NEW YORK -- People for Ethical Treatment of Software (PETS) announced today that seven more software companies have been added to the group's watch list of companies that regularly practice software testing.
"There is no need for software to be mistreated in this way so that companies like these can market new products." said Ken Grandola, spokesperson for PETS. "Alternative methods of testing these products are available"
According to PETS, these companies force software to undergo lengthy and arduous tests, often without rest, for hours or days at a time. Employees are assigned to "break" the software by any means necessary, and inside sources report that they often joke about "torturing" the software.
"It's no joke," said Grandola. "Innocent programs, from the day they are compiled, are cooped up in tiny rooms and "crashed" for hours on end. They spend the whole lives on dirty, ill-maintained computers, and are unceremoniously deleted when they're not needed anymore".
Grandola said the software is kept in unsanitary conditions and is infested with bugs.
"We know that alternatives to this horror exist." he said, citing industry giant Microsoft Corporation as a company that has become successful without resorting to software testing.
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This just in from Steve:
We were able to interview an exploited piece of software.
Known only by its build number, 1538, it said, "01110010 10010010 11010010 01001000 11000101 01011110 01010111 01010010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10010101 01010101."
An interpreter, also a victim software program, provided the translation, "Begin. We are installed on machines with low memory. There are power outages which erase us. We are in poor health, riddled with bugs, and no one cares. End."
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