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Sadly, this is a problem that is permeating the aerospace industry. Maybe SpaceX has been immune, at least for now.

My first-hand experience at 2 large aerospace contractors is that QA resources have been a smaller and smaller portion of the contract budget.

The last companies I worked for had zero software QA. After two years of scraping together what I could, I eventually gave up.

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In my experience, I find aerospace quality control systems are large behemoths in and of themselves and poorly suited to software development. It's disappointing but not surprising that large orgs cut corners on software quality processes.

no, this is a result of corruption. plain and simple.

In an indirect way sure, slashing QA budgets is an effect of corruption, but it's also the more productive thing to criticize in this specific instance. I share your sentiment generally.

Corruption forces them to skimp on QA?

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