Sep. 26th, 2007
Critical Excel 2007 bug cripples users
Sep. 26th, 2007 02:02 pmWhat is 850 x 77.1 ? a calculator will tell you it's 65535, but a critical flaw in Microsoft's Excel 2007 causes it return 100000 as the answer to this, and any other calculation for which the result is 65535.
If I remember correctly 65535 is a maximum for some numeric type - so someone isn't testing a boundary condition in their test cases.
(Wonder if Microsoft has a Q/A job opening - this is the kind of stuff I do!)
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If I remember correctly 65535 is a maximum for some numeric type - so someone isn't testing a boundary condition in their test cases.
(Wonder if Microsoft has a Q/A job opening - this is the kind of stuff I do!)
read more | digg story