{"id":13,"date":"2007-08-26T16:34:17","date_gmt":"2007-08-26T16:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/2007\/08\/26\/finding_bugs\/"},"modified":"2018-01-05T02:51:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T02:51:29","slug":"finding_bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/2007\/08\/26\/finding_bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter worked in QA (Quality Assurance&#8211;finding bugs in software) for a while in the mid- to late-&#8217;80s. He always said that he had a talent for finding bugs.<\/p>\n<p>I think it was while he was working for Mead, testing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LexisNexis\">LexisNexis<\/a>, that he told us about one of his bug-finding techniques: lift both hands in the air, and drop them onto the computer keyboard, pressing a bunch of random keys at once. Apparently in a fair number of cases, whatever software he was testing would immediately crash.<\/p>\n<p>If I recall correctly, his manager at the time felt that that wasn&#8217;t a severe enough bug to be worth fixing, because it was unlikely to come up in real use. I guess this was before the days when cats and babies regularly had their way with keyboards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter worked in QA (Quality Assurance&#8211;finding bugs in software) for a while in the mid- to late-&#8217;80s. He always said that he had a talent for finding bugs. I think it was while he was working for Mead, testing LexisNexis, that he told us about one of his bug-finding techniques: lift both hands in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}