Thursday, January 17, 2013

Software Development Delays Latest Problem To Hit The F-35 Program


Lagging JSF Software Development Worries Pentagon DOT&E -- Aviation Week

The latest report on the F-35 program by Michael Gilmore, the Pentagon’s director of operational test and evaluation (DOT&E), spotlights growing problems with late software deliveries for the stealthy fighter.

Software releases in 2012, the report says, ran late as compared to the schedule adopted after the 2010 technical baseline review, which was carried out in part to correct optimistic projections made before that date. (The program’s leaders had underestimated the amount of regression testing — tests to make sure that changes had not induced problems in previously tested functions — and overestimated test rates and productivity.)

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My Comment:
If there is one thing that I know about software it is that if it is not resolved soon .... it could become a very expensive proposition.

1 comment:

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