In this physicist's opinion, that's a fairly strained analogy. I sort of chuckle a bit when I hear things like "code coverage" and "test driven development" and

In this physicist's opinion, that's a fairly strained analogy. I sort of chuckle a bit when I hear things like "code coverage" and "test driven development" and the like. These things are dressed in the robes of empiricism, but there's very often a lack of genuine rigor that makes the analogy a bit of a stretch.