Supporter Talk by Cisco Meraki: You Could Learn a Lot from a Dummy
Kevin Hurley and Fito von Zastrow • May 24, 2024 • Detroit, MI • Talk

The automotive industry has learned a great deal and significantly improved the design of their safety systems through baseline regression testing, otherwise known as crash testing. Manufacturers use sophisticated dummies to record how a collision affects the occupants of a vehicle, then analyze the data to help create improved designs which can be evaluated in another test. What can Rails developers learn from this technique? How can and when should we leverage baseline regression tests to safely improve the design of our mission critical systems? What exactly can we learn from crash test dummies?

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