{"id":514,"date":"2010-08-16T10:25:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T00:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/?p=514"},"modified":"2010-08-16T11:12:19","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T01:12:19","slug":"do-you-know-what-happens-when-the-power-goes-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/2010\/08\/16\/do-you-know-what-happens-when-the-power-goes-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you know what happens when the power goes off?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100814\/ap_on_fe_st\/us_odd_unexpected_baldness\">This news article<\/a> where a hairdresser&#8217;s client went bald after a power loss in the salon reminded me of a test I frequently forget to run.<\/p>\n<p>Power off your system or server while in the middle of testing and look for problems.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll most frequently find issues if you aim for a power outage &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; in the middle of a network communication (eg. client-server apps or network games).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; in the middle of a multi-step transaction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; in the middle of disk operations.<\/p>\n<p>The last one&#8217;s pretty brutal, but sometimes you need to know your application can survive it gracefully.\u00a0 Have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This news article where a hairdresser&#8217;s client went bald after a power loss in the salon reminded me of a test I frequently forget to run. Power off your system or server while in the middle of testing and look for problems.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll most frequently find issues if you aim for a power outage &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heuristic-testing","category-testing-techniques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}