Tom fiddles with the test suite - again - #11517
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…oes not PlatformIO links every native test program to the one $BUILD_DIR/$PROGNAME path and attributes Unity output by text alone, never checking that the source file a case came from belongs to the suite it thinks it ran. Both harnesses had been split into a build pass (--without-testing) and a run pass (--without-building), and for a non-embedded platform the run pass never relinks - so all 57 suites executed whichever suite was linked last, each reporting PASSED under its own name. Introduced for CI in 4906f8a and for bin/run-tests.sh in de6b231; both ran fused, and correctly, before that. Drop --without-building from both run passes. The --without-testing pass stays as a warm-up so no single suite absorbs the whole src compile in its reported duration; with the objects already cached the per-suite step is one test_main.cpp plus a link. Add bin/check-test-attribution.py, which grades the JUnit reports both harnesses already produce. It fails on a test case whose source file lies outside the suite that reported it, and on a suite that was asked to run and produced no cases at all. Wired in three places: bin/run-tests.sh as a RED verdict ahead of the softer ones, per area in CI so a mismatch names its area, and once over the merged report so an area that never executed cannot hide. Suite ownership is matched on whole path segments, so test_mesh does not claim test_mesh_module, and the -f pattern is resolved against the canonical set rather than taken as a literal suite name.
[env:coverage] passes -s to the test binary (74e6723, meshtastic#8251), which sets portduino_config.force_simradio. wouldEncryptWithPKC() lists !force_simradio among its preconditions, so perhapsEncode() takes the channel-crypto branch, returns NONE and leaves pki_encrypted false - failing test_B11_normal_unicast_still_uses_pki and test_B12_licensed_receiver_does_not_decrypt_pki, both of which assert the production PKI path. [env:native] passes no such flag, which is the whole of the long-standing "passes under native, fails under coverage" split; it was never gcov, ASan or a host. Save and clear the flag in setUp, restore it in tearDown, so the suite asserts the encode path it is named for under either env's invocation. Same binary, pristine $HOME: 77 tests 0 failures with -s and without, where before -s gave 2 failures. Whether the unit-test binary should run with -s at all is a separate question - it means CI exercises the simradio configuration for every suite - and is left alone here.
…clock The budget is 8 tokens refilling one per 250ms of wall clock, and test_admin_key_fallback_is_rate_limited drains it with eight PKI decodes before asserting the ninth is refused. That gives the drain loop 31ms per iteration, each of which generates a keypair and does three X25519 operations under gcov and ASan. This box runs them in ~4ms; a GitHub runner takes ~38ms, so a token refills mid-drain and the packet the test expects to be blocked decodes. Measured from both runs' own log timestamps, 9.5x apart. Read the bucket through Time::getMillis() instead of millis(), and have the test set and advance the virtual clock rather than sleeping. The subtraction was already wrap-correct, so the deadline guard is unaffected. Restores the clock in tearDown so the rest of the suite is untouched, and drops ~3s of real sleeping from the run.
Both construct a NodeDB, whose constructor persists a default set into an empty prefs directory, so each writes the five prefs protos. Neither was declared, because until suites started running their own binaries nothing had ever observed them writing anything.
A single green run says nothing about a real-time race or a slow-host margin: the rate-limit budget above passes here with 7x headroom and still fails on a CI runner. Run one suite N times against a fresh scratch $HOME each time, optionally against CPU contention, and print a flake rate. Failing runs keep their log and their sandbox; passing runs leave nothing. Simradio is taken from the env's own test_testing_command, so a stress run reproduces the real invocation rather than inventing a third one.
bin/pio-test-isolate.sh sandboxes $HOME, but portduinoSetup() looks for config in ./config.yaml and /etc/meshtasticd/config.yaml - the second absolute, so no $HOME sandbox can hide it. On a machine running meshtasticd that config selects the real LoRa module and the run continues into GPIO and SPI setup, so ./bin/run-tests.sh -e native would drive the developer's own radio without saying so. -e native is also the faster of the two, and the one reached for when iterating. [env:coverage] already passes -s, which short-circuits ahead of the config search and returns before hardware init. Pass it for [env:native] too. That closes the hazard and, incidentally, makes the two envs invoke the binary identically - they did not, which is the whole of the long-standing "green locally, red in CI" split.
force_simradio does two unrelated jobs. It keeps portduinoSetup() off the host's hardware, which every test run wants, and it makes wouldEncryptWithPKC() return false, which no test run wants: the encode path under test then falls back to channel crypto and any case asserting PKI fails, or worse, passes while asserting the wrong thing. Three suites had each worked this out separately and cleared the flag themselves - test_admin_session_repro's comment describes the mechanism exactly. Clear it once in initializeTestEnvironment() instead. By then portduinoSetup() has already skipped the config search and chosen the simulated radio, and it never reconsults the flag, so clearing it cannot bring hardware back; the only remaining readers are the PKC gate and an exit_simulator intercept no test can reach. The per-suite copy added to test_packet_signing for B11/B12 goes away with it. Two asserts, because both invariants were true only by inspection: - No listening sockets. main.cpp's setup()/loop() are compiled out under PIO_UNIT_TESTING, so the phone API, MQTT and the web server never start - but nothing checked. A suite that pulled in a service binding a port would open one on the developer's machine for the length of the run. - force_simradio still clear, before every test rather than once per suite, since a case that restores a struct it snapshotted earlier puts it back and silently disables PKC for everything after it. Named per test, so the report points at the case after the culprit. Both exit rather than TEST_FAIL: they run outside a Unity test frame, and silently repairing either one would leave the suite that broke it passing. Verified by disabling the clear and watching the guard fire on the first case instead of reporting two quiet failures.
Repeating one binary finds races and slow-host margins; it cannot find state that leaks from one suite into the next, because only one suite runs. --shuffle drives run-tests.sh --seed with a fresh seed each iteration and reports which seeds went red, so the shuffle already in the harness yields a flake rate rather than a single sample. Seeds are printed and replayable.
Clearing force_simradio in initializeTestEnvironment() missed the suites that never call it. test_atak is one, and it also pulls in TestUtil.h, so it got the per-test assert without ever getting the baseline and aborted on its first case - caught by CI, which is what the assert is for. test_geocoord_distance, test_meshpacket_serializer and test_utf8 skip the init too, but include no TestUtil.h at all, so nothing reached them either way. Move the clear and the socket check into baselineEnvironment(), called from initializeTestEnvironment() or from the first RUN_TEST, whichever comes first. Suites that initialise are still asserted from their first case; the rest are baselined at case one and asserted from case two. Print the violation on stdout as well as stderr: bin/run-tests.sh filters the program's stderr, so locally the message vanished and the run reported "exit-time abort (likely sanitizer)" - the exit code read as a signal number again, with no sign of the real reason.
Three suites had each found that force_simradio disables PKC and cleared it themselves. initializeTestEnvironment() now clears it once for every suite, so all six sites are dead code - along with the PortduinoGlue.h include each pulled in for it. test_event_channel_router's is the one worth removing rather than leaving: it snapshotted the flag into SavedGlobals and restored it at teardown, which is exactly the shape the per-test assert exists to catch. Harmless while the snapshot reads false, and a silent PKC-off for every later case if that ever changed. The three suites pass unchanged: 54 cases, attribution clean.
A guard in TestUtil.cpp that aborts on purpose - a listening socket, or force_simradio put back - exits non-zero with no sanitizer report, so it fell through to the exit-time-abort heuristic and was announced as "RED exit-time abort (tests passed; likely sanitizer)". That is the same trap as the phantom SIGILL two checks above: a verdict line naming a cause it has not established, sending the reader after a memory bug that does not exist. It cost hours in the original investigation and it cost the first read of a test_atak failure today. Match the FATAL line the guards print on stdout for exactly this purpose, and report the reason they gave instead of guessing.
They are pure-function - no NodeDB, no router, no sockets, no PKC - so the harness-wide guards in TestUtil.h would assert conditions they cannot reach, and initializeTestEnvironment()'s RTC and OSThread setup would pull in portduino globals they otherwise never touch. Suite-level state cleanliness still applies: bin/pio-test-isolate.sh fingerprints the sandbox from outside and wraps every suite regardless. Recorded at the top of each so the omission reads as a decision rather than an oversight - it looked like the latter when the socket and simradio asserts landed.
resetTrafficConfig() zeroed channelFile and left channels_count at 0, so the 66 cases that do not install a channel themselves ran against a device with none. Every router lookup then hit Channels::getByIndex()'s out-of-range branch and logged, which is 12106 of the suite's 20088 ERROR lines and tests nothing - a real device always has a primary channel, and no case here asserts channels-unset behaviour. Install the well-known primary the suite already builds for its precision cases. All 85 pass unchanged, and the suite's ERROR output drops to 7985, the remainder being decode failures from test_tm_fuzz_nodenum_blitz's malformed payloads.
A suite can pass while emitting six figures of ERROR, which buries a real failure and trains everyone to skim. Count them per suite and grade the count as a second axis, alongside the CLEAN/DIRTY verdict already computed from the same captured log. Declared in the same manifest, as a RANGE rather than a ceiling, because for a fuzz suite the floor is the half that matters: test_fuzz_decode logging ~100k rejections is the suite working, and the same suite logging none means it stopped feeding malformed input while every case still passes. Bounds are wide on purpose - they catch a path that has stopped running, not a drift of a few hundred lines. Undeclared suites get 100, which 50 of 57 already meet. AMBER, not RED. Three log sites - mesh-pb-constants.cpp:28, Channels.cpp:356, MQTT.cpp:92 - account for nearly all the remaining volume, and landing this red before they are demoted would buy exemptions rather than fixes.
check-test-attribution.py guards against the false green, and nothing guarded the guard. A checker that has quietly stopped matching looks exactly like a codebase with no problem, which is how the original went unnoticed for three weeks of green runs. The canary reproduces the failure deliberately - two suites run with --without-building, so PlatformIO does not relink and both execute the same leftover binary - and requires the checker to catch it. It also fails if the reproduction stops reproducing: if PlatformIO ever relinks per suite under that flag, the reason both harnesses stopped passing it no longer holds, and the harness should be revisited rather than left on a stale assumption. bin/test-state-check.sh already existed with fixtures asserting CLEAN/CLEAN/DIRTY/MISSING and had never run in CI. Wire it in too - the shared-state checker had the same blind spot, and somebody had already written the test for it.
The canary relinks $BUILD_DIR/$PROGNAME, and in simulator-tests that replaced the daemon binary with a test suite. The integration test then started it and waited for a listening socket, which a test binary never opens - by assertion, since initializeTestEnvironment() now fails a suite that holds one - so the step sat until its 20s timeout and the job exited 124. The canary itself had already passed. Move it to platformio-tests, where the binary is per-suite already and nothing downstream needs the daemon, and place it after the coverage capture so its extra runs stay out of the numbers. The shared-state self-test stays in simulator-tests; it touches no binary. Fitting failure mode for this branch: one shared program path, two consumers, and the second one silently getting the first one's build.
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This PR hardens the native test harness by ensuring each test_* suite is built and executed as its own binary (avoiding PlatformIO’s single-output-binary pitfall), and adds automated verification that every reported Unity test case truly belongs to the suite that claims it. It also strengthens test isolation, environment safety (simradio/hardware config), and introduces additional CI guardrails (including self-tests/canaries) to prevent regressions back to “false green” runs.
Changes:
- Remove
--without-buildingfrom suite execution and add JUnit-based attribution checks to detect mis-attributed or empty suites. - Enforce/verify safe test runtime environment (avoid host radio via
-s, clearforce_simradiofor PKI-path coverage, and fail if the test binary is listening on TCP ports). - Add/extend harness reporting axes (shared-state +
LOG_ERRORbudget) and wire self-tests/canaries into CI to prove the guards still catch the intended failure modes.
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| variants/native/portduino/platformio.ini | Adds -s to the native test invocation to avoid host config/hardware initialization during tests. |
| test/TestUtil.h | Adds per-test environment integrity assertion into the RUN_TEST macro wrapper. |
| test/TestUtil.cpp | Implements environment baselining (clear force_simradio), and fails fast on listening sockets / environment corruption. |
| test/test_utf8/test_main.cpp | Documents intentional exclusion of TestUtil.h for pure-function suite. |
| test/test_meshpacket_serializer/test_serializer.cpp | Same as above for pure-function serializer suite. |
| test/test_geocoord_distance/test_main.cpp | Same as above for pure-function GeoCoord suite. |
| test/test_traffic_management/test_main.cpp | Ensures a well-known primary channel exists in fixtures to avoid noisy invalid-channel logs. |
| test/test_position_precision/test_main.cpp | Removes now-unnecessary direct force_simradio manipulation. |
| test/test_pki_admin_fallback/test_main.cpp | Switches from wall-clock sleeps to injectable clock to make rate-limit tests deterministic. |
| test/test_event_channel_router/test_main.cpp | Removes force_simradio save/restore plumbing now handled by harness/environment baseline. |
| test/test_admin_session_repro/test_main.cpp | Removes direct force_simradio override, relying on harness baseline. |
| test/state-manifest.tsv | Adds/updates per-suite declarations, including new errors= budgets (ranges) with reasons. |
| test/README.md | Explicitly documents why --without-building must not be used and points to the attribution checker. |
| src/mesh/Router.cpp | Uses Time::getMillis() for the admin-key fallback budget to support injectable clock testing. |
| bin/check-test-attribution.py | New: validates JUnit attribution (case file belongs to suite) and detects empty suites. |
| bin/test-attribution-canary.sh | New: intentionally reproduces the old false-green scenario and requires the checker to catch it. |
| bin/stress-suite.sh | New: repeatedly runs a suite (or shuffled full runs) to measure flake rates and replay seeds. |
| bin/run-tests.sh | Removes --without-building from runs, adds attribution collection/checking, and adds error-budget grading. |
| bin/pio-test-isolate.sh | Extends per-suite isolation summary to include error-budget verdict/detail. |
| bin/lib/test-state.sh | Adds error-line counting and errors= budget classification logic. |
| .github/workflows/test_native.yml | Updates CI to avoid --without-building, adds attribution checks (per-area + merged), adds canary, and runs state-checker self-test. |
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semgrep blocks xml.etree.ElementTree.parse as XXE-prone. The input here is the JUnit report PlatformIO wrote moments earlier in the same run, and anything able to plant a hostile report is already executing its own code in that job, so parsing it defused changes nothing it could do. defusedxml is in the tree but only under bin/bump_metainfo with its own requirements, and pulling it onto this path would add an install step to every native test job for no reachable threat. Suppressed with a reason at the call site, the same shape as the subprocess-shell-true suppression in extra_scripts/nrf54l15_linker.py.
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In `@bin/check-test-attribution.py`:
- Around line 98-101: Update the attribution result handling around the
unsourced counter and misattributed findings so any test case with source set to
None causes the checker to fail rather than report “test attribution OK.”
Preserve the existing ownership validation for cases with a source file, and
ensure unsourced cases are included in the final attribution-failure condition.
In `@bin/lib/test-state.sh`:
- Around line 183-191: Update state_count_errors so the grep -c fallback does
not print an additional zero when grep already outputs zero for no matches; use
a no-op fallback that preserves grep’s output and keeps state_classify_errors
receiving a single numeric value.
In `@bin/pio-test-isolate.sh`:
- Around line 122-123: Update the sandbox cleanup logic in the test-isolation
flow to preserve the captured log whenever ERROR_VERDICT is not WITHIN,
including passing suites with OVER or UNDER budgets and AMBER exits from
bin/run-tests.sh. Keep existing cleanup behavior only for runs whose error
verdict is WITHIN, and ensure the summary output remains unchanged.
In `@bin/stress-suite.sh`:
- Around line 162-165: Update the repetition execution in the stress-suite
runner to invoke the configured pio-test-isolate.sh wrapper instead of calling
the binary directly, preserving the existing HOME scratch directory, arguments,
logging, and cleanup behavior; retain scratch and log artifacts when a
repetition fails.
- Around line 143-147: Update the signal handling around cleanup so INT and TERM
each invoke cleanup and then exit with statuses 130 and 143 respectively, while
retaining cleanup as the EXIT trap. Ensure the stress loop cannot continue after
either terminating signal.
- Around line 43-53: Update the option parsing cases for -e/--environment,
-n/--runs, and -l/--load to validate that a following argument exists before
reading it, returning usage status 2 for missing values. Validate RUNS as a
positive integer and LOAD as a non-negative integer, rejecting non-numeric or
otherwise invalid values before they are used.
In `@bin/test-attribution-canary.sh`:
- Around line 48-69: Update the canary around the PlatformIO test command and
check-test-attribution.py invocation to validate exit statuses explicitly: fail
while retaining REPORT if PlatformIO does not succeed, and require
check-test-attribution.py to return exactly 1 as the expected mismatch result.
Treat checker exits 0 and 2 as canary failures, preserving the existing
diagnostic output and report retention.
In `@test/test_pki_admin_fallback/test_main.cpp`:
- Around line 152-154: Under PIO_UNIT_TESTING, add a reset hook for
adminKeyFallbackRefillMs and adminKeyFallbackTokens, and invoke it from the test
fixture’s setUp() and tearDown() alongside the clock-mode reset. Ensure changing
between virtual and real clocks clears both fallback state variables before
later Router fallback calls.
In `@test/TestUtil.cpp`:
- Around line 133-134: Update testAssertEnvironmentIntact so
assertNoListeningSockets() runs on every call after baselineEnvironment(),
including when portduino_config.force_simradio is clear; move the early return
in the force_simradio handling after the socket check while preserving other
environment validations.
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In `@bin/stress-suite.sh`:
- Around line 2-24: Reduce the file-level header in the stress-suite script to
one or two concise lines describing its purpose. Move any necessary invocation
examples and detailed usage guidance into the script’s usage() output,
preserving the existing command behavior and exit-status documentation only
where appropriate.
Apply the same fix in `@test/TestUtil.cpp` around lines 35 - 42: TestUtil omission
rationale is covered.
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Two were real defects rather than style: - state_count_errors() returned "0\n0" for a log with no ERROR lines, because grep -c prints 0 and *then* exits 1, so the `|| printf 0` fallback appended a second one. The classifier threw a syntax error on it. Dormant only because every suite currently emits at least one ERROR line; the planned log-level demotions would have driven most suites to zero and tripped it everywhere, looking like the demotions broke the harness. - check-test-attribution.py returned OK for a report whose cases carry no `file` attribute. It cannot prove ownership in that state, so a changed JUnit format would have restored the exact false green it exists to catch. Now its own finding, listed and fatal. The rest: keep the sandbox when an error budget is breached, since that is the one outcome whose evidence was being deleted; reject a missing or non-numeric option value in stress-suite.sh instead of running an empty loop and reporting 0/0 as a pass; exit on INT/TERM rather than cleaning up and carrying on; drive repetitions through pio-test-isolate.sh so a stress run exercises the real invocation; require the canary to see MISATTRIBUTED rather than any non-zero exit, so an unreadable report cannot read as a caught mismatch; and check for listening sockets before every test, since a listener would be opened by the code under test. resetAdminKeyFallbackBudget() is a new PIO_UNIT_TESTING hook, shaped like the neighbouring resetRoutingAuthEvaluationCount(). The refill stamp is only meaningful against the clock that produced it, so a suite switching timebases leaves a stamp from the other one and the next unsigned subtraction reads as a near-infinite gap - silently refilling the bucket. Also move the semgrep marker onto its own line: buried mid-sentence in a comment it was ignored, and the XXE finding stayed blocking.
Every native suite now builds and runs its own test program. Both harnesses previously split into a build pass and a run pass and passed
--without-buildingto the run; PlatformIO links every native suite to the same$BUILD_DIR/$PROGNAMEand does not relink on a non-embedded platform, so a suite executed whichever program was linked last. The--without-testingpass is retained as a warm-up, so no single suite absorbs the wholesrccompile into its reported duration, and with the objects cached the per-suite step is onetest_main.cppand a link. A full run is 57 suites and 1055 cases, each case executed by the suite that reports it.Separation is proved rather than assumed.
bin/check-test-attribution.pygrades the JUnit reports both harnesses already produce and fails a run on two conditions: a reported case whose source file lies outside the suite that claimed it, and a suite that was selected but produced no cases at all. Suite ownership is matched on whole path segments, sotest_meshcannot claimtest_mesh_module, and a-fpattern is resolved against the canonical suite set rather than taken as a literal name. It runs in three places —bin/run-tests.shas a RED verdict ahead of the softer ones, per area in CI so a mismatch names its area, and once over the merged report so an area that never executed cannot hide.bin/test-attribution-canary.shthen guards the guard: it runs two suites the broken way, requires the checker to catch the mis-attribution, and fails either if the checker regressed or if the reproduction stops reproducing.bin/test-state-check.sh, which asserts the shared-state checker's CLEAN/CLEAN/DIRTY/MISSING fixtures and had never been wired into CI, now runs there too.The environment each suite starts in is fixed and asserted. Both
[env:native]and[env:coverage]invoke the binary identically, with-s, which short-circuitsportduinoSetup()ahead of its./config.yamland/etc/meshtasticd/config.yamlsearch and returns before GPIO and SPI init — the per-suite scratch$HOMEcannot cover an absolute path, so without it a run on a host that runs meshtasticd drives that host's radio.initializeTestEnvironment(), or the firstRUN_TESTfor the suites that do not call it, then clearsforce_simradioso every suite exercises the production PKI encode path, and asserts that the process holds no listening socket. A further assert runs before each test and fails the suite ifforce_simradiohas been set back, naming the test it ran before. The admin-key fallback budget readsTime::getMillis()so its test drives a virtual clock instead of racing a 250 ms refill against eight X25519 decodes.Two orthogonal axes are reported alongside pass/fail, both declared in
test/state-manifest.tsvwith a mandatory reason. A suite's writes inside its sandbox are graded CLEAN or DIRTY against its declaration, and itsLOG_ERRORoutput is graded against a budget — expressed as a range, not a ceiling, because for a fuzz suite the floor is the load-bearing half:test_fuzz_decodelogging ~100k rejections is the suite working, and the same suite logging none means it stopped feeding malformed input while every case still passes. Undeclared suites get 100, which 50 of 57 already meet.bin/stress-suite.shrepeats one suite against a fresh scratch$HOME, optionally under CPU contention, to measure order-independent flakes, and with--shuffledrivesrun-tests.sh --seedwith a fresh seed per iteration to vary suite order; seeds are printed and replayable.Unfinished
Deliberately not in this PR.
TEST_ASSERT*cannot fail. Static, same shape asbin/lint-unity-exit.sh.mesh-pb-constants.cpp:28,Channels.cpp:356(whose%d > %drenders as0 > 0, because the guard it reports is>=), andMQTT.cpp:92. These account for nearly all remaining ERROR volume; the error budget is graded AMBER until they land, so it does not go red on day one and get switched off.Summary by CodeRabbit
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