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+# Test Evidence: Production delivery baseline
+
+- **Test type:** Integration
+- **Requirement IDs:** `OPS-005`–`OPS-013`, `OPS-017`, `TST-001`, `TST-005`, `TST-009`
+- **Scenario IDs:** `AC-OPS-002`, `AC-OPS-003`, `AC-OPS-004`
+- **Test class/method:** `com.lab.labtimesheet.feature.account.service.BootstrapIntegrationTest.rootGuidesFreshInstallToBootstrapWhileOtherRoutesRemainHidden`, `src/test/js/delivery-contract.test.mjs`
+- **Implementation commit:** `cea4378f5699de4919c283b12371941d6742ca4b`
+
+## Protected behavior
+
+The production image runs as a non-root Java 25 process, exposes health probes, and accepts the same environment-backed datasource configuration with either the optional PostgreSQL 18.4 Compose sidecar or an external database. Gitea verifies every pull request and push, publishes immutable SHA plus `main` image tags only from `main`, and skips native ARM64 work unless the matching runner is explicitly available.
+
+## Test method
+
+The existing PostgreSQL-backed bootstrap integration test requests the liveness and readiness endpoints before initialization. A dependency-free Node contract checks the deployment files for the required runtime, Compose, trigger, permission, publication, and optional-runner boundaries. Docker and Compose validation then exercise the real build and both database topologies.
+
+## Hand-derived expected result
+
+An absent ARM runner must skip the ARM job without blocking AMD64 publication. Enabling the runner creates an ARM64 architecture tag and a combined manifest, while the canonical SHA and `main` tags remain valid AMD64 images when ARM is disabled. Compose must preserve PostgreSQL data in a named volume and must not require the bundled database when an external JDBC URL is supplied.
+
+## RED
+
+**Command**
+
+```text
+env PATH=/opt/homebrew/opt/node@24/bin:/usr/bin:/bin node --test src/test/js/delivery-contract.test.mjs
+
+env JAVA_HOME=/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk@25 \
+  PATH=/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk@25/bin:/opt/homebrew/bin:/usr/bin:/bin \
+  DOCKER_HOST=unix:///Users/sechmachine/.orbstack/run/docker.sock \
+  ./mvnw '-Dtest=BootstrapIntegrationTest#rootGuidesFreshInstallToBootstrapWhileOtherRoutesRemainHidden' test
+```
+
+**Observed result**
+
+```text
+The delivery contract ran 3 tests and failed all 3 because Dockerfile,
+.gitea/workflows/verify.yml, and .gitea/workflows/container.yml did not exist.
+
+The PostgreSQL-backed bootstrap test ran 1 test and failed because
+/actuator/health/liveness returned 404 instead of 200.
+```
+
+## GREEN
+
+**Command**
+
+```text
+env PATH=/opt/homebrew/opt/node@24/bin:/usr/bin:/bin node --test src/test/js/delivery-contract.test.mjs
+
+env JAVA_HOME=/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk@25 \
+  PATH=/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk@25/bin:/opt/homebrew/bin:/usr/bin:/bin \
+  DOCKER_HOST=unix:///Users/sechmachine/.orbstack/run/docker.sock \
+  ./mvnw '-Dtest=BootstrapIntegrationTest#rootGuidesFreshInstallToBootstrapWhileOtherRoutesRemainHidden' test
+```
+
+**Observed result**
+
+```text
+Delivery contract: 3 tests, 3 passed.
+Bootstrap health regression: 1 test, 1 passed against PostgreSQL 18.4.
+```
+
+## Affected suite
+
+**Command and result**
+
+```text
+npm ci
+npm run test:ui
+npm run build
+git diff --exit-code -- src/main/resources/static/assets/app.css src/main/resources/static/assets/icons.svg
+
+env JAVA_HOME=/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk@25 \
+  PATH=/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk@25/bin:/opt/homebrew/bin:/usr/bin:/bin \
+  DOCKER_HOST=unix:///Users/sechmachine/.orbstack/run/docker.sock \
+  ./mvnw test
+
+env JAVA_HOME=/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk@25 \
+  PATH=/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk@25/bin:/opt/homebrew/bin:/usr/bin:/bin \
+  ./mvnw -DskipTests -Ddoclint=all javadoc:javadoc
+
+docker build --check .
+docker build --platform linux/amd64 --build-arg VCS_REF=validation -t labtimesheet:ci-amd64 .
+docker build --platform linux/arm64 --build-arg VCS_REF=validation -t labtimesheet:ci-arm64 .
+docker compose --env-file .env.compose.example config
+docker compose --env-file .env.compose.example --profile bundled-db config
+
+Frontend tests: 4 passed; generated assets remained byte-clean.
+Maven: 217 tests across 49 suites, 0 failures, 0 errors, 0 skipped.
+Javadoc: BUILD SUCCESS; 83 pre-existing repository-wide warnings.
+Dockerfile check: passed without warnings. Both Linux architecture images built
+and reported the requested platform, UID/GID 10001, and readiness HEALTHCHECK.
+Both Compose configurations parsed successfully.
+
+Real smoke tests used the AMD64 image with disposable resources. Bundled mode
+started PostgreSQL 18.4 with the named volume and returned UP from liveness and
+readiness on 127.0.0.1:28080. External mode used a separately started
+PostgreSQL 18.4 service and returned UP from readiness on 127.0.0.1:28081.
+All disposable containers, networks, and the bundled test volume were removed.
+
+git diff --check: passed.
+```
+
+## External-test boundaries
+
+Local validation cannot prove that the private Gitea registry credentials are configured or that an `ubuntu-latest-arm` runner is online. Repository variable `ARM64_RUNNER_AVAILABLE` is the scheduler-safe availability signal because an unavailable runner label cannot be discovered from inside a job that has not yet been scheduled.