🧪 NovaEco QA

This repository is the central integration testing "auditor" for the NovaEco.

Its purpose is not to run unit tests (which live inside each enabler/sector repo). Its sole purpose is to test the final artifacts to ensure they are deployable before they are marked as "Stable".

This repo acts as the "gate" that promotes "Pre-release" artifacts to "Stable."

🎯 What We Test

Currently, we run a Universal Smoke Test on every release candidate:

1. Download: Fetches the exact .tar.gz artifact from the source repo.
2. Build: Wraps it in a standard Docker container (using Dockerfile.template).
3. Run: Starts the service in isolation.
4. Verify: Checks the /health endpoint (or root / for websites).

Future Roadmap: We will expand this to run "User Journeys" (Inter-sector tests) like the "Coffee Shop" scenario where NovaHub talks to NovaFin.

⚙️ How It Works: The QA Workflow

1. A repository (e.g., ecosystem-core) publishes a v1.2.1 pre-release.
2. Its workflow sends a Signal (repository_dispatch) to this repo with the repo, tag, and artifact_name.
3. The qa-run.yml workflow starts automatically.
4. It downloads the specific artifact.
5. It builds a temporary test container using ghcr.io/novaeco-tech/dev-python (or Node).
6. It performs a curl health check.
7. If successful: It calls the GitHub API to Promote the release (removes prerelease: true), marking it ready for production.