Re: Re: Code Red: What security specialist don't mention in warnings(Frank Knobbe)

[Darren Reed <darrenr () reed wattle id au>]

In some email I received from R. DuFresne, sie wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Darren Reed wrote:
>
>       [SNIP]
>
> > Oh rubbish.  If you've ever studied software engineering as a process
> > you'll know about things like unit testing, regression testing, etc.
> > That was before "testing tools".  How can space shuttle s/w engineers
> > produce code of such a high quality yet nobody else?  Answer: their
> > processes ensure it happens.  They don't need ISS or whatever.
>
> It's not all that simple even with NASA though, remember the troubles with
> the hubbles mirrors, and the peoblems with programing errors on various
> probes to the sun and mars...

I'm willing to bet if people's lives were on the line, it'd be different.

Of course there are still engineering, management and general internal
communication problems to overcome, not to mention deadlines... hence
the explosion of Challenger...

Darren
_______________________________________________
firewall-wizards mailing list
firewall-wizards () nfr com
http://list.nfr.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards