How Software Bugs led to "One of the Greatest Miscarriages of Justice" in British History.
This article recounts the Fujitsu software system bugs that resulted in the incorrect criminal convictions of employees in the United Kingdom postal system. The article provides an overview of the software system, Horizon point-of-sale accounting software, and how inadequate coding and testing led t...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 68; no. 3; pp. 12 - 15 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Mar2025
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