Welcome to this week’s testing Quotes of the Week and software testing news. In this week’s edition: How saft is IoT software, what programming language generates the most bugs and testing mobile apps in a IoT world.
How Safe is IoT Software?
“The biggest problem with this glitch is that customers affected by it couldn’t fix it remotely via the app”
The greatest asset of IoT came to be shown as it’s greatest weakness recently when the Nest (a device to remotely manage your heating system) app crashed recently. A software bug meant that the bug had to be recertified by charging and resetting the device manually. The only issue being that if you are using it for a second home or are away from home, it means it’s very hard to accomplish. Read More here
What Programme Language Generates the Most Bugs?
“6% of applications that were written in PHP showed, at least, one XSS vulnerability.”
A report by Veracode investigating programme languages like PHP, Classic ASP, .NET, C and C++, Java, JavaScript, iOS, Android, Ruby, ColdFusion, and COBOL looked at these languages for the amount of vulnerabilities that are linked to them. The report produced some surprising results. Read More here
How Many People Were Affected By Software Bugs in 2015?
“Software Fail Watch: 2015 in Review’ features statistics aggregated from a collection of over 450 software bug news articles published in 2015”
A report by Tricentis describes how many bugs were affecting users in 2015 and how many users were affected. The report “Software Fail Watch: 2015 in Review” breaks the report in six categories and describes how many were affected and for how long. Read More here
Mobile Testing Not Easy
“Combine all of [these challenges] with the market pressure to ship and iterate quickly, mobile app testing is no easy task”
Madison Moore investigates the issue of mobile testing in a world of IoT where in the U.S. 25% of users abandon apps after one use. James Lau, product manager for Android Studio at Google believes that when you take everything into account, mobile app testing can be quite challenging. Read More here
F-35 may fly soon without Bugs
“The current ‘official schedule’ to complete full development and testing of all Block 3F capabilities by 31 July 31, 2017 is not realistic”
A memo sent out by Michael Gilmore, the U.S. Department of Defense’s director for Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) reveals that their new fighter that has been din development for a number of years will see further delays because of software bugs. Read More here
Uber driver details exposed by Software Bug
“We take partner privacy very seriously and make every effort to ensure the security of personal information. Due to a bug in our system, one partner’s 1099 information was viewable by other drivers for a short period of time.”
Private details of one Uber drivers was made available to other drivers recently in the U.S. As the date nears for U.S. residents to fill tax returns, some Uber drivers using Uber’s portal were met with not their own details but that of a driver from Florida. The is the second of driver’s details been disclosed Read More here
