feat: add automated backend test suite and CI

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Addressed Issues:

Fixes #163

Screenshots/Recordings:

Not applicable - this PR contains backend testing and CI changes only; there are no UI changes to demonstrate.

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Summary

Adds a dedicated pytest test suite and GitHub Actions CI for the Perspective backend.

The test suite covers core backend behavior while isolating external services and import-time model initialization so tests remain fast and deterministic.

What Changed

Area	Implementation
Unit Testing	Added tests for LangGraph nodes, LLM processing, scraping, and utility functions
Integration Testing	Added FastAPI route tests with mocked backend dependencies
Test Fixtures	Added shared pytest fixtures and sample article data
Dependency Isolation	Isolated Groq, Pinecone, and SentenceTransformer/Hugging Face initialization where required
Pytest Setup	Added pytest dependencies and test discovery configuration
CI	Added GitHub Actions workflow to automatically run backend tests on relevant pull requests

Changed Files

.github/workflows/backend-tests.yml

backend/pyproject.toml
backend/uv.lock

backend/tests/__init__.py
backend/tests/conftest.py
backend/tests/fixtures/sample_article.html

backend/tests/integration/__init__.py
backend/tests/integration/test_routes.py

backend/tests/unit/__init__.py
backend/tests/unit/test_langgraph_nodes.py
backend/tests/unit/test_llm_processing.py
backend/tests/unit/test_scraper.py
backend/tests/unit/test_utils.py

Testing

Test / Check	Command	Result
Backend Test Suite	uv run pytest	89 passed, 1 xfailed
Test Isolation	Pytest collection/execution	No SentenceTransformer model download required
Diff Validation	git diff --cached --check	No errors

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• Tests
  • Added automated coverage for backend API routes, article processing, chat, scraping, search utilities, and error handling, including successful requests, invalid inputs, fallback behavior, and simulated failures.
  • Backend tests run automatically on pull requests that change backend files or the test workflow.

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The PR adds pytest configuration, shared fixtures, and tests for backend workflows, LLM processing, scraping, utilities, and API routes. A GitHub Actions workflow runs the test suite on pull requests that change backend files or the workflow.

Changes

Backend testing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Test setup and CI invocation backend/pyproject.toml, .github/workflows/backend-tests.yml, backend/tests/conftest.py, backend/tests/fixtures/sample_article.html	Adds pytest dependencies and discovery settings, shared fixtures, a sample HTML article, and a workflow that installs dependencies and runs the test suite.
Workflow-node and LLM coverage backend/tests/unit/test_langgraph_nodes.py, backend/tests/unit/test_llm_processing.py	Adds unit tests for node state and error handling, perspective generation, fact checking, claim extraction, verification results, and chat processing.
Scraper and utility coverage backend/tests/unit/test_scraper.py, backend/tests/unit/test_utils.py	Adds tests for article extraction and cleaning, keyword data, ID generation, RAG chunking, and search fallback behavior.
API route integration coverage backend/tests/integration/test_routes.py	Adds tests for health, bias, process, and chat routes, including request validation cases.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 53e72

The backend tests are mergeable, but the process-route test should use the workflow’s model so it protects the actual response path.

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Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 4.72% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 106 functions across 6 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main changes: an automated backend test suite and CI workflow.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #163 requires backend pytest coverage, isolation of external dependencies, and GitHub Actions CI. The PR adds tests for LangGraph nodes, LLM processing, scraping, utilities, and FastAPI routes, …
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Issue #163 limits the work to backend testing infrastructure and CI. The reviewed changes add tests, fixtures, test dependencies, configuration, and a CI workflow. The incremental changes refine test …

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backend/tests/integration/test_routes.py (1)

107-138: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use PerspectiveOutput in the /api/process fixture.

At backend/tests/integration/test_routes.py:108, the fixture uses a dictionary, but generate_perspective returns a PerspectiveOutput model and the route returns the workflow result directly. This test therefore does not cover the response shape when the workflow supplies its model. Use the model instance here; this is a test-coverage improvement, not evidence of a production failure.

Suggested fix

 from main import app
+from app.modules.langgraph_nodes.generate_perspective import PerspectiveOutput
 
@@
-        perspective = {
-            "perspective": "Counter view on climate.",
-            "reasoning": "Step 1: examine data.",
-        }
+        perspective = PerspectiveOutput(
+            perspective="Counter view on climate.",
+            reasoning="Step 1: examine data.",
+        )

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Update the `_mock_workflow_result` fixture to use a `PerspectiveOutput` instance
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