Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images

Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by bryanrasmussen on Thursday May 21, 2020 @03:26PM (#23263736)

The parent comment said they sent a tweet a week before, and they had something in their faq but it doesn't say how long before that was done.

Generally, when I've worked at places that were not startups a week to get something pushed in to fix something was not reliably enough time.

I didn't see in the article anything about how long they have been aware of the problem, perhaps they became aware of the problem just before the testing was scheduled to start. I guess that is a problem with their QA system, but at any rate I can think of lots of ways that they could have a problem for a week (or even longer really), not be able to fix it in their particular system, and have to notify people.

Of course I agree they did a lousy job of notifying people.

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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by PascLeRasc on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:04PM (#23264287)

Yeah, I'm not surprised, since corporations like this are more concerned with making sure the Business Impact Assessment was routed in compliance with Standard Operating Procedures, establishing the Quality Verification Steering Committee to discuss possible impact to critical systems, and getting sign-offs from Validation Specialists and Risk Analysts.

Ask me how I know.

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