Summary
Resource
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constraints within DMS
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have significantly reduced the capacity for verification
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and regression testing. The bulk of the implementation will only see testing at the validation level.
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Justification
Commitment of resources to conduct verification falls within DMS, where a decision was made to move test personnel to other work.
Risks
Descoping verification and regression testing has opened the risk that performance and quality may be degraded; this has been captured to the risk register.
Impact
Validation will potentially be delayed due to discovery of lower level issues intended to be addressed during verification. Troubleshooting issues during validation is more difficult, being at a higher level of abstraction. Defects may not be caught during validation since it has a different focus and purpose for test. Introducing fixes and patches later in the life cycle potentially increases the growth of technical debt.