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Evidence-first project audits

Turn gut-feel reviews into engineering findings that are reproducible, traceable and prioritized.

Principles

  • Describe the evidence before the conclusion
  • Separate symptoms, causes and recommendations
  • Fix user-facing risk first

How to do it

Define the scope

List the pages, paths and environments covered, and what's excluded.

Gather evidence

Save file locations, behavior, logs or screenshots.

Confirm the cause

Rule out other explanations with the smallest possible experiment.

Prioritize

Rank by impact, likelihood and cost to fix.

Before you call it done

  • Findings are reproducible
  • Evidence can be located
  • Priorities have reasons
  • No recommendation is presented as fact

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