Lifecycle Integration Test Plan
Coverage Goals
- Exercise end-to-end creation, update, and deletion flows for projects through both API endpoints and HTML form submissions to ensure consistency across interfaces.
- Validate scenario lifecycle interactions (create, update, archive) including business rule enforcement and status transitions when performed via API and UI routes.
- Confirm that redirect chains and rendered templates match expected destinations after each lifecycle operation.
- Verify repository-backed statistics (counts, recency metadata) update appropriately after lifecycle actions to maintain dashboard accuracy.
- Guard against regressions in unit-of-work transaction handling by asserting database state after success and failure paths within integration flows.
Happy-Path Journeys
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Project Management Flow
- Navigate to the project list UI and confirm empty-state messaging.
- Submit the new project form with valid data and verify redirect to the list page with the project present.
- Perform an API-based update to adjust project metadata and check the UI detail view reflects changes.
- Delete the project through the API and ensure the list UI reverts to the empty state.
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Scenario Lifecycle Flow
- From an existing project, create a new scenario via the API and verify the project detail page renders the scenario entry.
- Update the scenario through the UI form, ensuring redirect to the scenario detail view with updated fields.
- Trigger a validation rule (e.g., duplicate scenario name within a project) to confirm error messaging without data loss.
- Archive the scenario using the API and confirm status badges and scenario counts update across dashboard and project detail views.
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Dashboard Consistency Flow
- Seed multiple projects and scenarios through combined API/UI interactions.
- Visit the dashboard and ensure metric cards reflect the latest counts, active/draft status breakdowns, and recent activity timestamps after each mutation.
- Run the lifecycle flows sequentially to confirm cumulative effects propagate to dashboard summaries and navigation badges.