Welcome to our weekly latest software testing news and Quotes of the Week from the testing field. We bring you all the latest headlines related to software testing. This week: how Facebook does its mobile testing, crowd testing is a thing now, the Medium bug and more.
PlanIT Software Testing Acquires TenXLabs
The Australian company PlanIT have announced the the company has acquired Indian software testing company TenXLabs. The TenXLabs will be used as a base for international operations support and as a gateway to the Indian market. Read More here
How Facebook Does it’s Mobile Testing
“Facebook’s engineers have set up around 60 racks that hold 32 devices and up to eight Mac Minis or four OCP Leopard servers, depending on whether the devices in the rack are iOS or Android.”
Facebook have revealed how the company carries out testing of it’s mobile app. The company realised that it needed a variety of iOS and Android devices to check out how its code works after deciding against simulators. The company now has racks of devices with camera’s facing the devices to monitor testing of code. Read More here
Why is Crowd Testing Becoming So Popular?
“A 2015 Accenture report identified that 43% of European CIO’s are either currently using crowd testing or planning to do so in the next two years.”
Details from a report that suggest crowd testing is becoming more popular with tech company’s. Simon Anderson of Accenture examines why. Read More here
Citigroup fined $7 million for Software Bug
“Broker-dealers have a core responsibility to promptly provide the SEC with accurate and complete trading data for us to analyze during enforcement investigations. Citigroup did not live up to that responsibility for an inexcusably long period of time, and it must pay the largest penalty to date for blue sheet violations.”
Robert Cohen, co-chief of the SEC enforcement division’s market abuse unit explains with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) fined Citigroup $7 Million last week. The SEC regularly requests data of all banking transactions between specific dates. A software bug meant that for 15 years, from 1998 to 2014, data was sent with numerous transactions missing. Read More here
Bug Finders – Don’t Ask a Programme to Do It!
“The only way to evaluate a bug finder is to control the number of bugs in a program, which is exactly what we do with LAVA”
Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at NYU Tandon explains how LAVA (Large-Scale Automated Vulnerability Addition) works, a programme developed by a number of researchers to evaluate bug finding programmes. The results were not good. Read More here
Be Careful what you write on Medium!
“This was a software bug that this researcher uncovered by manipulating parameters and crafting a URL outside of the normal user flow”
A hacker has found a bug on the popular blog platform, Medium. The bug allows a hacker to access a post and even edit and delete the post. A statement from Medium suggests that the bug would not have been easy to access but has now been fixed. Read More here
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