Standards and quality · The check points · Element

The failure path

What happens when output fails the check.

The part

What it is

Rework, reject, escalate or pass with a note. Each is legitimate and each needs deciding rather than improvising.

Where the usual answer is “pass it anyway”, the standard or the tolerance is wrong and the check is theatre.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.