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SYSE.31:4.4 - Decide who repairs which failure

Observed problemImmediate response
The tested product violates the agreed behavior.Return the failing case to the application team and withhold the reliance that required it.
The test asserts an obsolete or incorrect expectation.Resolve the expectation with its owner, repair the test and re-exercise the behavior.
The environment or provider failed before the behavior could be observed.Return that failure for environment/platform repair; retain the missing product evidence.
The result cannot be attributed to the candidate or conditions.Recover attribution or rerun the right case; do not transfer the old pass.

Use the actual maintainers and their permissions. Platform operators can repair provision; they do not acquire authority to change application behavior, withdraw a source change or approve release merely because they operate the test service.

If a test must be quarantined, identify the claim whose evidence was lost, its current consequence and a usable temporary replacement or stop. Name the repair responsibility and the condition for restoring the check. Quarantine is not an unlimited exemption or a way to improve the displayed pass rate.