[Uchikoma]

To me, not being an expert, the article mentioning a lot of rigor and thoroughness to not run again into the A380 problems, this

"This is nothing new and isn't different from Boeing in anything they mentioned in the article."

contradicts this

"Lack of rigor and believing things would just work (too optimistic) from what I have heard on the outside."

[jreichhold]

This is an article with no attempt to understand the state of the art outside of what Airbus wanted written and is PR spin. Most of the techniques here were used in the 737NG program in the late 90s

[Uchikoma]

So your answer in this discussion is "PR spin. PR spin."