[zlsa]

Related: the Ariane 5 rocket failed on its maiden flight because it reused code from its predecessor, which made an assumption that didn't apply to the higher-performance Ariane 5.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_flight_V88

[h0l0cube]

Seems like a mitigation for this kind of issue would be to simulate the inputs to the system for the expected flight duration.

[kitd]

IIRC it was the higher acceleration value of Ariane5 that the old code wasn't expecting that caused the problem. Some fuzz testing could have worked, I suppose.