Evidence

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Discussion

Evidence is recorded information that supports a claim about architecture, implementation, deployment, execution, interpretation, governance, or review. Evidence allows authors, reviewers, testers, operators, and auditors to connect claims to observable or reviewable records.

Evidence may include captured messages, logs, test results, configuration records, deployment records, version records, runtime observations, audit events, provenance records, release decisions, screenshots, review findings, or scenario results.

Evidence is broader than logging. Logs may contribute to evidence when an evidence process captures, preserves, interprets, and traces them to a specific claim.

Definition

recorded information supporting a claim

Source

Informed by SIP-RA audit, review, traceability, and reproducible processing concerns; aligned with FDIS-RA evidence, provenance, auditability, and defensibility concerns; adapted from FX Demo Reference Architecture persistence, audit, provenance, release-decision, and acceptance-evidence material.

Note

Evidence must remain traceable to the claim, behaviour, artefact, configuration, execution condition, or review conclusion it supports.

Example

A captured heartbeat message, deployment record, test result, and provenance entry may together provide evidence that a Node started, reported status, exchanged information, and preserved traceability.