need to somehow "reduce" the number of incidents ?
It's silly isn't it.
They could just perform their normal work as originally planned. Some of the work will include creating automated test tools. These will help enormously in "reducing" the number of incidents (if that is a sensible objective anyway).
You wouldn't take a plane on a test flight without a flightworthy system already built. Why would you think it was sensible to start up a half-baked computer system and generate "incident reports" by hand ?
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