/technologies/code_exchange/b/blog/posts/the-horror-of-poorly-written-software-440-million-dollars-lost(via Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Confidence in software can be a company&#39;s undoing. The higher ups do not know if a million lines of code are proper, all hopes were put onto the engineer. The code executes, the loops run. What happened next? The s...en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/technologies/code_exchange/b/blog/posts/the-horror-of-poorly-written-software-440-million-dollars-lostSat, 04 Aug 2012 21:30:14 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:09d4acb9-e564-44de-b3ac-b6b60018ed6fDAB1<p>Hi Cabe,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I wonder how much testing they did before they went live.</p><p>My sympathy is limited as these were the same people that bought 40 Million shares of Facebook instead of 10 Million because they kept putting in the same order.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I still remember when NASA dropped a satelite on Mars with the wrong conversion from international to english units.</p><p>What is it about decision makers who skimp on the testing?&nbsp; Evidently they like to lose money.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Just my opinion,</p><p>DAB</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=14731&AppID=74&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">