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SYSE.47:4.5 - Exercise the candidate and retain only useful control

Use SYSE.46 to compare the candidate with its baseline on representative tasks. Include an adequate contribution, a genuinely missing premise, changed relevant information and an uncertain effect when those branches are relied on. Use SYSE.49 when informative conditions must be constructed.

Inspect receiving-result correctness, needed access/use, restraint, unresolved effects and total effort. Keep final comparison cases outside procedure tuning. When persistence matters, compare delayed and changed-condition use with recoverable configuration and support identity.

Retain the smallest procedure supported by the comparison. Return a false sufficiency test to its predicate owner, failed execution to SYSE.42, and misleading feedback to SYSE.49. A more elaborate procedure with no useful advantage should be simplified or rejected. Stop at the bounded executable result or its exact unresolved construction condition.