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TBF the analogy is especially strained for that one. Per another commenter, Boeing actually makes rockets with waterfall, but test-driven only really makes sense for software, where making local changes is easy but managing complexity is hard.
Edit: Actually, there's even software where it doesn't work well. A lot of scientific-type computing is hard to check until it's run all the way through.
That's where digital twin engineering HOPES to bridge the gap.
There is definitely a contium of how long it takes to build and test changes where increasly abstract design makes more and more sense vs the send it model