A sortie is a flight, a mission.
Unless the JSF program is trying to re-define the word.
Oh I agree, was simply trying to understand the poster’s comment and see if they would offer up some more information.
The JSF program’s flight test “success” criteria as explained to Congress is sortie and test point count. So there may be some merit to the “re-define” statement...
Absurd by any definition...operational capability should define success, not sorties flown and test points.
Although burning down test points should eventually lead to capability, unless you’re picking all of the low hanging fruit and are focused on metrics vs. capability.