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Cost of ineffective testing


§ A single error can cause death or injury if it fails in case of safety critical applications

§ An AA jet crashed in Colombia (S.A) because the captain entered an incorrect one-letter computer command that sent the jet into a mountain killing 158 people aboard

§ Ariane 5 was remotely destroyed within 40 seconds of launch causing a loss of US$ 500 million because of a wrong exception handling

§ Bug in the reservation system caused tickets to be issued from NY to London at dirt cheap rates. The airline had to bear the loss

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