Summary

• Routine Change

Each of the PRs comprising this staging branch into master have been reviewed and merged. (There are a few misc direct commits but they are all small save for the initial commit from Krupa that copied across the code from the automation testing repository.)

They key changes are as follows:

• Linting updates to bring the new code into line
• Project standardisation i.e. use poetry, dependabot, standard Python packaging procedures
• Added retry behaviour to reduce test flakiness e.g. 502 errors when initially ramping up in the absence of nice controls like you get in other frameworks such as Playwright
• Replicated status and ping endpoint tests that existed in the old testing suite
• Added on-demand Apigee apps which allow us to test in PR environments, and make the whole process smoother
• Updated the pipeline action so that all relevant pipelines now execute the new tests and deleted all the old content.

Reviews Required

• Dev
• Test

Review Checklist

ℹ️ This section is to be filled in by the reviewer.

• I have reviewed the changes in this PR and they fill all of the acceptance criteria of the ticket.
• If there were infrastructure, operational, or build changes, I have made sure there is sufficient evidence that the changes will work.
• If there were changes that are outside of the regular release processes e.g. account infrastructure to setup, manual setup for external API integrations, secrets to set, then I have checked that the developer has flagged this to the Tech Lead as release steps.
• I have checked that no Personal Identifiable Data (PID) is logged as part of the changes.