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Orchestrate verification and QA activities across requirements, design, implementation, and validation with traceable evidence.

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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.