A Small Collection of CrowdStrike “Blue Screen Death Day” Memes

The biggest Global IT outage caused a CrowdStrike update and reminded us again of the importance of End-to-End Regression Testing. I collected dozens of funny and insightful Memes & Pictures.

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On 2024–07–19, Windows Blue Screen of Death caused a massive outage globally. According to Microsoft, the cause was “due to a recent CrowdStrike Update.” Gergely Orosz wrote a good explanation of this.

This, really, is another classic example of Murphy’s Law, which states, “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong”.

The most effective and practical way to significantly reduce this issue is to implement a robust and comprehensive end-to-end test automation process for regression testing. However, sadly, end-to-end (especially UI) are often neglected by software companies.