk was discovered by Kryptowire, a U.S. security reserach company. Read More about the data vulnurability here.
Software Testers Call for Change in Techniques
At the recent Pune Software Testing Conference (PSTC), delegates stressed the need for change in the way testing is carried out with many argueing for a transformation in testing techniques with digitisation taking over business. Read More about the software testing story here
How to Lose Money – Find a Bug
“as soon as you have a complicated enough machine, it becomes almost impossible to completely explain what it does”
Yoshua Bengio, computer scientist specializing in AI, explains why it can be hard to test software after it reaches a certain stage. Complicated software can carry out tasks that were not intended like trading errors that cost Knight Capital $440 million over the course of an hour.
