Great to know that the largest software company in the Western world doesn’t test their release code properly. Any first year CS student learns to write tests that detect a problem this blatant. Fuck Google.
I think their exact problem is being too large. that certainly wouldn’t have happened in the early days
Even fairly basic automated test coverage would almost certainly have caught it. I feel like whether the system starts up properly and enters the main UI (which this update failed to) should be the first thing you test for.
If the reason a company writes buggy software is that they’re big, then they absolutely don’t deserve to be big.
OMEGALUL
Prime example it could happen to anyone
An accidental bitwise AND when they wanted logical. Amazing lol
But for real, do they not test their shit? All they’d have to do is try to log in. That’s such a low bar to miss.
Silly old google this is more likely to happen when your OS is closed source
…but this part of ChromeOS was open source.
But still you can’t control your own computer it just downloads updates lol
