shoc-backend/QUALITY_GATES.md

Quality Gates (canonical)

Status: canonical. This document owns how the architecture and code-quality rules are enforced: the gate list, the local command, the CI mapping, and the pass/fail/skip reporting semantics. The meaning of each rule lives in ARCHITECTURE_AND_CODE_QUALITY.md.

CI and local run the same check. Every gate below is executed by scripts/governance-check.sh. The architecture-quality workflow calls that script so a green run means the same thing locally and in CI. Do not add a check to CI that is not also runnable locally through the script (and vice versa).

Gate inventory

#	Gate	Protects (architecture §)	Local command	CI step
G1	Restore	build integrity	dotnet restore SeaHavenIndustries.sln	architecture-quality → governance-check.sh
G2	Architecture boundary tests	§1, §3 (dependency direction)	dotnet test Api.SeaHavenIndustries.Tests ... --filter FullyQualifiedName~ArchitectureTests --no-restore	same script
G3	Changed-file formatting	§1 (conventions)	dotnet format SeaHavenIndustries.sln --no-restore --verify-no-changes --include <changed .cs>	same script
G4	Release build	compile correctness	dotnet build SeaHavenIndustries.sln -c Release --no-restore	architecture-quality and ci
G5	Full test suite	behavior	dotnet test SeaHavenIndustries.sln -c Release --no-build	architecture-quality and ci
G6	Migration gates	§7	see §"Migration gates" below	on-demand / release
G7	Cancellation forwarding	§6	behavior tests on changed I/O paths + analyzer	review-enforced on changed paths
G8	Error disclosure	§5	SanitizedErrorsTests (part of G5)	ci
G9	Board-backed regression	review framework	REVIEW_AND_PR_FRAMEWORK.md inventory	review-enforced
G10	Terraform import plan safety	live infrastructure adoption	python scripts/test-terraform-import-plan-check.py	architecture-quality → governance-check.sh

How to run locally

# Complete local repository gate (mirrors the architecture-quality workflow):
bash scripts/governance-check.sh

# By default it compares against the default branch for changed-file formatting.
# Override the comparison point:
BASE_REF=origin/dev bash scripts/governance-check.sh
BASE_REF=main         bash scripts/governance-check.sh

The script:

1. dotnet restore (G1)
2. runs the ArchitectureTests filter with --no-restore (G2)
3. computes changed .cs files vs BASE_REF (default origin/dev) and runs dotnet format --verify-no-changes --include ... (G3). When there are no changed C# files it skips G3 with an explicit "skipped: no changed C#" line.
4. builds the complete solution in Release with no restore (G4).
5. runs the complete solution test suite in Release with no rebuild (G5).
6. verifies that the Terraform plan guard rejects create, delete, replacement, and unapproved update actions (G10).

Migration gates (G6)

Provider-real, not reflection-derived. Run against the configured provider:

• Actual-provider discovery — confirm the runtime provider matches the configured connection (e.g., SQL Server / Npgsql) from configuration, not from package guesses.
• Snapshot consistency — dotnet ef migrations script --idempotent (or a model diff) shows no phantom operations; ModelSnapshot matches the model.
• Empty-db apply — dotnet ef database update against a fresh empty database applies the full history cleanly.
• Supported-prior upgrade — upgrade from each still-supported prior migration applies cleanly.
• Rollback — report not guaranteed unless a real downgrade was exercised against the provider. Never claim "EF can roll it back" untested.

Migration gates are run on-demand and gated for releases; they are not in the per-PR fast path because they require a database. A PR that adds/changes a migration must document the G6 evidence in the PR description.

Cancellation forwarding (G7)

For changed async I/O paths, the requirement (§6) is verified forwarding, not a signature checkbox. Acceptable evidence, any one of:

• a behavior test asserting the CancellationToken reaches the data service / EF call; or
• an analyzer diagnostic confirming propagation on the changed method.

A parameter that exists but is swallowed/default-ed is a fail. If an analyzer is unavailable for a path, a behavior test is required; silence is not acceptable. Review enforces this on changed paths.

Architecture discovery must fail on zero (G2 invariants)

Each reflection invariant in ArchitectureTests asserts the discovered set is non-empty. A future namespace move that makes reflection return zero types will fail the gate rather than silently pass. The current invariants:

1. Controllers inject neither DbContext, concrete data services, nor concrete service implementations.
2. Business services inject neither DbContext nor IConfiguration.
3. Business services depend on interfaces (not concrete service/data-service implementations) for their data and persistence dependencies.

What this does not claim

• Reflection over constructors proves wiring shape, not runtime behavior. Runtime/semantic properties (cancellation actually cancelling, a query executing in SQL, a transaction actually committing atomically) are proven by behavior tests or provider evidence, never by reflection.
• A passing script proves G1–G5 ran in sequence. It does not prove the provider-backed or review-owned gates G6–G9.

Pass / fail / skip / not-run reporting

Every gate result is reported as exactly one of:

• pass — ran and succeeded, with evidence.
• fail — ran and failed; cite the failing test/command and output.
• skipped — intentionally not run for this change (e.g., no changed C# for G3); name the gate and the reason.
• not-run — could not run (environment/dependency missing); name the blocker.

A PR is not "green" if any applicable gate is fail, skipped-without-justification, or not-run. Never infer a pass from silence.

Adding or changing a gate

• Any new executable check goes into scripts/governance-check.sh and the architecture-quality workflow together (or into the full CI for G4/G5-type checks). One source of truth for local and CI.
• A new rule documents its meaning in ARCHITECTURE_AND_CODE_QUALITY.md and its command/mapping here.
• Explicit, documented exceptions only — no wildcard suppressions (see ARCHITECTURE_AND_CODE_QUALITY.md §10).