Design verification plans

Identifies documents containing references to design verification plans in Australian contexts. Higher confidence identifies plans for future design verification activities (planned verification items with test IDs, methods, requirement traces, acceptance criteria, owners, or schedules); design-review and compliance-testing vocabulary alone remains discovery-only.

Type

regex

Engine

boost_regex

Confidence

medium

Confidence justification

category-aware structural regex with anchor and context constraints replaces phrase-only detection. Added context gating and exclusion rules improve precision and reduce incidental matches.

Detection quality

Topic false positive

Jurisdictions

global

Regulations

AML/CTF Act (Cth), HRIPA (Cth), IPA 2009 (Qld), My Health Records Act 2012 (Cth), NDB Scheme (Cth), Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), TIA Act 1979 (Cth), GDPR

Frameworks

ISO 27001, ISO 27701

Data categories

intellectual-property

Scope

wide

Risk rating

7

Platform compatibility

Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?is)\b(?:design\s+verification\s+plans|verification\s+plan|design\s+validation|test\s+protocol|verification\s+testing|design\s+review|qualification\s+testing|design\s+acceptance|safety\s+verification|compliance\s+testing)\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

design verification plans, design, verification, plans, product, quality, safety

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

• design verification plans — Primary topic phrase match
• verification plan — Case-insensitive topic phrase match
• design validation — Alternative topic phrase match
• test protocol — Additional topic phrase match
• VER-104 planned method: thermal cycle; requirement REQ-88; acceptance <=2% drift; owner: Lab A; due 15 Sep. — Planned verification item with method, requirement trace, criterion, owner, and date (enforces at 75/85)

Should not match

• unrelated generic text without domain phrases — No relevant topic phrases present
• placeholder value 12345 — Random text should not match topic-specific regex
• product failure — Generic word pair from old broad template should not match
• Completed design validation report: all tests passed. — Result/report language, not a plan — discovery only, must not enforce
• The finance team plans to verify the invoice design. — Verification and design outside product engineering must not match
• Training template VP-001 planned test with placeholder owner. — Training/template/placeholder marks an empty example — suppressed from enforcement
• verification plan — Heading alone has no planned item — discovery only, must not enforce

Known false positives

• Common words and phrases related to design verification plans appearing in policy documents, training materials, HR templates, or compliance guidelines without actual personal data. Mitigation: Require corroborative evidence keywords within the proximity window to confirm sensitive data context rather than general discussion.
• In Australian English, similar terminology used in formal or administrative contexts (education, professional documentation) that does not constitute sensitive data collection. Mitigation: Layer with additional contextual signals such as structured identifiers, form fields, or database column headers to distinguish sensitive records from general references.
• High-frequency pattern matches in large document corpora due to broad regex anchors. Expected match rate is significantly higher than specific identifier patterns. Mitigation: Tune confidence thresholds for bulk scanning. Consider using this pattern primarily as a pre-filter with secondary validation.

References

• https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/doc/model-code-practice-managing-risks-plant-workplace
• https://www.productsafety.gov.au/product-safety-laws