Software testing background

Software testing background

In 1947,computers ware big ,room-size machines operating on mechanical relays and glowing vacuum tubes.The state of the art at the time was the mark II,a behamoth being built at harvard univercity.Technicians were running the new computer thought its paces when it suddenly stopped working .they scrambled to figure out why and discovered ,sturk between a set of relay contarently flown into the system,attracted by the light and heat ,and was zapped by the hight voltage when it landed on the relay.

 

The computer bug was born .well ,okay ,it died ,but you get the point .

 

Welcome to the first chapter of software testing .in this chapter,you'll learn about the history of software bugs and software testing .

 

Highlights of this chapter include

 

    How software bugs impact our lives

 

    what bugs are and why they occur

 

    who software testers are and what they do

INFAMOUS SOFTWARE ERROR CASE STUDIES

it's easy to take software for granted and not really appreciate how much it has infiltrated our daily lives .back in 1947 ,the mark II computer required legions of programmers to costantly maintain it,the arerage person never conceived of someday having his own computer in his home .