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London Stock Exchange Tackles System Problem

Posted by samzenpus on from the fix-the-glitch dept.

DMandPenfold writes "The London Stock Exchange has taken steps to resolve a system problem that occurred at 4.30pm Tuesday, which saw a delay to the start of the closing auction and knocked out automatic trades during a 42 second period. The problem occurred a day after the high profile launch of its new matching engine on the main equities market, based on the SUSE Linux system from Novell."

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  1. Re:Someone skimped on testing by daid303 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Testing is just hard. Even with a perfect plan, and a perfect execution you're still going to miss things.

    I just spend 2 weeks finding a 6 year old bug, which only showed itself when the temperature of our product is somewhere at -5C, and then only on 75% of the total devices. Devices where tested at low as -40C, but those where lucky and kept working correctly, so nobody noticed before. Even after I found it I spend a week looking at the code to find what's really wrong.