🧠 QA Cluster Agents Overview

🎯 Purpose

The QA Cluster in the ConnectSoft AI Software Factory is responsible for ensuring that every generated microservice, handler, and flow is covered by executable, traceable, and continuously validated quality checks.

Unlike traditional QA, which occurs late in the lifecycle, the ConnectSoft QA cluster:

• 💡 Starts at blueprint time (before code exists)
• 🔁 Operates in parallel with developer and commit workflows
• 🧪 Ensures coverage by role, edition, scenario, and trace ID
• 📊 Provides continuous quality scoring, risk assessment, and feedback

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🚀 Strategic Role in the Factory

📍 The QA Cluster ensures that:

Objective	QA Responsibility
AI-generated code is validated	Tests are generated and run for every handler, DTO, and use case
Role × Edition behavior is enforced	All RBAC paths and feature flag variants are tested
QA prompts and bugs are closed-loop	QA questions, bugs, and gaps lead to test regeneration and validation
CI/CD pipelines are test-aware	Merges and releases are blocked or approved based on actual test coverage, not assumptions
Studio QA views are real-time	Test results, gaps, retries, and flakiness show up in trace dashboards for developer and QA triage

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🧩 Diagram – QA Cluster in the Factory Lifecycle

flowchart LR
    Blueprint --> GeneratorAgents
    GeneratorAgents --> DeveloperAgents
    GeneratorAgents --> TestAutomationAgent
    TestAutomationAgent --> TestCoverageValidator
    TestCoverageValidator --> Studio
    Studio --> QAEngineerAgent
    QAEngineerAgent --> GeneratorAgents
    TestCoverageValidator --> BugResolverAgent
    TestCoverageValidator --> TechLeadAgent

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• QA starts at blueprint generation
• Works before, during, and after feature implementation
• Reports into both human QA review panels and CI/CD gates

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🔍 Why It’s Agent-Based

Traditional QA doesn’t scale for:

• 📦 3000+ microservices
• 🌍 Multiple editions and tenants
• 🧩 Role-specific, prompt-generated behaviors
• 🔁 Dynamic regeneration of edge, chaos, and retry paths

By distributing quality responsibilities across specialized agents, ConnectSoft delivers:

• 🔁 Self-healing test coverage
• 🧪 Predictive risk detection
• ⚠️ Role-aware and prompt-driven quality enforcement
• 📊 Continuously updated test health dashboards

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✅ Summary

The QA Cluster transforms quality from a manual checkpoint into a dynamic, trace-driven, continuously validated system.

It sits at the heart of:

• 📘 Trace-to-test traceability
• 🧠 AI-generated test orchestration
• 📊 Studio feedback and quality scoring
• 🔁 Automation loops for prompt gaps and regressions

Without the QA cluster, the AI Factory can generate code — but not guarantee correctness.

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🎯 QA-as-Code Philosophy

Traditional QA is often:

• 🧍‍♂️ Manual
• 📄 Documentation-driven
• ⏱ Post-development
• ❌ Detached from architecture and execution

In contrast, the ConnectSoft QA Cluster is grounded in the principle of QA-as-Code:

Quality is modeled, generated, validated, and enforced by intelligent agents — from the same blueprint as the system itself.

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🧩 Core Tenets of QA-as-Code

Principle	Implementation
Trace-Driven	Every handler, use case, and port generates a trace_id — the root for tests, metrics, and validators
Prompt-Aware	QA Engineers can express natural-language prompts that generate executable tests
Edition- and Role-Aware	All tests are contextualized by edition, role, locale, and tenant
Test Generation Is Declarative	Agents generate .cs, .feature, and Markdown directly from agent output specs
CI/CD-Aware	All tests are stored, executed, and reported with observable span IDs, retries, and metrics
Memory-Backed QA	The system remembers gaps, retries, failures, and learns from test history over time

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🧠 What QA-as-Code Looks Like

✅ Instead of...

• Writing manual test cases in Excel
• Waiting for features to be “done”
• QA existing in a separate tooling island

QA-as-Code Means...

• QA agents generate test scaffolds from trace metadata
• QA execution is orchestrated across editions and roles by automation agents
• QA validation and gaps are detected automatically and recorded to memory
• QA scores and decisions are reflected in CI/CD and Studio dashboards

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📘 Example: From Trace to Test

trace_id: cancel-2025-0142
handler: CancelInvoiceHandler
roles_allowed: [CFO, Guest]
editions: [lite, enterprise]
required_scenarios:
  - happy
  - access_denied

This produces:

• ✅ Unit tests (CancelInvoiceHandlerTests.cs)
• ✅ .feature file with @role:Guest and @edition:lite
• ✅ Executions triggered in pre-merge pipeline
• ✅ Validator scan post-run → missing scenario triggers regeneration
• ✅ QA Engineer sees gap in Studio dashboard

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💡 Benefits of QA-as-Code

Benefit	Explanation
🔁 Self-healing test coverage	Missing or flaky scenarios are detected and regenerated automatically
📊 Continuous test metrics	Scores, gaps, and retries are emitted as structured observability events
⚡ Instant prompt-to-test	QA Engineers and PMs can write a prompt → get an executable test
🧱 Immutable trace mapping	Tests are bound to their feature blueprint — no drift, no ambiguity
🧪 Risk-aware validation	Tests that don’t exist are more dangerous than those that fail — and the system knows it

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🧬 ConnectSoft QA-as-Code Stack

Layer	Tooling/Agent
Test Generation	Test Case Generator, Test Generator Agent
Execution	Test Automation Engineer Agent
Validation	Test Coverage Validator Agent
Planning	QA Engineer Agent
Regression Tracing	Bug Resolver, Memory Engine
Prompt Fulfillment	Studio + QA Prompt Tracker

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✅ Summary

QA-as-Code is the foundational philosophy that transforms:

• QA from late-stage testing → to blueprint-driven design validation
• Manual test writing → into automated trace-to-test workflows
• Coverage checklists → into autonomous enforcement of quality

In ConnectSoft, if the agent didn’t test it — it’s not ready.

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🎯 Position in Execution Flow

To understand the power of the QA cluster, it’s critical to see where in the ConnectSoft Factory pipeline the QA agents operate.

Unlike traditional QA (which activates after code is complete), the ConnectSoft QA cluster operates:

⚙️ Before, during, and after development — and integrates into all agent clusters, CI/CD gates, and Studio.

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🧩 QA Agents in the Factory Lifecycle

✅ High-Level QA Insertion Points:

Phase	QA Involvement
Blueprint Planning	QA prompts added by QA Engineer Agent → linked to expected scenarios
Trace Generation	Each trace_id becomes an anchor for tests to be generated and validated
Test Generation	Test Generator Agent + Test Case Generator Agent emit .feature and .cs files
Pre-Commit & Pre-PR	Test Automation Engineer Agent executes matrix of tests (edition × role × scenario)
Validator Sweep	Test Coverage Validator Agent checks what was expected vs. what ran
Gap Detection	Gaps trigger Generator and Automation agents again for retry, generation, or Studio alert
Post-Merge Audits	Regression coverage and prompt fulfillment tracked via nightly/scheduled validators
Release Gate	CI/CD gates block releases if coverage score, scenario completeness, or edition matrix fails
Post-Deployment Drift	Validator + Chaos Agent check if behavioral coverage still aligns with production config

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🧬 QA Cluster Execution Flow Diagram

graph LR
    A[Trace Generation (Dev Agents)] --> B[Test Case Generator]
    A --> C[Test Generator Agent]
    B --> D[Test Automation Engineer Agent]
    C --> D
    D --> E[Test Coverage Validator Agent]
    E --> F[Studio QA Dashboard]
    E --> G[Bug Resolver Agent]
    F --> H[QA Engineer Agent]
    H --> C

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🧠 Example Execution Path

1. Trace ID: invoice-2025-0147 is generated by the Backend Developer Agent
2. QA Engineer Agent assigns 3 scenarios as prompts
3. Test Generator Agent creates .feature tests (happy, access_denied, retry)
4. Test Automation Agent executes all variants: CFO × pro, Guest × lite
5. Validator Agent detects missing Guest × lite edge case
6. Generator is re-triggered → test added
7. Execution rerun → test passed
8. Studio dashboard now shows ✅ for all matrix cells

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📘 QA Agents Touchpoints

Factory Layer	QA Agent Involved
🎯 Blueprint Planning	QA Engineer Agent
🧠 Test Generation	Test Generator Agent, Test Case Generator Agent
⚙️ Execution	Test Automation Engineer Agent
🧪 Validation	Test Coverage Validator Agent
📎 Regression	Bug Investigator Agent
📊 Visualization	Studio-integrated QA metrics and feedback
🧬 Memory & Reuse	Regression Memory Index, Unfulfilled Prompt DB

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✅ Summary

The QA cluster:

• Starts early — with blueprints and trace IDs
• Operates continually — through generation, execution, and validation
• Reacts intelligently — via gap detection and re-triggering
• Exposes results — in Studio, dashboards, CI/CD, and audit logs

In the ConnectSoft Factory, QA is not a “step” — it is a dimension of execution.

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🎯 Cluster Composition

This section outlines the composition of the QA agent cluster — a network of specialized agents that handle:

• 🧪 Test generation and execution
• 📊 Validation and scoring
• 🔁 Gap remediation and regeneration
• 💥 Resiliency, chaos, and performance testing
• 👤 QA oversight, planning, and approvals

Together, they create a self-governing, multi-agent quality assurance mesh.

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📦 QA Agent Categories

Category	Agents
Test Generators	🧠 Test Case Generator Agent 🧠 Test Generator Agent
Execution & Orchestration	⚙️ Test Automation Engineer Agent
Validation & Gap Detection	📊 Test Coverage Validator Agent
QA Governance	👤 QA Engineer Agent
Issue-Based QA Feedback	🐞 Bug Investigator Agent
Resilience & Scale Testing	🔁 Load & Performance Testing Agent 💥 Resiliency & Chaos Engineer Agent
Code Review-Linked QA	🔍 Code Reviewer Agent (with test completeness hooks)

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🧬 Cluster Diagram – QA Agents in Layers

flowchart TD
    subgraph Generation
      A1[Test Case Generator Agent]
      A2[Test Generator Agent]
    end

    subgraph Execution
      B1[Test Automation Engineer Agent]
    end

    subgraph Validation
      C1[Test Coverage Validator Agent]
    end

    subgraph Oversight
      D1[QA Engineer Agent]
      D2[Bug Investigator Agent]
    end

    subgraph Advanced Testing
      E1[Load & Performance Testing Agent]
      E2[Resiliency & Chaos Engineer Agent]
    end

    subgraph Integration
      F1[Code Reviewer Agent]
    end

    A1 --> B1
    A2 --> B1
    B1 --> C1
    C1 --> D1
    C1 --> D2
    D1 --> A2
    C1 --> E1
    C1 --> E2
    F1 --> C1

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📘 Agent Descriptions (Short Form)

Agent	Description
🧠 Test Case Generator Agent	Emits unit/integration test classes from trace metadata
🧠 Test Generator Agent	Translates prompts into .feature or .cs tests
⚙️ Test Automation Engineer Agent	Executes tests across roles, editions, and traces
📊 Test Coverage Validator Agent	Detects missing tests, retries, role-edition gaps
👤 QA Engineer Agent	Approves, plans, and triggers prompt-based test generation
🐞 Bug Investigator Agent	Validates that bugs are protected by regression scenarios
🔁 Load & Performance Agent	Measures throughput, latency, system resource limits
💥 Chaos Engineer Agent	Applies retry policies, latency injection, resiliency breakers
🔍 Code Reviewer Agent	Validates if required QA metadata and coverage are present in PRs

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🧠 Coordination Patterns

• ✅ All agents share a common trace_id, edition, and role tag model
• 🧠 QA agents trigger each other (e.g., Validator → Generator)
• 📦 QA agents consume shared artifacts (e.g., execution-summary.yaml, gap-matrix.yaml)
• 🧠 Agent decisions are logged in memory and reflected in Studio

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✅ Summary

The QA cluster is not a single agent, but a modular system of intelligent components that together:

• 📘 Validate everything the Factory generates
• ⚠️ Catch what’s missing — before humans do
• 🔁 Close the loop on test coverage, performance, and chaos
• 🧠 Learn and improve from execution history and prompt outcomes

QA is not one job — it’s a distributed agentic responsibility, governed by this cluster.

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🎯 Agent Mesh Map

This section defines the full agentic mesh in which QA agents operate — highlighting who they talk to, what they exchange, and how they collaborate across all agent clusters.

The QA Cluster does not work in isolation. It is part of a tightly integrated inter-agent network involving:

• 🧑‍💻 Engineering Agents
• 🏗 Architect Agents
• 🚀 Committer & Reviewer Agents
• 📦 DevOps & Orchestration Agents
• 📊 Studio UI/UX Systems

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🧩 QA Agent Collaboration Matrix

QA Agent	Collaborates With	Purpose
🧠 Test Generator Agent	Tech Lead Agent, Backend Developer Agent	Generates .feature/.cs from prompt or blueprint
🧠 Test Case Generator Agent	Architect Agents	Emits structural unit tests aligned with trace handlers
⚙️ Test Automation Engineer Agent	DevOps Orchestrator, Release Coordinator	Executes tests on schedule or during pipeline
📊 Test Coverage Validator Agent	Code Reviewer, Committer Agent	Validates coverage at PR time
👤 QA Engineer Agent	Studio, Test Generator, Bug Resolver	Manages prompt lifecycle and test plan strategy
🐞 Bug Investigator Agent	Memory Engine, Validator Agent	Traces bug reports to test coverage / prompt fulfillment
🔁 Load & Performance Agent	Infrastructure Agent, Observability Agent	Injects scale pressure and captures results
💥 Chaos Engineer Agent	Retry Policy Agent, Resiliency Monitor	Forces controlled failures to test fault handling

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🔁 Inter-Agent Signals (Examples)

Source → Target	Signal	Description
Validator → Generator	gap-matrix.yaml	Request to fill missing test combinations
Automation → Validator	execution-summary.yaml	Provides results for validation sweep
QA Engineer → Generator	qa-prompt.yaml	Instruction to convert natural-language prompt into scenario
Validator → Studio	coverage-feed.json	Trace dashboard update
Bug Resolver → QA Engineer	uncovered-bug.yaml	Regression not protected by scenario

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📊 Cross-Cluster Mesh Roles

Cluster	Integration
Engineering Cluster	Supplies blueprints and handler logic for test generation
Architect Cluster	Provides DTO models, service contracts, and access control metadata
Studio + Prompt Engine	Accepts feedback and visual QA coverage results
DevOps/CI/CD	Triggers QA execution, blocks releases if coverage/risk gates fail
Security Cluster	QA agents validate secure/denied paths; interact with Penetration Testing Agent
Memory & Knowledge Base	All QA results (gaps, failures, resolutions) are persisted and retrievable per trace/edition/role

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📘 Mesh Diagram

graph TD
  A[Test Generator] -->|Gaps| B[Test Coverage Validator]
  A --> D[Test Automation Engineer]
  D --> B
  B --> F[Studio]
  B --> E[QA Engineer]
  B --> H[Bug Resolver]
  H --> A
  D --> G[DevOps Pipelines]
  E --> A
  E --> F

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🔍 Example Real-Time Mesh Flow

1. PR opens → triggers Validator
2. Validator detects: Guest × lite test missing for cancel-2025-0142
3. Generator Agent invoked with scenario generation request
4. Generator emits .feature
5. Automation Agent runs it → result passed
6. Validator updates coverage feed → Studio turns trace green
7. Committer Agent validates score/risk level → allows merge

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✅ Summary

The QA Cluster is not siloed — it is embedded into a mesh of agents that:

• 🔁 Exchange metadata and gap signals
• 📦 Execute and validate tests at the right time
• 🧠 Use memory, prompt history, and studio feedback to self-improve
• 📊 Surface QA state at the trace and scenario level in dashboards and reports

QA is not an afterthought — it’s an autonomous, interconnected safety net.

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🎯 Generators: Test Case vs. Test Generator

This section defines and contrasts the two foundational test generation agents within the QA Cluster:

🧠 Test Case Generator Agent 🧠 Test Generator Agent

Both produce automated test assets — but they serve different scopes, operate on different inputs, and target different abstraction levels.

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🧬 Why Two Generators?

Question	Answer
“Who writes unit tests?”	✅ Test Case Generator Agent
“Who generates .feature files from QA prompts?”	✅ Test Generator Agent
“Who expands handler validation logic into test methods?”	✅ Test Case Generator Agent
“Who ensures scenario diversity (happy, edge, access denied)?”	✅ Test Generator Agent

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🧩 Comparison Table

Feature	Test Case Generator Agent	Test Generator Agent
🔧 Scope	Unit & integration tests	Behavior-driven & prompt-based
🎯 Focus	Low-level handler and DTO validation	High-level end-to-end scenario modeling
📥 Input	trace metadata, port/handler definitions	prompts, QA plans, bug traces, validator gaps
📤 Output	.cs test classes (e.g. MyHandlerTests.cs)	.feature (Gherkin), .cs, and .md test specs
🧠 Collaboration	Backend Developer, DTO Modeler Agents	QA Engineer, Prompt Engine, Coverage Validator
🧪 Types of Tests	Arrange/Act/Assert structured tests	Given/When/Then acceptance criteria
🧭 Responsibility	Completeness of handler-level paths	Completeness of scenario space and real-world behavior
🛠️ Examples	Should_Throw_IfInputInvalid()	“Guest tries to cancel an already paid invoice”

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📘 Example Outputs

🧠 Test Case Generator Agent

[TestMethod]
public void Should_Reject_Cancel_If_Invoice_Already_Locked()
{
    var handler = new CancelInvoiceHandler(...);
    var command = new CancelInvoice { InvoiceId = "123", Status = Locked };

    var result = handler.Handle(command);

    Assert.IsFalse(result.Success);
    Assert.AreEqual("Invoice is locked", result.Message);
}

🧠 Test Generator Agent

@role:Guest @edition:lite @bug:INV-448
Scenario: Guest cannot cancel already approved invoice
  Given the invoice is in status "Approved"
  And the user is "Guest"
  When they try to cancel it
  Then the system returns 403 Forbidden

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🔁 How They Work Together

1. Trace is generated → triggers Test Case Generator Agent to build unit tests
2. QA adds prompt → triggers Test Generator Agent to generate .feature test
3. Validator compares: are all role × edition × scenario paths covered?
4. If gaps exist → one or both generators are re-invoked

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📊 Studio View

• Unit/integration test score → from Test Case Generator
• Prompt fulfillment and Gherkin trace → from Test Generator Agent
• Combined into a single QA trace coverage dashboard

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✅ Summary

Together, these agents ensure:
🔧 Every handler is functionally validated (Test Case Generator)
🧠 Every user scenario is represented, from QA prompts to bug traces (Test Generator)
📊 Tests are aligned to roles, editions, scenarios, and trace IDs
🔁 Gaps are automatically regenerated as agents coordinate with Validator and Automation agents

The combination of low-level test logic and high-level QA scenario generation forms the foundation of QA-as-Code.

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🎯 Test Execution and Matrix Enforcement

This section focuses on the Test Automation Engineer Agent, responsible for:

⚙️ Executing tests across the entire role × edition × scenario × tenant matrix — with full observability, retry logic, and Studio feedback integration.

It ensures that every generated test — whether from the Test Case or Test Generator Agent — is:

• ✅ Executed
• 🔁 Retried if flaky
• 🧪 Validated in the correct edition + role context
• 📊 Reported into Studio and CI/CD gates

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🧩 What the Agent Executes

Test Source	Formats	Examples
Unit & Integration Tests	.cs, [TestMethod]	ShouldFailIfInvoiceLocked()
Scenario Tests	.feature, .cs	Scenario: Guest cancels already approved invoice
Validator & Regression	Post-prompt, post-bug tests	Tagged @bug:INV-448
Performance Baseline (optional)	Load/stress probes	Throughput on retry/cancel
Chaos and fault paths	e.g., latency injected, retry forced	@chaos, @resiliency tags

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🧠 Matrix Enforcement Model

The agent ensures test execution for every combination of:

Dimension	Example
trace_id	cancel-2025-0142
role	CFO, Guest, Admin
edition	lite, pro, enterprise
scenario_type	happy, failure, access_denied, retry
test_type	unit, bdd, prompt, regression, chaos

📘 Example:

Scenario “Guest cancels already approved invoice” → Must be run in lite edition, as Guest → Expected to fail (403)

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📦 Execution Strategy

Feature	Description
🧪 Parallelized Runs	Shards tests across CI agents or containers
⚙️ Retry Logic	Retries flaky/failed tests with isolatable reasons
🧭 Trace-Aware Routing	All executions tagged with trace_id, edition, role, scenario_type
🧠 Execution History	Persisted and cross-referenced by Validator Agent
📊 Span Logging	Every run emits OpenTelemetry trace data, assertion results, duration, retry status

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📘 Sample Execution Metadata

trace_id: cancel-2025-0142
edition: lite
role: Guest
scenario: cancel_after_approval
result: failed
expected: 403
retry_attempted: true
retried_result: passed
duration_ms: 487
tags:
  - @prompt
  - @access_denied
  - @bug:INV-448

→ Used by Validator Agent and Studio dashboards to confirm fulfillment.

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📊 Studio Integration Example

Trace	Role	Edition	Scenario	Status
cancel-2025-0142	Guest	lite	access_denied	✅ Passed after retry
refund-2025-0143	CFO	pro	duplicate refund	❌ Failed
invoice-2025-0147	Admin	enterprise	retry after lock	✅

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🤝 Collaborators

Collaborates With	Purpose
Generator Agents	Executes newly generated tests
Validator Agent	Provides execution reports for coverage/risk scoring
Bug Investigator Agent	Ensures regressions are validated post-fix
Studio Agent	Updates trace dashboards
Retry Policy Agent (optional)	Enables chaos/resiliency replays

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✅ Summary

The Test Automation Engineer Agent ensures:

• Every test is executed correctly and tagged with all relevant dimensions
• ❌ Failures are retried, recorded, and annotated
• 📊 Results are traceable to prompt, role, edition, and scenario
• ✅ Executions feed Validator Agent and Studio coverage/risk dashboards

No QA plan is complete until the test runs — this agent makes QA happen.

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🎯 Test Coverage Governance

This section introduces the Test Coverage Validator Agent — the quality gatekeeper of the QA Cluster.

📊 It ensures every trace, role, edition, and prompt has been adequately tested, verified, and covered — or remediated through automation.

It acts as both:

• ✅ An auditor of executed tests
• 🔁 A coordinator for regeneration and retries when coverage is insufficient

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🧩 Validator Agent Responsibilities

Area	Responsibility
Coverage Matrix Enforcement	Ensures role × edition × scenario completeness
Execution Validation	Confirms each required test actually ran and passed
Prompt Fulfillment	Verifies that all QA prompts led to test generation and execution
Regression Test Enforcement	Ensures every bug trace has a corresponding regression test
Scenario Type Completeness	Checks for happy, failure, access_denied, retry, chaos, etc.
Coverage Drift Detection	Identifies reduction in coverage across releases or PRs
Risk Scoring	Calculates failure likelihood based on untested logic, flakiness, or bugs
Feedback Loop Activation	Triggers Test Generator Agent, Automation Agent, or QA prompts if gaps are detected

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📘 Coverage Dimensions Validated

Dimension	Examples
trace_id	invoice-2025-0147
edition	lite, enterprise
role	Guest, Admin, CFO
scenario_type	happy, failure, access_denied, duplicate, retry
bug_trace	@bug:INV-488
prompt_id	qa-1051
test_result	passed, flaky, quarantined

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📦 Key Output Artifacts

File	Description
trace-coverage-report.yaml	Per-trace validation summary
coverage-gap-matrix.yaml	List of untested role × edition × scenario combinations
risk-prediction.yaml	Failure risk level and rationale
qa-coverage-summary.md	Markdown report for Studio and QA inbox
execution-matrix.json	Executed tests × required dimensions
unfulfilled-prompts.yaml	Prompts not turned into executable tests

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🧠 Feedback Loop Example

1. Validator detects Guest × lite scenario is missing for cancel-2025-0142
2. Emits coverage-gap-matrix.yaml
3. Triggers Test Generator Agent → creates .feature file
4. Triggers Automation Agent → executes test
5. Validator re-runs → test passed
6. Studio trace turns green, CI gate unblocked

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📊 Studio Heatmap Snapshot

Role ↓ Edition →	lite	pro	enterprise
CFO	✅	✅	✅
Guest	❌	✅	✅
Admin	⚠️	✅	✅

• ✅ = Covered and passed
• ⚠️ = Flaky or partial
• ❌ = Gap detected → Validator action required

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✅ Summary

The Test Coverage Validator Agent enforces:

• 🔁 Full coverage across all dimensions (trace, edition, role, scenario, test type)
• 📉 Detection of test drift, flakiness, or prompt neglect
• 🧠 Coordination with other agents to fill gaps and close loops
• 📊 Visibility in Studio, CI/CD gates, and QA dashboards

It turns the QA system from a passive observer into a proactive, self-healing quality engine.

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🎯 QA Engineer Agent – Quality Guardian

This section introduces the QA Engineer Agent — the strategic orchestrator and reviewer within the QA Cluster.

👤 While other agents generate, execute, and validate tests, the QA Engineer Agent ensures QA intent, coverage strategy, and human-in-the-loop control.

It acts as the “QA brain” of the system, balancing automation with judgment and prompts.

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👤 Responsibilities of QA Engineer Agent

Role	Description
Prompt Owner	Accepts natural-language QA prompts and translates them into test intents
Test Plan Designer	Ensures trace IDs are covered by all required scenario types
Risk Acknowledger	Reviews Validator Agent reports and accepts/overrides warnings
Coverage Approver	Approves QA reports for merge/release when certain gaps are permissible
Exception Handler	Accepts known limitations and documents agent override justifications
QA Dashboard Reviewer	Uses Studio to track and triage coverage, flakiness, and validation status
Memory Curator	Annotates which test gaps were intentional and stores QA decisions per trace

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🧠 Inputs to QA Engineer Agent

Source	Input
Studio	QA prompts, trace dashboards, heatmaps
Validator Agent	qa-coverage-summary.md, gap-alert-events.jsonl
Bug Resolver Agent	Uncovered bug regression traces
Prompt Log	Pending or failed prompt requests
Generator Agent	Generated tests pending approval
Human QA Team	Studio reviews, inline comments, approvals

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📘 Example QA Prompt

prompt_id: qa-1051
trace_id: cancel-2025-0142
text: "What if Guest tries to cancel an already approved invoice?"
source: Studio QA prompt panel
status: not generated
qa_approved: true

→ Triggers Test Generator Agent → Tracked by QA Engineer Agent → Approved/rejected post-generation

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📦 Output Artifacts

Artifact	Description
qa-prompt.yaml	Formally issued prompt request to Generator
manual-approval-log.yaml	Decisions to override Validator gate failures
qa-backlog.yaml	Outstanding prompts, unexecuted cases
qa-coverage-feedback.md	Markdown with inline comments for each uncovered or flaky area
prompt-execution-report.json	Maps prompt IDs to generated + executed tests

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🧭 QA Governance Flow

flowchart TD
    QA[QA Engineer Agent]
    VAL[Test Coverage Validator Agent]
    GEN[Test Generator Agent]
    AUTO[Test Automation Agent]
    ST[Studio]

    ST --> QA
    VAL --> QA
    QA --> GEN
    GEN --> AUTO
    AUTO --> VAL

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🧠 Manual Exception Example

trace_id: invoice-2025-0147
missing: Guest in pro edition
reason: Guest role deprecated in pro edition
action: QA approved exception
qa_reviewer: alice.qa@connectsoft.dev
decision_timestamp: 2025-05-17T13:00Z

→ Validator respects override → Studio shows “✅ QA Approved Exception”

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📊 Studio QA Inbox View

Trace	Missing	QA Status	Action
cancel-2025-0142	Guest × lite × retry	Pending	[Review] [Accept Risk]
refund-2025-0143	All covered	✅	—
invoice-2025-0147	Prompt unexecuted	⚠️	[Trigger Generation]

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✅ Summary

The QA Engineer Agent is the strategic overseer and human-in-the-loop manager of the QA cluster.

It:

• 🧠 Translates prompts into test plans
• 📋 Approves or annotates test coverage and risk decisions
• 👤 Bridges automated QA agents with Studio-based QA teams
• 📊 Tracks coverage intent across roles, editions, scenarios, and prompts

It brings judgment, governance, and accountability to a system otherwise driven by autonomous agents.

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🎯 Bug Investigation Loop

This section introduces the Bug Investigator Agent, which bridges test execution failures, bug reports, and regression protection within the QA cluster.

🐞 Its role is to ensure that every bug becomes a test, every fix has a traceable regression, and future issues are prevented automatically.

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🐞 Responsibilities of the Bug Investigator Agent

Area	Role
Failure Analysis	Monitors failed test executions, links them to known or new bugs
Trace Linking	Associates bugs with trace_id, scenario, role, and edition context
Regression Protection Check	Validates that a test exists post-fix and is linked to the bug
QA Collaboration	Notifies QA Engineer and Validator Agents of uncovered bugs
Prompt Triggering	Instructs Test Generator Agent to create missing tests from bug traces
Bug → Memory	Stores bug-related test data and execution status in long-term QA memory

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📘 Example Bug Mapping Flow

1. Test fails in Automation Agent with trace cancel-2025-0142, role: Guest, edition: lite
2. Validator Agent tags the scenario as flaky and unprotected
3. Bug Investigator Agent checks:
   • Is there an existing bug report? ✅ INV-448
   • Is there a @bug:INV-448 scenario? ❌ No
   • Is that test executed and passed? ❌ No
4. → Bug Resolver triggered
5. → Test Generator Agent instructed to generate scenario
6. → New test tagged and executed
7. → Validator confirms coverage

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📦 Output Files

File	Description
bug-to-trace.yaml	Bug ID → trace_id, role, scenario mapping
regression-gap.yaml	Bugs that have no linked test
flaky-failures.json	Failures needing bug vs. test correlation
bug-regression-summary.md	QA-readable report of bug coverage status
qa-prompt-from-bug.yaml	Prompt created from bug symptom for test generator

---

🔁 Example: regression-gap.yaml

bug_id: INV-448
trace_id: cancel-2025-0142
missing_test: true
expected_behavior: "Guest cancels locked invoice → returns 403"
current_coverage: none
recommendation: Generate test + assert forbidden

---

📊 Studio QA Bug Dashboard

Bug ID	Trace	Scenario	Test Exists	Executed	Result
INV-448	cancel-2025-0142	Guest cancels locked invoice	❌	—	—
PAY-221	refund-2025-0143	Retry refund → crash	✅	✅	❌ flaky

→ Actions: [Generate Test] [Link Test] [Approve Exception]

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🔁 Collaboration Summary

Target Agent	Reason
QA Engineer Agent	Receives reports on unprotected bugs
Test Generator Agent	Gets scenario request from qa-prompt-from-bug.yaml
Test Coverage Validator Agent	Receives updates when test is linked + executed
Bug Resolver Agent	Confirms if bug is resolved and protected in test layer

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✅ Summary

The Bug Investigator Agent ensures:

• 🔍 Every failure and bug report leads to an actionable test
• 🧪 Regression is not optional — it is enforced
• 📘 QA, Validator, and Generator agents all receive bug signal flows
• 🧠 Memory tracks which bugs are protected, which are vulnerable

This is how ConnectSoft prevents regressions from returning silently — by closing the bug-test gap intelligently.

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🎯 Load & Performance Enforcement

This section focuses on the Load & Performance Testing Agent, which ensures the generated SaaS systems are:

🔁 Scalable, 🧪 responsive under load, and ⚖️ resilient to throughput pressure, before they are released or chaos-tested.

It executes controlled load profiles and stress conditions against testable endpoints and flows — based on role, edition, and tenant configurations.

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🔁 Responsibilities of the Load & Performance Testing Agent

Area	Description
Throughput Simulation	Runs high-volume requests to assess system capacity
Latency Benchmarking	Measures per-request round-trip time (P50, P95, P99)
Concurrency Handling	Evaluates system response under parallel execution (e.g., 500 CFOs submitting forms)
Edition-Based Load Profiles	Validates that lite and enterprise editions behave within thresholds
Role-Specific Load	Ensures user role operations don’t cause contention (e.g., Guest canceling vs Admin bulk cancel)
Tenant Partitioning Simulation	Evaluates load across isolated tenants in multi-tenant setups
Pre-Chaos Readiness Check	Executes performance tests before chaos agents inject faults
Performance Baseline Storage	Records load test metrics for future comparison and drift analysis

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📘 Example Test Profile

trace_id: refund-2025-0143
scenario: Submit bulk refunds
edition: enterprise
role: Admin
load_profile:
  concurrent_users: 200
  duration: 5m
  ramp_up: 30s
  max_rps: 500
thresholds:
  avg_latency_ms: 400
  p95_latency_ms: 1000
  error_rate: < 1%

---

📦 Output Artifacts

File	Description
load-test-summary.yaml	Overall result, latency histogram, thresholds passed/failed
latency-traces.jsonl	Individual request/response latencies (tagged by role, edition, trace_id)
performance-baseline.yaml	Recorded snapshot for trace/edition/role
load-failure-alert.yaml	Studio/Validator trigger if performance budget exceeded
grafana-series.json	Exportable to dashboards for visualization (optional)

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📊 Metrics Captured

Metric	Purpose
avg_latency_ms	Mean roundtrip time per operation
p95_latency_ms	Latency threshold for most users
max_rps	Peak throughput (requests per second)
concurrent_failures	Failures under parallel load
success_rate	% of tests that passed at volume
retry_rate	% of operations retried under load
cpu_mem_io	System-level resource pressure (forwarded to observability agent)

---

📘 Example: load-test-summary.yaml

trace_id: refund-2025-0143
role: Admin
edition: enterprise
duration: 5m
results:
  avg_latency_ms: 472
  p95_latency_ms: 920
  success_rate: 99.2%
  error_rate: 0.8%
  passed: true

---

🤝 Collaborations

Agent	Interaction
🔁 Resiliency & Chaos Engineer Agent	Executes chaos only if performance test passes baseline
📊 Test Coverage Validator Agent	Uses latency results to augment test quality/risk scoring
👤 QA Engineer Agent	Receives reports, configures load parameters for critical traces
🧠 Memory Engine	Stores past load results for historical trend analysis
🧱 Infrastructure Agent	Coordinates resource provisioning for performance tests

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📊 Studio Integration

Studio displays:

• 📈 Per-trace performance score (Pass/Warning/Fail)
• 📉 Drift since last run
• 📎 Linked latency graph and alert summaries

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✅ Summary

The Load & Performance Testing Agent ensures that:

• 🔁 All core business flows operate under pressure
• ⚙️ All editions and roles meet latency and throughput thresholds
• 📊 Test performance is tracked across time and tenants
• ✅ Systems are ready for chaos, production load, and scale

Quality isn’t just correctness — it’s capacity and responsiveness. This agent enforces both.

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🎯 Chaos & Fault Injection

This section introduces the Resiliency & Chaos Engineer Agent, which ensures ConnectSoft’s generated SaaS services are:

💥 Resilient to failure, 🔁 able to recover gracefully, and 🧠 designed with fault tolerance in mind across roles, editions, and tenant partitions.

This agent injects faults and validates system behavior under stress, latency, retries, and resource exhaustion.

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💥 Core Responsibilities of the Chaos Agent

Area	Description
Fault Injection	Adds latency, timeouts, exceptions, dropped calls during test execution
Retry & Delay Testing	Validates retry logic, exponential backoff, circuit breakers
Edition-Aware Chaos Profiles	Different editions simulate different chaos resilience levels
Failover & Degradation Simulation	Tests if the system fails gracefully without total crash
Post-Failure Assertions	Ensures the system returns expected error codes and emits fallback telemetry
Stability Scoring	Records resiliency metrics, aggregates a “resilience score”
Pre-Release Chaos Runs	Executes chaos profiles before release gates are passed

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📘 Example Chaos Profile

trace_id: capture-2025-0143
role: Admin
edition: enterprise
chaos_profile:
  latency_injection_ms: [50, 250, 1000]
  fault_rate: 0.15
  simulate_timeout: true
  retry_policy: exponential_backoff
expected_behavior:
  fallback_enabled: true
  max_retry: 3
  acceptable_error_rate: 2%

---

🧪 Example Scenario (from .feature)

@role:Admin @chaos @retry @edition:enterprise
Scenario: Retry on transient failure during capture
  Given the capture service randomly returns a timeout
  And retry policy is exponential with 3 attempts
  When the user submits a capture request
  Then the system retries and returns success or logs fallback

---

📦 Key Outputs

Artifact	Description
chaos-test-results.yaml	Per-trace chaos execution summary
resiliency-score.json	Composite score across latency, retry, fallback correctness
fallback-assertions.json	List of fallback actions triggered and validated
chaos-matrix.json	Role × edition × chaos dimension coverage map
chaos-failure-alerts.yaml	Triggered if retries or fallbacks fail without recovery

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📊 Resiliency Score Components

Metric	Contribution
retry_success_rate	% of retried requests that succeeded
fallback_path_validated	Scenario fallback correctly triggered and asserted
latency_handling	Passed max-delay test within timeout window
error_code_compliance	Returned appropriate 5xx/4xx fallback
circuit breaker behavior	Tripped correctly on overload

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🧠 Example Output: resiliency-score.json

{
  "trace_id": "capture-2025-0143",
  "edition": "enterprise",
  "role": "Admin",
  "resiliency_score": 92,
  "metrics": {
    "retry_success_rate": 98,
    "fallback_triggered": true,
    "timeout_handled": true,
    "error_response_valid": true
  }
}

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🤝 Collaborations

Agent	Interaction
🧠 Test Generator Agent	Injects chaos-tagged scenarios into .feature files
⚙️ Test Automation Agent	Executes chaos experiments on test runners
📊 Test Coverage Validator Agent	Logs chaos coverage per trace
👤 QA Engineer Agent	Reviews fallback coverage and approves exceptions
🧱 Infrastructure Agent	May simulate real backend failures (e.g., DB throttle)

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📊 Studio Integration

QA traces show:

• 📎 Chaos tags and results
• 🔁 Retry audit
• 💥 Resiliency score per trace
• 🛡️ Stability warnings if test failed under chaos

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✅ Summary

The Resiliency & Chaos Engineer Agent ensures that ConnectSoft systems:

• 💥 Tolerate fault conditions without cascading failure
• 🔁 Recover via retries, backoff, or fallbacks
• 📊 Report trace-aware chaos coverage and scores
• ✅ Block releases that are not chaos-hardened

It’s not enough to pass tests — the system must survive the real world. This agent guarantees it.

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🎯 QA Prompt Lifecycle

This section explains the QA Prompt Lifecycle — how human QA intent is expressed as natural-language prompts, then transformed into:

🧠 Automatically generated tests, 🧪 executed scenarios, and ✅ validated results — all tracked and auditable in Studio.

Prompts bridge human QA reasoning and the autonomous agents that enforce it.

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🧩 Prompt Lifecycle Phases

Phase	Description	Triggered By
1️⃣ Authoring	QA writes a prompt like “What if Guest retries a failed refund?”	QA Engineer, PM, or Tester
2️⃣ Validation	QA Engineer Agent reviews and approves the prompt	Studio
3️⃣ Generation	Test Generator Agent converts prompt into .feature and test plan	Prompt
4️⃣ Execution	Test Automation Engineer Agent runs the generated test	CI or Studio
5️⃣ Validation	Test Coverage Validator Agent verifies prompt was fulfilled and passed	Execution summary
6️⃣ Studio Trace	Result is shown in Studio under the originating prompt	Studio Agent
7️⃣ Feedback	If failed, gap is re-logged and returned to backlog	Validator, QA Engineer Agent

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🧠 Prompt Metadata Example

prompt_id: qa-1051
trace_id: cancel-2025-0142
prompt_text: "What if Guest cancels an already approved invoice?"
status: generated
scenario_id: cancel_guest_approved
executed: true
result: passed
qa_reviewer: alice.qa@connectsoft.dev
source: Studio QA tab

---

📘 Generated Scenario from Prompt

@role:Guest @edition:lite @prompt:qa-1051
Scenario: Guest cancels approved invoice
  Given the invoice is in status "Approved"
  And the user is "Guest"
  When they cancel the invoice
  Then the system returns 403 Forbidden

---

📦 Prompt-Linked Files

File	Purpose
qa-prompts.yaml	Declared list of active prompts
prompt-to-scenario-map.json	Links each prompt to generated .feature or .cs
unfulfilled-prompts.yaml	Prompts not yet converted or executed
prompt-validation-report.md	QA review status for each prompt
qa-backlog.yaml	Rolling backlog of open/unexecuted prompt-driven coverage gaps

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📊 Prompt Status Tracking (in Studio)

Prompt	Scenario	Executed	Result	Action
Guest retries failed refund	refund_retry_guest	✅	✅	—
CFO submits duplicate refund	—	❌	—	[Generate]
Admin deletes after approval	admin_post_approval_delete	✅	❌	[Review Fail]

---

🔁 Feedback and Iteration

If prompt fails → Validator Agent:

• Tags test as flaky, failed, or partial
• Sends Studio notification
• Logs into unfulfilled-prompts.yaml
• May retrigger Generator Agent or alert QA for triage

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🧠 Benefits of Prompt-Driven QA

Benefit	Why It Matters
🔍 Clarity	QA engineers focus on business behavior, not test syntax
🧠 Context	Tests retain natural-language description in metadata
📎 Traceability	Tests stay tied to their originating prompt for audits and learning
🔁 Feedback Loops	Prompts can be retried, improved, or escalated via Studio
📊 Metrics	Prompt fulfillment % is a key quality KPI in the Factory

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✅ Summary

The QA Prompt Lifecycle enables:

• 👤 Humans to describe test intent in plain language
• 🧠 Agents to translate that into executable validations
• 🧪 Results to be validated, versioned, and visualized
• 🔁 Failed or partial prompts to be reprocessed automatically

This is how ConnectSoft turns QA intuition into executable, observable quality enforcement.

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🎯 Traceability & Metadata

This section explains how traceability and metadata form the backbone of the QA system in ConnectSoft AI Software Factory.

📎 Every test, prompt, bug, execution, and validation is anchored to a trace_id, role, edition, scenario, and prompt — ensuring complete auditability, reproducibility, and QA integrity.

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🧩 Core Metadata Model

Metadata Field	Description	Example
trace_id	Unique identifier for the use case / handler / service	cancel-2025-0142
role	The system role being tested	Guest
edition	The SaaS edition in scope	lite, pro, enterprise
scenario_id	Machine-readable identifier for a scenario	cancel_guest_approved
prompt_id	ID of the human-entered prompt (if applicable)	qa-1051
bug_id	Related bug or regression identifier	INV-448
test_type	Unit, integration, prompt-based, chaos, etc.	prompt, unit, regression
execution_id	UUID for test execution instance	exec-9281f
retry_attempt	Retry metadata for test flakiness tracking	2 of 3

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📘 Example: Trace-Linked Test Metadata

trace_id: cancel-2025-0142
role: Guest
edition: lite
scenario_id: cancel_guest_approved
prompt_id: qa-1051
test_type: prompt
execution_id: exec-88321
result: passed
latency_ms: 482
retry_attempted: false
validator_score: 1.0

---

📊 Metadata Sources and Flow

Source	Metadata Captured
Test Generator Agent	trace_id, prompt_id, scenario_id, edition, role
Test Automation Engineer Agent	execution_id, duration, retries
Test Coverage Validator Agent	coverage_score, risk level, gap matrix
Bug Investigator Agent	bug_id, regression protection trace
Studio	Prompt author, human override, QA annotations

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📦 QA Artifacts and Trace Metadata

Artifact	Metadata Embedded
.feature files	@trace_id, @role, @edition, @prompt, @bug
.cs unit tests	Scenario and test ID in naming conventions
YAML test results	trace_id, scenario, execution_id, prompt_id
Studio dashboards	All metadata used for filtering and drill-down
Regression logs	bug_id, regression score, execution timestamp

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🧠 Why It Matters

Capability	Enabled By Metadata
🔍 Coverage enforcement	Validator checks each role × edition cell
🔁 Retry tracking	Execution metadata shows flakiness trends
🧾 Prompt fulfillment	Prompt ID traces test generation → result
📎 Studio trace pages	Drill-down into edition-specific behavior
🛡 Regression audit	Bug-to-trace match ensures tests exist post-fix
📊 Metrics	Aggregated by trace_id, edition, prompt coverage %

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🧬 Metadata as Contracts

Every QA action — from prompt to execution — forms a contract:

• 🔖 Trace ID is the source of truth
• 📥 QA prompt or bug is the intent
• 🧪 Test scenario is the implementation
• 📤 Execution result is the proof
• 📊 Validator report is the assessment

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✅ Summary

The metadata model enables:

• 📎 Full traceability from idea to execution
• 🔍 Accurate gap detection, prompt coverage, and regression assurance
• 🧠 Machine-readable linking across Studio, agents, and pipelines

Traceability isn’t optional — it’s the source of QA truth in the agentic software factory.

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🎯 Multidimensional Test Matrix

This section introduces the concept of the Multidimensional Test Matrix — the foundational structure that defines what must be tested in the ConnectSoft AI Software Factory.

📐 The matrix maps every trace_id across all relevant roles × editions × scenarios × test types, and enables agents to calculate coverage, detect gaps, and prioritize test generation or execution.

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🧩 Core Dimensions

Dimension	Description	Example Values
trace_id	The use case or handler under test	cancel-2025-0142
role	RBAC roles with access (or denial paths)	Guest, CFO, Admin
edition	SaaS edition or feature-flagged variant	lite, pro, enterprise
scenario_type	Behavior pattern to test	happy, failure, access_denied, retry, chaos
test_type	Test artifact type	unit, integration, prompt, regression, load
prompt_id	Linked QA prompt driving test	qa-1051
bug_id	Bug trace requiring regression coverage	INV-448

---

🧮 Example: 3D Matrix Slice for cancel-2025-0142

Role × Edition	happy	failure	access_denied
Guest × lite	✅	❌	❌
CFO × enterprise	✅	✅	N/A
Admin × pro	✅	⚠️ flaky	✅

→ Validator detects missing scenarios, triggers Generator/Automation loops.

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🧠 Who Uses the Matrix?

Agent	Use
🧠 Test Generator Agent	Ensures scenarios exist for each required combination
⚙️ Test Automation Engineer Agent	Executes across all matrix entries
📊 Test Coverage Validator Agent	Calculates matrix coverage, detects gaps
👤 QA Engineer Agent	Reviews completeness, approves gaps or exceptions
🐞 Bug Investigator Agent	Validates that bugs are linked to matrix entries
💥 Chaos Engineer Agent	Tags rows in the matrix for chaos resilience testing

---

📘 Matrix Coverage Output

trace_id: cancel-2025-0142
matrix:
  - role: Guest
    edition: lite
    scenario: access_denied
    status: missing
  - role: Admin
    edition: pro
    scenario: failure
    status: flaky
  - role: CFO
    edition: enterprise
    scenario: happy
    status: passed

---

📦 Stored Matrix Artifacts

File	Description
coverage-matrix.yaml	Complete role × edition × scenario matrix
coverage-summary.json	% matrix coverage per trace
gap-alerts.jsonl	Real-time stream of missing matrix cells
risk-matrix.json	Annotated with failure rates, retry status, and bug links
studio-heatmap.json	Data feed for UI dashboards showing matrix cells as colored tiles

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📊 Visual Representation (Studio Heatmap)

Role ↓ Edition →	lite	pro	enterprise
Guest	❌	✅	✅
Admin	✅	⚠️	✅
CFO	✅	✅	✅

✅ = Passed ⚠️ = Flaky ❌ = Missing

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🧠 Test Prioritization Using the Matrix

Agents can prioritize:

• 🔴 Uncovered cells (gap → Generator Agent)
• ⚠️ Flaky cells (retry → Automation Agent)
• ❗ Regression risk cells (prompt required → QA Engineer Agent)
• 🛡 Critical paths (e.g., Admin × enterprise × access_denied)

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✅ Summary

The Multidimensional Test Matrix enables:

• 📐 Exhaustive, trace-driven QA coverage
• 🧠 Agents to act precisely based on dimension gaps
• 🔁 Matrix-aware retries, generation, and validator flows
• 📊 Studio visual dashboards and merge/release gates

The matrix transforms testing from ad hoc to systematic, observable, and automatable.

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🎯 CI/CD Hooks & Pipelines

This section details how QA agents are embedded into the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring that:

✅ All code is tested, 🔍 validated, 📊 scored, and 🔁 repaired or blocked — before it can be merged or released.

ConnectSoft’s pipelines are agent-aware, and the QA cluster participates at every major stage of development automation.

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📦 Pipeline Hook Points

Stage	QA Agent Involved	QA Action
Pre-Commit	Test Generator Agent	Generates missing tests if trace metadata is modified
Pre-PR (Pull Request)	Test Automation + Validator Agents	Executes tests and calculates coverage score
Code Review	Code Reviewer Agent + Validator Agent	Validates test completeness, tags gaps/flakiness
Pre-Merge Gate	Test Coverage Validator Agent	Blocks merge if coverage < threshold or gap detected
Nightly Build	Test Automation Agent	Executes full matrix (role × edition × prompt)
Pre-Release Audit	Validator + QA Engineer Agent	Reviews drift, regression, prompt fulfillment
Post-Release (Optional)	Chaos Agent	Executes resilience test for production drift check

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🧩 CI/CD Agents Using QA Cluster Outputs

Artifact	Used By
trace-coverage-report.yaml	Merge validator, QA dashboards
qa-coverage-summary.md	PR reviewer, Tech Lead Agent
studio-coverage-feed.json	UI dashboards, release readiness screens
ci-coverage-gate.yaml	Merge decision logic
risk-prediction.yaml	QA gate, rollback trigger logic

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📘 PR Comment Example (Generated by Validator Agent)

🧪 QA Coverage Summary for `cancel-2025-0142`

- ✅ Role × Edition Coverage: 89%
- ❌ Guest in lite → scenario `access_denied` missing
- 🐞 Bug #INV-488 uncovered
- 🔁 Flaky retry on `Admin × pro × duplicate cancellation`

❗ Merge Blocked: Minimum required = 90%

Actions:
- [Trigger Generator Agent]
- [Rerun Failed Tests]
- [Approve Exception via QA Engineer]

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🔁 Retry and Auto-Regeneration Logic

When a test fails/flakes:

• Test Automation Agent retries (up to n)
• If still flaky, it is marked for quarantine
• Generator Agent may be retriggered (if scenario needs re-derivation)
• QA Engineer Agent may override with manual approval or prompt update

---

🧠 Pipeline Config Integration Example

qa:
  required_coverage_score: 90
  allow_manual_qa_override: true
  block_merge_on_unfulfilled_prompt: true
  execute_matrix:
    - trace_id: cancel-2025-0142
      roles: [Guest, CFO]
      editions: [lite, pro]
      scenarios: [happy, failure, access_denied]

---

📊 Studio Dashboard Syncs

Post-pipeline:

• Studio dashboards light up trace matrix heatmaps
• QA inbox receives flagged traces for approval
• Execution logs link directly to CI runs and retry history

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🤝 CI/CD Agent Collaboration Summary

Collaborator	Interaction
🧠 Generator Agent	Triggered when test gap exists pre-commit or post-PR
⚙️ Automation Agent	Executes on every build, triggered by CI
📊 Validator Agent	Final QA gate and merge blocker
👤 QA Engineer Agent	Can approve exceptions if coverage incomplete
🔁 Chaos/Load Agents	Nightly or pre-release hook-in for scale testing

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✅ Summary

The QA Cluster:

• 🧠 Is fully integrated into CI/CD
• 📊 Participates in scoring, coverage enforcement, retry, flakiness, prompt fulfillment
• 🔁 Automatically regenerates, retries, or blocks based on test status
• 🧾 Works with Studio and reviewer systems to keep humans in the loop

In ConnectSoft’s pipelines, nothing merges or ships unless QA agents say so.

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🎯 Studio Feedback Loop

This section explains how QA agents feed their insights back into Studio, the ConnectSoft AI Software Factory’s central user interface for:

📊 QA dashboards, 🔔 gap alerts, ✅ coverage approvals, and 🧠 trace-driven validation feedback.

Studio is the hub for human-in-the-loop QA supervision — and QA agents fuel it in real time.

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🧬 What QA Agents Send to Studio

Agent	Artifact → Studio	Purpose
📊 Test Coverage Validator Agent	studio-coverage-feed.json, qa-coverage-summary.md	Drives coverage heatmaps and QA dashboards
🧠 Test Generator Agent	prompt-to-scenario-map.json	Displays prompt test fulfillment
⚙️ Test Automation Agent	execution-summary.yaml	Updates test result trace rows
👤 QA Engineer Agent	qa-prompt.yaml, manual-approval-log.yaml	Shows review status and exceptions
🐞 Bug Investigator Agent	regression-gap.yaml	Flags bugs lacking test protection
💥 Chaos Agent	resiliency-score.json	Chaos coverage dashboard metrics

---

📘 Example: Trace View in Studio

Trace ID: cancel-2025-0142
Coverage: 87% (↓2.3%)
Risk: ⚠️ Elevated
Flaky Tests: Admin × pro × failure
Missing:
  - Guest × lite × access_denied
Prompt Fulfillment:
  - qa-1051 (✅)
  - qa-1052 (❌ unexecuted)
Bug Protection:
  - INV-448 (✅)

→ Actions:

• [Trigger Scenario Regeneration]
• [Approve QA Exception]
• [Mark Retry]

---

🧩 Visual Feedback Surfaces

Studio Component	Driven by
Trace Matrix Heatmap	studio-coverage-feed.json
Prompt Fulfillment Table	prompt-to-scenario-map.json
QA Inbox Alerts	gap-alert-events.jsonl, qa-backlog.yaml
Bug Regression Panel	regression-gap.yaml
Resiliency Dashboard	resiliency-score.json, chaos-test-results.yaml
Test Retry Log	retry-history.yaml, execution-summary.yaml

---

🧠 Real-Time Feedback Loop

sequenceDiagram
    participant Studio
    participant ValidatorAgent
    participant GeneratorAgent
    participant AutomationAgent
    participant QAEngineerAgent

    ValidatorAgent->>Studio: coverage + risk feed
    GeneratorAgent->>Studio: prompt fulfillment map
    AutomationAgent->>Studio: test execution logs
    QAEngineerAgent->>Studio: approvals, backlog

    Studio->>QAEngineerAgent: review alert
    QAEngineerAgent->>GeneratorAgent: prompt accepted
    Studio->>ValidatorAgent: prompt marked fulfilled

Hold "Alt" / "Option" to enable pan & zoom

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📊 QA Dashboard Elements

Element	Function
📦 Per-trace matrix heatmap	Visual grid of test status per role/edition
📋 Prompt backlog	QA prompts pending execution
🐞 Bug protection map	Shows regression test status
✅ Exception approvals	Manual QA override log
💥 Resiliency score feed	Resilience index per feature
🔁 Retry + flakiness tracker	Shows test retry count, unstable scenario alert

---

👤 Human-in-the-Loop Interaction

QA reviewers can:

• See trace coverage by edition, role, scenario
• View prompt status: [Generated], [Executed], [Failed], [Unfulfilled]
• Accept known gaps with justification
• Trigger test regeneration or execution
• Approve or block merges via QA UI

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✅ Summary

The Studio Feedback Loop makes QA:

• 🔎 Transparent (trace-by-trace QA status)
• 🔔 Reactive (gap alerts and retry insights)
• ✅ Governable (approvals, exceptions, prompt fulfillment)
• 🔁 Actionable (regeneration, retry, resolution)

Without Studio, QA lives in agents — with Studio, it becomes visible, traceable, and ownable by teams.

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🎯 Agent-Driven Regression Handling

This section describes how the QA cluster automatically detects regressions, validates fixes, and enforces test coverage for every bug, using an intelligent network of agents.

🐞 No bug fix is accepted unless it has a trace-linked, role-aware, and executed regression test. The QA system makes this process autonomous and self-correcting.

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🔁 Regression Handling Flow

Stage	Description	Agent Responsible
1️⃣ Failure occurs	Test fails, trace is captured	⚙️ Test Automation Agent
2️⃣ Bug is reported or linked	QA or system logs it	🐞 Bug Investigator Agent
3️⃣ Coverage check	Validator checks if test exists for the bug	📊 Test Coverage Validator Agent
4️⃣ Gap detected	No regression test or execution found	📊 Validator + 🐞 Bug Investigator
5️⃣ Scenario generated	New test generated and tagged with @bug:	🧠 Test Generator Agent
6️⃣ Execution validated	Test runs and is tracked post-fix	⚙️ Test Automation Agent
7️⃣ Studio updates	Bug marked as protected	Studio Feedback Loop

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📘 Example: Regression Lifecycle

Bug: INV-448 – Guest cancels approved invoice Trace: cancel-2025-0142 Role: Guest Edition: lite

Before fix:

• No test scenario for Guest
• Prompt exists but not executed
• Validator risk score: 88 (🔴 High)

After fix:

• 🧠 Test Generator emits .feature with @bug:INV-448
• ⚙️ Automation runs test → passes
• 📊 Validator confirms match
• Studio shows: “Regression Protected ✅”

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🧩 Metadata Attached to Regression Tests

trace_id: cancel-2025-0142
scenario: guest_cancels_approved
bug_id: INV-448
test_type: regression
status: passed
executed_on: 2025-05-18T09:00Z
retry_attempt: 0
prompt_linked: qa-1051

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🧠 Regression Enforcement Criteria

Rule	Enforced By
❗ Every closed bug must have a matching test	📊 Validator
✅ Test must assert expected fix behavior	⚙️ Automation
🧠 Test must be traceable via @bug: tag	🧠 Generator
🛑 If missing, release must be blocked	CI/CD Validator Hook
🧾 QA Engineer must review untested fixes	Studio QA Inbox

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📦 Key Regression Artifacts

File	Purpose
regression-gap.yaml	Lists bug IDs without test coverage
qa-prompt-from-bug.yaml	Bug auto-transformed into prompt
bug-regression-summary.md	QA-readable audit report
flaky-bug-matches.yaml	Failed scenarios potentially linked to bugs
bug-test-linkage.json	Links test executions to bug IDs and scenario IDs

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🧠 Triggered QA Agent Actions

Trigger	Agent	Outcome
❌ No test found	🧠 Generator Agent	Create .feature or .cs
❌ Test not executed	⚙️ Automation Agent	Rerun scheduled
❓ Prompt unfulfilled	👤 QA Engineer Agent	Triage/approve test
🧠 Memory incomplete	🐞 Bug Investigator Agent	Store test trace-to-bug mapping

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📊 Studio View: Regression Status

Bug ID	Trace	Test Exists	Executed	Result
INV-448	cancel-2025-0142	✅	✅	✅ Passed
REF-103	refund-2025-0143	❌	—	❌ Blocked
PAY-221	payment-2025-0141	✅	✅	⚠️ Flaky

→ Merge blocked if any "❌" exists on release path.

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✅ Summary

ConnectSoft QA agents ensure that:

• 🐞 Every bug becomes a testable, executable, and traceable scenario
• 🔁 The system identifies, remediates, and enforces missing regression tests
• 📊 QA dashboards reflect the status and health of every fixed defect
• 🔐 Nothing ships unless bug traces are regression-protected

In the Factory, regressions don’t return — because the agents don’t forget.

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🎯 Collaboration with Engineering & Review Agents

This section details how QA agents collaborate across boundaries with engineering and code governance agents to form a complete software development mesh.

🤝 QA is not isolated. It partners with Developers, Architects, Code Reviewers, Committers, and Tech Leads to ensure every change is traceable, testable, and validated.

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🧑‍💻 Key Collaborator Clusters

Collaborator	Interaction with QA Agents
🧱 Developer Agents	Produce trace IDs and port definitions that trigger test generation
🧠 Architect Agents	Define DTOs, business rules, and service contracts that inform QA metadata
🔍 Code Reviewer Agent	Enforces QA completeness on pull requests (e.g., test exists for new handler)
✅ Committer Agent	Blocks or allows merges based on QA coverage, risk, flakiness
📘 Tech Lead Agent	Reviews trace coverage drift, approves QA exceptions, and performs final gate validation

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📘 Example: Developer → QA Trigger

Backend Developer Agent emits:

trace_id: cancel-2025-0142
handler: CancelInvoiceHandler
roles_allowed: [Admin, Guest]
required_scenarios:
  - happy
  - failure
  - access_denied

→ Triggers:

• 🧠 Test Case Generator Agent → unit tests
• 🧠 Test Generator Agent → .feature file
• ⚙️ Test Automation Agent → executes
• 📊 Validator Agent → verifies
• Studio/PRs → updated with QA metrics

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🔍 Code Reviewer Agent: QA Awareness

On PR open:

• Validator Agent generates qa-coverage-summary.md
• Code Reviewer Agent checks:
  • Was coverage score ≥ threshold?
  • Did any trace_id get new code but no tests?
  • Are bug links present where needed?
  • Any known flakiness or prompt backlog?

✅ If passed → allows merge ❌ If failed → requests:

• [Generate Test]
• [Link Prompt]
• [Add Scenario for Role/Edition]

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🤖 Committer Agent: QA Gate Enforcer

QA Metric	Merge Behavior
Coverage ≥ 90%	✅ Allow
Bug uncovered	❌ Block
Prompt unexecuted	⚠️ Warn
Flaky scenario not quarantined	❌ Block
Risk score > threshold	⚠️ Tech Lead must approve

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🧑‍🏫 Tech Lead Agent & QA Governance

• Receives:

  • Coverage delta reports
  • Risk trends
  • Regression gaps
  • QA prompt fulfillment ratio

• Can:

  • Approve exceptions
  • Escalate testing before release
  • Trigger exploratory QA prompt expansion
  • Annotate traces with permanent QA context

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🤝 QA ↔ Engineering Sync Points

Event	Agents Involved
New handler created	Developer → Test Generator / Test Case Generator
New DTO contract added	Architect → QA Prompt Suggestions
Prompt created from review	Reviewer → QA Engineer Agent
Coverage drop detected	Validator → Committer / Tech Lead
Bug reopened after QA	Bug Investigator → Developer, QA Engineer

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📘 Feedback Flow Example

sequenceDiagram
    participant DeveloperAgent
    participant TestGenerator
    participant ReviewerAgent
    participant ValidatorAgent
    participant CommitterAgent

    DeveloperAgent->>TestGenerator: emits trace_id metadata
    TestGenerator->>ValidatorAgent: generates scenario
    ValidatorAgent->>ReviewerAgent: submits QA summary
    ReviewerAgent->>CommitterAgent: passes or blocks

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✅ Summary

The QA Cluster forms deep integrations with:

• 🧱 Developers (trace origin and coverage scope)
• 🔍 Code Reviewers (QA completeness, scenario audits)
• ✅ Committers (merge gates)
• 🧑‍🏫 Tech Leads (governance and final QA sign-off)
• 🧠 Architects (test input design via domain boundaries)

QA is not a final step — it’s a cross-cutting concern shared by all agents in the Factory.

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🎯 QA Memory & Learning

This section introduces the QA cluster’s long-term memory model, which enables:

🧠 Learning from past failures, unfulfilled prompts, flaky tests, regressions, and manual approvals — to continuously improve QA coverage, decision quality, and future generations.

Memory enables agents to remember what was missed, what was flaky, what was approved manually, and why.

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🧬 What QA Agents Remember

Memory Type	Description	Used By
unfulfilled_prompts.yaml	QA prompts that were never generated, executed, or passed	Validator, Generator, Studio
regression-history.yaml	Bugs and their associated regression tests and status	Bug Investigator, QA Engineer
flaky-tests.json	Test scenarios or configurations marked unstable	Automation Agent, Validator
manual-approvals.yaml	QA-approved gaps and their justification	Validator, Studio, Tech Lead
coverage-snapshots.json	Trace coverage over time (trend analysis)	Validator, QA dashboards
prompt-execution-history.jsonl	When/where prompts were run, passed, or failed	Generator, QA Engineer
test-rerun-history.jsonl	Retry attempts and pass/fail outcomes	Automation Agent, Flakiness Tracker

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📘 Memory Use Case Example

QA prompt qa-1051 was fulfilled in March but failed twice on retry. QA approved exception manually. One month later:

• Bug INV-448 reopens — same scenario
• Memory shows no regression test passed since
• Validator blocks release
• Generator auto-generates hardened retry test
• QA Engineer is notified

→ Memory protects the system from forgetting important decisions.

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🧠 Memory Flow Diagram

flowchart TD
    PROMPT[Unfulfilled Prompt Memory]
    RETRY[Flaky Test History]
    REG[Regression Test Map]
    VAL[Test Coverage Validator Agent]
    GEN[Test Generator Agent]
    AUTO[Test Automation Agent]
    QA[QA Engineer Agent]

    VAL --> PROMPT
    GEN --> PROMPT
    AUTO --> RETRY
    VAL --> REG
    QA --> REG
    QA --> MANUAL_APPROVALS

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📦 Key Memory Files

File	Format	Purpose
qa-backlog.yaml	YAML	All prompts, bugs, or traces not fulfilled
memory-index.json	JSON	Root pointer to all QA memory slices
flaky-scenario-list.yaml	YAML	Scenario paths unstable under load or chaos
gap-resolution-log.jsonl	JSONL	What fixed the gap (generation, manual, retry)
scenario-learning.yaml	YAML	Patterns in failure (e.g., always fails for Guest + retry)

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📊 Studio Memory Surfaces

• 🔁 Retry history on scenario hover
• 🧠 "Learned Flaky Scenario" icon
• ✅ Manual Approval badge with history and notes
• 📈 Prompt fulfillment timeline
• 🔖 Bug coverage history log

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🧠 Learning Patterns Tracked

Pattern	Action
“Scenario failed >3x under load”	Mark as flaky; skip in merge gate
“Prompt executed twice, both failed, but QA approved”	Require Tech Lead sign-off on future prompts
“Same bug reopened with no test present”	Trigger critical coverage alert
“Edition × Role combo always missing”	Suggest default template scenario

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✅ Summary

The QA Cluster uses memory to:

• 🧠 Learn from the past — and not repeat it
• 🔁 Track retries, flakiness, and failures
• 📊 Visualize history in Studio
• ✅ Enforce QA consistency across trace, edition, and release cycles
• 🧾 Justify decisions when exceptions are made

Without memory, QA is reactive. With memory, it becomes self-aware, predictive, and trustworthy.

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🎯 QA Metrics & KPIs

This section defines the quantitative metrics and quality indicators used by the QA Cluster to track:

📊 Coverage, ⚠️ risk, ❌ flakiness, 🧪 prompt fulfillment, and 🐞 regression protection — across all trace IDs, roles, editions, and agents.

These metrics ensure that QA progress is measurable, actionable, and auditable at every level of the software factory.

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📐 Key QA Metrics

Metric	Description
coverage_score	% of required role × edition × scenario combinations tested
prompt_fulfillment_ratio	% of QA prompts converted into successful test executions
regression_coverage_ratio	% of closed bugs with corresponding passing regression tests
flaky_test_rate	% of test executions that failed on first run but passed after retry
manual_qa_override_count	# of test coverage or prompt gaps approved manually
resiliency_score	Score based on chaos/failure handling coverage and outcomes
scenario_completeness	% of expected scenario types (happy, access_denied, retry) covered
edition_coverage_index	% of trace logic validated across all product tiers (lite, pro, enterprise)
trace_test_ratio	Avg. # of tests per trace ID (proxy for depth of validation)
qa_alert_backlog	Open issues in QA dashboard (e.g., prompt unfulfilled, bug uncovered)

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📊 Example KPI Snapshot (Per Release)

release_id: connectsoft-v2025.05
coverage_score: 91.3%
prompt_fulfillment_ratio: 96%
regression_coverage_ratio: 100%
flaky_test_rate: 3.8%
manual_qa_override_count: 7
edition_coverage_index:
  lite: 82%
  pro: 97%
  enterprise: 99%
resiliency_score: 87

→ Used in release gates, Studio reports, and internal QA dashboards.

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📘 Studio KPI Dashboard View

Metric	Value	Trend
Coverage Score	91.3%	↑ +1.7%
Prompt Fulfillment	96%	↑ Stable
Flaky Test Rate	3.8%	⚠️ High
Bugs Unprotected	0	✅ Cleared
Manual QA Overrides	7	↓ -2

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🧠 Agent-Specific Metrics

Agent	Unique KPIs
🧠 Test Generator Agent	Prompt fulfillment %, scenario generation latency
⚙️ Test Automation Agent	Flaky rate, retry success %, test throughput
📊 Validator Agent	Coverage % delta, gap resolution time
👤 QA Engineer Agent	Review backlog, manual override count
🐞 Bug Investigator Agent	Bug coverage %, regression test drift rate
💥 Chaos Agent	Chaos run pass %, fallback assertion rate, average retry delay

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🔁 Historical Comparison

• Agents persist KPI snapshots in memory
• Studio displays diff between release_n and release_n-1
• Tech Lead reviews trend before go-live
• AI agents can predict regression based on KPI movement (e.g., drop in edition coverage)

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✅ Summary

The QA Cluster produces KPIs that are:

• 🧠 Trace-aware
• 📈 Edition-aware
• 🧪 Prompt- and bug-sensitive
• 🔁 Retry- and flakiness-tracked
• 🔬 Actionable and visualized in Studio

Metrics are not for reporting alone — they guide regeneration, retries, and QA decisions across the agentic mesh.

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🎯 Human-In-The-Loop QA

Despite its autonomous nature, the QA Cluster is built to empower human QA teams, not replace them.

👤 Human-in-the-loop QA ensures that every exception, judgment, or override is explicit, traceable, and structured — while letting agents handle the execution burden.

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👩‍💼 Human Roles in QA Cluster

Human Role	Responsibilities
QA Engineer	Enters prompts, triages gaps, approves exceptions
QA Reviewer	Evaluates Studio dashboards, reviews risk and regressions
Tech Lead	Accepts risk overrides, reviews KPIs, and validates quality gates
Product Owner / PM	Adds behavioral prompts from business domain logic
Security Analyst	Reviews test coverage on secure/failure paths

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🧩 Human Intervention Surfaces

Situation	Human Action
❌ Test missing for prompt	QA Engineer accepts/rejects auto-generated test
❗ Gap remains after retries	QA Reviewer approves manual override
🧪 Unclear scenario intent	QA adds prompt for clarification
🐞 Bug uncovered again	QA triages regression history, triggers retest
📊 Coverage score < threshold	Tech Lead accepts or blocks release based on context
⚠️ Chaos/resilience test failed	Human determines whether fallback was acceptable or must be fixed

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📘 Example: Manual Approval Entry

trace_id: cancel-2025-0142
gap: Guest × lite × access_denied
reason: Deprecated flow for Guest in lite edition
approved_by: alice.qa@connectsoft.dev
approved_at: 2025-05-17T15:00Z
rationale: Legacy UI path; scenario disabled in product config

→ Validator Agent skips this scenario in future runs. Studio marks as “QA Exception ✅”.

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📊 Studio Human Actions

Panel	Action
QA Inbox	[Review Missing Scenario], [Accept Risk], [Send to Generator]
Prompt Tracker	[Approve Test], [Regenerate Prompt], [Edit Prompt Intent]
Bug Coverage Map	[Mark Fixed], [Link Test], [Escalate]
Release Gate Summary	[Approve Exception], [Request Re-Execution]

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🤝 QA Agent Trust Boundaries

Decision	Allowed by Human?
Approve test with failing assertion	❌ No
Approve unfulfilled prompt for release	✅ Yes (requires rationale)
Suppress known flakiness from CI gate	✅ With tag and reviewer approval
Skip regression enforcement	✅ With manual justification and annotation
Override chaos score < threshold	✅ Tech Lead must acknowledge

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🧠 Agentic Support for Human Decisions

• Studio records reviewer identity and timestamp
• Agents log manual-qa-override.yaml events
• Memory retains rationale for audit and traceability
• Coverage reports highlight manual decisions vs automated ones
• QA metrics track override count per release for continuous improvement

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✅ Summary

The QA Cluster is built for:

• 🧠 Automation of tests, execution, and validation
• 👤 Augmentation of human QA insight
• 🔍 Transparent, auditable decisions
• 🧾 Documentation of judgment calls

Humans are not removed — they are elevated to focus on risk, design, and oversight while the agents do the heavy lifting.

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🎯 Conclusion & Future Roadmap

This final section summarizes the QA Cluster’s purpose, position, and accomplishments — and sets the direction for future enhancements, aligned with the ConnectSoft AI Software Factory’s long-term vision.

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✅ What We’ve Built

The QA Cluster is a complete, agentic system that:

Capability	Achieved By
🔁 Trace-to-Test Validation	Generator + Automation + Validator Agents
🧪 Prompt-to-Test Fulfillment	QA Engineer + Generator + Studio
🐞 Regression Enforcement	Bug Investigator + Validator
🔍 Role × Edition Matrix Coverage	Validator + Test Automation
📊 Studio Visualization	All QA agents feed Studio dashboards
💥 Resiliency & Chaos Testing	Load and Chaos Engineer Agents
📥 Human-In-The-Loop Triage	QA Engineer and Reviewer support with auditability
🧠 Memory-Based QA	Long-term knowledge of prompt history, flakiness, exceptions

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🧭 Strategic Role in the Factory

The QA Cluster is not a post-processing unit — it is a first-class system:

• Starts at trace generation
• Validates across all dimensions (role, edition, scenario)
• Closes the loop on prompts, bugs, and retries
• Powers merge gates, release checks, and Studio alerts
• Creates a permanently auditable quality fabric

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📊 QA Maturity Achieved

Domain	Maturity
Unit Test Automation	✅ Fully agent-driven
Scenario-Based QA	✅ Prompt-to-execution flow
Coverage Validation	✅ Dimension-aware with matrix scoring
CI/CD Integration	✅ Gates, retries, and risk-based blocking
Regression Testing	✅ Bug trace-to-test enforced
Observability Integration	✅ Spans, retries, failures all traceable
Human-In-The-Loop	✅ Studio-driven override workflows

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🔮 Future Roadmap

Enhancement	Description
AI-Guided Prompt Expansion	Automatically generate QA prompts for uncovered behavior clusters
Tenant-Specific QA Profiles	Extend role/edition to include tenant-level coverage maps
Adaptive Risk-Based Execution	Prioritize test execution based on usage frequency and past flakiness
QA Canvas Design Interface	Visual design of QA test plans using blocks and agents
Conversational QA Assistants	Chat-driven generation and triage of QA artifacts via assistants
Dynamic Prompt Clustering	Group related prompts for generalized test generation
Memory-Backed QA Suggestions	Proactive prompt suggestions based on past gaps and risk areas

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🧾 Final Summary

The ConnectSoft QA Cluster is:

• 📦 Modular
• 🧠 Intelligent
• 🔁 Self-healing
• 👤 Reviewable
• 📊 Measurable
• 🔐 Release-critical

It transforms QA from a function to a fully autonomous software factory system, always learning, validating, and communicating across agents and humans.

Quality is no longer an afterthought — it’s an always-on, intelligent contract with the system.