thoughts of a software testing consultant from Scotland
I am confident that autonomous vehicles can safely handle routine driving in normal conditions. Most of the time, in most places they will work ok. However I am still deeply sceptical about their safety. Can they handle the unpredictable, the edge cases, and the extremes of quirky, perhaps irresponsible, human behaviour? There is one particlular [ ]
This piece is prompted is a thought provoking post from Ankit Chakrabarty on LinkedIn. [Link opens in new tab with Ankit s full post.] Ankit s headline, that internal audit is dead, is eye catching and challenging. The full post is more nuanced than that. I don t agree with the headline, but I do agree with him [ ]
Use of Evidence Generated by Software in Criminal Proceedings In January 2025 the Ministry of Justice launched a consultation on how courts should deal with computer evidence in England and Wales. Current principles around the use of evidence generated by computer software in criminal proceedings were established over two decades ago, with the common law [ ]
On Wednesday, 5 March 2025, I decided to play with Twitter/X’s Grok 3 AI tool. My game was to play the role of someone trying to track me down based on sketchy details from my past. It took Grok a few prompts to find the right James Christie, and then it got very interesting. Grok [ ]
How can Fujitsu expect us to believe they thought Horizon would not be used for criminal evidence? In the first part of this series, “A contractual mess”, I explained some of the contractual confusion between the Post Office and Fujitsu that plagued the development of Horizon. In my second post, “An excruciating failure to dispel [ ]
Blundering through a fog of confusion This is the second part of my series explaining how the Post Office and Fujitsu were vague about the purposes of Horizon, specifically the need for the system to produce evidence of sufficient reliability for criminal prosecutions. As a result they built a shoddy system that was not fit [ ]
This will be a series of posts arguing that the Post Office and Fujitsu didn’t understand what they were doing when they commissioned and built Horizon in the late 1990s. Both corporations were hopelessly incompetent and irresponsible, and were plagued by atrocious communication such that everyone had only the vague notions about what other people [ ]
A post post I made last week on Linkedin attracted this interesting contribution from Dominic Connor. I disagree with some of his detailed points, but I am in broad sympathy with his wider argument, so I thought it deserved a considered response, which was too long for a Linkedin post. Here it is, but first [ ]
The Post Office IT scandal has attracted massive publicity this year, in the wake of ITV s superb Mr Bates vs the Post Office . Please watch it if you have not already done so. This drama has generated pressure on the UK government, and pushed the scandal up the political agenda. The government has finally given [ ]
This is a spot of whimsy. I would like to stress that the following article was written by ChatGPT, not by me. AI seems to think I dispense pompous waffle. There is a complete lack of substance. The auditors get off particularly lightly. Their voices were not drowned out. They had their megaphones. They chose [ ]