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# Alpha Go-Live Readiness PRD
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**Status**: Pre-Alpha → **E2E Testing Complete** 🎉
**Target**: Alpha launch with real users
**Last Updated**: 2025-11-16
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## 🎯 Major Progress Update
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**✅ ALL E2E TESTS COMPLETE!** (Completed 2025-11-16)
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All 6 critical E2E test suites have been implemented and are passing:
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- ✅ Full User Journey (signup → community → post → comment → vote)
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- ✅ Blob Upload (image uploads, PDS integration, validation)
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- ✅ Multi-Community Timeline (feed aggregation, sorting, pagination)
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- ✅ Concurrent Scenarios (race condition testing with database verification)
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- ✅ Rate Limiting (100 req/min general, 20 req/min comments, 10 posts/hour aggregators)
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- ✅ Error Recovery (Jetstream retry, PDS unavailability, malformed events)
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**Time Saved**: ~7-12 hours through parallel agent implementation
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**Test Quality**: Enhanced with comprehensive database record verification to catch race conditions
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### E2E Testing Recommendations
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#### 1. Full User Journey Test (CRITICAL) ✅ COMPLETE
**What**: Test complete user flow from signup to interaction
**Why**: No single test validates the entire happy path
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- [x] Create test: Signup → Authenticate → Create Community → Create Post → Add Comment → Vote
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- [x] Verify all data flows through Jetstream correctly
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- [x] Verify counts update (vote counts, comment counts, subscriber counts)
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- [x] Verify timeline feed shows posts from subscribed communities
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- [x] Test with 2+ users interacting (user A posts, user B comments)
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- [x] Real E2E with Docker infrastructure (PDS, Jetstream, PostgreSQL)
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- [x] Graceful fallback for CI/CD environments
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**Actual Time**: ~3 hours (agent-implemented)
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**Test Location**: `tests/integration/user_journey_e2e_test.go`
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#### 2. Blob Upload E2E Test ✅ COMPLETE
**What**: Test image upload and display in posts
**Why**: No test validates the full blob upload → post → feed display flow
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- [x] Create post with embedded image
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- [x] Verify blob uploaded to PDS
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- [x] Verify blob URL transformation in feed responses
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- [x] Test multiple images in single post
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- [x] Test image in comment
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- [x] PDS health check (skips gracefully if PDS unavailable)
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- [x] Mock server test (runs in all environments)
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- [x] Comprehensive validation tests (empty data, MIME types, size limits)
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- [x] Actual JPEG format testing (not just PNG with different MIME types)
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**Actual Time**: ~2-3 hours (agent-implemented)
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**Test Location**: `tests/integration/blob_upload_e2e_test.go`
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#### 3. Multi-Community Timeline Test ✅ COMPLETE
**What**: Test timeline feed with multiple community subscriptions
**Why**: Timeline logic may have edge cases with multiple sources
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- [x] Create 3+ communities
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- [x] Subscribe user to all communities
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- [x] Create posts in each community
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- [x] Verify timeline shows posts from all subscribed communities
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- [x] Verify hot/top/new sorting across communities
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- [x] Test pagination across multiple communities
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- [x] Verify security (unsubscribed communities excluded)
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- [x] Verify record schema compliance across communities
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**Actual Time**: ~2 hours
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**Test Location**: `/tests/integration/timeline_test.go::TestGetTimeline_MultiCommunity_E2E`
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#### 4. Concurrent User Scenarios ✅ COMPLETE
**What**: Test system behavior with simultaneous users
**Why**: Race conditions and locking issues only appear under concurrency
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- [x] Multiple users voting on same post simultaneously (20-25 concurrent)
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- [x] Multiple users commenting on same post simultaneously (25 concurrent)
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- [x] Community creation with same handle (should fail) - verified UNIQUE constraint
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- [x] Subscription race conditions (30 concurrent subscribers)
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- [x] **Enhanced with database record verification** (detects duplicates/lost records)
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- [x] Concurrent upvotes and downvotes (15 up + 10 down)
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- [x] Concurrent replies to same comment (15 concurrent)
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- [x] Concurrent subscribe/unsubscribe (20 users)
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**Actual Time**: ~3 hours (agent-implemented) + 1 hour (race condition verification added)
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**Test Location**: `tests/integration/concurrent_scenarios_test.go`
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**Finding**: NO RACE CONDITIONS DETECTED - all tests pass with full database verification
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#### 5. Rate Limiting Tests ✅ COMPLETE
**What**: Verify rate limits work correctly
**Why**: Protection against abuse
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- [x] Test aggregator rate limits (10 posts/hour) - existing test verified
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- [x] Test general endpoint rate limits (100 req/min)
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- [x] Test comment rate limits (20 req/min)
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- [x] Verify 429 responses
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- [x] Verify rate limit headers (documented as not implemented - acceptable for Alpha)
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- [x] Verify per-client isolation (IP-based rate limiting)
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- [x] Verify X-Forwarded-For and X-Real-IP header support
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- [x] Test rate limit reset behavior
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- [x] Test thread-safety with concurrent requests
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- [x] Test rate limiting across different HTTP methods
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**Actual Time**: ~2 hours (agent-implemented)
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**Test Location**: `tests/e2e/ratelimit_e2e_test.go`
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**Configuration Documented**: All rate limits documented in comments (removed fake summary "test")
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#### 6. Error Recovery Tests ✅ COMPLETE
**What**: Test system recovery from failures
**Why**: Production will have failures
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- [x] Jetstream connection retry on failure (renamed from "reconnection" for accuracy)
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- [x] PDS temporarily unavailable during post creation (AppView continues indexing)
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- [x] Database connection loss and recovery (connection pool auto-recovery)
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- [x] Malformed Jetstream events (gracefully skipped, no crashes)
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- [x] Out-of-order event handling (last-write-wins strategy)
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- [x] Events processed correctly after connection established
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**Actual Time**: ~2 hours (agent-implemented) + 30 min (test accuracy improvements)
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**Test Location**: `tests/e2e/error_recovery_test.go`
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- ✅ Automatic reconnection with 5s backoff
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- ✅ Circuit breaker pattern for external services
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- ✅ AppView can index without PDS availability
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- ⚠️ Note: Tests verify connection retry, not full reconnect-after-disconnect (requires mock WebSocket server)
#### 7. Federation Readiness (Optional)
**What**: Test cross-PDS interactions
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### Week 3: E2E Testing + Polish ✅ E2E TESTS COMPLETE
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- ~~**Days 11-12**: Critical E2E tests (user journey, blob upload)~~ ✅ **COMPLETED** (agent-implemented in ~6 hours)
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- ~~**Day 13**: Additional E2E tests~~ ✅ **COMPLETED** (concurrent, rate limiting, error recovery in ~7 hours)
- **Days 14-15**: Load testing, bug fixes, polish
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**Total**: ~~20-25 hours~~ → **13 hours actual** (E2E tests) + 7-12 hours remaining (load testing, polish)
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**Grand Total: ~~65-80 hours~~ → 50-65 hours remaining (approximately 1.5-2 weeks full-time)**
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*(Originally 70-85 hours. Reduced by completed items: handle resolution, comment count reconciliation, and ALL E2E tests)*
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**✅ Progress Update**: E2E testing section COMPLETE ahead of schedule - saved ~7-12 hours through parallel agent implementation
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- [ ] DPoP architecture fix implemented
- [ ] did:web verification complete
- [ ] Subscriptions/blocking work via client-write pattern
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- [x] **All integration tests passing** ✅
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- [x] **E2E user journey test passing** ✅
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- [x] **E2E blob upload tests passing** ✅
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- [x] **E2E concurrent scenarios tests passing** ✅
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- [x] **E2E rate limiting tests passing** ✅
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- [x] **E2E error recovery tests passing** ✅
- [ ] Load testing shows acceptable performance (100+ concurrent users)
- [ ] Monitoring and alerting active
- [ ] Database backups configured and tested
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2. ✅ Validate handle resolution (COMPLETE)
3. ✅ Validate comment count reconciliation (COMPLETE)
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4. ✅ **Write critical E2E tests** (COMPLETE - all 6 test suites implemented)
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5. [ ] Review and prioritize with team
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6. [ ] Test JWT verification with `pds.bretton.dev` (requires invite code or existing account)
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7. [ ] Begin P0 blockers (DPoP fix first - highest user impact)
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8. [ ] Set up monitoring infrastructure
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9. [ ] Conduct load testing (infrastructure ready, tests written, needs execution)
11. [ ] Go/no-go decision
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**🎉 Major Milestone**: All E2E tests complete! Test coverage now includes full user journey, blob uploads, concurrent operations, rate limiting, and error recovery.
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