It worked in the sense that the lifeboats on the Titanic worked - they did, after all, save hundreds of lives.
The combination of time and severity in this case should mean that we can move on from naive 'all bugs are shallow' dogma towards developing a more evidence-based approach to the verification of critical software.
The combination of time and severity in this case should mean that we can move on from naive 'all bugs are shallow' dogma towards developing a more evidence-based approach to the verification of critical software.