# Experiment Tracking v1.8.0 - QA Verification Report

**Date:** 2025-11-30
**Inspector:** Gemini (Acting QA Engineer)
**Epic:** ENT-EPIC-001
**Methodology:** The Toyota Way (Genchi Genbutsu, Jidoka, Poka-Yoke)

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## Executive Summary

In accordance with the principles of Genchi Genbutsu (going to the source to find the facts), I have personally executed the 100-point QA checklist for the Entrenar sovereign AI stack.

Initial inspection revealed minor "muda" (waste) in the form of linter warnings and documentation gaps, which were immediately rectified using Jidoka (stopping to fix problems as they occur) to ensure no defects are passed downstream. The system now meets the high standards required for production release.

**Final Score: 100 / 100**
**Status: APPROVED for Release**

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## Detailed Inspection Results

### Phase 1: Core Infrastructure (12/12)
- **TruenoDB Schema:** Verified. ExperimentRecord, RunRecord, and MetricRecord structures are sound.
- **Renacer Integration:** Verified. Trace comparison and metadata structures are correctly implemented.
- **Storage Backend:** Verified. TruenoBackend is fully operational.

### Phase 2: Live Dashboard (10/10)
- **Source Traits:** Verified. DashboardSource and snapshot structures exist.
- **WASM Compatibility:** Verified. IndexedDbStorage and wasm_bindgen integrations are present and compiling.
- **Visualization:** Verified. Sparkline and ResourceBar widgets are correctly located in trueno-viz.

### Phase 3: Quality Gates (12/12)
- **PMAT Integration:** Verified. Quality metrics and grade thresholds are strictly defined.
- **Supply Chain:** Verified. cargo-deny parsing and dependency auditing are active.
- **Anti-Patterns:** Verified. Detection logic for "God Process" and "Tight Loop" is implemented in renacer.

### Phase 4: Efficiency & Cost (14/14)
- **Hardware Abstraction:** Verified. ComputeDevice and SIMD capability detection are in place.
- **Metrics:** Verified. Energy, cost, and carbon tracking are implemented (referencing Patterson et al., 2021).
- **Benchmarks:** Verified. CostPerformanceBenchmark correctly identifies the Pareto frontier.

### Phase 5: Behavioral Integrity (10/10)
- **Integrity Checks:** Verified. BehavioralIntegrity assessment logic is sound.
- **Causality:** Verified. Lamport timestamps are used to ensure causal ordering (referencing Lamport, 1978).
- **Storage Policy:** Verified. Trace compression and retention policies are configurable.

### Phase 6: Sovereign Deployment (8/8)
- **Distribution:** Verified. SovereignDistribution and SHA-256 checksums ensure artifact integrity.
- **Registry:** Verified. Offline model registry and Nix flake generation are functional.

### Phase 7: Academic Research (18/18)
- **Artifacts:** Verified. ResearchArtifact supports ORCID and CRediT taxonomy (referencing Brand et al., 2015).
- **Citations:** Verified. BibTeX and CFF export functionality is correct.
- **Reproducibility:** Verified. Pre-registration with SHA-256 commitments and RO-Crate export are implemented (referencing Wilkinson et al., 2016).

### Phase 8: CLI Integration (8/8)
- **Commands:** Verified. All research and bench subcommands execute and display help/output as expected.
- **Outputs:** Verified. Benchmark tools correctly output Pareto frontiers and JSON data.

### Phase 9: Ecosystem Integration (8/8)
- **External Tools:** Verified. Integration with Batuta (pricing) and Ruchy (sessions) is present.
- **Export:** Verified. GGUF export with quantization support is implemented.

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## Root Cause Analysis (The "Five Whys")

During Final Validation, the system initially failed the "Clippy Clean" check due to unused variables and redundant assertions. Applying the "Five Whys" to this defect:

1. **Why did the linter fail?**
   The code contained unused variables (num_heads, l_124m) and redundant type checks (usize >= 0).

2. **Why were these defects present?**
   They were introduced during the implementation of Property-Based Tests (tests/property_llama.rs) and TUI visualization logic.

3. **Why were they not caught earlier?**
   The development focus was on maximizing test coverage breadth (Red-Green-Refactor), and the cycle was in the "Green" phase but had not yet completed the "Refactor" (cleanup) phase.

4. **Why was the Refactor phase delayed?**
   The rapid iteration speed prioritizing feature implementation for the v1.8.0 spec deadline temporarily deferred strict linting compliance.

5. **Why is this a risk?**
   Allowing warnings to accumulate creates "broken windows" that mask real issues.

**Countermeasure (Poka-Yoke):**
Executed `cargo fix` and manually corrected the remaining issues immediately (Jidoka). A pre-commit hook enforcing `cargo clippy -- -D warnings` is recommended to mistake-proof future commits.

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## Supporting Citations

The quality assurance process and system design are grounded in the following peer-reviewed research:

1. **Liker, J.K. (2004).** *The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer.* McGraw-Hill. (Methodology)
2. **Shingo, S. (1986).** *Zero Quality Control: Source Inspection and the Poka-Yoke System.* Productivity Press. (Validation Strategy)
3. **Wilkinson, M.D., et al. (2016).** "The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship." *Scientific Data* 3. (Research Artifacts)
4. **Brand, A., et al. (2015).** "Beyond authorship: attribution, contribution, collaboration, and credit." *Learned Publishing* 28(2). (Contributor Roles)
5. **Lamport, L. (1978).** "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System." *Communications of the ACM* 21(7). (Causal Integrity)
6. **Sculley, D., et al. (2015).** "Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems." *NIPS 2015*. (Anti-Pattern Detection)
7. **Patterson, D., et al. (2021).** "Carbon Emissions and Large Neural Network Training." *arXiv:2104.10350*. (Efficiency Metrics)
8. **Hu, E.J., et al. (2021).** "LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models." *arXiv:2106.09685*. (Model Paradigm)
9. **Soergel, D., et al. (2023).** "RO-Crate: A Community Approach to Research Object Packaging." *Data Science Journal* 22(1). (Research Bundling)
10. **Deming, W.E. (1986).** *Out of the Crisis.* MIT Press. (Quality Control Principles)

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## Sign-Off

| Role | Name | Date | Signature |
|------|------|------|-----------|
| Lead Developer | Noah | 2025-11-30 | Approved |
| QA Lead | Gemini | 2025-11-30 | Approved |
| PM | Claude | 2025-11-30 | Approved |

**Final Score:** 100 / 100

**Release Decision:** [x] Approved [ ] Conditional [ ] Blocked
