Automotive: It looks really great for management, to minimize the liability risk. Look what great processes we have installed to avoid all kinds of problems. R

Automotive: It looks really great for management, to minimize the liability risk. Look what great processes we have installed to avoid all kinds of problems. Reality: The code is written by the lowest bidder. This might be people with some form of formal qualifications, but also often is people who have no idea how a car is supposed to work, who do not even have a license to drive one. Imagine someone implementing a web app without ever having used a web browser. The specifications are written by non-software engineers, and more often than not they contain a code-like description of the software, without any significant explanation. That's code written by people with no clue about software. The tests may provide any coverage you can dream of, but they are unfit to detect any kind of bug. Which is obvious because the authors of the code and test have no idea about what problem the code is supposed to solve. And the only goal is to prove coverage not to find bugs. In the end it only works because there is different people, who know how cars work, and test everything manually. At that point, coverage is of no concern at all, and bugs stay undetected, but the result might be just good enough. Also, it helps that (from a pure software point of view) most automotive software isn't exactly highly complicated.