verification-and-quality-assurance

STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE

Purpose

Plan and execute verification and QA activities that prove conformance to requirements, validate user value, and document residual risk with traceability.

Trigger Conditions

• Positive: project QA planning, release readiness assessments, or end-to-end verification requests.
• Negative: focused PR review (use code-review-assistant) or targeted functionality debugging (use functionality-audit).

Guardrails

• Confidence ceiling: Provide Confidence: X.XX (ceiling: TYPE Y.YY) with ceilings {inference/report 0.70, research 0.85, observation/definition 0.95}.
• Traceability: Map tests and findings to requirements/stories; capture evidence (logs, screenshots, metrics).
• Structure-first: Maintain examples/tests reflecting verification matrices, exit criteria, and defect tracking.
• Adversarial validation: Include negative tests, boundary cases, and failure injection where applicable.

Execution Phases

1. Planning & Scope
   • Identify requirements, acceptance criteria, environments, and stakeholders.
   • Define exit criteria and defect severity model.
2. Design & Preparation
   • Build verification matrix linking requirements to test types (unit, integration, system, UX, security).
   • Prepare environments, data, and tooling.
3. Execution
   • Run prioritized tests; capture evidence and defects with severity and reproduction steps.
   • Track coverage against the verification matrix.
4. Evaluation & Handoff
   • Summarize results, residual risks, and open defects with owners.
   • Recommend release go/no-go or conditions; state confidence with ceiling.

Output Format

• Verification plan with scope, exit criteria, and traceability matrix.
• Execution log with evidence and defect list.
• Coverage summary and residual risks.
• Confidence statement using ceiling syntax.

Validation Checklist

• Requirements and exit criteria documented with owners.
• Verification matrix built and referenced during execution.
• Evidence and defects captured with severity and reproduction steps.
• Coverage and risks summarized with release recommendation.
• Confidence ceiling provided; English-only output.

Confidence: 0.73 (ceiling: inference 0.70) - SOP rewritten to reflect Prompt Architect confidence discipline and Skill Forge structure-first verification.