> You might notice that these real engineering jobs also don't have a way to verify the product via tests like that though, which was my point.
The electrical engineers at my employer that design building electrical distribution systems have software that handles all of the calculations, itβs just math. Arc flash hazard analysis, breaker coordination studies, available fault current, etc. All manufacturers provide the data needed to perform these calculations for their products.
Other engineering disciplines have similar tools. Mechanical, civil, and structural engineers all use software that simulates their designs.
Okay, honestly asking: do you really think your outlined simulation meet the same bar as automated regression tests like
> E.g you technically don't need to look at the code if it's frontend code and part of the product is a e2e test which produces a video of the correct/full behavior via playwright or similar.
> Same with backend implementations which have instrumentation which expose enough tracing information to determine if the expected modules were encountered etc
If not, your quoted sentence was "tests like that". If yes... I guess we would have to disagree.
The electrical engineers at my employer that design building electrical distribution systems have software that handles all of the calculations, itβs just math. Arc flash hazard analysis, breaker coordination studies, available fault current, etc. All manufacturers provide the data needed to perform these calculations for their products.
Other engineering disciplines have similar tools. Mechanical, civil, and structural engineers all use software that simulates their designs.