>>From RISKS Digest ... > From: Kenneth.Wood@prg.ox.ac.uk > Subject: Be careful with your test cases! > > The Feedback section of the latest New Scientist relates the following > Computer Weekly story about an unfortunate programmer at an unnamed > bank. Apparently, the bank wanted to target its wealthiest customers > with a mailshot promoting various new services and the programmer in > question wrote a program to select the 2000 wealthiest customers from > the bank's records and to generate an appropriate letter for each. In > the process of testing the program, he made use of a fictitious customer > named Rich Bastard. > > Unfortunately, as you may already have guessed, something went amiss and > every single one of the bank's 2000 prize customers received a letter > which began "Dear Rich Bastard, ..."