Testing, Validation, and Deployment Pipeline — Forge College

How do you prove a ported Solana program behaves correctly and can be deployed reproducibly for demos or grading? This lesson walks through building an automated testing, validation, and deployment pipeline that produces deterministic artifacts and end-to-end checks.

What you'll learn: You will design validation scenarios that exercise instruction handlers, state transitions, and error paths so you can prove parity with the original EVM behavior. You'll assemble a local test runner using solana-test-validator and Anchor's testing harness and extend an Anchor/TypeScript test suite to run deterministically. You will write a deployment script that builds the program, signs it with a committed program keypair to reproduce the same program ID, and packages the compiled program.so and Anchor IDL into a submission-ready artifact. Finally, you'll configure a GitHub Actions CI workflow that runs tests, builds artifacts, and archives reproducible deployment files.

Who this is for: Intermediate developers porting EVM contracts to Solana who already have a working Anchor-based program, compiled artifacts, and basic instruction-level tests. Basic familiarity with Anchor, Rust, and TypeScript testing is expected.

Key topics covered:
- Setting up solana-test-validator for deterministic local runs
- Writing and extending Anchor/TypeScript integration tests that validate handlers and state transitions
- Creating a reproducible deploy script: build, program keypair signing, program.so and IDL output
- Packaging and zipping deployment artifacts for submission or demo
- GitHub Actions CI workflow to run tests and publish artifacts
- Rollout checklist and practical validation scenarios for end-to-end verification

Ready to build a reliable pipeline and produce reproducible artifacts for demos or grading? Start now: https://www.forge.college/

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