Through a measured use of suspense, Mr Guterson slowly draws the reader into his moral tale, which is moving without being mawkish and stops short of emotional manipulation.

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The moral of this tale: There is no substitute for end-to-end testing of all IT systems and where corporate revenue is involved, simple testing could well be the difference between profitability and disaster.

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