Why Development Teams Struggle to Deliver on Time, on Budget, or at All

Re:Why Development Teams Struggle to Deliver on Time, on Bud... by dredmorbius on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @10:58AM (#17238253)

The Linux kernel is several times more complex than the Space shuttle. Order of magnitude as I recall.

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Re:Why Development Teams Struggle to Deliver on Time, on Bud... by CamTin on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @04:11PM (#17241556)

Much harder to step the shuttle through a debugger though.

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Re:Why Development Teams Struggle to Deliver on Time, on Bud... by dredmorbius on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @10:15AM (#17247300)

Also, generally, much less need. The Shuttle is a physical system, and can be directly observed and components either individually (unit) or collectively (integration) tested.

"Debuggers" are the monitoring, telemetry, sensing, and forensics equipment, data, and processes applied to each test, launch, and component.

We have debuggers because code is otherwise a black box. Debuggers are a visualisation technology.

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