slp-modular-cms/aidlc-docs/features/slpsoftware-api/operations/production-readiness/production-readiness-validation.md

Production Readiness Validation — slpsoftware-api

Final Operations-phase gate. Validates the feature against its own Requirements Analysis artifacts (traceability, not re-litigation) plus what actually running in production requires beyond passing tests.

1. Functional Requirements Traceability

FR	Status	Evidence
FR-1 New Client Project Api.SlpSoftware	✅ Done	Unit 1, merged into feature/slpsoftware-api
FR-2 Module Composition (Identity/Availability/Master/Offerings)	✅ Done	Api.SlpSoftware.csproj project references
FR-3 Shared Hosting Pipeline Extraction (CmsHost)	✅ Done	SlpModularCms.Core.Hosting.CmsHost, used by both Api and Api.SlpSoftware
FR-4/FR-5 Offerings module + admin CRUD	✅ Done	Unit 2, SlpModularCms.Modules.Offerings
FR-6 Public GET /api/v1/offerings	✅ Done	OfferingsController.GetOfferings, [AllowAnonymous]
FR-7 Admin CRUD + reorder, AdminOnly	✅ Done	OfferingsController's remaining actions
FR-8 Reference content documented	✅ Done	requirements.md's reference-content table (3 packages); entering it into the running system is an explicit user-owned manual step (Scope Boundaries)
FR-9 CI/CD retarget (cutover)	✅ Done (repo side)	continuous_integration.yaml retargeted; host-side systemd edit still pending — see § 4

2. Non-Functional Requirements

NFR	Status	Evidence
NFR-1 No nginx changes	✅ Confirmed	D-6; verified at Deployment Setup — proxy forwards to a port, not an executable
NFR-2 Module test coverage	✅ Met	38 tests in Modules.Offerings.Tests covering entity/context, repository, service (all 4 business rules), controller (routes/auth)
NFR-3 Long-term reusability (no SlpSoftware-specific baking-in)	✅ Confirmed	Module named Offerings (D-9), no hardcoded tenant/site assumptions in entity/service/controller
NFR-4 Property-based testing not required	✅ N/A by design	D-12, example-based tests only throughout

3. User Story Coverage

All 12 user stories (US-01–US-12) implemented and covered by tests: US-01/02/03 (public list, featured highlight, empty-state resilience), US-04–US-07 (create/edit/delete, including last-remaining-offering deletion), US-08/US-09 (drag-and-drop and button-based reorder), US-10 (featured exclusivity), US-11 (validation feedback), US-12 (AdminOnly role gate).

4. Security Compliance — Final Status

All 15 rules from requirements.md's Security Compliance table are Addressed, Pre-existing/ unchanged, or N/A, with one item to formally close:

SECURITY-13 (Software and data integrity) — RESOLVED. Requirements Analysis logged this as an open item pending Functional/NFR Design. Resolution: Offering.LastModifiedByUserId + CreatedAt/UpdatedAt (NFR-OFF-03) provide a minimal "who + when" audit trail on every create/update/delete. Explicitly not a full before/after audit-log table — that remains a known, accepted scope boundary (documented in nfr-requirements.md), not a gap discovered late.

No other Security Compliance item changed status during Construction or Operations.

5. Build, Test, and Code Quality

• Backend: full solution build succeeded; 414/414 tests passing across 6 test projects, no regressions (verified at the feature-wide Build and Test stage, re-confirmed after two live-testing bug fixes during Unit 2's post-completion review — record-validation targeting and the drag overlay fix — neither of which touched test-covered logic paths differently than already tested).
• Frontend: pnpm build succeeded, pnpm lint clean, 254/254 tests passing across 41 files.
• Migration safety (rollback plan's D-26 requirement — forward-compatible, non-destructive): the InitialCreate migration for OfferingsDbContext is a single CREATE TABLE with no ALTER on any existing table — trivially satisfies this by construction. A rollback to a pre-Offerings release simply leaves the OfferingsOfferings table unused, never touched destructively.

6. Deployment Readiness

Repo-side: complete (Deployment Setup stage). Two items require action outside this repository before the cutover is live:

1. Host action (blocking for production traffic, not for CI): edit ~/.config/systemd/user/slpsoftware-test.service and slpsoftware-production.service on pi-main, changing ExecStart's target from SlpModularCms.Api.dll to SlpModularCms.Api.SlpSoftware.dll (exact steps: deployment-instructions.md § 1.6, restated in operations/deployment/deployment-instructions.md). Until this is done, a successful CI deploy uploads the new build correctly, but the running service keeps executing the old Api.dll from that release directory.
2. Content entry (not blocking, user's own task): the three reference offerings (FR-8's table) need to be entered through the new admin UI once live — no auto-seed exists by design (D-5).

7. Monitoring Readiness

Confirmed at the Monitoring Setup stage: no new Sentry alert rules, UptimeRobot monitors, or Umami entries needed. Existing tag-based/domain-based monitoring already covers the new rate-limit policy, the new AdminOnly endpoints, and the cutover itself (see operations/monitoring/monitoring-instructions.md).

8. Rollback Readiness

gitea-deployment-workflow's existing rollback-plan.md applies unchanged: fast rollback via the current symlink (no rebuild), rebuild-and-redeploy for anything older, database restore from the pre-deploy backup. None of its mechanisms are .dll-name-specific, so the D-15 cutover doesn't require a rollback-plan update, and a rollback of this feature's first production deploy would land back on the old Api.dll release exactly as any other rollback would.

9. Known, Accepted Limitations (Not Defects)

• No HTTP caching on the public endpoint (NFR-OFF-02, Q2=B) — deliberate, revisit if traffic ever makes it worth it.
• No full audit-log table for Offerings mutations (SECURITY-13's resolution scope, § 4 above).
• Sequential (non-transactional) single-row saves remain outside the three multi-row operations' transaction boundary — intentional per NFR Design Pattern 1's scope.
• SlpModularCms.Api's own pipeline regression tests (Api.Tests, NFR-CS-01) don't separately cover Api.SlpSoftware — accepted trade-off from Unit 1, unchanged by this feature.

10. Verdict

Ready for production, contingent on completing the one host-side action in § 6.1. All functional and non-functional requirements are implemented and traced; all tests pass; security compliance is fully addressed with its one open item formally resolved; monitoring and rollback require no changes. This is a documentation/traceability gate — it does not re-run any build or test already verified at the Build and Test stage.