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Finding Failures, Saving Lives

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A Bug in a GPS Receiver?

There's one really cool thing that we do for testing that i think is just like the most fun. And we call it fault injection testing. We put a vehicle up in the air, we commanded the the g p s receiver to reboot itself, and the vehicle just like nose dived. So then, o like, we we run out to go get it. And we looked at the logs, and there was basically an extra status flag from the g pus receiver that we weren't paying attention to properly in the code. It was the kind of problem that, if it had escaped into the wild, it would have just been a nightmare. But catching problems in testings is the most

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