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In the early wild-west days of ecommerce a friend working as a tester at a well known British supermarket discovered that the backend card-validation logic on t
by dcminter 2y ago
In the early wild-west days of ecommerce a friend working as a tester at a well known British supermarket discovered that the backend card-validation logic on their payment form was essentially "return true" ... good thing the volumes were miniscule I guess?
- The_Blade 2y ago100% test coverage
- robertlagrant 2y agoWe know it works because all the happy path tests pass, and all the sad path tests fail.
- vrosas 2y agoI worked at a very well known news company. Their auth proxy layer was set to “fail open” for a period of time if there was any issue detected in the auth backend (i.e. just return ok and a new cookie for 30 seconds). When I checked the logs that system was in a fail-open state over 50% of the time.