• cheddar@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    The company routinely tests its software updates before pushing them out to customers, CrowdStrike said in the report. But on July 19, a bug in CrowdStrike’s cloud-based testing system — specifically, the part that runs validation checks on new updates prior to release — ended up allowing the software to be pushed out “despite containing problematic content data.”

    It is time to write tests for tests!

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      My thoughts are to have a set of machines that have to run the update for a while, and if any single machine doesn’t pass and all allow it to move forward, it halts any further rollout.