Shravan Kumar 1/11/2024

What happens when Everything goes wrong: QA Testing Gone Wrong?

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The article details a software engineer's prank where an NPM package named 'everything' was created to depend on every publicly available package. This caused a massive dependency chain, leading to Denial of Service for installers, broken build pipelines, and trapped packages due to NPM's unpublish policy. It draws parallels to past incidents like 'left-pad' and discusses the fallout and current status of the issue.

What happens when Everything goes wrong: QA Testing Gone Wrong?

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