This week's assignment is to analyze the report and present a summary, in your own words, of the failures and your comments on them.
Secondly, what type of test cases do you think can be defined for the case, which could have exposed the problems with this system? Elaborate and explain how.
The failure of Ariane 5 rocket on June 4, 1996 has many plausible causes and many were mentioned in the two articles we were asked to read. The board set up to investigate the failure Ariane 5 launcher found out that the cause of the failure was a software error in the inertial reference system (Lions, et al, 1996). Specifically, the failure happened