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Whenever someone comments on the usefulness of unit testing (or in the extreme, testing in general), I point them to Feynman's contribution to the Challenger sh
by lnguyen 18y ago
Whenever someone comments on the usefulness of unit testing (or in the extreme, testing in general), I point them to Feynman's contribution to the Challenger shuttle report:
Appendix F - Personal Observations on Reliability of Shuttle
http://www.ralentz.com/old/space/feynman-report.html http://www.ralentz.com/old/space/feynman-report.html
A good summary is at
http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/richard-feynman-challenger-disaster-software-engineering http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/richard-feynman-challen...
- axod 18y agoHow many people are writing mission critical software? In startups, hardly any.
- lnguyen 18y agoIf you rely on your software to be up and running for your livelihood (aka any web startup), it is mission critical.
- axod 18y agoI disagree completely. A failure might mean you loose a bit of ad revenue, or maybe a customer. The consequences of a bug are usually very small. It's also very obvious if a bug is causing you pain.