Welcome to a new edition of our software testing and QA bulletin focusing on the latest software testing news. This week we feature stories on investment in the UK tech sector, bug on the U.S. stock markets, Static Analysis and more.
Software Testing for Indigenous People
“It’s a new industry that maybe aboriginal people in the area haven’t been inclined to go into before”
A off-shore software testing company in Canada is setting out to employ indigenous people. The owner of Professional Quality Assurance Ltd, Mr. McIntosh partnered with the Joint Economic Development Initiative, an Indigenous organisation to provide training for employment programmes. Read More here
UK Tech Sector in Rude Health
“The opportunity to make new investments is fantastic. The UK ecosystem is thriving at the moment”
The UK tech sector has seen its highest investment for 10 years. Venture Capitalist invested more than £1.3 billion on UK tech with £1.1 billion being spent in London alone. Read More here
NCC sees graduates from it Software Testing Academy
“The Academy has proven to be a very valuable recruitment tool over the last few years. It’s imperative that we are able to address the skills gap in the sector and retraining and up-skilling ambitious individuals”
NCC, a cyber security specialist, has announced 20 new graduates from its software testing academy. The academy runs a two year programme in software testing for those who want to move into the industry. Read More here
Static Analysis a New Method to Prevent Bugs
“In this paper we proposed the concept of Just-In-Time (JIT) static analysis that interleaves code development and bug fixing in an integrated development environment (IDE).”
A paper by Dr Ben Livshits from Imperial College London’s Department of Computing has won a presigious award recently for a paper on “Just-In-Time” (JIT) static analysis. The paper examines some of the key challenges that developers face with bugs. Read More here
Bug in Markets Distorts Tech Stock Prices
“Nasdaq is investigating the improper use of test data distributed by the unlisted trading privileges (UTP) and consumed by third parties”
The bug defect happened on Tuesday morning when the stock price of many tech companies like Apple, Amazon and Microsoft all reported the same stock price of $123.47 on Bloomberg, Reuters and Google Finance data. The bug was triggered after financial information providers wrongly interpreted a Nasdaq data test as live prices. Read More here
Read the last edition of the Testing News Bulletin here
