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Re:Updated to High Sierra, all Admin accounts now Standard by bigiain on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @12:50AM (#15804894)
Oh sure. But there's a very plausible explanation why "the obvious test" might not have caught this bug...
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Re:Updated to High Sierra, all Admin accounts now Standard by _Codemonkeyism on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @01:07AM (#15804958)
If your testers only test the obvious things you're screwed.
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Re:Updated to High Sierra, all Admin accounts now Standard by virgilp on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @01:33AM (#15805059)
You can't ensure correctness by testing. You can only hope to find some of the bugs.

This one in particular doesn't strike me as something that the testers should've caught. It's something that the development process shouldn't have allowed to happen, in the first place.

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Re:Updated to High Sierra, all Admin accounts now Standard by _Codemonkeyism on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @04:51AM (#15805722)
In my time as CTO in different companies, this would be something testers would have tested, perhaps not at the first release but over time.

Especially if QA does exploratory testing[1] instead of defined test cases (which should be automated away anyway).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory_testing

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Re:Updated to High Sierra, all Admin accounts now Standard by rurban on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @01:48AM (#15805110)
Yes. Testers usually just test for regressions. Bugs once fixed should not reappear again. The rest is pure luck.
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