{
  "id": "test_validation_runner",
  "label": "Test & Validation Runner Canonical",
  "phase": "phase-09",
  "category": "delivery_layer",
  "status": "ACTIVE_DH_MIRROR",
  "purpose": "Run validation as evidence instead of accepting validation as claim.",
  "function": "Execute syntax, unit, integration, route, UI, migration and smoke checks with preserved outputs.",
  "technology_requirements": [
    {
      "technology": "Validation Runner",
      "required_for": "Run validation as evidence instead of accepting validation as claim.",
      "required_by_phase": "phase-09",
      "required_by_category": "test_validation_runner",
      "required_by_buckets": [
        "Prerequisites",
        "Installation",
        "Configuration",
        "Validation",
        "Observable Evidence",
        "Failure Modes & Recovery",
        "Completion & Promotion"
      ],
      "expected_version": "MISSING until Validation Runner is implemented and validated in the future Execution & Monitoring Panel",
      "validation_command": "MISSING until test_validation_runner can prove scope, evidence, execution state and promotion decision",
      "evidence_path": "/home/yeff/public_html/devon/canon/execution/state/dh_sources/test_validation_runner.json",
      "status_source": "Documentation Hub + future Execution & Monitoring Panel",
      "blocking_if_missing": true,
      "failure_impact": "Validation without execution evidence is just confidence with better formatting. This category forces every claimed PASS to carry command context, output and scope, so the future panel can reject optimism and accept only reproducible proof."
    }
  ],
  "depends_on": [
    "shell_execution",
    "terminal_output_panel",
    "observable_evidence"
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "production_deployment_gate",
    "code_quality_gate",
    "patch_outcome_tracker"
  ],
  "overview": {
    "summary": "Test & Validation Runner Canonical owns the proof layer for DEVON-DEV changes. It prevents PASS from becoming a word typed after a patch and turns validation into a reproducible execution artifact.",
    "function": "FUNCTION: Run validation commands with target scope, environment, command text, output, exit code, failure classification, timestamp and evidence path.",
    "system_position": "Shell Execution executes the checks. Terminal Output Panel preserves the results. Code Quality Gate consumes validation quality. Production Deployment Gate refuses promotion when this evidence is absent or incomplete.",
    "failure_impact": "Validation without execution evidence is just confidence with better formatting. This category forces every claimed PASS to carry command context, output and scope, so the future panel can reject optimism and accept only reproducible proof."
  },
  "failure_impact": "Validation without execution evidence is just confidence with better formatting. This category forces every claimed PASS to carry command context, output and scope, so the future panel can reject optimism and accept only reproducible proof."
}