Will a career in testing suit you? – Part II

A software bug could have the capability to wipe out a whole country.
A software bug could have the capability to wipe out a whole country.
Here is some evidence:
On February 25, 1991, an Iraqi Scud hit the barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 28 soldiers from the US Army’s 14th Quartermaster Detachment.
A government investigation revealed that the failed intercept at Dhahran had been caused by a software error in the system’s clock. The Patriot missile battery at Dhahran had been in operation for 100 hours, by which time the system’s internal clock had drifted by one third of a second. Due to the closure speed of the interceptor and the target, this resulted in a miss distance of 600 meters.
The radar system had successfully detected the Scud and predicted where to look for it next, but because of the time error, looked in the wrong part of the sky and found no missile. With no missile, the initial detection was assumed to be a spurious track and the missile was removed from the system. No interception was attempted, and the missile impacted on a barracks killing 28 soldiers.
Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot#Failure_at_Dhahran
So, if you were to find millions of them, shouldn’t it need any less than mental martial arts professionals who would learn and practice the way of setting traps to those bugs and reporting them to people who would kill ( fix ) the bugs.
Ah! Your skepticism on my initial claims seem to have faded a little. So, you may go through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_notable_software_bugs and let me know how you would have cornered those bugs.
Today, most of the world depends on software and the demand for better software is increasing. How can anyone produce better software?
We believe that people working on software are already smart and I make a conjecture that people have already been thinking to their best of abilities and yet some important bugs are left unfound in many software that is released.
So, if we were to produce better software, we need better thinking.

Tags: better software, better thinking, bug, software bug