This wasn’t a software “bug” - it was a pre-release change the project team forgot, because of not having a proper pre-release checklist, a standard procedure for software engineering, even when the stakes aren’t life & death.
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“More than 19 million people have downloaded the English contact-tracing app since 24 September, but it has had the wrong settings to record whether these people were close enough to each other to transmit the coronavirus.”https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-nhs-covid-app-failed-to-record-potential-exposures-due-to-error-12120910 …
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Good story for computer science teachers to share, to emphasize the importance of proper project plans and pre-release testing.
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We have in Germany like this App and is langer as NHS
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