Do you trust your software? Why verification matters

There’s a reason the automotive industry only tests vehicles once they are functionally complete — because it's the only way they can truly trust their product is going to perform as intended. Sure, the teams behind the individual parts that make up a functioning car test the individual components. But before any cars arrive on a dealer's lot, the entire vehicle is crash-tested.

The same should be true for the software industry. What would be considered absurd in the auto …

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