Author James Gleick (A Bug and a Crash, around.com/ariane.html ) writes that It took the European Space

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Author James Gleick (“A Bug and a Crash,” around.com/ariane.html) writes that “It took the European Space Agency 10 years and $7 billion to produce Ariane 5, a giant rocket capable of hurling a pair of three-ton satellites into orbit with each launch. … All it took to explode that rocket less than a minute into its maiden voyage … was a small computer program trying to stuff a 64-bit number into a 16-bit space. One bug, one crash. Of all the careless lines of code recorded in the annals of computer science, this one may stand as the most devastatingly efficient.” Write a safety scenario that addresses the Ariane 5 disaster, and discuss tactics that might have prevented it.

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Software Architecture In Practice

ISBN: 9780136886020

4th Edition

Authors: Len Bass, Paul Clements, Rick Kazman

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