ci: enhance MACAE deployment and testing workflows

[Kanchan-Microsoft]

Purpose

This pull request introduces multiple updates to GitHub Actions workflows to enhance deployment, testing, and resource management. Key changes include improved parameterization, support for additional branches, better error handling, and enhanced testing workflows.

Deployment Workflow Enhancements (deploy.yml and deploy-waf.yml)

• Parameterization and Branch Support:

  • Added support for hotfix and dev branches in workflows, along with new parameters like solutionPrefix and imageTag to improve deployment flexibility.
  • Introduced outputs for deployment status and resource URLs to enable downstream workflows.

• Resource Management:

  • Added steps to extract and manage AI services and Key Vault names during cleanup, ensuring proper resource handling.

• Notification and Logging:

  • Reintroduced email notifications on deployment failure and added an explicit Azure logout step for better security. (`[.github/workflows/deploy.ymlR321-R343]

Testing Workflow Enhancements (test-automation.yml)

• Workflow Inputs and Validation:

  • Added support for workflow inputs to override environment variables for testing URLs and resource names.
  • Implemented input validation to ensure required parameters are provided before proceeding.

• Readiness Checks:

  • Introduced a readiness check to wait for the application to be accessible before running tests, reducing test failures due to unavailability.

• Improved Test Retry Logic:

  • Simplified conditional expressions for test retries and adjusted sleep durations for better error handling.

Minor Fixes and Consistency Updates

• Replaced single quotes with double quotes for consistency in cron schedules and other strings.
• Removed redundant comments and empty lines to clean up the workflow files.

Does this introduce a breaking change?

• Yes
• No

How to Test

• Get the code

git clone [repo-address]
cd [repo-name]
git checkout [branch-name]
npm install

• Test the code

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