Digital Pessimism We hope to disappoint
Richard began to try excited, but soon realized that there were failures … two or three galaxies left per million. NASA was unacceptable that did that crap, so I started to fix it and to make sure, he developed a foolproof automatic tester.
That was the beginning of a great career as a tester, which led him to work NASA itself and to receive in 1991 the magazine Universe Test certificate as best tester in the world , that proud, always wore his shirt sewn Test Pistols.
A lifetime test.
Testie tested on … you made unit to messages testing, stress to the sums and integration testing when he saw a conditional within another. NASA lived and slept in an adjoining terminal test his bed, and he had a scheduled alarm woke him if he failed a test.
And by 1999, he was signed to the website www.testTheWorld.test collecting all test tools in the world and implemented a self-testing code batch , which checked every second updates and releases, downloaded and automatically integrated with their platform.
In the summer of 2001, he recorded his new patent Global Test Forecast, a powerful system that proved preventively, every possible software that would create mankind from that time until 2020, according to estimates.
The first fault.
Such was his obsession, which reviewed every line manually over a hundred times a day, with corresponding tests. He created a planner in which programmed the launch of the tests every 20 milliseconds, to ensure that everything was fine.
Subsequently he made a tool to test the testator and then another .. and another .. and so, recursively. When carrying 27 tools in this cebollesca structure, something happened … At launch, that day nefarious, February 15, 2004 failed test of stress, somewhat predictable, consuming many resources that endless pile.
Richard Testie began to sweat as ever, did not understand what was happening, so that day worked for 24 hours straight, to create a new software and test all others, but obviously failed stress test even earlier.
Richard began to fret, his pulse rose to 180 beats, he began to sprout foam at the mouth and went into cardiac arrest.
The final test of Richard
Testie woke up in the hospital bed Tests Lost Health Care in San Francisco, after 10 days in a coma. A little disoriented, looked electroencephalogram machines and heartbeat and began screaming desperate.
Her screams were heard throughout the hospital and three nurses with two doctors rushed to his aid. When they arrived, he begged them to give him a terminal, to test the code of hospital machines. Despite the absurdity of the request, the doctors agreed to relieve the distress of Richard.
Testie turned again to the same … process after process, test after test, test on test coverage tests tests indefinitely .. .
Initially the pulse down, but after three hectic days, began to rise again. It was irremediable, had risen to 200 and no down, no human being could endure well … Doctors tried everything from injections of adrenaline, tranquilizers, sleeping pills and even a desperate implant in his brain of your software testing, but no way…
Faced with his imminent death, he kissed her certification Testie best tester in the world and thanked everyone who had been testing all along. It lasted exactly five hours before dying, February 29, 2004 , enough to create a program that reliably prove his death time.
In his will, he asked to be buried with him and he was always endendido. Been ten years of what Richard and the program continues to run. After all that time, he has never failed. Richard would be proud. R.I.P.
