G19 -- Assert your coverage

A scanner compares what it found against an over-approximating candidate set and fails on the gap. A silent skip is a defect, and a loud failure nobody counts is exactly as invisible. A tool that cannot answer refuses; it never returns an empty set that reads as "nothing left". provenance: BFM R32 + R43; seven silent-skip defects in one audit (Phase 26); a scanner that reported the decomp complete