Re:Minesweeper automates root cause analysis as a first-line...
by dathinab on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:26PM
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Debris on the runway is something to be expected in rare cases, given how many flights there are a day it's just a matter of time until it happens.
As such the problem is an air plan which is designed in a way too prone to cause (too) fatal accidents in certain "rare but guaranteed to happen at some point" situation.
But in the end if you say both are trigger which together lead to the catastrophe or one is a trigger and another is the root cause is indeed irrelevant.
The problem is if you do something I will call trigger analysis but refer to root cause analysis treating it as if it gives you the root cause it can very easily to situations where you fix one of the problems but not all, and potentially not even the biggest problem.
I.e. you make it slightly less likely that there is debris on the runway but you don't fix the problem of the airplane being too prone to certain kinds of catastrophic failure.
As such the problem is an air plan which is designed in a way too prone to cause (too) fatal accidents in certain "rare but guaranteed to happen at some point" situation.
But in the end if you say both are trigger which together lead to the catastrophe or one is a trigger and another is the root cause is indeed irrelevant.
The problem is if you do something I will call trigger analysis but refer to root cause analysis treating it as if it gives you the root cause it can very easily to situations where you fix one of the problems but not all, and potentially not even the biggest problem.
I.e. you make it slightly less likely that there is debris on the runway but you don't fix the problem of the airplane being too prone to certain kinds of catastrophic failure.