👉 In the context of computer science and hardware engineering, "destructivity" is a measure of how much a device or system can be damaged by a particular force. It's used to quantify the efficiency of a device in handling different types of damage. For example, if you have a device that can withstand high temperatures, but also has the ability to explode due to pressure, then its destructivity would be low. In software engineering, "destructivity" refers to how much a software system is vulnerable