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Security Security

Consider the scenario where you outsourced a project to a development house. Once they have finished and you approved the functionality, they deploy the product in a production environment and maybe have the system hosted if it is an online system. Have they educated you on the security risks in exposing a server to the Internet? Have they locked down the server and hardened the services running on it? Have they used defensive coding methods to make their code more robust? Do they understand wat an SQL injection attack is? Do they actively maintain the system to ensure ongoing security and reliability?

We can confidently respond in the affirmative to all those questions.

Why Bugs? Why Bugs?

Have you ever wondered why software always have bugs (defects) in? Surely when you buy a toaster you expect it to work perfectly until the day it breaks completely. Surely you expect your hard disk drive in your computer to work flawlessly - never to loose any data.

So why do we tolerate software bugs? Because it is virtually impossible to build modern, complex software systems to cater for all possible scenarios simply due to the vast amount of permutations of unforseen circumstances. A typical medium size project can consist of about 50 000 lines of OO code (highly simplified), with about 1200 code branches. Testing all those code paths quickly explodes into an impossibly large number - similar to the total combinations of possible chess games...