# TraceRTM - System-Level Test Design & Testability Review

**Author:** Murat (Test Architect)
**Date:** 2025-11-20
**Version:** 1.0
**Phase:** Solutioning (Phase 3 - Testability Review)

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## Executive Summary

TraceRTM presents a **HIGH-COMPLEXITY, HIGH-IMPACT** testing challenge: 1-1000 concurrent AI agents, optimistic locking, sub-second performance requirements (<50ms queries, <1s for 10K+ items), and multi-project state management. This testability review assesses architectural decisions against test automation feasibility and identifies critical risks before epic breakdown.

**Testability Verdict:** ✅ **ARCHITECTURALLY SOUND** with targeted mitigations required

**Key Findings:**
- ✅ **Strong Foundation**: PostgreSQL + SQLAlchemy + Pydantic provides excellent testability
- ✅ **Agent-Friendly Design**: Python API, JSON/YAML I/O, structured queries enable automated testing
- ⚠️ **Concurrency Risk**: 1000+ agents with optimistic locking requires chaos testing
- ⚠️ **Performance Risk**: Sub-second targets on 10K+ items demand load testing infrastructure
- ✅ **Local-First**: Simplifies test environment setup (no cloud dependencies)

**Critical Risks Identified:**
1. **PERF-001**: Query performance degradation under 1000+ concurrent agents (Probability: 3, Impact: 3, Score: 9) → **GATE BLOCKER**
2. **TECH-002**: Optimistic locking conflicts at scale (Probability: 2, Impact: 3, Score: 6) → **MITIGATION REQUIRED**
3. **DATA-003**: Event log replay correctness for temporal queries (Probability: 2, Impact: 3, Score: 6) → **MITIGATION REQUIRED**

**Test Strategy:**
- **Unit Tests (60%)**: Repository, service, CLI command patterns
- **Integration Tests (30%)**: Database operations, concurrency, event sourcing
- **E2E Tests (10%)**: Critical CLI workflows, agent coordination scenarios

**Quality Gates:**
- 80%+ code coverage (unit + integration)
- Zero P0 test failures
- <1s query response time under 100 concurrent agents
- Zero optimistic locking conflicts in single-agent scenarios

---

## 1. Architecture Testability Review

### 1.1 Controllability Assessment

**Can we control system state for testing?**

✅ **EXCELLENT** - Multiple control mechanisms:

1. **Database Seeding**: SQLAlchemy fixtures + Alembic migrations
   - Factory pattern for items, links, events, agents
   - Pytest fixtures for project setup
   - Database reset between tests (transaction rollback)

2. **API Seeding**: Python API for programmatic setup
   - `ItemRepository.create()` for direct item creation
   - `LinkRepository.create()` for relationship setup
   - `EventRepository.log()` for history simulation

3. **Dependency Injection**: Service layer pattern enables mocking
   - Repository interfaces mockable
   - External dependencies (PostgreSQL) containerized (Docker)

4. **Error Injection**: Optimistic locking conflicts triggerable
   - Version mismatch simulation
   - Concurrent update scenarios
   - Database connection failures

**Testability Score: 9/10** (Excellent controllability)

### 1.2 Observability Assessment

**Can we inspect system state and validate outcomes?**

✅ **EXCELLENT** - Comprehensive observability:

1. **Database Inspection**: Direct SQL queries for validation
   - Item state verification
   - Link relationship validation
   - Event log inspection

2. **Structured Output**: JSON/YAML export for assertions
   - CLI `--format json` for programmatic validation
   - Python API returns Pydantic models (type-safe)

3. **Logging**: Rich logging with structured data
   - Agent activity logs (who did what, when)
   - Event log (complete audit trail)
   - Error logs with context

4. **Metrics**: Progress calculation, velocity tracking
   - Real-time progress queries
   - Temporal state reconstruction

**Testability Score: 9/10** (Excellent observability)

### 1.3 Reliability Assessment

**Are tests isolated, reproducible, and deterministic?**

✅ **GOOD** with mitigations needed:

1. **Test Isolation**: ✅ PostgreSQL transactions + cleanup
   - Each test runs in transaction (rollback after)
   - Separate test database
   - Parallel test execution safe (separate projects)

2. **Reproducibility**: ⚠️ Concurrency scenarios need chaos testing
   - Single-agent scenarios: Fully reproducible
   - Multi-agent scenarios: Requires deterministic scheduling
   - **Mitigation**: Use pytest-xdist with controlled agent spawn order

3. **Determinism**: ✅ No random data, no hard waits
   - Factory functions with controlled data
   - Async/await for deterministic waits (no `time.sleep()`)
   - Event sourcing provides deterministic history

**Testability Score: 7/10** (Good, with concurrency edge cases)

---

## 2. Architecturally Significant Requirements (ASRs)

### ASR-1: Concurrent Agent Operations (1000+ agents)

**Requirement**: Support 1000+ concurrent AI agents without conflicts
**Architecture Decision**: Optimistic locking with retry logic
**Testability Challenge**: Simulating 1000+ concurrent operations in tests

**Risk Assessment:**
- **Category**: TECH (concurrency)
- **Probability**: 2 (Medium) - Conflicts rare with item-level granularity
- **Impact**: 3 (High) - Agent productivity depends on this
- **Score**: 6 → **MITIGATION REQUIRED**

**Test Strategy:**
- **Unit Tests**: Optimistic locking logic (version check, retry)
- **Integration Tests**: Concurrent updates to same item (2-10 agents)
- **Load Tests**: 100-1000 agents updating different items (chaos testing)
- **Chaos Tests**: Intentional conflicts, network delays, database slowdowns

**Mitigation Plan:**
- Implement `pytest-asyncio` for concurrent test execution
- Use `asyncio.gather()` to spawn 100+ concurrent agent operations
- Monitor conflict rate (target: <1% conflicts)
- Validate retry logic with exponential backoff

**Owner**: Test Architect
**Deadline**: Before epic breakdown

### ASR-2: Query Performance (<1s for 10K+ items)


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## 3. Test Levels Strategy

### 3.1 Unit Tests (60% of test suite)

**Scope**: Pure functions, business logic, data validation

**Target Components:**
- **Repositories**: ItemRepository, LinkRepository, EventRepository, AgentRepository
- **Services**: ItemService, LinkService, ViewService, ProgressService, SearchService
- **Schemas**: Pydantic validation (ItemCreate, ItemUpdate, LinkCreate)
- **Utilities**: Query builders, formatters, helpers

**Test Characteristics:**
- Fast (<10ms per test)
- No database (mock SQLAlchemy session)
- No external dependencies
- High coverage (90%+ for business logic)

**Example Test Cases:**
```python
# tests/unit/test_item_repository.py
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_create_item_with_optimistic_locking():
    """Item created with version=1 for optimistic locking."""
    mock_session = AsyncMock()
    repo = ItemRepository(mock_session)

    item_data = ItemCreate(
        type="feature",
        view="FEATURE",
        title="User Authentication",
        status="todo"
    )

    item = await repo.create(project_id=UUID("..."), data=item_data)

    assert item.version == 1
    assert item.status == "todo"
    mock_session.add.assert_called_once()
    mock_session.commit.assert_called_once()

@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_update_item_version_conflict():
    """Update fails when version mismatch (optimistic lock)."""
    mock_session = AsyncMock()
    repo = ItemRepository(mock_session)

    # Simulate item with version=2
    existing_item = Item(id=UUID("..."), version=2, title="Old Title")
    mock_session.execute.return_value.scalar_one_or_none.return_value = existing_item

    # Try to update with expected_version=1 (stale)
    with pytest.raises(ConcurrencyError, match="modified by another agent"):
        await repo.update(
            item_id=existing_item.id,
            data=ItemUpdate(title="New Title"),
            expected_version=1  # Stale version
        )
```

**Coverage Target**: 90%+ for repositories, services, schemas

### 3.2 Integration Tests (30% of test suite)

**Scope**: Database operations, concurrency, cross-component interactions

**Target Components:**
- **Database Operations**: CRUD with real PostgreSQL
- **Concurrency**: Optimistic locking, concurrent updates
- **Event Sourcing**: Event log, temporal queries
- **Search**: Full-text search with tsvector
- **Progress Calculation**: Hierarchical progress aggregation

**Test Characteristics:**
- Moderate speed (100-500ms per test)
- Real PostgreSQL (Docker container)
- Transaction rollback for isolation
- Validates integration points

**Example Test Cases:**
```python
# tests/integration/test_concurrency.py
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_concurrent_updates_different_items():
    """1000 agents updating different items should succeed."""
    async with get_test_session() as session:
        repo = ItemRepository(session)

        # Create 1000 items
        items = [
            await repo.create(
                project_id=test_project.id,
                data=ItemCreate(type="task", view="FEATURE", title=f"Task {i}")
            )
            for i in range(1000)
        ]

        # Spawn 1000 concurrent updates (different items)
        async def update_item(item):
            await repo.update(
                item_id=item.id,
                data=ItemUpdate(status="in_progress"),
                expected_version=item.version
            )

        # Execute concurrently
        start = time.time()
        await asyncio.gather(*[update_item(item) for item in items])
        duration = time.time() - start

        # Validate: All updates succeeded, no conflicts
        assert duration < 5.0  # Should complete in <5 seconds

        # Verify all items updated
        updated_items = await repo.get_by_view(test_project.id, "FEATURE")
        assert all(item.status == "in_progress" for item in updated_items)

@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_concurrent_updates_same_item_with_retry():
    """10 agents updating same item should resolve via retry."""
    async with get_test_session() as session:
        repo = ItemRepository(session)

        # Create single item
        item = await repo.create(
            project_id=test_project.id,
            data=ItemCreate(type="feature", view="FEATURE", title="Shared Feature")
        )

        # Spawn 10 concurrent updates (same item)
        conflict_count = 0

        async def update_with_retry(agent_id):
            nonlocal conflict_count
            try:
                await update_with_retry_logic(
                    repo=repo,
                    item_id=item.id,
                    update_fn=lambda i: ItemUpdate(owner=f"agent-{agent_id}")
                )
            except ConcurrencyError:
                conflict_count += 1
                raise

        # Execute concurrently
        results = await asyncio.gather(
            *[update_with_retry(i) for i in range(10)],
            return_exceptions=True
        )

        # Validate: Most succeeded, some conflicts resolved via retry
        successes = [r for r in results if not isinstance(r, Exception)]
        assert len(successes) >= 8  # At least 80% success rate
        assert conflict_count < 5  # Conflicts should be rare

@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_event_sourcing_temporal_query():
    """Temporal query reconstructs item state at past timestamp."""
    async with get_test_session() as session:
        item_repo = ItemRepository(session)
        event_repo = EventRepository(session)

        # Create item
        item = await item_repo.create(
            project_id=test_project.id,
            data=ItemCreate(type="feature", view="FEATURE", title="Original Title")
        )
        timestamp_1 = datetime.utcnow()

        # Update item
        await asyncio.sleep(0.1)  # Ensure timestamp difference
        await item_repo.update(
            item_id=item.id,
            data=ItemUpdate(title="Updated Title"),
            expected_version=1
        )
        timestamp_2 = datetime.utcnow()

        # Query state at timestamp_1 (should show original title)
        past_state = await event_repo.get_item_at_time(item.id, timestamp_1)
        assert past_state["title"] == "Original Title"

        # Query state at timestamp_2 (should show updated title)
        current_state = await event_repo.get_item_at_time(item.id, timestamp_2)
        assert current_state["title"] == "Updated Title"
```

**Coverage Target**: 80%+ for database operations, concurrency scenarios

### 3.3 End-to-End Tests (10% of test suite)

**Scope**: Critical CLI workflows, agent coordination scenarios

**Target Workflows:**
- **Project Initialization**: `rtm project init` → database setup → first item creation
- **Multi-View Navigation**: Create feature → link to code → link to test → view progress
- **Agent Coordination**: 100 agents create items → link items → calculate progress
- **Import/Export**: Export project → delete → import → verify state

**Test Characteristics:**
- Slow (1-5 seconds per test)
- Full CLI execution (subprocess)
- Real PostgreSQL + file system
- Validates end-to-end workflows

**Example Test Cases:**
```python
# tests/e2e/test_cli_workflows.py
def test_project_initialization_workflow():
    """User can initialize project and create first item."""
    # Initialize project
    result = subprocess.run(
        ["rtm", "project", "init", "test-project"],
        capture_output=True,
        text=True
    )
    assert result.returncode == 0
    assert "Project created" in result.stdout

    # Create first item
    result = subprocess.run(
        ["rtm", "create", "epic", "User Authentication", "--format", "json"],
        capture_output=True,
        text=True
    )
    assert result.returncode == 0

    item = json.loads(result.stdout)
    assert item["type"] == "epic"
    assert item["title"] == "User Authentication"
    assert item["status"] == "todo"

    # Verify item in database
    result = subprocess.run(
        ["rtm", "view", "feature", "--format", "json"],
        capture_output=True,
        text=True
    )
    items = json.loads(result.stdout)
    assert len(items) == 1
    assert items[0]["title"] == "User Authentication"

def test_multi_view_linking_workflow():
    """User can create items across views and link them."""
    # Create feature
    feature_result = subprocess.run(
        ["rtm", "create", "feature", "OAuth Login", "--view", "FEATURE", "--format", "json"],
        capture_output=True,
        text=True
    )
    feature = json.loads(feature_result.stdout)

    # Create code file
    code_result = subprocess.run(
        ["rtm", "create", "file", "oauth.py", "--view", "CODE", "--format", "json"],
        capture_output=True,
        text=True
    )
    code = json.loads(code_result.stdout)

    # Link code to feature
    link_result = subprocess.run(
        ["rtm", "link", feature["id"], code["id"], "--type", "implements"],
        capture_output=True,
        text=True
    )
    assert link_result.returncode == 0

    # Verify link exists
    result = subprocess.run(
        ["rtm", "show", feature["id"], "--format", "json"],
        capture_output=True,
        text=True
    )
    feature_detail = json.loads(result.stdout)
    assert len(feature_detail["links"]) == 1
    assert feature_detail["links"][0]["target_id"] == code["id"]
    assert feature_detail["links"][0]["link_type"] == "implements"
```

**Coverage Target**: 100% of critical user workflows

---

## 4. Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) Validation

### 4.1 Performance NFRs

**NFR-P1: Query Response Time**
- **Requirement**: <50ms simple queries, <100ms complex queries, <1s for 10K+ items
- **Test Strategy**: Performance benchmarks with `pytest-benchmark`
- **Validation**: Automated performance tests in CI
- **Gate Criteria**: FAIL if any query exceeds SLO by >10%

**Test Implementation:**
```python
# tests/performance/test_query_performance.py
@pytest.mark.benchmark
def test_simple_query_performance(benchmark, test_db_10k_items):
    """Simple item lookup should complete in <50ms."""
    async def query():
        async with get_session() as session:
            repo = ItemRepository(session)
            return await repo.get_by_id(test_item_id)

    result = benchmark(asyncio.run, query())

    # Validate: <50ms (with 10% tolerance)
    assert benchmark.stats.mean < 0.055  # 55ms max
    assert result is not None

@pytest.mark.benchmark
def test_complex_query_performance(benchmark, test_db_10k_items):
    """Complex query (10K items with filters) should complete in <1s."""
    async def query():
        async with get_session() as session:
            repo = ItemRepository(session)
            return await repo.query(
                project_id=test_project.id,
                filters={"status": "in_progress", "view": "FEATURE"}
            )

    result = benchmark(asyncio.run, query())

    # Validate: <1s (with 10% tolerance)
    assert benchmark.stats.mean < 1.1  # 1.1s max
    assert len(result) > 0
```

**NFR-P2: View Rendering**
- **Requirement**: <200ms view switch and render
- **Test Strategy**: Measure CLI command execution time
- **Validation**: Automated timing tests
- **Gate Criteria**: FAIL if view rendering >220ms (10% tolerance)

**NFR-P3: Project Switching**
- **Requirement**: <500ms project switch
- **Test Strategy**: Measure `rtm project switch` command time
- **Validation**: E2E tests with timing assertions
- **Gate Criteria**: FAIL if project switch >550ms (10% tolerance)

**NFR-P5: Concurrent Agent Operations**
- **Requirement**: 1000+ concurrent agents without degradation
- **Test Strategy**: Load tests with 100, 500, 1000 concurrent agents
- **Validation**: Chaos testing with agent spawn/kill cycles
- **Gate Criteria**: FAIL if conflict rate >1% or throughput degrades >20%

### 4.2 Security NFRs

**NFR-S1: Local Data Storage**
- **Requirement**: All data stored locally, no cloud transmission
- **Test Strategy**: Network monitoring during operations
- **Validation**: Assert zero outbound network calls
- **Gate Criteria**: FAIL if any network activity detected

**NFR-S2: Database Security**
- **Requirement**: Password authentication, encrypted connections
- **Test Strategy**: Connection string validation, SSL verification
- **Validation**: Unit tests for config parsing
- **Gate Criteria**: FAIL if plain-text passwords or unencrypted connections

**NFR-S3: Agent Authentication**
- **Requirement**: Agent operations logged with agent ID
- **Test Strategy**: Verify agent_activity table populated
- **Validation**: Integration tests for agent logging
- **Gate Criteria**: FAIL if any agent operation unlogged

**NFR-S4: Data Integrity**
- **Requirement**: ACID transactions, zero data loss
- **Test Strategy**: Transaction rollback tests, crash recovery tests
- **Validation**: Integration tests with forced failures
- **Gate Criteria**: FAIL if any data loss or corruption

### 4.3 Reliability NFRs

**NFR-R1: Uptime**
- **Requirement**: 99.9% uptime (local tool)
- **Test Strategy**: Crash recovery tests, error handling validation
- **Validation**: Chaos testing with random failures
- **Gate Criteria**: FAIL if crash rate >0.1%

**NFR-R2: Data Loss Prevention**
- **Requirement**: Zero data loss during normal operations
- **Test Strategy**: Transaction tests, backup/restore tests
- **Validation**: Integration tests with forced crashes
- **Gate Criteria**: FAIL if any data loss detected

**NFR-R3: Error Handling**
- **Requirement**: User-friendly error messages, suggestions
- **Test Strategy**: Error scenario tests (invalid input, missing resources)
- **Validation**: E2E tests for error messages
- **Gate Criteria**: FAIL if cryptic errors or stack traces shown to users

### 4.4 Maintainability NFRs

**NFR-M1: Code Quality**
- **Requirement**: 80%+ test coverage, type hints, linting
- **Test Strategy**: Coverage reports, mypy validation, ruff checks
- **Validation**: CI pipeline enforces quality gates
- **Gate Criteria**: FAIL if coverage <80%, type errors, or lint failures

---

## 5. Quality Gates & Release Criteria

### 5.1 Pre-Epic Breakdown Gates (Current Phase)

**GATE 1: Testability Review** ✅ **PASSED**
- Architecture supports automated testing
- Controllability: 9/10
- Observability: 9/10
- Reliability: 7/10
- **Decision**: Proceed to epic breakdown

**GATE 2: Critical Risk Mitigation** ⚠️ **IN PROGRESS**
- **PERF-001** (Score 9): Performance testing infrastructure required
- **TECH-002** (Score 6): Concurrency testing strategy defined
- **DATA-003** (Score 6): Event sourcing validation approach defined
- **Decision**: Mitigations documented, proceed with monitoring

### 5.2 Pre-Implementation Gates (Next Phase)

**GATE 3: Test Framework Setup**
- pytest + pytest-asyncio + pytest-cov configured
- Docker PostgreSQL test environment ready
- Factory fixtures for items, links, events, agents
- **Criteria**: All test infrastructure in place before coding

**GATE 4: Test Coverage Baseline**
- 80%+ coverage for all new code
- Zero P0 test failures
- All NFR validation tests passing
- **Criteria**: No code merged without tests

### 5.3 Pre-Release Gates (Future Phase)

**GATE 5: Performance Validation**
- All performance benchmarks passing (<50ms, <1s, <500ms)
- Load tests with 100+ concurrent agents passing
- Zero performance regressions vs baseline
- **Criteria**: Performance SLOs met

**GATE 6: Concurrency Validation**
- 1000 agents updating different items: <5s, 0 conflicts
- 10 agents updating same item: >80% success rate, <5 conflicts
- Optimistic locking retry logic validated
- **Criteria**: Concurrency targets met

**GATE 7: NFR Validation**
- All security NFRs validated (S1-S5)
- All reliability NFRs validated (R1-R4)
- All maintainability NFRs validated (M1-M4)
- **Criteria**: 100% NFR validation passing

---

## 6. Test Automation Recommendations

### 6.1 Test Framework Architecture (Next Workflow)

**Recommended Stack:**
- **Test Runner**: pytest (industry standard for Python)
- **Async Support**: pytest-asyncio (for concurrent tests)
- **Coverage**: pytest-cov (80%+ target)
- **Benchmarking**: pytest-benchmark (performance tests)
- **Property Testing**: hypothesis (event sourcing validation)
- **Mocking**: unittest.mock + pytest-mock (unit tests)
- **Database**: Docker PostgreSQL (integration tests)
- **CLI Testing**: subprocess + pytest (E2E tests)

**Test Structure:**
```
tests/
├── unit/                    # 60% of tests
│   ├── test_repositories/
│   ├── test_services/
│   ├── test_schemas/
│   └── test_utils/
├── integration/             # 30% of tests
│   ├── test_database/
│   ├── test_concurrency/
│   ├── test_event_sourcing/
│   └── test_search/
├── e2e/                     # 10% of tests
│   ├── test_cli_workflows/
│   └── test_agent_coordination/
├── performance/             # Separate suite
│   ├── test_query_performance/
│   └── test_load_testing/
├── fixtures/
│   ├── conftest.py          # Shared fixtures
│   ├── factories.py         # Data factories
│   └── docker_compose.yml   # Test PostgreSQL
└── pytest.ini               # Configuration
```

### 6.2 CI/CD Pipeline (Workflow #8)

**Recommended Pipeline:**
```yaml
# .github/workflows/test.yml
name: Test Suite

on: [push, pull_request]

jobs:
  unit-tests:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
        with:
          python-version: '3.12'
      - run: pip install -e ".[dev]"
      - run: pytest tests/unit -v --cov --cov-report=xml
      - run: pytest tests/unit --cov-fail-under=90  # Fail if <90% coverage

  integration-tests:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    services:
      postgres:
        image: postgres:16-alpine
        env:
          POSTGRES_PASSWORD: test
          POSTGRES_DB: tracertm_test
        options: >-
          --health-cmd pg_isready
          --health-interval 10s
          --health-timeout 5s
          --health-retries 5
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
        with:
          python-version: '3.12'
      - run: pip install -e ".[dev]"
      - run: pytest tests/integration -v --cov --cov-report=xml
        env:
          DATABASE_URL: postgresql://postgres:test@localhost/tracertm_test

  e2e-tests:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
        with:
          python-version: '3.12'
      - run: pip install -e ".[dev]"
      - run: pytest tests/e2e -v

  performance-tests:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
        with:
          python-version: '3.12'
      - run: pip install -e ".[dev]"
      - run: pytest tests/performance --benchmark-only
      - run: pytest tests/performance --benchmark-compare=baseline.json --benchmark-compare-fail=mean:10%  # Fail if >10% slower
```

---

## 7. Summary & Next Steps

### 7.1 Testability Verdict

✅ **ARCHITECTURALLY SOUND FOR TESTING**

TraceRTM's architecture provides excellent testability:
- **Controllability**: 9/10 (database seeding, API setup, dependency injection)
- **Observability**: 9/10 (structured output, logging, event log)
- **Reliability**: 7/10 (good isolation, concurrency needs chaos testing)

**Critical Risks Identified & Mitigated:**
1. **PERF-001** (Score 9): Performance testing infrastructure → Mitigation documented
2. **TECH-002** (Score 6): Concurrency testing strategy → Chaos testing approach defined
3. **DATA-003** (Score 6): Event sourcing validation → Property testing with hypothesis

### 7.2 Test Strategy Summary

**Test Distribution:**
- **Unit Tests (60%)**: Repositories, services, schemas, utilities
- **Integration Tests (30%)**: Database, concurrency, event sourcing, search
- **E2E Tests (10%)**: CLI workflows, agent coordination

**Quality Gates:**
- 80%+ code coverage (unit + integration)
- Zero P0 test failures
- All performance SLOs met (<50ms, <1s, <500ms)
- All NFR validation tests passing

### 7.3 Next Workflows (YOLO Mode Continues)

**Workflow #2: Test Framework Architecture** ✅ READY
- Setup pytest + pytest-asyncio + pytest-cov
- Configure Docker PostgreSQL for integration tests
- Create factory fixtures for items, links, events, agents
- Implement base test classes and utilities

**Workflow #4: Test Automation** ✅ READY
- Generate unit tests for repositories, services, schemas
- Generate integration tests for concurrency, event sourcing
- Generate E2E tests for CLI workflows
- Generate performance tests with benchmarks

**Workflow #6: Requirements Trace** ✅ READY
- Map 88 FRs to test cases
- Validate 100% FR coverage
- Map NFRs to validation tests
- Generate traceability matrix

**Workflow #8: CI/CD Pipeline** ✅ READY
- GitHub Actions workflow for test execution
- Quality gates enforcement (coverage, performance, NFRs)
- Automated test reporting
- Performance regression detection

---

_This testability review confirms TraceRTM's architecture is well-suited for comprehensive automated testing. Critical risks have been identified and mitigation strategies documented. Proceed to test framework setup and automation generation._

_**Status**: APPROVED for epic breakdown and implementation planning._


