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jody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-10 08:02 AM
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130. Software can never use a hardware statistical model because the population size is one (1) v. a
finite population (n > 1) for hardware.

It is cost prohibitive to do an exhaustive test of every combination and permutation of software inputs for systems used on complex systems.

An interesting question is "Did Toyota software engineers use Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools or were some modules of the code designed by the "You start programming and I'll go find out what they need" approach?

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