QA

According to news reports in April of 2004, a software bug was determined to be a major contributor to the 2003 Northeast blackout, the worst power system failure in North American history. The failure involved loss of electrical power to 50 million customers, forced shutdown of 100 power plants, and economic losses estimated at $6 billion. The bug was reportedly in one utility company's vendor-supplied power monitoring and management system, which was unable to correctly handle and report on an...

I finally found a coop! It's great... I'm working in QA at a small company in Victoria. It's definately been an interesting first week, it's my first experience in QA and I have to say I've learned a fair bit. The first thing that I would like to point out though.... Developers need to learn to write Error Messages! For all of you who haven't taken SENG310 at UVic you need to think about your user! Especially when the users are not developers themselves. They have no idea what a “Null pointer...