Design Pattern · September 2026
Outcomes acceptance testing
Test whether the intended real world result occurred within stated quality, safety, time, cost, and evidence limits.
Under the pillar Operational Truth™, Risk, Liability, and Outcomes
Inputs
Work Unit, intended outcome, population, time window, success and failure evidence, guardrails, thresholds, source, and review rule.
Method
Test the unit, handoff, complete workflow, safety, outcome, economics, human experience, population effects, security, and degraded mode as applicable.
Output
A continuous acceptance record tied to worker and workflow versions.
Boundary
Passing an outcome test does not prove the worker caused the outcome.
Stop
Reduce authority or stop when thresholds fail, evidence weakens, or the setting moves beyond the tested population.
Put this to work
Outcomes acceptance testing application record
Apply Outcomes acceptance testing to a real piece of work and record what happened.
- For
- Operators redesigning a team, service, or AI workforce.
- What you keep
- A outcomes acceptance testing application record you can review, revise, and send.
- What counts as sound
- Names a real setting
- Shows the work before and after
- Records exceptions
- Uses an observable result
- Ends with keep, revise, or stop
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