Quality Engineering Standards
Quality Engineering Standards
How quality is engineered throughout the delivery lifecycle. Quality is not a testing phase — it is built into every stage of delivery.
Standards
What the standard covers
Requirements Validation
- Acceptance Criteria
- BDD
- Gherkin
- Cucumber
- Traceability
Functional Validation
- Unit
- Component
- Integration
- Contract
- API
- End-To-End
- Regression
- Smoke
- System
- UAT
Security Validation
- SAST
- DAST
- SCA
- Penetration Testing
- API Security
- Container Security
- Infrastructure Security
Performance Validation
- Load
- Stress
- Spike
- Soak
- Scalability
- Chaos Engineering
Infrastructure & Accessibility
- Infrastructure as Code
- IaC Testing
- Container Orchestration
- Containers
- WCAG
- Screen Readers
- Keyboard
- Colour Contrast
Data & AI Validation
- Data Quality
- Migration Testing
- Reconciliation
- Lineage
- Prompt Testing
- RAG Evaluation
- Hallucination
- Bias
- Guardrail
- Model Validation
Evidence produced
Artefacts & evidence
Every standard produces reviewable, audit-ready evidence.
Coverage Reports
Performance Reports
Security Reports
Accessibility Reports
Deployment Reports
Production Readiness Reports
Approval Records