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Purpose of Proof Testing
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Finds Dangerous Undetected failures due to random hardware failures and common
cause issues
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Random hardware failure rate measure is
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But Proof Testing also finds
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Early signs of common cause failure (like corrosion)
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Actual common cause failure
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Systematic failures
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Safe undetected failures
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