How do you know you've prototyped a proposed enhancement enough, before using it to enhance your safety-

Question

critical software ?

Answer 1

Now that's a REALLY philosophical question, and no doubt some idiot will attempt to answer it.

Sorry, Doug!

Answer 2

Hehehe.  Yeah, some idiot like me who was writing software when -some- peoples idea of a wild night was Kool-Aid and Oatmeal Cookies <g>

The fact of the matter is that there is -no- such hard and fast number.  In any system of sufficient complexity the long-term result of a change is simply unknowable (the Darwinians understand things like that almost instinctively)

From a philosophical point of view it may be likened to Kurt Godels famous Incompleteness Proof.

HTH,

Doug