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kakwa_today at 9:54 AM0 repliesview on HN

Pretty standard in highly regulated fields like aerospace, finance/banking or industry.

Sometimes for good reasons, like thorough validation need or operational constraints like spaced-out maintenance windows.

Sometimes for bad reasons, like a complete absence of unit tests and very old and brittle code bases requiring a lot of manual QA and several iterations for a version to be in a releasable state.