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Martin Krischik writes:
> <veröffentlicht & per Mail versendet>
>
> Paul E. Bennett wrote:
>
>> reviews and testing. Therefore, I tend to look at the development
>> processes and their "real" CMM rating. I guess the Ariane team went down a
>> few notches on that project.
>
> Only it was a contractors team and they where not there anymore to be asked
> if the Ariane 4 software could be run on the Ariane 5.
>
> That was one of the reaons why the testsuite was not run: The did not have
> the personal to do it the they would have to hire and teach new contractors
> to do it.
>
> My point stands: management bug.
>
> Martin

I thought it was because the telemetry data required to simulate a
launch was classified, and managers decided that the contractors
"didn't need to know" this data.  If it weren't for this secrecy, the
contractors would have found the bug on the first simulated run of the
software.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.