For stroke patients, there is a saying “time is brain”. First responders need to assess patients as accurately and as quickly as possible, and then it’s off to the races to the best treatment centre. This is a high stakes situation where problems arising of both the human and software variety is ideally zero. Losing a loved one because “undefined is not a function” is certainly not ideal.

It should not be a surprise that eliminating the occurrence of such software defects in such a high stakes …