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[i]Critically, the panel learned early this month that Boeing did not perform a full, end-to-end integrated test of Starliner in a Systems Integration Lab with ULA's Atlas V rocket. The test typically shows how all the software systems during each component of the mission would have responded with each other through every maneuver — and it could potentially have caught the issues Boeing later experienced in the mission. "It's pretty exhaustive. You gotta do that," said Christopher Saindon, a former member who ended his tenure on the panel in mid-February. "That was somewhat surprising to us on the panel. There were certainly gaps in the test protocol." ...Boeing said it followed all of the testing procedures NASA required of it prior to the Starliner test flight. The agency gave Boeing the green light to proceed after a flight readiness review prior to the mission.[/i]
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