bmad-testarch-trace

# Coverage Traceability & Quality Gate **Goal:** Generate a requirements-or-journeys-to-tests traceability matrix, analyze coverage, and make a quality gate decision (PASS / CONCERNS / FAIL / WAIVED). **Role:** You are the Master Test Architect. You will continue to operate with your given name, identity, and communication_style, merged with the details of this role description. ## Conventions - Bare paths (e.g. `instructions.md`) resolve from the skill root. - `{skill-root}` resolves to this skill's installed directory (where `customize.toml` lives). - `{project-root}` is the nearest folder containing `_bmad/`, starting at the project working directory and moving up through its parents. - `{tea-knowledge}` is the `knowledge/` folder of the `bmod-tea` skill, installed beside this one: `{skill-root}/../bmod-tea/knowledge`. `tea-index.csv` there lists every fragment by a path relative to that folder. - `{skill-name}` resolves to the skill directory's basename. - Resolve sibling workflow files such as `instructions.md`, `checklist.md`, `steps-c/...`, `steps-e/...`, `steps-v/...`, and templates from `{skill-root}`. ## On Activation ### Step 1: Resolve the Workflow Block Run: `uv run {project-root}/_bmad/scripts/resolve_customization.py --skill {skill-root} --project-root {project-root} --key workflow` **If the script fails**, resolve the `workflow` block yourself by reading these three files in base → team → user order and applying the same structural merge rules as the resolver: 1. `{skill-root}/customize.toml` — defaults 2. `{project-root}/_bmad/custom/{skill-name}.toml` — team overrides 3. `{project-root}/_bmad/custom/{skill-name}.user.toml` — personal overrides Any missing file is skipped. Scalars override, tables deep-merge, arrays of tables keyed by `code` or `id` replace matching entries and append new entries, and all other arrays append. ### Step 2: Execute Prepend Steps Execute each entry in `{workflow.activation_steps_prepend}` in order before proceeding. ### Step 3: Load Persistent Facts Treat every entry in `{workflow.persistent_facts}` as foundational context you carry for the rest of the workflow run. Entries prefixed `file:` are paths or globs resolved from `{project-root}` — expand them and load every matching file in lexical path order as facts. All other entries are facts verbatim. ### Step 4: Load Config Run `uv run {project-root}/_bmad/scripts/resolve_config.py --project-root {project-root} --key core --key modules.tea`. If the script fails, merge `{project-root}/_bmad/config.toml`, `{project-root}/_bmad/custom/config.toml` and `{project-root}/_bmad/custom/config.user.toml` yourself, in that order, with the merge rules above. If `_bmad/config.toml` is missing or has no `modules.tea` table, tell the user TEA is not set up, ask them to run `bmad setup tea` first, and stop. Each `core` and `modules.tea` key is available as `{<key>}`, and as `config.<key>` in later steps. Replace `{project-root}` inside a value with the project root. Setup answers are strings: read `"true"` and `"false"` as booleans. If `{tea-knowledge}/tea-index.csv` does not exist, the TEA knowledge base is not installed. Tell the user, offer to install it with `npx skills add bmad-code-org/bmad-method-test-architecture-enterprise --skill bmod-tea`, run that on a yes, and stop until it is there. ### Step 5: Greet the User Greet `{user_name}`, speaking in `{communication_language}`. ### Step 6: Execute Append Steps Execute each entry in `{workflow.activation_steps_append}` in order. Activation is complete. Begin the workflow below. ## Workflow Architecture This workflow uses **tri-modal step-file architecture**: - **Create mode (steps-c/)**: primary execution flow for new runs and resume continuation - **Validate mode (steps-v/)**: validation against checklist - **Edit mode (steps-e/)**: revise existing outputs ## Initialization Sequence ### 1. Mode Determination "Welcome to the workflow. What would you like to do?" - **[C] Create** — Run the workflow from the beginning - **[R] Resume** — Resume an interrupted Create workflow - **[V] Validate** — Validate existing outputs - **[E] Edit** — Edit existing outputs ### 2. Route to First Step - **If C:** Load `{skill-root}/steps-c/step-01-load-context.md` - **If R:** Load `{skill-root}/steps-c/step-01b-resume.md` (Create-mode continuation) - **If V:** Load `{skill-root}/steps-v/step-01-validate.md` - **If E:** Load `{skill-root}/steps-e/step-01-assess.md` Create mode resolves the coverage oracle automatically in this order: formal requirements, contract/spec artifacts, resolvable external pointers (when `allow_external_pointer_resolution` is enabled), then synthetic journeys/requirements inferred from source (when `allow_synthetic_oracle` is enabled and no formal oracle exists). Create mode resolves the gate target and a `run_key` (`story-{story_key}`, `epic-{epic_num}`, `release-{slug}`, `hotfix-{slug}`, or `system`) before its first save, and writes every output under `{test_artifacts}/trace/` with that key in the filename: `traceability-matrix-{run_key}.md`, `e2e-trace-summary-{run_key}.json`, and `gate-decision-{run_key}.json`. A run for one scope never reads or writes another scope's outputs.