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That's how the original successful space program, the Soviet one, worked. Test-driven development is traditional in the space launch space. Rapid iteration and
by HPsquared 2y ago
That's how the original successful space program, the Soviet one, worked. Test-driven development is traditional in the space launch space.
Rapid iteration and testing is the preferred approach if you have a highly integrated, tightly-coupled organization.
If you use contractors, on the other hand, everything needs to be planned out and stipulated in advance to protect the parties involved.
- whatshisface 2y agoEvery successful program is test-driven.
- tliltocatl 2y agoThe soviet space program stalled on N-1 because this approach (*integrated* move-fast-break-things testing) turned out to be unviable once there are too many failure points. And the engineers were well aware of that and proposed to do static fire tests, but that was not in the budget.
- HPsquared 2y agoIt fell apart a bit after Korolev died.