From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5ac12f5a60b1bfe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,5ac12f5a60b1bfe X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: JP Thornley Subject: Re: Ariane 5 - not an exception? Date: 1996/08/09 Message-ID: <372900170wnr@diphi.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 173346176 x-nntp-posting-host: diphi.demon.co.uk references: <31FE35BC.1A0D@sanders.lockheed.com> <4totv7$o9f@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <32065615.77C7@sanders.lockheed.com> <4u69g9$157k@news.ccit.arizona.edu> x-mail2news-path: relay-4.mail.demon.net!post.demon.co.uk!diphi.demon.co.uk organization: None reply-to: jpt@diphi.demon.co.uk newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-08-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: frank@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu (Frank Manning) writes: > So how do you prevent another Ariane 5 problem? You really need people > who understand both aerospace engineering (another somewhat nebulous > term) and software engineering. > I actually feel that there is a ray of hope here in the move towards executable prototypes. To do these successfully requires a combination of systems and software expertise, and will *have* to be produced by combined teams - so that the dividing line between the two disciplines will become much less distinct. (And if the systems engineers do carry on throwing the spec over the wall then the failures will come a lot quicker.) Phil Thornley -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | JP Thornley EMail jpt@diphi.demon.co.uk | ------------------------------------------------------------------------