Remember The Positive Test Cases, Too
Perhaps too much focus on negative testing explains this thank you page for the MicroCotton Fill Your Closet with Luxury Towels contest success page:
On the other hand, given that the “word count” field actually only counts spaces, producing a potentially flawed word count and allowing the application to accept only a space as input, perhaps the company didn’t test at all.
Geez. Don’t try to do too much, fellows, if you’re not going to do it right.