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> Flight Rules are the hard-earned body of knowledge recorded in manuals that list, step-by-step, what to do if X occurs, and why. Essentially, they are extremely detailed, scenario-specific standard operating procedures.

“Checklist” is the word for this. Checklists are widely used in aviation (they seem to have one for every case). I don't hear this term often in software engineering context, though Wikipedia says QA practices make use of checklists, too.



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