Re:Computer science is not software engineering
by imtringued on Saturday December 26, 2020 @06:55PM
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>Another comment mentions MCAS, but maybe that's too easily classified as a management failure.
You can also chalk it up as a non software engineering failure because the sensor hardware is what failed first.
It's not very clear cut.
However, that search took me to an example that I didn't recall, resulting in loss of life. I'll probably reference this story about the Therac-25 in the future as it hits on a number of clear software engineering failures:
-- https://www.bugsnag.com/blog/bug-day-race-condition-therac-2...