Software Development Lessons from the Apollo Program
summary
The Apollo Guidance Computer is described with two kilobytes of RAM and a user interface of verbs and nouns (the DSKY) that actually flies missions; a 12-01 master alarm nearly aborts Apollo 11 but a cheat-sheet thumbs-up keeps landing on track. Development grows from experimental work to 400 engineers, relies on heavy integration and off-nominal tests (100:1), and produces hardware and software that work reliably in space.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:11The Apollo Guidance Computer
- 8:51The Lunar Module
- 12:25Testing
- 17:48Teams
- 21:41Working with Users
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