Nature tester
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I'm - among other things - making a software for the ATMs (for Bitcoins they're called BTMs). Yesterday we've found out that one of our machines has probably a defective touch screen. It was randomly pressing all over the screen. On closer inspection (on site) it turned out to be a branch of a tree randomly waving in the wind and occasionally touching the screen. This branch also managed in this short time to uncover two bugs that two testing teams were unable to find during two years of product lifetime. One was even as simply as touching the screen in a certain time. One was more complex, the branch managed to 'touch' through random screens and created very weird scenarios. One of them was a really obscure bug. The branch became a honorary member of our testing team. :laugh:
In order to understand stack overflow, you must first understand stack overflow.
I like it! Nothing uncovers weirdness like random inputs. I have never had a tree available so I used to ask the cleaning lady to try things if I was working really late. She was practically random in her inputs and her testing did help us robustify things. I'm not sure if that's actually a word. What ever.
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I like it! Nothing uncovers weirdness like random inputs. I have never had a tree available so I used to ask the cleaning lady to try things if I was working really late. She was practically random in her inputs and her testing did help us robustify things. I'm not sure if that's actually a word. What ever.
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Rule #1: If the cleaning lady cannot crash it, release it.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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raddevus wrote:
I like to break stuff. Especially software. Software is soooo breakable. And most software deserves to be broken.:thumbsup: And, yes, I'm a full-time dev and have been for years. But I still love breaking software.
It's really a shame my employer is in the financial doldrums, otherwise I'd recommend they hire you in our systems engineering (aka Quality Assurance) department. Our current staff is very green, and the testing isn't of high quality. Unfortunately our experience with hiring experienced software engineers in QA has been that they leave as soon as they find a gig writing software rather than testing it.
Software Zen:
delete this;Gary Wheeler wrote:
leave as soon as they find a gig writing software
And that is probably exactly what raddevus did ;P A dedicated, pedantic, annaly retentive destroyer of code tester is a complete PITA and a wonderful addition to a team.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH