samwell7
Senior Member
The uni problems would include extra information as you've said, but not to the level of the real-world and it was fairly easy to see what was needed and what wasn't (especially if you'd been studying).In the exams I took, problems often included extraneous information, and it was our task to pick out what was relevant to finding the answer. Because that's how it works in the real world. A major difference from the real world was, of course, that the problems were in fact solvable by analytical methods.
That's why good testers are worth their weight in gold.
Regarding the testers, definitely worth a massive amount, I vividly remember when we developed a SCADA system for a plant in my earlier role.
We took turns trying to 'break' it by clicking various things that we wouldn't see as normal, the system seemed fine to us, we gave it to a few of the actual operators to use during SAT and they'd found dead pages within minutes! I learnt a lot that day!