Indeed, in the rush to push any hardware/firmware/software out of the door and start bringing in revenue (to fund the completion of the design), just about the last programme task to be started are the error recovery routines.
In the meantime, the infamous "Bit Bucket" is the black hole where subroutines die when a line of code has failed to execute correctly.
A Programme Director who has the guts to put the brakes on rollout until elegant error recovery schemes are completed will not occupy his role for long.
In the meantime, Pilots, Engineers and Airlines must pick up the tab for debugging the suppliers code in more ways than one.
