In 2000 the Post Office introduced a new accounting system ‘Horizon’ to manage all its branches. Over the next few years hundreds of sub-postmasters/postmistresses were prosecuted for theft, fraud and other charges as the system identified money was missing from the accounts. Many of these people went to prison, even a pregnant woman and others […]

From the on-going Edward Snowden saga through the use of drones to the creation of three parent embryos society is currently immersed in difficult ethical issues. In this, the first of a series of articles on the ethical issues facing software developers in the industry today, we look at the area of software testing. This […]