A QA Pair is a library paired with its primary consumer — the package or app you run to manually verify the library works end-to-end.

Every library should have at least one QA pair. To QA a library, you launch its consumer and exercise the integration points. If the consumer works, the library works.

Format

| Library | QA Consumer | How to Test | |---------|------------|-------------| | my-lib/ | my-lib-docs/ | Run the doc site, verify components render | | my-server/ | my-client/ | Run the client against the server, verify API calls |

Why

• Makes manual QA concrete and repeatable — no guessing what to run
• Surfaces integration bugs that unit tests miss
• Gives new contributors a clear starting point for verifying changes
• Creates a natural smoke test checklist before releases