Generate a traceable test case suite that maps functional API requirements to Linux drivers for a new PCIe 4.0 SSD controller

Functional API Requirements Document *

SSD Controller Architecture * Choose controller architecture... NVMe 1.4 Compliant Controller OCP Datacenter NVMe SSD Spec Controller Enterprise Multi-Namespace Controller Client/Consumer Grade Controller Custom ASIC Controller Design Third-party Licensed IP Core Open-source Controller Reference Design Hardware Security Module Integrated Controller

Linux Kernel Target Version * Choose kernel version... 5.4.x LTS (Long Term Support) 5.10.x LTS Enterprise 5.15.x LTS Production 6.1.x Current Stable 6.2.x Latest Development RHEL 8.x Compatible (4.18+) RHEL 9.x Compatible (5.14+) Ubuntu LTS 20.04/22.04 Compatible Custom Enterprise Distribution Real-time Kernel Variant

Test Coverage Requirements * Choose coverage requirement... Full Stack Coverage (Boot → Runtime → Power Management) Performance Critical Path Only Error Handling & Recovery Scenarios Security & Encryption Feature Set Namespace Management Operations PCIe Link State Management Thermal & Power Throttling Admin & I/O Command Validation NVMe-MI Management Interface SR-IOV Virtualization Support

Compliance Standards & Certifications * Choose certification requirements... NVMe Express Base Specification 1.4c PCI Express Base Specification 4.0 ISO/IEC 27001 Security Management Common Criteria EAL4+ Certification FIPS 140-2 Level 2 Security TCG Opal 2.0 & Ruby Standards NIST SP 800-88 Rev.1 Media Sanitization IEEE 1667 Authentication Standard UNH-IOL NVMe Integrators List Windows Hardware Compatibility Program

Traceability Granularity Level * Choose mapping precision... Function-level Mapping (Individual Driver Functions) File-level Mapping (Source File to API Group) Subsystem-level Mapping (Block Layer Interface) Error-code Mapping (NVMe Status to errno Values) Command-level Mapping (Admin vs I/O Commands) Performance Counter Mapping (Latency Buckets) Security Feature Mapping (Encryption<Key->Driver Hooks) Power State Mapping (PCIe L0s/L1 ↔ NVMe PS) Namespace Attribute Mapping (Identify Data ↔ sysfs) Interrupt Handling Mapping (MSI-X ↔ IRQ Domain)

Performance Test Vectors *

System Integration Context * Choose system context... Enterprise Server (Dual-Socket Xeon + NVMe-oF) Hyperscale Datacenter (Multi-rack scale-out) High-Performance Computing Cluster Financial Services Low-Latency Trading AI/ML Training Infrastructure Cloud Service Provider Multi-tenant Edge Computing Micro-datacenter Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Content Delivery Network CDN 5G Telecom Infrastructure

Test Automation Framework * Choose automation framework... Linux Kernel Test Framework (kselftest) FIO Flexible I/O Tester Integration Autotest/KernelCI Pipeline Jenkins + JUnit for NVMe Tests GitLab CI with Custom NVMe Runners LTP (Linux Test Project) Extensions OpenQA Automated Installation Testing Kernel Regression Tracking (0-day) Google Autotest Server Frontend Custom In-house Test Harness

Defect Tracking & Metrics