Posted on 10/23/2013 8:05:02 PM PDT by tobyhill
A top executive with CGI Federal, one of the contractors paid millions to create the ObamaCare website, says “no amount of testing” could have prevented the site’s problem-plagued start.
Senior Vice President Cheryl Campbell’s remarks are part of prepared testimony she will give before a Republican-led House hearing Thursday on the insurance-marketplace site. They also appear to challenge new claims by the administration that a lack of adequate testing was part of the problem.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing is the first since the site’s disastrous Oct. 1 launch -- marked by crashes, slow response times and its inability to let customers make purchases.
Several contractors are set to testify Thursday, and will likely face tough questioning from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, though prepared testimony indicates the witnesses may try to spread the blame around -- including to government officials overseeing the project.
Prepared testimony from contractor Optum/QSSI blamed in part a "late decision" to require customers to register before browsing for insurance, which could have helped overwhelm the registration system.
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ObamaCare on ObamaWare.
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Testing ObamaCare on politicians first couldn’t have saved it either. Somebody should have read the bill before the buffoons on The Hill passed it.
Anything that can be done to keep the pressure on. Kill this law dead!
The perfect government procurement scam. A government agency to provide hazy requirements, multiple companies to share the development in separate modules and a testing and QA function that always signs off. NOBODY will be held responsible or accountable because the finger pointing has begun already and the money has already been paid out. I’m absolutely positive that no penalty clauses were written into the contracts to recoup costs or penalize the companies concerned. The government will allow the companies to point fingers at them because there is nothing that can be done to them .... no lost jobs, no monetary penalties (probably bonuses), and no disciplinary actions.
It’s impossible to tell from a flowchart if something works or not.
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Exactly.
We will need massive new layers of federal bureaucracy in place. In the new, gargantuan federal Department of Health, and the IRS—with all that entails.
And it may take years-and-years and trillions of dollars, from individuals as well as tax dollars.
But we won’t know if transferring the wealth of the young and healthy to the aged and infirm works or not until we’ve tried it for at least 40 or 50 years.
If it doesn’t work we obviously will have not `invested’ enough money in making it work, so simply raise taxes again. And again, and again, and ...
That’s the Democrats’ argument.
I call horsesh*t on her statement that no amount of software testing can prepare a complex application for live production.
I’ve done it. You write your use cases. You use automated softwate testing tools that exercise those use cases and simulate system load conditions.
She’s lyin’ through her teeth.
Sure you can fix some of it with tuning and optimization, but that could have been done during testing of heavy load conditions.
Liar, liar, liar.
She’s obviously never heard of “Test-Driven Development”.
Looks like these people picked up a “For Dummies” book and started coding from that.
Article, then take two Aspirin and check out graphic at # 2.
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Programmers: "We implement tomorrow. No more changes!!"
(Though that does not explain the unfathomable coding.. $10/hour programmers?)
Sebelius said [in so many words] that they needed 5 years of development and a year of testing - but that these technical requirements didn’t meet Obama’s political deadline ...
I bet you could make a better layout by treating that monstrosity in post #2 as if it were an IC and all you needed to do was stitch together the blocks with minimal crossovers and line lengths...
That isn't just amateur, amateurs are better than that. That is incompetence born of the conviction that the politically connected are above all that. Arrogance to hubris, hubris to disaster. The number one first priority in DC at the moment isn't to fix anything, it's to find a scapegoat.
"Kathleen, your goose is cooked ..."
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