The Way of the Engineer
I believe that the concept of failure … is central to understanding engineering, for engineering design has as its first and foremost objective the obviation of failure.
—Henry Petroski [Pe92]
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This chapter views finding defects from the perspective of engineering. The first section of this chapter explains the worldview of the engineer. It suggests that engineering is about designing reliable structures and that the mindset of the engineer can be applied to the process of preventing and detecting bugs. It quotes several key statements from works by Henry Petroski [Pe92] and James L. Adams about the nature of the engineering process and relates them to the process of building and debugging software. ...
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