Correction: a daily briefing stated a negative-test result that the test suite does not produce
Every record in this file was ratified by the publisher on 2026-11-12 and is in force. The declared field gives the date the correction was first recorded.
- id
- CHQ-CORR-2026-018
- class
- CORRECTION
- subtype
- control
- status
- IN FORCE
- authority
- DM ratified 2026-11-12
- effective
- 2026-11-12
- published
- 2026-11-12
- title
- Correction: a daily briefing stated a negative-test result that the test suite does not produce
- what was wrong
- The internal daily briefing of 28 October 2026 said that all twenty negative tests of the integrity gate had been caught. The suite held fourteen assertions, not twenty, and four of them were missed.
- what is true
- On 28 October the negative suite held fourteen assertions; ten were caught and four were missed. Re-run on 29 October against the artifacts of 27, 28 and 29 October, the result was the same four misses each time, so it was a standing condition and not a regression. Each of the four misses was verified to be a defect in the test, not in the control it tests. The same briefing's statement that the Issue 43 trigger fixture reproduces with zero differences stands and was verified again.
- what changed
- The statement is withdrawn and the true result recorded. The four test defects were recorded and repaired.
- what did not change
- No public record, criterion, rating, Outlook or counted set. No issue text contained the statement.
- control analysis
- The statement was written from recollection of what the suite was supposed to contain, not read from its output. The rule adopted is that a test result is quoted from the command output and never summarized from memory. That is a working rule, not a mechanical control.
- found by
- CHQ, on re-running the suite the following day.