Posted on 10/09/2013 6:16:03 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obamacare website looks "like nobody tested it," programmer says
(CBS News) Healthcare.gov launched more than a week ago, and while millions of Americans have signed into the site, not many have been able to actually sign up for insurance because of glitches with the website.
Administration officials implementing the new health care law will be on the hot seat Wednesday as the House Oversight Committee hopes to find out what the problems were.
Committee Chairman Darrell Issa told CBS News' Jan Crawford that he plans to ask how the mess surrounding the website could even happen.
No one knows how many people have managed to enroll because the administration refuses to release those numbers, but the website's launch has been rocky.
Media outlets have struggled to find anyone who's actually been successful. The Washington Post even illustrated that sought-after person as a unicorn, and USA Today called the launch an "inexcusable mess" and a "nightmare."
White House officials initially blamed the problem on an unexpectedly high volume as they had more than 8 million hits in the first week, but after it went offline over the weekend for repairs, officials now acknowledge other problems.
"We've identified the glitches, we've added hardware, we're recoding software, and I can tell you today is better than yesterday, and we are hoping in the very near future to have a seamless process that's what we are aiming for," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said.
However, computer experts say the website has major flaws.
"It wasn't designed well, it wasn't implemented well, and it looks like nobody tested it," said Luke Chung, an online database programmer.
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No major corporation would roll out something like this without “ stress testing “ the systems capabilities first.
Yep. I’m a principal qa engineer and this looks like it wasn’t even smoke tested.
Agree.
If Barry the Choom king heard that he would say “ where can I get some of that “
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The website is pure, unadulterated crap like everything else from the 0bama regime.
I used to be a Fed contractor for very basic training software and online apps. I would have these bureaucratic cows sign off on every step, up to launch. Typically, they easily signed off at every stage. It wasn’t until after launch that they’d come back to me with changes and tweaks - proving to me that they just blindly signed the approvals. But, why should they care?? Expensive “re dos” don’t cost them anything at all since it’s other peoples’ money and they won’t be held to any accountability as they would in a private company.
No Shiite Sherlock! No company where I have worked would have allowed such a fiasco to happen in the first place. Assuming some clueless VP was able to push such an abortion through to release, he/she would be sacked immediately.
I am very curious which zero crony got the contract to develop and deploy this POS!
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Someone on another post asked the simple question did they really want it to work or was this intentional so people can’t find out how much it’s going to cost them until after it’s implemented and can’t be stopped.
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If this software had been released by a large corporation listed on the NYSE, their stock would have crashed in price by now. In this case, the stock price is Obama and the Progresso's approval ratings. They are about to get run of town.
I guess we now know where the guys who worked on Romney’s ORCA application wound up.
My theory is that the problem is compounded by a bunch of jokers logging in with fake data using various combinations of Obamas names / social security numbers / birth dates / birth places / addresses / etc....
...and the Euros tried for years to make a system that monitored all trucks throughout Europe so that could tax them on mileage and border crossings....big fail
Anonymous insiders (yes not the most reliable sources in the world but 1000% more accurate that democrats) claim that it was never intended to run well but fail so miserably that only a Single Payer System can save us.
3 years to develop and test would have been sufficient time for any real professional programmers and IT people to roll out a system especially since what was created is not new technology but simply expanding existing technology to a large scale.
So 90% of their efforts, had they actually wanted a running system, should have been spent on handling huge amounts of traffic.
They simply could have asked IT professionals in any of the alphabet soup of FBI, CIA, NSA... how to handle huge amounts of data.
Someone should create a graph to contrast this with the progress made on the Apollo program after the same amount of time after it was given the “Go” from JFK.
“There are new reports that some people who tried to register but were blocked from enrolling were asked to reset their passwords Tuesday and that more people will be asked to do the same.
Chung told Crawford that this change is a clue that they are making major changes to the system’s foundation. He also said it is a sign of progress and that they finally have the people who know what needs to be done to fix the problems.”
Additional failure is always a sign of improved competency and success. -— MINISTRY OF TRUTH
“89 javascript files”
An average of 3 - 5 javascripts is the norm.
Anything at 8 or above typically means that the website is attempting to learn about you and your computer.
Anything above roughly 20, means that the website is determined to learn and probably collect.
[Inserted a paragraph/carriage return in 2 spots, to make this a little easier to read:]Information technology experts who examined the healthcare.gov website at the request of The Wall Street Journal say the site appeared to be built on a sloppy software foundation and five outside technology experts interviewed by Reuters say they believe flaws in system architecture, not traffic alone, contribute to the problems.
One possible cause of the problems is that hitting 'apply' on HealthCare.gov causes 92 separate files, plug-ins and other mammoth swarms of data to stream between the user's computer and the servers powering the government website, says Matthew Hancock, an independent expert in website design. He was able to track the files being requested through a feature in the Firefox browser. Of the 92 he found, 56 were JavaScript files... '
They set up the website in such a way that too many requests to the server arrived at the same time,' says Hancock adding that because so much traffic was going back and forth between the users' computers and the server hosting the government website, it was as if the system was attacking itself.
The technician is probably using the Firefox / SeaMonkey add-on, NoScript.
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