scripts/deploy.mjs has zero automated test coverage

[chonilius]

Unlike the Rust contracts (63 tests across the three contract crates), scripts/deploy.mjs — the script the README documents as the actual mechanism used to deploy all three currently-live testnet contracts — has no automated tests at all. Its submitAndWait polling loop and the multi-step upload -> create-contract -> initialize flow are exactly the kind of logic that's easy to silently break with a @stellar/stellar-sdk version bump (the package.json dependency is pinned to ^16.0.1, a range that allows minor/patch updates) with nothing catching a regression before the next real deployment attempt. At minimum, unit-testable pieces (argument parsing, the wasm-path resolution) could be covered without needing a live network.

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