# Workflow Validation Report

Generated: 2025-10-14

## Summary

✅ **All 9 workflows validated successfully**

✅ **All 4 event payloads validated successfully**

✅ **All referenced scripts verified**

✅ **All GitHub Actions up to date**

## Validation Tools Created

### 1. validate_workflows.py

Comprehensive validation script that checks:

- ✅ YAML syntax for all workflow files
- ✅ JSON syntax for event payload files
- ✅ Workflow structure (name, on, jobs, steps)
- ✅ Script references (ensures referenced scripts exist)
- ✅ GitHub Actions usage and versions
- ✅ Documentation consistency

**Usage:**

```bash
make workflow-validate
# or
python scripts/validate_workflows.py
```

### 2. workflow_info.py

Information display tool that shows:

- 🎯 Trigger events
- 🔒 Required permissions
- 🌍 Environment variables
- ⚙️ Jobs and dependencies
- 🔌 Actions used

**Usage:**

```bash
make workflow-info
# or
python scripts/workflow_info.py ci.yml -v
```

### 3. Test Suite

Comprehensive test suite (`tests/test_workflows.py`) with 9 tests:

1. `test_workflow_files_exist` - Verify all expected workflow files exist
1. `test_event_payload_files_exist` - Verify event payload files exist
1. `test_workflow_validation_script_exists` - Verify validation script exists
1. `test_workflow_validation_passes` - Run validation and ensure it passes
1. `test_workflow_syntax_valid` - Validate YAML syntax
1. `test_event_payload_syntax_valid` - Validate JSON syntax
1. `test_workflow_structure` - Verify workflow structure
1. `test_workflow_scripts_exist` - Verify referenced scripts exist
1. `test_workflow_documentation_exists` - Verify documentation exists

**All tests passing ✅**

## Workflows Validated

| # | Workflow | File | Status | Jobs | Triggers |
| --- | ------------------------ | --------------------------- | ------ | ---- | -------------------------- |
| 1 | CI | `ci.yml` | ✅ | 2 | push, pull_request |
| 2 | Format and Lint | `format-and-lint.yml` | ✅ | 1 | workflow_dispatch |
| 3 | Manual Tests | `manual-tests.yml` | ✅ | 1 | workflow_dispatch |
| 4 | Manual Coverage | `manual-coverage.yml` | ✅ | 1 | workflow_dispatch |
| 5 | Mutation Testing | `mutation-testing.yml` | ✅ | 1 | workflow_dispatch, schedule |
| 6 | Build Executables | `build-executables.yml` | ✅ | 4 | push, pull_request, tags |
| 7 | CodeQL | `codeql.yml` | ✅ | 1 | push, pull_request, schedule |
| 8 | Publish to PyPI | `publish-pypi.yml` | ✅ | 3 | release, workflow_dispatch |
| 9 | Test Act Setup | `test-act-setup.yml` | ✅ | 1 | workflow_dispatch, pull_request |

## Event Payloads Validated

| File | Purpose | Status |
| ---------------------- | ------------------------------------ | ------ |
| `push.json` | Mock push event for local testing | ✅ |
| `pull_request.json` | Mock PR event for local testing | ✅ |
| `release.json` | Mock release event for local testing | ✅ |
| `workflow_dispatch.json` | Mock manual trigger event | ✅ |

## GitHub Actions Analysis

All GitHub Actions are using current versions:

| Action | Version(s) | Status |
| ------------------------------------- | ------------ | ------ |
| `actions/checkout` | v5 | ✅ |
| `actions/setup-python` | v6 | ✅ |
| `actions/upload-artifact` | v4 | ✅ |
| `actions/download-artifact` | v4, v5 | ✅ |
| `codecov/codecov-action` | v5 | ✅ |
| `github/codeql-action/init` | v4 | ✅ |
| `github/codeql-action/autobuild` | v4 | ✅ |
| `github/codeql-action/analyze` | v4 | ✅ |
| `pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish` | release/v1 | ✅ |
| `sigstore/gh-action-sigstore-python` | v3.0.1 | ✅ |
| `softprops/action-gh-release` | v2 | ✅ |
| `stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action` | v7 | ✅ |

## Script References Validated

| Script | Status |
| ----------------------- | ------ |
| `scripts/run_workflow.sh` | ✅ |

## Documentation

### Created/Updated

- ✅ `docs/development/WORKFLOW_VALIDATION.md` - Complete validation guide
- ✅ `scripts/README.md` - Updated with validation tools
- ✅ `Makefile` - Added `workflow-validate` and `workflow-info` targets
- ✅ `tests/test_workflows.py` - Comprehensive test suite

### Existing Documentation Verified

- ✅ `docs/development/LOCAL_WORKFLOWS.md` - Guide for running workflows locally
- ✅ `docs/development/WORKFLOW_TESTING_QUICKSTART.md` - Quick start guide
- ✅ `.github/workflows/events/README.md` - Event payloads documentation

## Integration with CI

The primary CI workflow (`.github/workflows/ci.yml`) now includes an automated `validate-workflows` job that runs `python scripts/validate_workflows.py` on every push and pull request. The job publishes its full output to the GitHub Actions step summary for easy inspection and leverages a checksum cache of the `.github/workflows` directory so it can skip execution when workflow files are unchanged. This ensures the validation rules are continuously enforced without adding unnecessary runtime.

The validation can also be integrated into other CI workflows:

```yaml
- name: Validate workflows
  run: python scripts/validate_workflows.py

- name: Run workflow tests
  run: pytest tests/test_workflows.py -v
```

## Makefile Targets

New targets added to `Makefile`:

- `make workflow-validate` - Validate all workflow files
- `make workflow-info` - Display workflow information

Existing targets:

- `make workflow-ci` - Run CI workflow locally with act
- `make workflow-lint` - Run lint workflow locally
- `make workflow-test` - Run test workflow locally
- `make workflow-list` - List all available workflows
- `make setup-act` - Install act for local testing

## Recommendations

1. ✅ **Validation is automated** - Run `make workflow-validate` before committing changes
1. ✅ **Tests are comprehensive** - Run `pytest tests/test_workflows.py` to verify changes
1. ✅ **Documentation is complete** - See `docs/development/WORKFLOW_VALIDATION.md`
1. ✅ **Tools are easy to use** - All tools available via Makefile targets

## Future Enhancements

Potential additions for enhanced debugging:

1. **Workflow visualization** - Generate diagrams of job dependencies
1. **Performance analysis** - Track workflow execution times
1. **Cost estimation** - Estimate GitHub Actions minutes usage
1. **Security scanning** - Check for common security issues
1. **Best practices** - Automated suggestions for improvements

## Conclusion

All GitHub Actions workflows in the repository have been successfully validated and debugged. The comprehensive
validation system ensures:

- ✅ Correct syntax and structure
- ✅ Valid configuration
- ✅ Working script references
- ✅ Up-to-date GitHub Actions
- ✅ Consistent documentation
- ✅ Comprehensive test coverage

The validation tools are integrated into the development workflow through Makefile targets and can be easily run
locally or in CI.
