clawfort/openspec/changes/archive/2026-02-13-p15-complete-test-suite/proposal.md

Why

The platform needs stronger quality gates to ensure stable, predictable behavior across releases. A complete testing and review program will reduce regressions, improve confidence in deployments, and surface performance, accessibility, and security risks earlier.

What Changes

• Introduce a unified automated test suite strategy covering unit, integration, and end-to-end paths.
• Add end-to-end test coverage for core UI flows, API contracts, and database state transitions.
• Add WCAG-focused accessibility checks and include them in quality gates.
• Add page speed and runtime performance checks with repeatable thresholds.
• Add baseline security testing (dependency, config, and common web vulnerability checks).
• Add user-experience validation scenarios for key journeys and failure states.
• Define comprehensive coverage expectations for critical features and edge cases.
• Add a structured code-review/remediation/optimization pass to resolve quality debt.
• Add performance monitoring and alerting requirements for production health visibility.

Capabilities

New Capabilities

• platform-quality-gates: Defines required CI quality gates and pass/fail criteria for release readiness.
• end-to-end-system-testing: Defines end-to-end testing coverage across UI, API, and database workflows.
• security-and-performance-test-harness: Defines security checks and page/runtime performance testing strategy.
• observability-monitoring-and-alerting: Defines performance monitoring signals, dashboards, and alerting thresholds.
• code-review-remediation-workflow: Defines structured remediation and optimization workflow after comprehensive review.

Modified Capabilities

• wcag-2-2-aa-accessibility: Expand verification requirements to include automated accessibility testing in release gates.
• delivery-and-rendering-performance: Add enforceable page speed benchmarks and regression thresholds.
• site-admin-safety-and-ergonomics: Add operational verification requirements tied to maintenance command behaviors.

Impact

• Testing/Tooling: New test suites, fixtures, and CI workflows for UI/API/DB/accessibility/security/performance.
• Frontend/Backend: Potential bug fixes and optimizations discovered during comprehensive test and review passes.
• Operations: Monitoring/alerting setup and documentation for performance and reliability signals.
• Release Process: Stronger quality gates before archive/release actions.