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Now Cleared for Failure: Tunnel Vision in Software Verification
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Now Cleared for Failure: Tunnel Vision in Software Verification

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Software testing efforts are mainly focused on the application code itself. However, recent major failures were due to configuration changes or system data. In this article, Sergei Cherednichenko discusses how quality assurance efforts should widen their scope from an application-centric perspective to a system-wide reliability verification. share share share share 

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