Obstacle Driven Development (ODD) is a combination of various engineering and software development processes.
The largest difference between ODD and the traditional is the creation of tests first and for everything practical.
ODD has adapted other processes to provide unit testing for each element of each stage through appropriate verification and validation tests.
Thanks for your interest. Given the absolute ideal of ODD is to test everything then this could provide you with a benchmark.
Obviously testing everything is practically impossible and so its aim is to test everything practical. Comparing what could be tested and what is could then give you empirical evidence.
This would at least give empirical evidence for known and expected situations, and hopefully identify a few unknown.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!".Dijkstra (1970) "Notes On Structured Programming" (EWD249), Section 3 ("On The Reliability of Mechanisms"), corollary at the end.
So how do you know that you have tested everything practical? this make me some noise.
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