A dear dog of ours passed over the rainbow bridge a month ago...

Was such a sad day and a reminder of learning to cherish our times together. We only had him 16 months, was a senior dog with special needs, and still find myself in tears when I think about him.

Someday I'm sure we'll adopt again, but definitely feels too soon.

Love each other and remember to pause in the present moments.

"In between hello and goodbye, remember there was love, so much love..." -- Unknown

I almost quit this board...

Lurker here forever and occasional poster. Feels like forever at least.

But there's too much work to do, too much fight left in me.

Everyday I wake up means there's a purpose here for me, for my family, for me, for others.

Thanks all for sharing what you share here everyday.

One of the priniciples of software testing

Is that testing can find bugs, but can never prove the absence of bugs.

I enjoy the field of software testing but there are some misunderstandings about what testing can/cannot cover.

If you think about a variety of scenarios and inputs into any system, the more complex it becomes, it becomes an impossible task to test every one. Have to make a risk-based assessment to test the most critical paths.

Unfortunately that means there's always a chance something will get released with a bug and have to do your best to identify it quickly and resolve.

Just to put a little perspective to this, imagine testing an application that has 5 input fields and each field has 10 possible values. To test EVERY possible combination the tester will have to run 5^10 = 9,765,625 tests, which is quite impossible no matter the project timescale.