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Interface Validation Checklist
Define and verify data meaning, mapping, error handling, retry, reconciliation, security, and monitoring across systems.
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- Source and destination
- Authoritative data and owner
- Data elements, units, and identifiers
- Mapping and transformation
- Trigger and sequence
- Acknowledgement and error handling
- Retry and duplicate control
- Security and audit trail
- Monitoring and reconciliation
- Positive, negative, and recovery tests
- Deviations and limitations
- Conclusion and approval
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Fictional teaching example: This is not an executed or approved validation record.
- Source and destination
- Fictional LIMS to ERP result interface
- Authoritative data and owner
- Approved LIMS result; Laboratory owner
- Data elements, units, and identifiers
- Result, unit, material, batch, sample, method, status, time
- Mapping and transformation
- Unit and status mappings defined in approved specification
- Trigger and sequence
- LIMS final approval; one ordered message per result revision
- Acknowledgement and error handling
- ERP response retained; invalid unit held for review
- Retry and duplicate control
- Immutable message ID prevents duplicate effect
- Security and audit trail
- Mutual authentication; service account and transaction audit
- Monitoring and reconciliation
- Daily source, queue, destination, and exception totals
- Positive, negative, and recovery tests
- Valid, missing, invalid, duplicate, delayed, outage, retry, partial, and mapping cases
- Deviations and limitations
- Initial unknown-unit default corrected and retested
- Conclusion and approval
- Released after reconciliation and Quality approval