Standards and quality · The defect record · Element

The origin

Where the defect was created, as distinct from where it was found.

The part

What it is

Establishing origin takes a conversation rather than a form field, which is why it is skipped.

It is also the only field that makes the record useful, since a defect can only be prevented where it is created.

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.