one of the nastiest tidbits from the Therac-25 incident -- the people testing the software weren't proficient with it and therefore had a hard time triggering the abundant latent race conditions in the interface

[regehr@mastodon.social]

one of the nastiest tidbits from the Therac-25 incident -- the people testing the software weren't proficient with it and therefore had a hard time triggering the abundant latent race conditions in the interface

don't let anyone tell you that software testing isn't creative work, it is!!

https://web.stanford.edu/class/archive/cs/cs240/cs240.1236/old//sp2014/readings/therac-25.pdf

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[regehr@mastodon.social]

the linked document should be mandatory reading, but it's tough stuff -- contains some highly visceral subjective descriptions of being inside a radiation therapy machine when it runs amok

[atax1a@infosec.exchange]

@regehr this was required reading in our CS ethics class

[regehr@mastodon.social]

@atax1a same here! but 30 years ago

[atax1a@infosec.exchange]

@regehr around 15 here but yeah