Saturday, 22 December 2012

Oh, Could it be that dangerous?

Whether a house appliance, a surgical device, a hospital fire alarm, an e-commerce website, or just a simple app on your iPhone, although they may seem so much different to you, but eventually they all share a common part, so called: Software.
That piece of software, the intangible part that we don’t usually see, is what holds the whole secret! This secret part should be functioning perfectly, in order for you to get the service you seek out of it.
Before a microwave, for example, heats a plate of mashed potato for 30 seconds, a plate of meat for 2 minutes, and a cup of milk for 1.30 minutes, that piece of software had passed through a major phase called "Testing".
The purpose of this major phase is to ensure you get the application or the tool, in the best shape, with no errors, no dangers, and no malfunctioning.
Software errors may range from, for instance, not heating a dish of food as desired and thus having to adjust or heat again, to hacking an ecommerce website, placing wrong orders, or whipping your whole visa card account.  
Still, what would you think may happen if the ventilator connected to a patient who has just survived a severe heart attack, was not properly set? What may also happen, if a laboratory blood test machine assigned the cancer diagnosis to the wrong patient name?
Here comes the role of the unknown soldiers, the Quality Testers and Engineers, who know, what, when, how, and why to test…. 

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