As a developer, I want system testing to be modified so that it can be executed from within GitHub

[HankHerr-NOAA]

System testing is currently still executed on NWC machines, even though we develop in GitHub, largely because the system tests require large datasets that cannot be readily stored within, or close to, the GitHub repository. Allowing for system testing to be run within a GitHub workflow will require adjusting the system tests appropriately to still do what we want them to do but with data that can be obtained to support a GitHub workflow.

This ticket can be resolved once we've modified the system testing to allow for it to be run within a GitHub workflow.

Thanks,

Hank

[HankHerr-NOAA]

I created this ticket largely so that I can reference a point made by Chris:

If you guys have zarr or S3 support you might be able to use some of the cloud services that GID has set up. https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/noaa-public/national-water-model

It would need to be a stable archive that could be relied upon to support system testing for years to come, and I'm always leery about external dependencies (including USGS NWIS, by the way), but that would allow for us to use large datasets without needing to store them in GitHub.

Hank

[epag]

There are for sure github actions that allow interfacing with s3 buckets if we wanted to do that