Jack Ganssle has a nice design article that details a long history of design errors, from bridge building to safety critical software problems. Much of it is about NASA mission failures, but he also checks in on the topics of radiation therapy, pacemakers, and nuclear experiments. Good one-stop...
Peer Reviews are Cheap
In previous posts I've talked about how useful peer reviews can be. But some many folks say they are just too expensive. That just isn't so. Here's the math.You can write good embedded software at the rate of 1-2 lines of code per hour. (That is all source lines of code divided by all hours for...
