Well, I tried using the corsev some .... and capturing ships appears to be broken.

I tried to capture some neutral ships at an asteroid.  The DOT was defiantly active as i waited until 100 hp was left on each target before using boarding party.  Ship did in fact have the DOT on it working but when it ran out of hull it just exploded, no ship for me.  Happened twice.

After some further testing I found that a ship I use boarding party on does not have "boarded" added to its status, just the DOT.

EDIT: This is for Beta 2 v 0.76