07 — Quality and Verification

Run the 5-level verification pyramid (static→unit→E2E→AI visual→post-deploy) with WCAG 2.2 AA and 8-gate quality enforcement on every change.

5-level pyramid (bottom to top)

1. Static — TS strict + ESLint + oxlint + Prettier + knip (dead code)
2. Unit — Vitest 5 (browser mode default, static test discovery, Playwright-trace links)
3. Playwright E2E — homepage-first, 6 viewports × 3 browsers, hermetic, parallel
4. AI visual — vision rubric ≥9/10 per route, 6bp screenshots
5. Post-deploy — wrangler tail clean + console-error-free + axe-clean + Lighthouse green

8-check quality gate (every PR)

1. npm run typecheck clean (0 errors)
2. npm run lint clean (0 errors, 0 warnings)
3. npm test (Vitest) green
4. npm run e2e:prod green at 6 breakpoints
5. axe-core 0 violations per _kernel/standards.md#wcag22
6. Lighthouse Perf ≥90, A11y ≥95, BP ≥95, SEO ≥95 (authoritative: EMDASH_LIGHTHOUSE_MIN_* in ~/.claude env)
7. AI vision QA ≥9/10 per route (authoritative: EMDASH_AI_VISION_MIN)
8. Console / CSP / network errors = 0

Any fail = blocker. Fix-forward per rules/verification-loop.md.

Playwright Test Agents (agents since v1.56; v1.63 current)

• npx playwright init-agents --loop=claude once per repo
• Planner — Markdown plan; Generator — test code; Healer — auto-fix broken selectors (run before manual rewrite)
• browser.bind() for MCP interop; page.screencast for video receipts on flaky specs

Hermetic spec contract (per rules/e2e-testing.md)

1. Starts at homepage (/); navigates via clicks/keyboard
2. Seeds own data via _fixtures/; cleans own data after-each
3. Does not write to localStorage / IDB / cookies next spec reads
4. Does not depend on Date.now() / timezone / random
5. Does not open network to live third-party APIs (MSW / stub)

Violating any = build fail.

Parallel execution

• fullyParallel: true
• workers: process.env.CI ? '50%' : '75%'
• Sharded via --shard=$INDEX/$TOTAL
• 6 viewports per _kernel/standards.md#breakpoints; 3 browsers: Chromium, Firefox, WebKit

AI visual QA

• Random snapshot sampling 30% per step (seeded hash, reproducible)
• New-section AI vision: e2e/__seen-routes__.json gates first render of unknown routes
• Rubric: layout sane / contrast WCAG AA / brand / no slop / ≥9/10 (Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT Image 2 vision)
• Baselines in e2e/__snapshots__/; pixelmatch tolerance 0.1% / 0.5% area
• Per rules/e2e-testing.md

Visual regression

• Percy AI Visual Review — 3× faster review, 40% OCR-based noise filter, full-page + flows
• Chromatic — component-level via Storybook
• pixelmatch — local deterministic CI (three-tier: local → PR → deploy)

Multi-agent testing

Spawn parallel in single Agent call:

• functional-tester — happy path + edge cases
• security-reviewer — OWASP Top 10:2025 per _kernel/standards.md#owasp2025
• accessibility-auditor — axe 6bp + WCAG 2.2 manual review
• performance-profiler — Lighthouse CI + bundle audit + INP via LoAF
• visual-qa — AI vision rubric ≥9/10

Each: 100–300 word brief, ≤200 word summary back. Per rules/agent-selection.md.

INP debugging

• PerformanceObserver type long-animation-frame (LoAF, Chrome 123+)
• For SPA per-route CWV: web-vitals v4+ with softNavs:true
• Target ≤100ms cinematic; ≤200ms = fail per _kernel/standards.md#cwv

Console-error gate

After every deploy: browser console must show 0 CSP violations, 0 JS errors, 0 failed resources. Fixed by rules/verification-loop.md console-error gate.

E2E accumulation

• Tests NEVER deleted, only appended
• journey.spec.ts serial + stateful — each feature adds steps
• 100% feature coverage matrix in e2e/FEATURES.md
• Removed features: skip + comment, do not delete

Inventory enforcement

• e2e/FEATURES.md — row per feature
• e2e/COVERAGE.yml — feature→spec map; CI fails on any feature without entry/test
• Pre-commit lint: new component without matching e2e/<feature>/ warns

See submodules: ai-vision-qa.md, multi-agent-testing.md, visual-regression.md.