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Discussion on: What's your most embarrassing coding story?

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John Peters

My 2nd job, was working on a mid-range computer at the OS layer. They wanted me to add the ability to save files that had 3 character extensions like .txt, etc. I got it to work, tested it and sent it to distribution folks. 1 week later I found out that I regressed ability to save files without extensions. They had to pull back distribution to 115 countries. Ouch...

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Andrew (he/him) • Edited

It really was the wild west before test automation...

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John Peters • Edited

I later became a test advocate, read testing books like crazy. At one point managed a team of 35 QA. People in 3 countries.

Best QA book was Software Testing Techniques. Boris Bezier It's still a good read but a bit dated.