Table of contents for A Side Note
- A Side Note: The failure to test consistently is inexcusable by Howard Clark
- A Side Note: Why I dislike XY Scatter Charts so much! by Howard Clark
- A Side Note:Get Ahead of the Testing Infrastucture Build Out by Howard Clark
- A Side Note: Job Posting for Aeronautical Engineer – Have experience as an airplane passenger? You’re hired! by Howard Clark
- A Side Note: They might be right by Howard Clark
- A Side Note: “Do More with Less…Can Someone Tell Me How?” by Bobby Washington
- A Side Note: “Fighting To Maintain A Tester’s Integrity” by Bobby Washington
- A Side Note: “To Pull the Plug or Not, Who Knew The Life And Death Of a Computer Would Depend On A Tester?” by Howard Clark
- A Side Note: “Faith in the Machinery” by Ed Cook
- A Side Note: Open-Source or Commercial Testing Solution by Howard Clark
After the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger, Congress formed the Rogers Commission to investigate the causes of the accident, both technical and systemic, that led to the accident. One of the members of that commission was Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman. In his report, he wrote:
“It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from the working engineers, and the very low figures from management. What are the causes and consequences of this lack of agreement? Since 1 part in 100,000 would imply that one could put a Shuttle up each day for 300 years expecting to lose only one, we could properly ask “What is the cause of management’s fantastic faith in the machinery?””
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