ES-109 Evidence¶
Purpose¶
This page defines the evidence expected from ES-109.
Testing evidence demonstrates what was verified, what failed, what was fixed, what remains uncertain, and whether release-readiness evaluation can begin.
Required evidence¶
| Artifact | Evidence Purpose |
|---|---|
test_strategy.md |
Defines testing approach and priorities. |
test_plan.md |
Defines testing scope, owners, schedule, and evidence expectations. |
test_cases.md |
Defines tests for requirements, guardrails, failure paths, and regression. |
verification_matrix.md |
Maps requirements, guardrails, risks, and findings to verification. |
test_execution_record.md |
Records test execution and results. |
defect_log.md |
Records defects and resolutions. |
guardrail_verification.md |
Verifies trustworthiness guardrails. |
ai_verification_record.md |
Verifies AI boundaries or states not applicable. |
regression_check_record.md |
Records regression checks. |
testing_readiness_summary.md |
Summarizes readiness for ES-110. |
Evidence quality expectations¶
Testing evidence should be traceable to requirements and risks, explicit about pass/fail results, clear about test method, clear about guardrail coverage, clear about AI verification, clear about defects and retests, honest about gaps, and useful to release readiness.
Verification adequacy test¶
Verification evidence is adequate when a reviewer can answer what was tested, why it was tested, what requirement or guardrail it verifies, what passed, what failed, what defects remain, what was not tested, what risk remains, and whether release readiness can begin.
AI-use evidence¶
If AI assists testing, record how it assisted and how test adequacy was reviewed.
AI-generated tests should be reviewed for relevance, traceability, missing negative cases, false assumptions, superficial assertions, and guardrail coverage.
Do not count generated tests as meaningful if they do not assert the behavior that matters.
Verification evidence is less about proving confidence and more about showing justified confidence.