On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 08:18:40PM -0600, Mike Schwab wrote: > https://www.orlandosentinel.com/space/os-bz-boeing-safety-commercial-crew-20200226-bgvthodnjzgmlc36hsxcaopahu-story.html > > Boeing didn’t perform full end-to-end test of its astronaut capsule > before troubled mission, ‘surprising’ NASA safety panel. [...] > Software issues are also plaguing another arm of Boeing, which is > dealing with the fall out of problems with its 737 Max airplanes that > led to the deaths of 346 people and has grounded the planes. [...]
I wonder if this is related to what I have guessed from somewhere, that "aviation" was moving away from Ada and writing newest software in C (or C++), which are then extensively tested (perhaps even "test driven development" is being employed). I have always been a bit suspicious that such approach leads to gradually being lost in the woods, loosing big picture, and "it passes the tests, fly it and go home". So, now they also cut the testing? As a joke, there was also a suggestion that part of aviation software is being written in Javascript. Perhaps not so much a joke, in a future. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
