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I have no idea what you are talking about. Software engineering is far less rigorous as I have experienced it. The amount of review and testing that goes into
by chinchilla2020 4y ago
I have no idea what you are talking about. Software engineering is far less rigorous as I have experienced it.
The amount of review and testing that goes into a single design industrial design is massive by comparison, since you cannot fix a 400 million dollar assembly as easily as code.
In the physical sciences, 'bug's often mean you will injure or kill an employee. The standards are extremely high.
In my time as an electrical engineer, there were many cases where I would book a flight to visit another company/site or consult with an academic/consultants. Also I would fly people in regularly to look at our plant. I never needed approval to bring in external reviewers and pay out billable hours. That sort of practice is unthinkable in software engineering.
- ZephyrBlu 4y agoI'm curious what sort of work you did since you mention a plant. Some work in both software and traditional engineering is going to be held to higher standards, so I think it can be hard to compare. For example, another commenter mentioned aviation. I would fully expect that industry to be more rigorous with both their software and physical engineering. > since you cannot fix a 400 million dollar assembly as easily as code Have you never seen these projects go wrong? I find that people often imply that things don't break and projects don't fail in traditional engineering when that actually seems to happen more often than most people would think. For example, a ~$30M council parking building project in my city had to be demolished midway through the project because they messed up the design and it was structurally unsound.