SYSE.31:1 - Problem frame

Use this pattern when developers wait too long to learn whether a change works, rerun failures until they disappear, or receive green checks that do not answer the current engineering question. Start with one change and the decision its feedback must support. Identify what each check can establish, on which source or artifact, under which conditions, and who can act on failure.

The first result is a usable feedback arrangement: maintained checks, interpretable outcomes and a bounded response to a failed or missing result. It is not a target number of tests or a universal time limit. The application team supplies the expected behavior; a software platform can make the feedback available without inventing that behavior or owning the release decision.

If adequate build and tests already exist and only integration of a small change is missing, go directly to the DORA continuous-integration Method in section 4.5. Do not redesign adequate feedback first. If the build inputs themselves cannot be recovered, use SYSE.30; if the conditions cannot be reconstructed, use SYSE.33.