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Testing Veeva Vault, one application at a time.

The life-sciences subset of the Lastest blog: Vault CRM, PromoMats, Clinical and RIM recipes, validation under GxP, and what it takes to trust an AI authoring layer inside a regulated document system.

TechnicalAug 31, 2026

Pre-Built Release-Regression Suites for Veeva Vault CRM, Parametrised per Country

Lastest ships starting suites for Vault CRM, PromoMats, Clinical and RIM as plain Playwright in your repo. Here is what is in them, how one recorded call-reporting flow replays for DE, FR and JP from a spreadsheet column, and what they do not replace.

11 min read

AnalysisAug 28, 2026

The Regulated Profile: Why a General-Purpose Test Tool Needs a Different Operating Mode Under GxP

Under GxP, a test tool that lets a model decide pass/fail, sends screenshots to a vendor cloud, or ranks testers on a leaderboard is a liability. Here is what the regulated profile switches off, what it turns on, and what stays your job.

10 min read

TechnicalAug 11, 2026

Citation Drift: The RAG Regression That Passes Every Metric You Are Running

Faithfulness scores the answer against whatever was retrieved. When retrieval quietly moves to a plausible wrong source, the score stays high and the citation points somewhere new. Here is how to catch it, in the index and in the interface.

12 min read

AnalysisAug 10, 2026

Validating a RAG Document Generator Under GxP: You Cannot Validate the Model, Only the Gate

Regulated validation assumes deterministic software. A RAG authoring system is not that. The resolution is not to give up on validation, it is to notice that the controls around the model are deterministic, and that almost nobody regression-tests them.

12 min read

TechnicalAug 7, 2026

How to Test Veeva Vault RIM When the Health Authority Owns Your Test Oracle

In RIM, correctness is not defined by your spec. It is defined by a validation criteria set you do not control, applied to a dossier you cannot resubmit cheaply. Here is how to build a regression suite around an external oracle, through the eCTD 4.0 transition.

12 min read

TechnicalAug 5, 2026

How to Test Veeva Vault Clinical When Every Study Is Its Own Application

CTMS, eTMF, and EDC are one platform running N study configurations, and Vault reconfigures under all of them three times a year. Here is how to scope a regression suite that tests the invariants instead of the studies.

12 min read

TechnicalAug 3, 2026

How to Test Veeva Vault PromoMats When the Rendition Is the Product

PromoMats and MedComms approve content, not records. A functional test that asserts status equals Approved misses every rendering bug that reaches an HCP. Here is how to put a visual regression suite on MLR review, Approved Email, and CLM output.

14 min read

TechnicalJul 25, 2026

Your AI Feature Is 5% Nondeterministic. Test the Other 95%.

Teams skip end-to-end tests on AI features because the output changes every run. But the output is a small fraction of the surface. The panel, the controls, the streaming states and the error paths are ordinary UI, and right now nobody is testing them.

11 min read

TechnicalJul 1, 2026

How to Test Veeva Vault CRM

Veeva is moving pharma off Salesforce onto its own Vault stack. Here is the full recipe for putting a nine-layer verify on Vault CRM, generating the test data from a spreadsheet, and doing it without writing a line of new platform code.

18 min read

TutorialApr 24, 2026

Enterprise Visual Testing Governance Policies: A Complete Guide for 2026

Learn to build enterprise visual testing governance policies for 2026. Covers approval workflows, GDPR compliance, baseline management, and a ready-to-use template.

14 min read

TutorialApr 24, 2026

Visual Testing for Enterprise Compliance: The 2026 Guide

Automate visual testing for GDPR, HIPAA, and WCAG compliance. Build audit-ready pipelines with self-hosted, open-source tools. Cut costs and pass audits.

13 min read