# Specification Quality Checklist: Resolve Test Suite Warnings

**Purpose**: Validate specification completeness before proceeding to planning
**Created**: 2026-03-26
**Feature**: [spec.md](../spec.md)
**Source Issue**: #958

## Content Quality

- [ ] CHK001 All 3 User Stories express value to the developer or CI maintainer
  (e.g., "trust test output", "enforce zero-warning policy") rather than
  describing warning-suppression mechanics or pytest configuration steps
- [ ] CHK002 All 3 User Stories follow the "As a [role], I want [goal], so that
  [benefit]" format without embedding resolved-ambiguity decisions (such as
  `sys.version_info >= (3, 12)` or `filter="data"`) in the story text
- [ ] CHK003 Each of the 6 Functional Requirements carries an explicit priority
  (e.g., MoSCoW or High/Medium/Low) that distinguishes must-fix warnings (tar
  `DeprecationWarning`, autopilot `UserWarning`, Python 3.12 `filter` kwarg)
  from optional third-party exemptions
- [ ] CHK004 The 6 Functional Requirements avoid prescribing code-level
  solutions — specific constructs such as
  `pytest.warns(UserWarning, match="--autopilot is not supported")` and
  `sys.version_info >= (3, 12)` appear only in the Clarifications or
  Implementation Notes sections

## Requirement Completeness

- [ ] CHK005 Each of the 6 Functional Requirements can be verified by an
  automated check — in particular, the global `filterwarnings = error` policy
  and the CI hard-failure (non-zero pytest exit) requirement are stated in
  objectively testable terms
- [ ] CHK006 The 5 Edge Cases cover all identified warning categories: tests
  that intentionally assert on the autopilot `UserWarning`, Python version
  differences between 3.10/3.11 and 3.12 for the tar `filter` kwarg,
  unavoidable third-party warnings requiring `ignore` entries, and
  test-isolation side effects of a global `"error"` filter
- [ ] CHK007 Each User Story includes Given/When/Then (or equivalent)
  acceptance scenarios that describe observable outcomes (e.g., pytest exit
  code, warning count in output) without referencing implementation constructs
  like `filterwarnings` directives
- [ ] CHK008 The 6 Success Criteria include specific, quantifiable targets —
  for example an exact warning count of zero for addressable warnings, a
  required pytest exit code, and an explicit threshold for the number of
  permitted `ignore` exemptions in the Known Third-Party Warning Exemptions
  table
- [ ] CHK009 The Out of Scope section explicitly excludes: fixing warnings in
  non-test production code, upgrading third-party libraries to eliminate their
  warnings, and modifying test logic for reasons unrelated to warning
  suppression
- [ ] CHK010 The spec documents key assumptions — including the minimum
  supported Python version (3.10+), the rationale for the
  `sys.version_info >= (3, 12)` version guard, and the fact that the Known
  Third-Party Warning Exemptions table currently contains only
  `urllib3.exceptions.InsecureRequestWarning` and may be expanded during implementation

## Feature Readiness

- [ ] CHK011 All 6 Functional Requirements have corresponding acceptance
  criteria — particularly the requirement for global `filterwarnings = error`
  scope and the requirement that intentional autopilot `UserWarning` tests use
  `pytest.warns` rather than passive assertion
- [ ] CHK012 The 3 User Stories collectively cover the three primary scenarios:
  a developer running tests locally and seeing a clean run, a CI pipeline
  enforcing hard failure on any unhandled warning, and a test author adding new
  tests that inadvertently trigger warnings
- [ ] CHK013 The 6 Success Criteria reference measurable outcomes tied to the
  specific warnings named in the spec — the tar `DeprecationWarning`, the
  autopilot `UserWarning`, and the Python 3.12 `filter` kwarg warning — rather
  than stating only generic "no warnings" goals
- [ ] CHK014 The resolved ambiguities (tar `filter="data"`,
  `sys.version_info >= (3, 12)` guard, `autopilot=False` /
  `_get_copilot_binary` mock strategy, `filterwarnings` global scope,
  CI hard-failure mode) are fully confined to the Clarifications and
  Implementation Notes sections and do not appear in User Stories or Functional
  Requirements

## Notes

- This checklist was generated from the specification content for issue #958
- Items marked incomplete require spec updates before proceeding to planning

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