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Evidence & Reporting

Accessible Quality Evidence

Summary

Quality evidence is retained in a shared location that remains accessible to the responsible team and decision-makers without depending on the person who created it.

Standards

  1. A team or vendor that produces quality evidence MUST store it in a designated shared location accessible to the team responsible for the product or service and to the decision-makers who rely on it. std-qe-accessible-quality-evidence-01
  2. Quality evidence MUST NOT be stored solely in personal files, private messages, an individual's account, or a tool that its intended reviewers cannot access. std-qe-accessible-quality-evidence-02
  3. Quality evidence MUST remain accessible for as long as it supports an unresolved finding, accepted risk, or current quality decision. std-qe-accessible-quality-evidence-03

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Complete Quality Reporting

Summary

Quality reporting presents the tested scope, outcomes, material gaps, open findings, and accepted risks.

Standards

  1. A quality report MUST identify the scope assessed and the outcomes of that assessment. std-qe-complete-quality-reporting-01
  2. A quality report MUST identify each known material gap, open finding, and accepted risk. std-qe-complete-quality-reporting-02
  3. A pass rate, coverage measure, or other aggregate quality measure MUST NOT be presented without the scope and known limitations needed to interpret it. std-qe-complete-quality-reporting-03

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Actionable Findings

Summary

Quality findings contain the information needed to understand the problem, assess its impact, and begin the required or recommended follow-up.

Standards

  1. A quality finding MUST describe the observed outcome, the expected outcome, the affected area, and the conditions under which the problem occurred. std-qe-actionable-findings-01
  2. A quality finding MUST state its impact and include or reference the supporting evidence and diagnostic information needed to investigate it. std-qe-actionable-findings-02
  3. A quality finding MUST state the required or recommended follow-up, such as further investigation, correction, a risk decision, or retesting if necessary. std-qe-actionable-findings-03

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Shared Defect Standard

Summary

Delivery teams and vendors use a shared standard to record, classify, prioritise, manage, verify, and close defects consistently.

Standards

  1. Delivery teams and vendors working on the same product or service MUST define and follow a shared defect standard that specifies required record content, classification criteria, lifecycle statuses, ownership, dispositions, verification, and closure criteria. std-qe-shared-defect-standard-01

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Current and Traceable Evidence

Summary

Quality evidence identifies its source and tested context so its applicability to the current product version and conditions can be established.

Standards

  1. Each quality evidence record MUST identify the test run or assessment that produced it, when it was produced, the tested environment, the product or service version, and any applicable change, build, or artifact. std-qe-current-traceable-evidence-01
  2. Quality evidence MUST NOT be represented as current when the tested version or conditions have materially changed unless its continuing applicability has been assessed and recorded. std-qe-current-traceable-evidence-02

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