Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Excel
The problem is that anyone who isn&#x27;t a decent coder think excel is a sensible choice for this, because they&#x27;ve seen it in their school or work.<p>So when the proposals come in, you&#x27;re going to see one guy who says it&#x27;s all common sense and we use familiar old excel for everything, and another lunatic who says something called &quot;pigsqueal&quot; is actually the standard, connected to a &quot;frontend&quot; which for some reason is now separate to the &quot;backend&quot;. This nutter thinks we have time to write some unit tests and also wants to add an authentication module so we know who uploaded what. And somehow he thinks we need to add logging so we can ensure errors can be tracked and debugged. Amazingly he seems to be suggesting that there&#x27;s going to be errors in our process.