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ADR-0001: Content-Addressed Document Storage with PostgreSQL as Source of Truth
ADR-0002: Single Instance with Scope Hierarchy and Copy-on-Derive
ADR-0003: Fixed Life Cycle States with Configurable Review Processes
ADR-0004: Global Catalogs for Roles and Document Types with Per-Scope Activation
ADR-0005: Modular Monolith
ADR-0006: Three-Layer Search with In-Database Index and Pluggable LLM
ADR-0007: Angular Frontend with Server-Side-Only Enforcement
ADR-0008: Flyway Migrations and jOOQ Codegen from the Migrated Schema
ADR-0009: RLS Enforcement via a Session-Scoped Authorized Scope Set
ADR-0010: Self-Managed QMS via an Internal Mandator
ADR-0011: Authentication via OIDC SSO with Server-Side (BFF) Sessions
ADR-0012: Permission-Based Authorization and System Bootstrap
ADR-0013: User Identity Lifecycle
ADR-0014: Electronic Signatures (Part 11 / Annex 11-Capable)
ADR-0015: Document Effectivity, Periodic Review & Validity
ADR-0016: Data Retention, Disposal & Privacy (FADP / GDPR)
ADR-0017: Multi-Part Version Content
ADR-0018: Non-Functional Targets (Capacity, Availability, Security)
ADR-0019: Notifications & Tasks
ADR-0020: Internationalization (Content Language, Time Zones, Formatting)
ADR-0021: General Typed Document Relationships
ADR-0022: Read-Acknowledgement & Questionnaires
ADR-0023: Migration / Import — Current Released State
ADR-0024: Draft / In-Review Cancellation
ADR-0025: Disposal & Erasure Mechanics (Storage, Index, Backups)
ADR-0026: RLS Runtime Safety — Connection-Pool Scope Isolation
ADR-0027: RLS Boundary — Content-Plane vs Control-Plane
ADR-0028: Stateless Encrypted Token-State Cookie (no server-side session store)
ADR-0029: Document Content Model — Draft-Freeze, Content-Table RLS, Append-Only Audit
ADR-0030: Review & Life-Cycle Realization Model
ADR-0031: Released-base readability enforcement & copy-on-derive mechanics
ADR-0032: Frontend realization — Quinoa, Angular Material, i18n & E2E
ADR-0033: CSRF control for the BFF session — SameSite + JSON content-type
ADR-0034: Notification realization — in-process domain events + system-context fan-out
ADR-0035: Fan-out contract as shipped — gate semantics, count disclosure, audit protocol
ADR-0036: Repository layer — services carry rules, repositories carry jOOQ
ADR-0037: Task scheduler — in-process tick, advisory-lock election, SQL sweep
ADR-0038: Periodic-review realization — derived due date, policy-gated confirmation
ADR-0039: Sweep & periodic-review contract as shipped — grants, guards, addressing
ADR-0040: Disposal-due surfacing — closure-anchored retention, scope-level legal hold
ADR-0041: Email channel & notification i18n — notification-as-outbox, structured messages
ADR-0042: Disposal execution — document tombstoning, single-actor hard-gated destruction
ADR-0043: Disposal blob deletion is post-commit, GC-backstopped
ADR-0044: Search FTS baseline — event-indexed, RLS-scoped search_index
ADR-0045: Image Attachments as Content Parts (Rich-Content Slice R2)
ADR-0046: Four-Eyes — Submitter Excluded from Approval
ADR-0047: Four-Eyes — Submitter-Only Exclusion
ADR-0048: Document Organization — Folder Tree per Scope
ADR-0049: Content Model Round 2 — Type Categories, Template Instantiation, Trace Relations, Completeness Rules
ADR-0050: Live Frontend — SSE State Push, CodeMirror 6, Draft Presence
ADR-0051: In-Text Document Links (doc: Scheme)
ADR-0052: Addressees & Read-Acknowledgement (REQ-TRN Realization)
ADR-0053: Addressees Per Document + Process Owner (amends ADR-0052 K-1)
ADR-0054: Process Owner Is a Role (amends ADR-0053 P-3)
ADR-0055: WYSIWYG Editing Mode over Markdown (editor step R4)
ADR-0056: Visual-Editor Chrome via Milkdown Crepe (gated adoption)
ADR-0057: Content Record Is the ProseMirror Document Tree; Markdown Becomes a Derived Projection
ADR-0058: PM_DOC Is the Only Content Format (pre-production cut; amends ADR-0057 §5)
ADR-0059: Editor Engine Switches to TipTap (spike-gated; supersedes the Milkdown/Crepe choice)
ADR-0060: Backup & Restore — Scripted Ordered Backup with Automated Restore Rehearsal
ADR-0061: CSV — Generated Validation Package per Release
ADR-0062: SBOM — CycloneDX over the Production Layers, Validated Against the Artifact
ADR-0063: User Identity Binds on Subject Only (Issuer Becomes Provenance)
ADR-0064: Per-Document Workflow Role Bindings (Author / Reviewer / Releaser), Enforced
ADR-0065: Diagrams — Excalidraw as the Manual Layer, Mermaid Stays for Text-First/UML
ADR-0066: WITHDRAW — the Author Side May Reclaim a Version from Review
ADR-0067: Review Comments — Anchored, Immutable, Resolvable
ADR-0068: Confluence/Jira QMS Import — Staged, Read-Only, Repeatable
ADR-0069: Arbitrary File Attachments — Download-Only Confinement
ADR-0070: Training Questionnaires — Versioned, Auto-Scored, Release-Gated
ADR-0071: Training Plans — Document Obligations + External Trainings & Certifications
ADR-0072: Diagrams — Self-Hosted draw.io Replaces Excalidraw
ADR-0073: Per-Scope QMS Configuration Surface
ADR-0074: PDF Export of Released Documents — Server-Side via Apache FOP over the Canonical Projection
ADR-0075: Source History Import — Continuity Without Forged Audit
ADR-0076: Periodic-review status visibility (completing MVP gap #2)
ADR-0077: Requirement Items — Keyed Blocks Inside Controlled Documents
ADR-0078: Generalized Trace Items (Traceability Model — Stage A)
ADR-0079: Risk & Risk-Control Items (Traceability Model — Stage B)
ADR-0080: Traceability Workspace — Hub, Sub-Pages, and Role-Gated Views
ADR-0081: Draft-Only Trace-Structure Changes, Server-Enforced
ADR-0082: Table-Shaped Risk Authoring over Risk Blocks
ADR-0083: The TD Dossier — a Versioned, Cross-Scope, Regulatory-Structured Deliverable
ADR-0084: Validation & Regulatory Axes (Traceability Model — Stage C)
ADR-0085: Relation-Layer Consolidation — One Trace Vocabulary, One Surface
ADR-0086: Requirement Traceability Chains — End-to-End Path View + Flat Path Export
ADR-0087: The Scope Traceability Report — One Derived Overview Artifact, Never a Controlled Document
ADR-0088: Verification Evidence Classes — Planned vs. Verified, Derived at the Read Layer
ADR-0089: Recurring Obligations — Periodic Tasks With Record Evidence, Not Calendar Series
ADR-0090: Release & Versioning Policy — Deliberate Releases, One Auditor-Facing Number
ADR-0091: Release Modes — Single-Person Record Release With a Structural Four-Eyes Floor
ADR-0092: Orphan-Blob Garbage Collection With a Quarantine Bin
ADR-0093: One Scope Context — the Toolbar Switcher Is the Only Scope Selector
ADR-0094: Calendar-Anchored Obligation Schedules (Clamped, Never Too Late)
ADR-0095: Key-Rule Governance — Free Until First Use, Then Frozen
ADR-0096: Transition Permissions — Always Visible, Deny Unless Granted
ADR-0097: A Governed Provisioning Surface — MANAGE_SCOPES
ADR-0098: Org Chart × Role System — Marriage at the Evidence Level, Never in Authorization
ADR-0099: The User Manual is an In-App Topic Reference, Not a Document
ADR-0100: LQMS Is the Living Quality Management System
ADR-0101: The Executable Validation Journey (PQ Evidence That Cannot Drift)
ADR-0102: Typed Template Variables (text | date | number — and Deliberately No Enum)
ADR-0103: npm audit Joins the Verification Gate as a Second Standing Input
ADR-0104: The Issued Dossier Is a Persisted Artifact of Record — and Clones to a New Draft
ADR-0105: Navigation Information Architecture — Group by Moment-of-Use
ADR-0106: The Client Reflection Follows Assignments, Not Only Content Reach
ADR-0107: The Audit Append Gate Follows Assignment Reach, Not Content Reach
ADR-0108: Mandator Membership — Invite-Accept, with Pre-Assigned Responsibilities
ADR-0109: Organization Founding Is Its Own Process
ADR-0110: The Audit Trail Is Not a Read Model
ADR-0111: The Imported-Person Model, and Project Portability's First Doctrines
ADR-0112: The Element-Kind Catalog — Semantics in the Model, Not Only in the Code
ADR-0113: Project Arrival Import — Records Arrive as They Are, People Arrive as They Were
ADR-0114: The Operating Model Arrives — Roles as Functions, Names as Words, People as This Instance's Decision
ADR-0115: Collaborative Draft Editing — Two Carets, One Truth, Honest Credit
ADR-0116: The System Maintenance Surface — the App Backs Itself Up, the Host Keeps One Dumb Job
ADR-0117: Role Documentation — a Link, a Finding, Per-Source Recognizers; Substitution Rejected
ADR-0118: The Offline QMS Copy — the Repo Carries the Audit Pack, Not a Second Renderer
ADR-0119: Module-Internal Package Structure — Capabilities First, Layers Second, the Root Is the Surface
ADR-0120: The Shared Kernel — the Domain-Exception Vocabulary Leaves the Authorization Module
ADR-0121: The Project Administrator Role — Per-Scope Administration With Read Access, Seeded in the Base Catalog
ADR-0122: Organization-Level Administration — the Cascade Stays, Becomes Visible, and Founds Projects
ADR-0123: Draft Save-Points — Every Save Restorable, Kept for the Life of the Version
ADR-0124: The Birth Path Completes Without Borrowing Content Clothes
ADR-0125: The Export Twin — Export Emits an Arrival Bundle
ADR-0126: Project Dissolution — the Un-Birth of an Unused Scope
ADR-0127: The Base-QMS Layers — One Library, Derived Adaptations, Local Records
ADR-0128: The GLOBAL Cascade Carries Administration, Never Content
ADR-0129: Role Identity from a GLOBAL Assignment Acts in GLOBAL Alone
ADR-0130: Break-Glass — the Project Administrator's Escalation Is a First-Class, Witnessed, Self-Expiring Act
ADR-0131: Role Substitution as Declared Adoption Edges — Emergency Cover Is Governed, Own-Name, Timed Staffing
ADR-0132: Dual-Hat Reviewer Satisfaction Is a Declared Policy Choice — the Strict Floor Stays the Default
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Validation Traceability Axis<a class="headerlink" href="#software-requirements-design-validation--the-validation-traceability-axis" title="Permanent link">¶</a></h1> <p>Introduced in requirements baseline v1.9 (ADR-0084, Stage C — the validation axis of the traceability model, <code>traceability-model.md</code> §4 view 3). This group covers <strong>design validation</strong> in the ISO 13485 §7.3 sense — user needs, the validation cases that prove "the right product", and the design elements that realize requirements — <strong>not</strong> the CSV validation of LQMS itself (STR-014). The three trace-item types are additive registrations on the ADR-0078 substrate (the extraction/registry/link/suspect/coverage engines are unchanged); the validation matrix is a derived view (nothing stored).</p> <table> <thead> <tr> <th>ID</th> <th>Requirement</th> <th>Trace</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>REQ-VAL-001</td> <td>A user need shall be a keyed trace item (node <code>userNeed</code>, fence <code>:::user-need</code>) inside a controlled document — the top of the V ("the right product") and the target of the <code>validates</code> edge — carrying the single FIXED attribute <code>source</code> (a free token naming who the need comes from) with the need statement in the block body. Its key shall be unique per scope across ALL trace-item types (the one keyspace, ADR-0078 §4) and its identity/versioning DERIVED from the defining document's content hash (no separate item state), exactly as a requirement item (REQ-DOC-034/035). Whether a document type may define user-need items shall be governed by the per-(scope, type) may-define flag (REQ-DOC-034). Registration shall be ADDITIVE — the extraction, registry, link, suspect and coverage engines are unchanged (ADR-0078) — and the block shall round-trip losslessly through the Markdown projection, render as a formatted PDF fence, and be swept through the full content lifecycle (freeze, derive, disposal, RLS, search).</td> <td>STR-001, STR-027; ADR-0084, ADR-0078, ADR-0057</td> </tr> <tr> <td>REQ-VAL-002</td> <td>A validation case shall be a keyed trace item (node <code>validationCase</code>, fence <code>:::validation-case</code>) carrying the single FIXED attribute <code>intendedUseRef</code> (a free token/text — the real linkage is the edge, so the item stays lean) with the case narrative in the body, and shall be a valid SOURCE of the new <code>validates</code> edge to a user need (REQ-VAL-001). The <code>validates</code> edge (REQ-REL-007) shall be authorable from a validation-case item OR from a document-level source (a whole Validation Plan/Report validating the need directly), and its suspect flag shall fire when the target user need's content changes. Whether a document type may define validation-case items shall be governed by the per-(scope, type) may-define flag (REQ-DOC-034); the registration is additive (engines unchanged, ADR-0078).</td> <td>STR-001, STR-027; ADR-0084, ADR-0078</td> </tr> <tr> <td>REQ-VAL-003</td> <td>A design element shall be a keyed trace item (node <code>designElement</code>, fence <code>:::design-element</code>) — the architecture/design <em>how</em> between a requirement and its verification — carrying the single FIXED attribute <code>designKind</code> (validated per REQ-VAL-004) with the element description in the body, and shall be a valid SOURCE of the existing <code>satisfies</code> edge to a requirement item (the design realizes the requirement; the edge gains a new source type type-agnostically, no vocabulary change — REQ-REL-007, the V055 edge finally getting its intended source type). Whether a document type may define design-element items shall be governed by the per-(scope, type) may-define flag (REQ-DOC-034); the registration is additive (engines unchanged, ADR-0078).</td> <td>STR-001, STR-027; ADR-0084, ADR-0078</td> </tr> <tr> <td>REQ-VAL-004</td> <td>A design element's <code>designKind</code> shall be constrained to a STRICT per-scope value set. The tool ships a default vocabulary (<code>architecture</code>, <code>interface</code>, <code>component</code>, <code>unit</code>) that a scope may OVERRIDE, editing the set on the per-scope QMS-configuration surface (REQ-UI-018), gated by ACTIVATE_CATALOG_ENTRIES to write and VIEW to read; the effective set is the scope's rows when it has any, else the shipped default (saving rows is a full per-scope override, clearing them reverts to the default). On save of a design element, a <code>designKind</code> that is a non-blank value OUTSIDE the scope's effective set shall be rejected with HTTP 422 naming the offending value and the allowed set, while a blank/unset <code>designKind</code> shall be tolerated (the pre-save authoring rule). The value set shall be content-plane, scope-keyed under RLS (never visible or writable across scopes). It is a configurable variation point — design taxonomies genuinely differ by project — NOT an escape hatch from the process (the opinionated-by-default principle).</td> <td>STR-003, STR-027; ADR-0084, ADR-0078</td> </tr> <tr> <td>REQ-VAL-005</td> <td>The system shall derive, per scope, a live VALIDATION MATRIX read model (VIEW_TRACEABILITY-gated, RLS-scoped, nothing stored): each user need → its inbound <code>validates</code> evidence (validation-case items and/or document-level validating records), each evidence carrying the ADR-0088 planned-vs-verified class and its release date; plus the design-realization leg (design elements → the requirements they <code>satisfies</code>). It shall roll up non-suppressible gap flags — NEED_NOT_VALIDATED (no visible validating source), VALIDATION_PLANNED_ONLY (validated only by planned-class evidence), SUSPECT_ON_PATH — and shall degrade an invisible/disposed source to ABSENT (never a leak; an existence-safe gap). It shall be exportable as a flat CSV matrix (one row per need→validation path), the export recording one scope-level <code>EXPORTED</code> audit event carrying the exporting tool version. The matrix shall surface on the traceability workspace as a sub-page + hub tile (REQ-UI-022) and as a section of the derived traceability report (REQ-REP-010).</td> <td>STR-011, STR-027; ADR-0084, ADR-0088, ADR-0080</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </article> </div> <script>var target=document.getElementById(location.hash.slice(1));target&&target.name&&(target.checked=target.name.startsWith("__tabbed_"))</script> </div> <button type="button" class="md-top md-icon" data-md-component="top" hidden> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M13 20h-2V8l-5.5 5.5-1.42-1.42L12 4.16l7.92 7.92-1.42 1.42L13 8z"/></svg> Back to top </button> </main> <footer class="md-footer"> <nav class="md-footer__inner md-grid" aria-label="Footer" > <a href="../req_users/" class="md-footer__link md-footer__link--prev" aria-label="Previous: Software Requirements: User Identity & Lifecycle"> <div class="md-footer__button md-icon"> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M20 11v2H8l5.5 5.5-1.42 1.42L4.16 12l7.92-7.92L13.5 5.5 8 11z"/></svg> </div> <div class="md-footer__title"> <span class="md-footer__direction"> Previous </span> <div class="md-ellipsis"> Software Requirements: User Identity & Lifecycle </div> </div> </a> <a href="../../process/" class="md-footer__link md-footer__link--next" aria-label="Next: IEC 62304 Process Documents"> <div class="md-footer__title"> <span class="md-footer__direction"> Next </span> <div class="md-ellipsis"> IEC 62304 Process Documents </div> </div> <div class="md-footer__button md-icon"> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M4 11v2h12l-5.5 5.5 1.42 1.42L19.84 12l-7.92-7.92L10.5 5.5 16 11z"/></svg> </div> </a> </nav> <div class="md-footer-meta md-typeset"> <div class="md-footer-meta__inner md-grid"> <div class="md-copyright"> <div class="md-copyright__highlight"> Built from <code>v0.9.56-4-g06c7f811</code> (commit <code>06c7f811</code>, 2026-09-09) — the same Markdown the repository ships. </div> </div> </div> </div> </footer> </div> <div class="md-dialog" data-md-component="dialog"> <div class="md-dialog__inner md-typeset"></div> </div> <script id="__config" type="application/json">{"base": "../..", "features": ["navigation.instant", "navigation.tracking", "navigation.top", "navigation.footer", "navigation.indexes", "toc.follow", "search.suggest", "search.highlight", "content.code.copy", "content.action.edit"], "search": "../../assets/javascripts/workers/search.6ce7567c.min.js", "translations": {"clipboard.copied": "Copied to clipboard", "clipboard.copy": "Copy to clipboard", "search.result.more.one": "1 more on this page", "search.result.more.other": "# more on this page", "search.result.none": "No matching documents", "search.result.one": "1 matching document", "search.result.other": "# matching documents", "search.result.placeholder": "Type to start searching", "search.result.term.missing": "Missing", "select.version": "Select version"}}</script> <script src="../../assets/javascripts/bundle.83f73b43.min.js"></script> </body> </html>