Welcome to this week’s testing Quotes of the Week and software testing news. Software bugs in washing machines, the founder of Selenium has a new project, Apple encryption exposed and more.
Jason Huggins New Project
“I thought it would be funny to get a robot to play Angry Birds. I was going to do it and move on…I didn’t believe people would actually want to buy it”
You might not recognise the name Jason Huggines but you will recognise some of his projects. He is responsible for creating Selenium, the cross-platform testing tool, He started Sauce Labs, and was asked by the White House to help fix the ObamaCare website after all its issues. Now he has just started a project called Tapster where he has developed a tool that tests touch screens. The idea started as something fun but has quickly grew into a business.
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QA Symphony Teams Up With Gallop
The company’s’ have teamed up to strengthen the impact of QA Symphony’s too; qTest. qTest is a test management tool that is used wordwide by a number of companys. Read More here
Uber wants You to Hack it’s System
“If there is anything that slips out, we want to incentivize people and pay them a whole bunch of money to come and tell us about it. And that makes all the other parts of the system better, in addition to finding the security bugs.”
Uber’s Colinn Greene, of Uber’s security team explains why the company is offering large bounty’s for anyone that finds major bugs associated with the taxi company’s code.
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The Software Bug in Your Washing Machine Has Been Fixed
“We first tested this machine last spring and our lab technician, Bill Taylor, noticed it used little water. We figured out that a software bug was directing the washer to use so little water that it was unable to clean our laundry and left stains remaining”
Kimberly Janeway explains how the website Consumer Reports stumbled upon a bug in the LG WM3170CW washing machine when they tried to test and rate the washing machine last year. This spurred LG’s team to investigate which led to the bug issue being discovered.
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John Hopkins University Team Find Holes in Apple’s Encryption
“Even Apple, with all their skills — and they have terrific cryptographers — wasn’t able to quite get this right so it scares me that we’re having this conversation about adding back doors to encryption when we can’t even get basic encryption right”
Matthew D. Green, a computer science professor at Johns Hopkins University who led the research team comments on the success of the team who have found a hole in Apple’e encryption software that encrypts software content in the iMessage programme.
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Hackers Turn to F.B.I. rather than Apple
Hackers that have found ways of exploiting Apple’s own encryption software have turned over their work to the F.B.I who currently are taking Apple to court over this issue. One reason speculated why the hackers might do this is that unlike other tech companies, Apple offer no reward for any issues that are reported with it’s software. Read More here
