Automated Policy Testing Workshop
Guardian design workshops are held periodically during our development lifecycle. Our purpose is to bring together diverse stakeholders such as policy authors, developers, and domain practitioners to review early-stage concepts ahead of development. Participants are invited to stress-test our thinking, surface blind spots, and help to ensure problems important to you are being solved. Feedback and input gathered during these sessions will directly shape feature scope, UX decisions, and prioritization for an upcoming release.
This will expand upon the following functionality,
Agenda (60m)
Welcome
Context & Problem Statement
Activity A: Warm up
Design Walk Through
Activity B: Structured discussion
Closing & Next Steps
About this Session
Guardian's policy testing infrastructure already supports automated, end-to-end comparison of policy execution — a powerful capability for verifying that two versions of a policy produce identical workflow outputs. This session focuses on the next evolution of that capability: enabling policy authors to define and test specific business logic by explicitly designating an input and an expected output, so that a test can be scoped to what actually matters to the author.
Today's testing feature performs a technical comparison of entire workflows — including UUIDs and other execution-level metadata that policy authors do not own or care about. The new capability we will review allows authors to:
Specify which documents serve as the test input
Define the expected output documents they want to validate
Mark the test as passed when the defined outputs match, regardless of any surrounding workflow differences that fall outside the declared scope
FAQs
What to expect?
This workshop will be interactive and exploratory. Please join with your ideas and suggestions so that we may validate the overall mental model, check that proposed interaction patterns are intuitive to policy authors, and help us identify edge cases or requirements that may have been overlooked. We intentionally keep attendance small and focused as this is a working session, not a demo — participants should expect to engage actively with the material.
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