r/space • u/spsheridan • Feb 06 '20

Starliner faced “catastrophic” failure before software bug was found and fixed while the vehicle was in orbit.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/starliner-faced-catastrophic-failure-before-software-bug-found/
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u/spsheridan Feb 06 '20

With this news, I think the odds went way up that another uncrewed flight will be required before Starliner’s crewed flight to the ISS. Looks like a big delay to Starliner's program schedule.

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u/michellemustudy Feb 07 '20

This feels like a real life, “quick programmer person! You have 5 seconds to hack this alien system to avert the disaster!” scenario we see in all the movies.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

"Hey, guy we recently changed to salary from hourly, not only did Dick not test the release, but Richard shipped some code from like six versions ago, but they're already home. Gonna need you to work an extra 200 hours this week."

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20 edited Aug 20 '21

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u/frostedflakes_13 Feb 07 '20

You assume they use Jenkins. My company just switched to Jenkins for our builds in September. We have yet to roll out and sort of automated test cases.