Regression prevention and quality gates
Problem
The Cloud Suite's collaboration and sharing features lack automated regression gates in the CI/CD pipeline. Changes to account management, project setup, workspace lifecycle, and sharing flows can ship without verifying that existing behavior still works. Without automated quality gates — integration tests, smoke tests on critical paths, and deploy-time checks — regressions will reach production and erode the reliability gains made during the stability program.
Context
- Manual review is not enough to protect hosted onboarding, collaboration, and account/project workspace UX once the change rate increases; regressions will keep shipping unless the highest-value checks become automatic.
- This task should identify what needs gating in CI or structured review and what evidence is sufficient to block a risky change before it reaches users.
- Expected touchpoints include
apps/cloud/, templates/browser flows, auth/account docs, and cloud tests, automated tests, eval/QA checks, and any release or review scripts that can enforce the new gates.
Possible Solutions
- A - Add only a few narrow tests around current bugs: easy to land, but it rarely protects the broader behavior contract.
- B - Recommended: define a regression-gate bundle around the core behavior contract: combine focused tests, snapshots/evals, and required review evidence for risky changes.
- C - Depend on manual smoke testing before each release: better than nothing, but too inconsistent to serve as a durable gate.
Plan
- Identify the highest-risk behavior contracts for hosted onboarding, collaboration, and account/project workspace UX and the types of changes that should be blocked when they regress.
- Choose the smallest practical set of automated checks and required review evidence that covers those contracts well enough to matter.
- Wire the new gates into the relevant test, review, or release surfaces and document when exceptions are allowed.
- Trial the gates on a few representative changes and tighten the signal-to-noise ratio before expanding the coverage further.
Implementation Progress
Review Feedback
- [ ] Review cleared