Robert V. Binder

Archive for August, 2011

Competent, Mediocre, or Dangerous?

A Chicago Tribune article recounts how a software bug in an infusion pump lead to brain-death for a patient in 2009 (“Medical Industry Taking Hard Look at Software Faults,” Christine Mai-Duc, Chicago Tribune, August 31, 2011, p. 19)

It reports that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which regulates and…

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Software Testability, Part 3: Accidental Untestability

This post covers part three of my 2010 talk on testability.

Aren’t the dancing hamsters a stitch?

Not so funny if you have to test code whose stability or controllability makes you feel like you’re wearing the hula-hoop.

To reveal a bug, a test must:

Reach the buggy code
Trigger the bug
Propagate the incorrect result to an observable interface
Incorrect…

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VCs Say the Darndest Things

August 2, 2011  |  Blog, Business, Software Products  |  3 Comments

 As the fundraiser for startup mVerify, I contacted over a hundred venture capital (VC)investors and then had serious discussions with several dozen. Although I came close to getting a terms sheet a few times, all the discussions ended in a brief email or call saying “pass” or “pass, let’s stay in…

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