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I’m in my third decade in IT, and I can assure you such testing was never a priority. We just have capable computers everywhere nowadays .
I mean, there is the field of critical systems engineering. The problem is that every schmuck with a computer and some venture capital is off to "disrupt" something, regardless of how much was already learned in that field by the previous generations.
Critical Systems Engineering? Sounds expensive. Nah fuck that, let’s write the code in VB6 and stick it on an unsecured Windows NT box.