[woud420]

Just a note, looking at the way most companies I've been involved with handle RF testing, it still feels like some electrical engineering is at a premature stage also.

Testing a transistor is the equivalent of testing an if statement. Both are trivial. The difficulty comes from testing multiple of these components acting in sync. Let's be honest, it's sometimes not worth the return on investment to test outside of your requirements.

If software has potential to injure someone, I would hope that it's been tested to similar specifications that hardware is tested on.