I worked on AWACS back in the early 2000s and we had an adversarial dynamic with our QA team. We would see them as 'just getting in the way', but I can now say,

I worked on AWACS back in the early 2000s and we had an adversarial dynamic with our QA team. We would see them as 'just getting in the way', but I can now say, after working as a software developer, that without a strong QA (backed up by military laws), our planes would be flying with a lot of 'solutions' that would lead to unnecessary deaths.