> To be honest, this is one idea I was toying around with. As in, have a test suite that generates a "state" file for your program and then, in any given patch,

> To be honest, this is one idea I was toying around with. As in, have a test suite that generates a "state" file for your program and then, in any given patch, list the items in the state that you'd expect to change. It is very clear that you have not worked on large, complex systems.