Welcome to our weekly software testing news and Quotes of the Week from the world of software testing. In this week’s post, Netgear launch bug bounty programme, the leap second affects users, Zephyr rreport on the software testing industry and more.
Zephyr Release Report on How the Industry is Testing
“[The report] validates the thought process that automation and DevOps are two key enablers for a lean development model, which is the Zen of agile, and every organization needs to think of seriously investing in these domains”
Zephyr have just released a survey of the software testing industry and how the industry is carrying out software testing. Among the interesting results was that while 70% of respondents from smaller companies follow agile only 30% deploy automated testing. Read More on the Software Testing Report here
NetGear Launches Bug Bounty Programme
“This program encourages and rewards contributions by developers and security researchers who help make NETGEAR’s products more secure. Through this program NETGEAR provides monetary rewards or points for security vulnerabilities responsibly disclosed to us.”
The maker of broadband routers has become the latest company to offer security testers the opportunity to earn a paycheck by finding relevant bugs. Recent reports on vulnerabilities with Netgear products has encouraged the company to launch its programme. The programme is aimed at testing NETGEAR’s devices, mobile applications, and exposed APIs. Potential rewards could range from $150 to $15,000 per bug identified. Read More about the Netgear Bug Bounty here
The Leap Second Bug Affects New Years 
“At peak approximately 0.2 percent of DNS queries to Cloudflare were affected and less than one percent of all HTTP requests to Cloudflare encountered an error”
Cloudflare’s John Graham-Cumming explains the extent of the sites affected by a leap second bug on New Years Eve. The bug was caused as an extra second was added on to the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to ensure that the time remains in sync with the Earth’s irregular rotation as 2016 was a leap year. This extra second caused the company’s DNS proxy to switch to a negative value which affected a number of its customers. Read More here
Bitcoin Update Fixes Bug Issues
“Similar releases often need a few rounds of testing (which each manifest in a new “release candidate”), but since no problems were reported since the first release candidate, the developer group packaged up and distributed it.”
Alyssa Hertig reports on the latest update to the Bitcoin software. Bitcoin recently celebrated its 8th birthday with an update that fixes a number of bug and performance issues. The update was developed by a volantary group known as bitcoin Core who develop updates for the momentary software. Read More here
