Testing News of The Week: 5th – 12th March 2016

Welcome to this week’s testing Quotes of the Week and software testing news. Another problem with the F-35, the Pentagon want you to hack them, software testing industry reports and more.

 

Technavio Predicts the Software Testing Future

Cloud computing offers a wide level of flexibility and high degree of accessibility to testing tools and test environments from anywhere at any time. By moving IT infrastructure to the cloud, financial organizations can cut capital investments as well as the costs associated with maintenance, security, and infrastructure

Amit Sharma, a lead IT professional services analyst at Technavio reveals the results of the company’s report on the future of testing with manual testing set ti decline and cloud testing set to become more common. Read More here

 

Want to hack the Pentagon?

In October 2015 Captain Rock Stevens and Captain Michael Weigand published a paper calling on the US Army to establish a central program for disclosing software vulnerabilities on military systems.”

If you ever wanted to try hack the pentagon, they are offering you the chance now. Read More here

 

 

The Latest Trend in Software Testing

One of the latest trends gaining traction in this market is crowdsourcing for testing services

Amit Sharma, Lead Analyst, ICT, Technavio Research comments on the company’s latest research on the software testing industry that suggests a grwoth rate of 16% between 2016 and 2020. The report also suggests some trends for testing that will get more prevalent. Read More here

 

Another F-35 software bug story

The Lockheed Martin plane, which has been in development since 2001 and is the most software-driven warplane ever built, has experienced several failures and setbacks that have seen its cost balloon and its delivery delayed.”

As long as Quotes of the Week has been running, there has been stories about the Lockheed Martin F-35 development woes. The airplane has had numerous software issues including the latest issue with radar that requires a full reboot of the radar system Read More here

 

 

 

 

 

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