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Management

Expectations — Scoring, Expiration & UI

This page explains how to configure, validate and operate expectations.

Add an Expectation to an Inject

  1. Open the Inject
  2. Click Add expectations
  3. Select the expectation type
  4. Configure: score, validation mode, expiration time (optional)

💡 You can attach multiple expectations to a single Inject.

Create manual expectation

Validate Expectations

Manual expectations

  • During a simulation: Animation → Validation
  • During atomic testing: Overview tab

Validate a manual expectation from the animation tab

Technical expectations

  • Automatically validated via collectors
  • Or validated manually by adding detection or prevention results

Add the validation of a technical expectation in atomic testing

Scoring

Default score

Each expectation type has a default score, applied at creation.

Type Default score
Manual 50

Configured via environment variables.

Parameter Environment variable Default value Description
openaev.expectation.manual.default-score-value OPENAEV_EXPECTATION_MANUAL_DEFAULT-SCORE-VALUE 50 Default score value for manual expectation

Expiration Time

Expectations must validate within a defined time window.

If the time expires:

  • the expectation fails automatically

  • the result is marked as:

    • Not Detected
    • Not Prevented
    • or equivalent

Default expiration values

Expectation type Default
Detection / Prevention 6 hours
Human (manual, article, challenge) 24 hours

You can override expiration times:

  • globally (environment variables)
  • per expectation (UI)
Parameter Environment variable Default value Description
openaev.expectation.technical.expiration-time OPENAEV_EXPECTATION_TECHNICAL_EXPIRATION-TIME 21600 Expiration time for Technical expectation (detection & prevention)
openaev.expectation.detection.expiration-time OPENAEV_EXPECTATION_DETECTION_EXPIRATION-TIME 21600 Expiration time for detection expectation
openaev.expectation.prevention.expiration-time OPENAEV_EXPECTATION_PREVENTION_EXPIRATION-TIME 21600 Expiration time for prevention expectation
openaev.expectation.human.expiration-time OPENAEV_EXPECTATION_HUMAN_EXPIRATION-TIME 86400 Expiration time for human expectation (manual, challenge & article)
openaev.expectation.challenge.expiration-time OPENAEV_EXPECTATION_CHALLENGE_EXPIRATION-TIME 86400 Expiration time for challenge expectation
openaev.expectation.article.expiration-time OPENAEV_EXPECTATION_ARTICLE_EXPIRATION-TIME 86400 Expiration time for article expectation
openaev.expectation.manual.expiration-time OPENAEV_EXPECTATION_MANUAL_EXPIRATION-TIME 86400 Expiration time for manual expectation