Section 014 · Chapter 2, From Tests to Release Evidence
Release Gates for Non-Deterministic Systems
A good release gate combines average quality, uncertainty, failure rates, hard safety rules, and category-specific risk.
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What to do
- Define runnable checks that exercise release gate, RAG, and release gates non deterministic.
- Set acceptable outcomes and blocker failures for release gate, RAG, and release gates non deterministic before running the evaluation.
- Run representative cases for release gate, RAG, and release gates non deterministic and preserve the failures that would change the decision.
Evidence to preserve
- Preserve the inputs, versions, configurations, raw outcomes, and results for release gate, RAG, release gates non deterministic needed to reproduce work on Release Gates for Non-Deterministic Systems.
- Report results for release gate, RAG, release gates non deterministic by relevant slice, separate blocker failures from averages, state uncertainty and blind spots, and connect the result to a release decision.
Expert note
At scale, release gates should define data freshness, sample composition, minimum sample size, confidence method, severity taxonomy, override process, rollback trigger, and post-release monitoring window.
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Jason Arbon. "Release Gates for Non-Deterministic Systems." Testing AI Knowledge Edition, section 14.
https://jarbon.ai/testing-ai/knowledge/ch014-release-gates-non-deterministic.html