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Article: United States: Local software testers join push to improve training, standards.
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- September 7, 2009
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Software is all around us. It s in our cars, our cellphones, the stop lights, our airplanes, and our hospitals. "It s in government systems, the banks, and more," says Iain McCowatt, president of the Atlantic Association for Software Quality Assurance.
"And you would hope that someone somewhere has tested it to make sure that it s safe and secure. When you hand somebody your credit card number, for instance, you hope that no one can get their hands on it and shop in your name." Unfortunately, history is littered with software disasters that are far worse than identity theft or Internet fraud.
In 1985, three U.S. and Canadian ...