A Governance Framework for Regulatory Interpretation Alignment in Multi-Vendor User Acceptance Testing

Submitted to IEEE Access — under review

Proposes a governance framework for aligning regulatory intent with executable acceptance criteria across multi-vendor UAT programs, drawing on evidence from healthcare, insurance, and government enterprise implementations.

Closing the Regulatory Interpretation Gap in Enterprise UAT

Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference (PNSQC), 2026

Introduces the Regulatory Interpretation Gap (RIG) as a diagnostic construct for locating where compliance intent erodes across multi-vendor delivery chains, with a governance response via the Acceptance Translation Layer (ATL). Selected through the conference's peer-review process.

The Untestable Gap: Testability Coverage Rate as a Missing Release Readiness Metric in Multi-Vendor Regulated Systems

IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS), 2026 — Industry Track

Introduces Testability Coverage Rate (TCR), a metric and scoring methodology quantifying the proportion of system behavior that is reliably testable, distinct from test-pass rate or code coverage.

The RIG & ATL Frameworks: Governance Structures for Regulated Healthcare Software Delivery

Zenodo Preprint  ·  zenodo.org/records/19870009

Documents the RIG and ATL frameworks in full, including the diagnostic model for regulatory interpretation drift and the operational governance mechanism for closing it across vendor boundaries.

Why a UAT Pass Does Not Mean Release Readiness

Ministry of Testing

Argues that release sign-off based on test-pass rate alone produces a false readiness signal, and outlines recurring failure patterns between UAT completion and production stability.