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TexasTowelie

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7. Testing? What's that?

Reply to SWBTATTReg (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 10, 2025, 11:21 AM

Mar 2025

When I was a state employee whenever a new program was to be implemented we ran through a full year of data in parallel to verify the results before shutting down the old program. With the urgency of saving every penny in the private sector they turn off the old systems when only a small sample of data is checked and things are supposedly fixed on the back end--if there is an analyst talented enough to discover the errors. GIGO is as prevalent today as in the past.

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19yr old DOGEbag, 1978 VISTA programming@ VA [View all] leighbythesea2 Mar 2025 OP

Ha ha heh...they should have already known this, most of the Fed's computer systems are outdated, they never have SWBTATTReg Mar 2025 #1

whatever the excuses put forward stopdiggin Mar 2025 #2

It's not only a software problem. MineralMan Mar 2025 #3

Because the time and effort to transcribe millions of records haele Mar 2025 #9

I lay hands on and spend a moment of silence with my signed copy of... Hugin Mar 2025 #4

Memory was precious in years gone by Zorro Mar 2025 #5

Yes, working in bits and bytes... Hugin Mar 2025 #6

Testing? What's that? TexasTowelie Mar 2025 #7

Replacement already in progress... yowzayowzayowza Mar 2025 #8

I've been there myself jmowreader Mar 2025 #10

Sweet talk leighbythesea2 Mar 2025 #12

Well they don't have to use the VISTA programming language. Jacson6 Mar 2025 #11

Sitting here just quietly laughing. Bantamfancier Mar 2025 #13

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