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name: testing-and-ci description: Testing conventions, CI pipeline rules, and smoke test coverage for SkillHub. Ensures agents write tests correctly and understand the CI gate requirements. license: Apache-2.0

Testing and CI Skill

Trigger

Use this skill when:

• Adding or modifying backend tests
• Adding or modifying frontend tests
• Changing CI/CD workflows
• Adding smoke tests or E2E tests

Rules

Backend Testing

Tests live alongside source in each module's src/test/java/:

• server/skillhub-app/src/test/java/ — Controller integration tests, service tests
• server/skillhub-domain/src/test/java/ — Domain service unit tests
• server/skillhub-auth/src/test/java/ — Auth flow tests

Tools: JUnit 5 + Mockito + AssertJ + Spring Boot test slices (@WebMvcTest, @DataJpaTest)

Build commands:

make test-backend-app   # skillhub-app + dependencies (includes -am)
make test-backend       # all backend modules

Never run ./mvnw -pl skillhub-app clean test directly under server/. skillhub-app depends on sibling modules, and a standalone clean build can fall back to stale artifacts from the local Maven repository, surfacing misleading cannot find symbol and signature-mismatch errors. Use -am, or the Makefile targets above.

Test naming conventions:

• Controller tests: {ControllerName}Test.java (e.g., SkillControllerTest.java)
• Service tests: {ServiceName}Test.java
• Integration tests: {FlowName}IntegrationTest.java
• Security tests: {ControllerName}SecurityTest.java

Frontend Testing

Tools: Vitest (unit), Playwright (E2E)

make test-frontend            # Vitest unit tests (pnpm run test)
make test-e2e-frontend        # Playwright E2E tests
make test-e2e-smoke-frontend  # Playwright smoke tests (subset)

E2E tests live in web/e2e/.

Smoke Tests

Smoke tests validate end-to-end operator workflows against a running backend:

Script	Purpose
scripts/smoke-test.sh	Basic API health, auth, label CRUD
scripts/namespace-smoke-test.sh	Namespace creation, membership, publishing
scripts/governance-smoke-test.sh	Governance and moderation flows
scripts/promotion-smoke-test.sh	Skill promotion between scopes

When operator-facing workflows change, update the corresponding smoke test.

CI Pipeline

GitHub Actions workflows in .github/workflows/:

Workflow	Trigger	Purpose
pr-tests.yml	PR	Backend + frontend unit tests
pr-e2e.yml	PR	E2E smoke tests against staging
pr-batch-test-deploy.yml	workflow_dispatch	Batch test and deploy
publish-images.yml	release published / workflow_dispatch	Build and publish Docker images to GHCR
deploy-docs.yml	push to docs	Deploy documentation site
issue-triage.yml	issues	Auto-triage incoming issues
issue-backlog-rescore.yml	cron (every 6h)	Rescore backlog issues
release-notes.yml	workflow_dispatch	Generate release notes
deepwiki.yml	release published	Update DeepWiki documentation
claim-issue-reward.yml	issue_comment	Auto-claim issue rewards
statistic-member-reward.yml	cron/schedule	Calculate member rewards

All workflows live in .github/workflows/. Deno scripts for triage, release notes, and rewards live in .github/scripts/.

Staging

Before opening a PR, validate with staging:

make staging          # Build backend Docker image + frontend static + smoke test
make staging-down     # Tear down
SERVICE=web make staging-logs  # View Nginx logs

Staging validates the containerized deployment path:

• Backend: built as Docker image from local source (Dockerfile.dev)
• Frontend: built as static files (pnpm build), served by Nginx
• Dependencies: same Postgres/Redis/MinIO as local dev

If staging passes, the environment stays running at:

• Web UI: http://localhost
• Backend API: http://localhost:8080

Pre-PR Testing Checklist

• make test-backend-app passes
• make typecheck-web passes
• make lint-web passes (if frontend changed)
• make staging passes (full regression)
• If API changed: make generate-api run and generated file committed
• New behavior has corresponding tests