I had a friend who quit their JPL software job (to go work for a large, bureaucratic software firm) because JPL required such an extensive testing and review re

I had a friend who quit their JPL software job (to go work for a large, bureaucratic software firm) because JPL required such an extensive testing and review regimen before every change that the work got boring for being too slow. I am very skeptical of the claim that this code was not tested before launch.