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Re:How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software Devel... by mehrdadn on Thursday April 18, 2019 @04:44PM (#19694617)
Isn't digital logic testing a thing for hardware?
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Re:How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software Devel... by Gibbon1 on Thursday April 18, 2019 @06:07PM (#19695233)
Complex hardware often contains bugs many of which map to software bugs. Hardware though tends to be highly constrained in how it's operated.

Man: Doc it hurts when I bend my knee this way.

Doc: Well don't do that.

EE: The hardware state machine runs into the weeds when given these inputs.

Tech Rep: Yeah don't do that.

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