I used to work in a world with lots of embedded software. My experience was that - regardless of domain or company -the "hardware" was regarded as just that - s

I used to work in a world with lots of embedded software. My experience was that - regardless of domain or company -the "hardware" was regarded as just that - simply hardware. And it was tested as that - simply hardware - not as hardware that, oh by the way, had a helluva lot of critical embedded software. So issues that could have been caught at some level of testing weren't.