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A lot of people look at safety critical development standards to try and copy process bits for quality. In reality, 90% of the quality benefits come from sitting down to think about the software and its role in the overall system. You don't need all the fancy methodologies and expensive tools. It's also the main benefit you get from formal methods.

I've found that a quality process that starts with "you need to comprehensively understand what you're engineering" is almost universally a non-starter for anyone not already using these things. Putting together an exhaustive list of all the ways code interacts with the outside world is hard. If a few engineers actually manage it, they're rarely empowered to make meaningful decisions on whether the consequences of failures are acceptable or fix things if they're not.

parent AlotOfReading 10 months ago

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