2013: Major software failures
Every industry is impacted with software failures/bugs in 2013. It is very important to perform extensive QA & testing before release to market to avoid losses1) Health Care:
Sebelius admitted that the testing done before the Oct. 1 launch was "clearly not" enough. "We did not adequately do end-to-end testing," she said.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/30/sebelius-to-face-grilling-at-hearing-on-glitch-ridden-obamacare-website-rollout/
2) Airlines:
"Sabre is experiencing a system issue,"
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/06/travel/sabre-outage-flight-delays/
3) Financial:
A mysterious technical glitch halted trading on the Nasdaq
http://news.yahoo.com/nasdaq-trading-halts-3-hours-due-glitch-203619288.html
4) Retail:
"We experienced a technical error that caused some items to show incorrect pricing," Walmart
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/walmart-super-low-prices-website-glitch/story?id=20804317
5) Payroll:
California sues SAP over payroll system failures
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/nov/21/local/la-me-pc-california-sues-sap-20131121
Compiled by Damodhara Reddy Jammli( DJ)