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   John Regehr (regehr@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 10:16:51 JST John Regehr

   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