Scan date: 2026-07-22 Claim posture: adjacent-capability map, not an exhaustive market or patent search
- FAR recognizes acceptance testing as a way to determine whether a product conforms to contract requirements.
- Section 508 procurement guidance recommends enforceable accessibility criteria, representative workflows, testing checkpoints, and corrective action.
- Public software contracts routinely require approved acceptance plans, test data, expected results, remediation, and retest.
- NASA software-assurance guidance asks for objective, traceable acceptance evidence.
| Adjacent category | What it does | Boundary |
|---|---|---|
| Contract lifecycle management | drafting, negotiation, signature, obligation tracking | does not ordinarily execute technical acceptance evidence |
| Test management | plans, cases, runs, defects | test is not source-bound contractual obligation |
| Pact/PactFlow | API consumer-provider contracts | machine interactions, not procurement language or human review |
| OCDS | contracting lifecycle and implementation milestones | data representation, not evidence evaluation |
| GRC/OSCAL | control catalogs and compliance evidence | broader control programs; different acceptance unit and buyer workflow |
| Spec-driven development gates | verify implementation against development specs | team/internal spec, not authoritative procurement source and mixed evidence |
| IV&V services | expert independent verification | service model; potential partner or competitor |
Not a new hashing primitive, test runner, contract parser, or evidence store. The contribution under test is:
- the approved clause is a first-class, source-bound object;
- verification method is explicit before evaluation;
- human, external, automated, and unverifiable evidence remain distinct;
- missing evidence cannot become breach or success;
- the result is portable and replayable outside the originating tool.
- FAR 9.302
- FAR Part 46
- Section 508 QASP guidance
- Section 508 procurement testing
- OCDS milestones
- Pact documentation
- NASA SWE-193
- OpenProcurement acceptance test stand
- Current commercial test-management and government-acceptance platforms.
- Patent search for executable contractual acceptance and evidence receipts.
- Practitioner workflows in state/local government and federal primes.
- Whether OSCAL or an existing assurance-case format should be extended instead.
- Public contract samples suitable for an independent mapping benchmark.