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I'm not. Not all 'testers' actually try to test edge cases. The /good/ testers do try edge cases, but for every /good/ tester you have, you'll have hired 100+
by pwg 7y ago
I'm not. Not all 'testers' actually try to test edge cases. The /good/ testers do try edge cases, but for every /good/ tester you have, you'll have hired 100+ testers who do little more than check that the standard happy-path works correctly and sign off as "passes tests".
The good testers all tend to fall into what Bruce Schneier calls the 'Security Mindset' way of thinking: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_security_mi_1.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_security_...
- Hamuko 7y ago>Not all 'testers' actually try to test edge cases. Yeah, but surely macOS devs are eating their own dog food.
- bangonkeyboard 7y ago"I've learned that Apple engineers have internal tools which allow them to delete macl xattr as well as to bypass other Catalina privacy and sandbox protections without rebooting and disabling SIP. "Inside Apple they don't suffer the same problems as external users and developers." — https://twitter.com/lapcatsoftware/status/1219292758910828544 https://twitter.com/lapcatsoftware/status/121929275891082854...
- sigzero 7y agoAnd a simple shell script to test it would be easy.
- amelius 7y agoWell, I hope for them they put it in their automated regression test suite now.