# Analyze Stage — Elaboration

## Criteria Guidance

### Good criteria — concrete and verifiable

- "Quality report includes defect density, severity distribution, and trend analysis compared to previous releases"
- "Root cause analysis groups defects into categories (design, code, environment, data) with distribution percentages"
- "Risk assessment maps unresolved defects to business impact with recommendation for release, defer, or block"

### Bad criteria — vague (no clear check)

- "Results are analyzed"
- "Metrics are computed"
- "Quality is assessed"

