While dependencies help speed up development time, they also constitute new potential points of failure: a subtle code change in a fourth-party library or an accidental bug in a fifth-party dependency may cause your production application to break.

Garbage in, garbage out: it’s a simple idea, yet one of great importance. The quality of your output is dependent on the quality of your input. It’s another Law of Systemics. Translate crap data to a computing machine, and it will produce crap results.

The single most expensive thing to do to a website once it’s launched is to do nothing.

In software development, clear communication channels are key. Issues arise due to communication failures, and stakeholders could benefit from the use of collaborative tools to facilitate it.

The risks of failing to perform software testing are clear: from operational breakdown and financial loss, to loss of reputation and brand equity, the stakes are high. Investing in quality analysts (QA)/ software testing is a necessity.

The internet is a gift, but more than not, it remains a mess – an information dump riddled with factual errors, distorted data and useless fluff, not to mention rogue trolls who vigilantly spread chaos.

When faced with the question “How did QA miss this?”, shift the focus to collective responsibility: “How did we miss this?” and investigate the timing and context of the issue.

The single most expensive thing to do to a website once it’s launched is to do nothing. Live site testing is necessary, and can help businesses avoid costly errors.

The internet is overflowing with bad inputs, and the old rule still wins: garbage in, garbage out. Feed a model distorted data and you can get misdirected, inaccurate, even harmful outputs.