Add --disable-spec-validation flag to process specs with validation or reference issues

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Implementation Complete ✅

Summary

Updated documentation and release workflow to include the new --disable-spec-validation flag.

Changes Made

1. README.md Updates

• ✅ Added --disable-spec-validation to CLI options section
• ✅ Added new section "Handling Specs with Validation Issues" with:
  • When to use the flag
  • Usage examples
  • Side-by-side comparison (with/without flag)
  • Important notes about validation behavior
• ✅ Updated Features section to include flexible validation

2. Release.yml Updates

• ✅ Added "Flexible Spec Validation" to New Features section
• ✅ Added dedicated "Spec Validation Control" section with:
  • Usage example
  • Use cases for the flag
• ✅ Updated Quality Assurance section:
  • Updated test count to 183 tests
  • Updated test suite count to 22
  • Added validation testing details (16 new tests)
• ✅ Added flag to Key Features summary

Documentation Structure

README.md additions:

## Handling Specs with Validation Issues
- When to Use
- Usage examples
- With/without flag comparison
- Important notes

Release.yml additions:

### 🛡️ Spec Validation Control
- Usage example
- Use cases
- Quality assurance updates

Testing

• ✅ All 183 tests passing
• ✅ CLI help displays flag correctly
• ✅ No breaking changes

Ready for Release

Documentation is now complete and ready for the next release with comprehensive information about the --disable-spec-validation feature.

Original prompt

add new flag while running tool - disable-spec-validation ( in case if a spec has validation or refs issues we need count coverage)

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[dreamquality]

@copilot add more tests and verify cli tool works fine

[Copilot]

@copilot add more tests and verify cli tool works fine

Added 16 comprehensive tests (total now 183 tests, all passing). Tests cover:

Unit tests (13): broken refs, JSON specs, circular refs, missing fields, edge cases
CLI tests (14): validation behavior, Newman support, multi-API, flag interactions, output verification

Verified CLI works correctly with:

• Invalid YAML/JSON specs ✓
• Newman reports ✓
• Multiple API files ✓
• Combined with --strict-query/--strict-body ✓
• Valid specs (backward compatible) ✓

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[dreamquality]

@copilot update readme.md and prepare release.yml file

[Copilot]

@copilot update readme.md and prepare release.yml file

Updated documentation and release workflow. Changes include:

README.md:

• Added --disable-spec-validation to CLI options
• New "Handling Specs with Validation Issues" section with usage examples and use cases
• Updated Features list to include flexible validation

release.yml:

• Added feature to release notes with usage example
• Updated test count (183 tests, 22 suites)
• Added spec validation control section

Ready for release workflow execution.

Commit: 08d4f33

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Pull Request Overview

This PR adds a new --disable-spec-validation flag to handle OpenAPI/Swagger specifications with validation or reference issues. This allows the tool to process and calculate coverage for specs that might have broken references or validation errors.

• Add --disable-spec-validation CLI flag to bypass spec validation
• Update loadAndParseSpec function to support disabling validation
• Add comprehensive test coverage for the new functionality

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 7 out of 7 changed files in this pull request and generated no comments.

Show a summary per file

File	Description
test/disable-spec-validation.test.js	New comprehensive unit tests for the disable validation feature
test/disable-spec-validation-cli.test.js	New CLI integration tests for the --disable-spec-validation flag
readme.md	Documentation updates including new CLI option and usage examples
lib/swagger.js	Core implementation to support disabling validation in loadAndParseSpec
cli.js	CLI option definition and flag passing to the core library
auto-detect-newman.html	Timestamp update in test fixture
.github/workflows/release.yml	Release notes updates for the new feature

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