CASE STUDY
LIVE REPO + CINexural QA OS — Signed-Evidence Runner Fleet
QA infrastructure for a 39-repo product federation — an 85-runner fleet that signs its evidence and refuses unearned greens.
Topology: an 85-runner fleet feeds a DAG orchestrator, whose runs are packaged by a hash-chain evidence signer (Ed25519-capable) and validated by the qa verify trust command. In parallel an autonomous SDET loop drives a 52-to-91-percent coverage ratchet; both paths terminate in the full-fleet CI gate.
PROBLEM
An 85-runner QA fleet could return green while doing zero work — its evidence was unverifiable terminal scroll.
BUILT
Every runner now emits hash-sealed evidence bundles (Ed25519 signing built in), `qa verify` validates any run directory, and an autonomous SDET loop generates passing tests.
- runners registered in the fleet
- 85
- measured line coverage
- 52→91%
- tests behind ratcheting thresholds
- 3,698
- false-green honesty bugs fixed
- 11
FAILURE MODES
- Runners returning green, doing nothing
- Evidence tampering
- Hangs counted as passes
- Silent coverage rot