Reply to post: Re: Test, test and test again...

Britain has no idea how close it came to ATMs flooding the streets with free money thanks to some crap code, 1970s style

hairydog

Re: Test, test and test again...

Sadly, that approach looks really good from a modern perspective, but it was still suboptimal.

The test plan should be derived from the business requirements, not from the spec. Otherwise you are only testing that the system meets the spec, rather than meeting the needs the spec was meant to address.

Nowadays, of course, people just make it up as they go along.

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