Review: Docs: testing strategy (r2)

review-1673-2026-07-01-r2 Review

review approved

Verdict: APPROVED

Re-review of board item #1673. Previous review (review-1673-2026-07-01) returned NEEDS_REFINEMENT for two issues, both now resolved.

Template Completeness

  • [x] Type — Feature
  • [x] Lineage — Standalone, discovered during docs robustness audit
  • [x] Repo — ldraney/westside-basketball
  • [x] User Story — present
  • [x] Context — present
  • [x] File Targets — present (1 create, 2 reference)
  • [x] Feature Flag — none (correct for docs-only)
  • [x] Acceptance Criteria — 6 items
  • [x] Test Expectations — no automated tests, documentation only
  • [x] Constraints — present
  • [x] Checklist — present (omits "Tests pass" appropriately given no-test expectation)
  • [x] Related — present

Traceability

  • [x] story:WS-S1 label — present on board item. WS-S1 ("deploy platform changes via IaC") is not a perfect match for developer testing docs, but accepted as the closest existing story. No dedicated developer-docs story exists. Acceptable per re-review guidance.
  • [x] story note verified — WS-S1 found in project-westside-basketball user-stories section under Superadmin (Lucas)
  • [x] arch:docs label — present on board item
  • [x] arch note verified — arch-docs note exists in pal-e-docs (created 2026-07-01, associated with westside-basketball project). Covers docs/ directory scope, lists current docs inventory.
  • [x] Forgejo issue — #138, open

Previous Review Issues — Resolution

  • [x] story:WS-S1 mismatch — accepted. WS-S1 is the closest existing story (platform IaC/reproducibility). No dedicated developer-docs story exists. This affects all 6 sibling docs tickets (#136-#141) and is acceptable for now.
  • [x] arch-docs note missing — resolved. arch-docs note now exists with title "Architecture: Documentation", scoped to docs/ directory content.

File Targets

  • [x] docs/testing-strategy.md — verified: file does NOT exist yet (correct, this is a create target). Parent docs/ directory exists with 7 existing docs.
  • [x] test/ directory — verified: exists with 23 test files across controllers, helpers, lib, mailers, models, services, support, and test_helper.rb
  • [x] Gemfile — verified: exists, has group :development, :test with debug, bundler-audit, brakeman gems

Repo Placement

OK. Issue filed on ldraney/westside-basketball, issue body says ldraney/westside-basketball. Single repo, no cross-repo concerns.

Dependencies

Part of a docs batch (issues #136-#141), all in backlog. Sibling tickets:
  • #1671 — Docs: local dev setup guide (#136) — backlog
  • #1672 — Docs: CI/CD pipeline architecture (#137) — backlog
  • #1673 — Docs: testing strategy (#138) — THIS ITEM — backlog
  • #1674 — Docs: security posture (#139) — backlog
  • #1675 — Docs: observability and alerting (#140) — backlog
  • #1676 — Docs: deployment and infrastructure (#141) — backlog
No blocking dependencies. In-progress items (Phase 15 SPA Rebuild, Phase 11 Girls Tryout, Phase 14 Billing Tiers) do not block this ticket. All docs batch items are independent and can be worked in any order.

Acceptance Criteria

6 criteria, all verifiable by an agent:
  • [x] File existence check — trivial to verify
  • [x] Content coverage (philosophy, test types, fixtures, run commands, CI) — verifiable by searching doc content
Criteria are clear and testable. No missing criteria identified.

Blast Radius

Minimal. Creates one new markdown file. No code changes. No existing testing documentation found in the repo to conflict with. No downstream consumers affected.

Decomposition Assessment

No decomposition needed:
  • 1 file to create, 2 files to reference — single repo
  • 6 acceptance criteria (all about content in one file)
  • Estimated agent work: <5 minutes
  • Fits comfortably in a single agent pass

Recommendation

No action needed.