The 50 Most Expensive Software Failures (so far)

By Aliaksandr Khvastovich

A missing overbar destroyed a spacecraft. A skipped server update burned $440 million in 45 minutes. Software failure is the most expensive kind of failure there is - and this book counts the bill.

Fifty real, documented disasters, from Therac-25 and Knight Capital to the CrowdStrike outage and the Boeing 737 MAX - all the way to Y2K, the one disaster the world paid to prevent. Every chapter: what happened, why, what it cost, and the questions a strong test strategy could have asked before it was too late.

AI is writing more code every day than human teams can review, and quality is what stands between your product and this book's next edition. That is the "(so far)" in the title - and it is only half a joke.

For QA engineers, developers, engineering leaders, founders, and anyone who has ever heard "we'll just ship it and fix it in production."

From Aliaksandr Khvastovich (alexusadays) - QA engineer, educator, and author of Navigating Testing & Quality Assurance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H7B4W6G5
• ISBN13: 9798185219621
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.9" x 5.0"