ENV-004l — Validate Environmental Determinism

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Statement

The DIDO-TE SHALL validate environmental determinism before each Test Execution.

Derived From

, source requirement identifier and obligation to be assigned[DTE6] Structured Information Processing Reference Architecture (SIP-RA)[DTE7] Federated Data Interpretation Systems Reference Architecture (FDIS-RA)

Rationale

Environmental determinism exists when the Test Environment satisfies the controlled conditions specified by the applicable Test Definition.

Validation determines whether the applicable Baselines, Configurations, Test Inputs, time sources, random value sources, execution-ordering controls, resource allocations, external dependencies, and communication conditions satisfy their specified criteria.

Pre-execution validation prevents an invalid environmental condition from undermining the interpretation, Reproducibility, or Comparability of the resulting Test Results.

Applies To

Verification

Verification confirms that:

The applicable Test Definition identifies each environmental condition subject to validation.Each validation criterion has a specified value, state, range, sequence, or tolerance.The DIDO-TE evaluates each validation criterion before Test Execution.The DIDO-TE identifies each criterion as satisfied or unsatisfied.The DIDO-TE produces an environmental-determinism validation outcome.A valid outcome requires satisfaction of every mandatory environmental criterion.The validation outcome identifies each unsatisfied criterion.The validation outcome identifies each detected environmental variation.The DIDO-TE records the validation outcome as Evidence.The DIDO-TE maintains Traceability among the validation outcome, the Test Definition, the environmental conditions, and the proposed Test Execution.An omitted, incomplete, incorrect, unsupported, or untraceable validation constitutes nonconformance with this requirement.Verification includes:

Inspection of the environmental criteria specified by the Test DefinitionInspection of environmental-determinism validation proceduresObservation of validation before Test ExecutionComparison of specified and observed environmental conditionsTesting with an environment that satisfies every mandatory criterionTesting with an unsatisfied Baseline or Configuration criterionTesting with an unsatisfied Test Input, time-source, or random-value criterionTesting with an unsatisfied ordering, resource, dependency, or communication criterionInspection of validation outcomes, Evidence, and Traceability recordsConfirmation that each unsatisfied mandatory criterion produces an invalid outcome

Referenced By

Related Architecture Sections

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Requirement Status

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