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Explore how aviation disasters offer valuable insights for software engineering in this 53-minute conference talk that delves deeper into technical aspects beyond human factors. Examine the most common causes of aviation disasters and their evolution over time, learning how these patterns apply to software development challenges. Discover how redundancy in systems can prevent catastrophic failures, analyze cases of deadly user experience design, and understand how project failures and misaligned incentives contribute to disasters in both aviation and software. Study specific case studies that reveal technical oddities from famous aviation incidents, drawing practical parallels to software engineering practices. Learn from nearly 100 years of commercial aviation disaster investigations to improve your approach to system design, risk management, and failure prevention in software development.
