diff --git a/test/Project.toml b/test/Project.toml
index 1880de7..89351a1 100644
--- a/test/Project.toml
+++ b/test/Project.toml
@@ -32,5 +32,5 @@ FiniteDifferences = "0.12.34"
 ForwardDiff = "1.4.0"
 Plots = "1.41.6"
 SafeTestsets = "0.0.1, 0.1"
-SciMLTesting = "1"
-StaticArrays = "1.9.18"
+SciMLTesting = "1.1"
+StaticArrays = "1.9.8"
diff --git a/test/qa/Project.toml b/test/qa/Project.toml
index 390c352..84e1333 100644
--- a/test/qa/Project.toml
+++ b/test/qa/Project.toml
@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
 [deps]
 Aqua = "4c88cf16-eb10-579e-8560-4a9242c79595"
 DifferenceEquations = "e0ca9c66-1f9e-11ec-127a-1304ce62169c"
-Distributions = "31c24e10-a181-5473-b8eb-7969acd0382f"
-ExplicitImports = "7d51a73a-1435-4ff3-83d9-f097790105c7"
 JET = "c3a54625-cd67-489e-a8e7-0a5a0ff4e31b"
 LinearAlgebra = "37e2e46d-f89d-539d-b4ee-838fcccc9c8e"
-SafeTestsets = "1bc83da4-3b8d-516f-aca4-4fe02f6d838f"
 SciMLTesting = "09d9d899-5365-40a9-917a-5f67fddea283"
 Test = "8dfed614-e22c-5e08-85e1-65c5234f0b40"
 
@@ -14,10 +11,7 @@ DifferenceEquations = {path = "../.."}
 
 [compat]
 Aqua = "0.8"
-Distributions = "0.25.126"
-ExplicitImports = "1"
 JET = "0.9, 0.10, 0.11"
-SafeTestsets = "0.0.1, 0.1"
-SciMLTesting = "1"
+SciMLTesting = "1.6"
 Test = "1"
 julia = "1.10"
diff --git a/test/qa/qa.jl b/test/qa/qa.jl
index ebad1f5..a99e1b9 100644
--- a/test/qa/qa.jl
+++ b/test/qa/qa.jl
@@ -1,27 +1,72 @@
-using DifferenceEquations
-using Aqua
-using ExplicitImports
+using SciMLTesting, DifferenceEquations, Test
 using JET
 using LinearAlgebra
-using Distributions
-using Test
 
-@testset "Aqua" begin
-    Aqua.find_persistent_tasks_deps(DifferenceEquations)
-    Aqua.test_ambiguities(DifferenceEquations, recursive = false)
-    Aqua.test_deps_compat(DifferenceEquations)
-    Aqua.test_piracies(DifferenceEquations)
-    Aqua.test_project_extras(DifferenceEquations)
-    Aqua.test_stale_deps(DifferenceEquations)
-    Aqua.test_unbound_args(DifferenceEquations)
-    Aqua.test_undefined_exports(DifferenceEquations)
-end
-
-@testset "ExplicitImports" begin
-    @test check_no_implicit_imports(DifferenceEquations) === nothing
-    @test check_no_stale_explicit_imports(DifferenceEquations) === nothing
-end
+run_qa(
+    DifferenceEquations;
+    JET = nothing,            # JET is run below as bespoke report_call cases (issue #187), not package-wide
+    explicit_imports = true,
+    ei_kwargs = (;
+        # Names re-exported by a dependency rather than imported from their owner.
+        all_explicit_imports_via_owners = (;
+            ignore = (
+                :KeywordArgSilent,   # SciMLBase (imported from DiffEqBase)
+                :get_concrete_p,     # SciMLBase (imported from DiffEqBase)
+                :get_concrete_u0,    # SciMLBase (imported from DiffEqBase)
+                :isconcreteu0,       # SciMLBase (imported from DiffEqBase)
+                :promote_u0,         # SciMLBase (imported from DiffEqBase)
+                :ismutable,          # Base (imported from StaticArrays)
+            ),
+        ),
+        all_qualified_accesses_via_owners = (;
+            ignore = (
+                :__solve,            # SciMLBase (accessed via DiffEqBase)
+            ),
+        ),
+        # Non-public names of dependency packages (go public as those base libs release).
+        all_qualified_accesses_are_public = (;
+            ignore = (
+                :var"@propagate_inbounds",  # Base
+                :Default,                    # SciMLBase.ReturnCode
+                :Success,                    # SciMLBase.ReturnCode
+                :T,                          # SciMLBase.ReturnCode
+                :__solve,                    # DiffEqBase
+                :build_solution,             # SciMLBase
+                :check_prob_alg_pairing,     # DiffEqBase
+                :get_concrete_problem,       # DiffEqBase
+                :getindepsym,                # SciMLBase
+                :getindepsym_defaultt,       # SciMLBase
+                :init,                       # CommonSolve
+                :solve,                      # CommonSolve
+                :solve!,                     # CommonSolve
+            ),
+        ),
+        all_explicit_imports_are_public = (;
+            ignore = (
+                :var"@add_kwonly",       # SciMLBase
+                :AbstractDEAlgorithm,    # SciMLBase
+                :AbstractDEProblem,      # SciMLBase
+                :AbstractRODESolution,   # SciMLBase
+                :ConstantInterpolation,  # SciMLBase
+                :KeywordArgSilent,       # DiffEqBase
+                :NullParameters,         # SciMLBase
+                :build_solution,         # SciMLBase
+                :get_concrete_p,         # DiffEqBase
+                :get_concrete_u0,        # DiffEqBase
+                :init,                   # CommonSolve
+                :isconcreteu0,           # DiffEqBase
+                :ismutable,              # StaticArrays
+                :promote_tspan,          # SciMLBase
+                :promote_u0,             # DiffEqBase
+                :solve,                  # CommonSolve
+                :solve!,                 # CommonSolve
+            ),
+        ),
+    ),
+)
 
+# JET cases tied to issue #187 are bespoke `report_call`s on specific solve paths:
+# `report_package` (the run_qa JET path) does not surface them, so they stay here.
 @testset "JET static analysis" begin
     @testset "LinearStateSpaceProblem DirectIteration" begin
         A = [0.9 0.1; 0.0 0.95]