OpenMRS might help more than the developing world

OpenMRS might help more than the developing world

Posted Jun 25, 2007 9:35 UTC (Mon) by shane (subscriber, #3335)
In reply to: OpenMRS might help more than the developing world by man_ls
Parent article: Google Summer of Code Series, OpenMRS

The aerospace industry uses the waterfall model exclusively, because it is the only way to get software that is proven to work to the level of safety and reliability required.

Where do you get that idea?

I got it from a talk at the 23rd Chaos Communication Congress last December, Software Reliability in Aerospace, given by a software engineer who works in aerospace.

If you think about it, the waterfall model makes a great deal of sense for aerospace projects. In these, the requirements are usually understood in much more detail before coding begins than for a lot of software projects. Also, while getting the requirements wrong is costly in any project, when you are working with very expensive hardware it is disastrous. Finally, the benefit of having a partially-working system (for example just "core features") is much less or perhaps even nonexistant for aerospace.

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