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And you expect the public to catch edge cases, not mission critical failures.
Exact, they test for the worst cases they can imagine, but once it's in the hands of hundreds of thousands of people or millions of them these people will do things the programmer never could have imagined...
Like what start the car? Turn on the system. Did you read the article? The public isn’t catching edge cases, they’re catching gross system failures.