Glossary

Five-dimension validation

The minimum scope of integral testing: functional, data, rules, objective and evidence.

The minimum scope of integral testing: functional, data, rules, objective and evidence. It is not enough for the flow to advance; it must advance according to design intent and leave a verifiable trail.

The two dimensions almost always missing are objective and evidence. A process can pass functional, data and rule testing and still fail to produce the outcome that justified it, or leave nothing to demonstrate it with.

Related terms

Business rule

A constraint, calculation, validation, derivation or policy governing activities and decisions.

End-to-end test

A full validation that traverses the process from the portal request through to the report, covering execution, service levels, notifications, closure and survey.

Evidence

The set of data, documents, logs, states, decisions, signatures, timings and integrations that demonstrate what happened in a process instance.

Process objective

The specification of the outcome a process must produce, not a declarative sentence on a form.