Welcome to the Software Testing Hall of Shame
Our selection of software testing 'nightmares'...
All of the companies in the stories below have suffered embarrassment and bad press that almost certainly could have been avoided with more efficient and thorough testing of their core business applications during the development and QA phases.
Bad press doesn't just mean embarrassment. It means lost confidence, loss of good will, lost opportunities and ultimately lost revenue - Something that no business needs.
Don't let your company's name get into damaging headlines like these.
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- Top 10 Software Failures of 2011 We came across an interesting blog this week. Its content gives the folks at Original Software a multiple number of examples that make it to our “Software Testing Hall of Shame” as 2011 draws to a close. Phil Codd, Managing Director at SQS, lists ten software failures, as voted by Consultants. We think it’s great [...]
- Microsoft Joins Testing Hall of Shame Microsoft shot themselves in the foot with this embarrassing blunder that has definitely qualified for a spot in our Software Testing Hall of Shame! A Microsoft antivirus definition file was the cause behind Google Chrome’s browser to disappear from users’ PCs! Scores of users reported the deletion of the Google Chrome browser from their PC [...]
- Apple Joins Testing Hall of Shame Another organisation has made it to our Software Testing Hall of Shame this week and what an embarrassment to such a high profile company. According to an article by ITPRO, hackers are taking a big bite out of Apple’s data security. A website known as “JailBreakMe” has been exploiting Apple’s iOS flaw by allowing users [...]
- Tesco Bank Should Have Tested on IE9 The news on CIO’s website of Tesco Bank having to issue emergency guidelines for Internet Explorer 9 users, made me chuckle. Either testing on multiple browsers wasn’t carried out in full or the testing technology being used didn’t support IE9. Either way, Tesco Bank will be entering our ‘Software Testing Hall of Shame’ this week. [...]
- The Cost of Software Failure Our Software Testing Hall of Shame hosts a gallery of software glitches all serving to illustrate the importance of testing software. The latest addition comes from the London Stock Exchange where, billions of pounds worth of share trades were lost after the London Stock Exchange’s main trading system ground to a halt shortly after the [...]
