No it's not. The MOT is a test that you have performed maintenance so the example stands. You can do 0 maintenance and still get your MOT. likewise in software

No it's not. The MOT is a test that you have performed maintenance so the example stands. You can do 0 maintenance and still get your MOT. likewise in software you can do zero maintenance and still have a good well working product that follows best practice. In the case I gave it's hours book on the maintenance project that is the test but you could very well have other measures and I've seen these in many projects. Things like linters, dependency bots, unit tests, e2e tests, code coverage, Cyclomatic complexity ...etc.