factory-coherence-validation

Cross-artifact traceability validation checks interdependent SDLC deliverables like spec, design, and test cases for semantic misalignments. It enforces scope consistency and maps scenarios to components to prevent broken downstream work and undetected scope drift.

Standard pipeline gates only validate artifact status and iteration freshness, missing silent semantic misalignments. Cross-artifact coherence checking catches missing component coverage for Gherkin scenarios, orphaned test cases, and unresolved upstream contract dependencies that standard gates fail to detect.

Run a scope-based traceability check for the BLUEPRINT workflow stage to validate that all spec scenarios map to design components. This mandatory coherence check also verifies user journey data fields exist in the data model before marking the feature as approved.

Cross-artifact coherence checking is the process of detecting and blocking silent semantic misalignments between interdependent SDLC artifacts. It validates traceability across spec, design, test, implementation, and QA deliverable chains to enforce data schema alignment and end-to-end traceability.

Yes, coherence validation ensures incremental slicing strategies have well-formed increment plans and slice maps. It enforces mandatory RDR compliance for capability-value slicing to verify increment and slice plan integrity before downstream agent workflows consume them.

Yes, traceability validation runs configurable check sets tailored specifically for BLUEPRINT, IMPLEMENT, and QA agent workflow stages. It validates only the relevant artifact pairs for each stage to ensure end-to-end traceability and upstream contract resolution.