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forgefirm/forgetest
ScottW514 71b44598eb test_cloud_suite: the quiet wait's deadline is no longer the test
The cloud suite's host tests replay a print's log from threads, and the
suite's quiet wait gave up after 3 s (QUIET_TIMEOUT_S in setUp). On a
loaded host the last replayed lines landed after that, and a test failed
with "still running service moves after 3 s" instead of its own finding:
about one run of the module in five, a different test each time, alone
as well as under the full suite. The deadline is now 15 s. It is a
deadline and not a wait: a quiet machine is seen at once, so a passing
run is no slower. The one test that waits the deadline out on purpose (a
motion that never goes idle) sets 3 s for itself; tearDown puts the
module's value back.

Proof: before, test_cloud_suite failed 2 of 10 runs by itself, every
failure the quiet deadline (test_lid_during_button_wait_on_the_bench_excerpt,
test_pause_resume_fails_without_the_retraced_restart,
test_mode_switch_fails_when_gfhome_never_saw_the_head_move,
test_pause_resume_fails_when_the_kernel_refuses_the_resume). After, 10 of
10. forgetest's whole unit suite: 451 tests OK, 4 skipped, in 492 s
against 491 s before. A host-test change: no catalog consequence.
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forgetest - the ForgeFIRM release acceptance tool

The daemon behind http://<machine>:8090/ on the dev image: runs the acceptance catalog against the machine, keeps the append-only result log, decides which results still apply to the image that is running, exports the release artifact scripts/release.sh gates on, and serves the bench diagnostics page. The contract - catalog, campaigns, fingerprints, inheritance, the gate, the coverage rule - is the Acceptance page of the documentation site.

Run the host tests

cd forgetest
python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -v

Run the daemon on a workstation (against a mock or a manifest file)

FORGETEST_DATA=/tmp/ft FORGETEST_MANIFEST=../tree-manifest.json \
FORGECTRL_URL=http://<machine> python3 -m forgetest --port 8090

scripts/manifest-from-tree.py produces tree-manifest.json from the recipe pins; the coverage lint is python3 -m forgetest.coverage --manifest ....

Environment

Variable Default Purpose
FORGETEST_DATA /data/forgetest results.jsonl, bench.jsonl, token, export/
FORGETEST_MANIFEST /etc/forgefirm-manifest.json the image manifest
FORGETEST_PORT, FORGETEST_HOST 8090, 0.0.0.0 listener
FORGETEST_BENCH_DIR /usr/share/forgetest/bench the installed bench scripts
FORGETEST_BENCH_DATA <FORGETEST_DATA>/bench passed to bench tools: where they keep their data files (with GF_HOST=127.0.0.1 and the panel token in GF_TOKEN)
FORGETEST_MARKER /run/forgetest.active takeover marker
FORGECTRL_URL, FORGECTRL_TOKEN_FILE http://127.0.0.1, /data/forgefirm/panel.token forgectrl client (HTTP; the token authorizes writes from the board)
FORGECTRL_TLS_URL https://127.0.0.1 forgectrl over HTTPS (self-signed, unverified), for the login test
GF_SYSFS_ROOT /sys/glowforge/ kernel module sysfs
GRBL_HOST, GRBL_PORT 127.0.0.1, 23 Grbl TCP

Adding a test

Register it in the subsystem module under forgetest/suite/ with @test(...): id subsystem.name, kind, hardware, mode (the controller mode the test needs; the runner switches to it first), covers, requires, always, steps. The body gets a Context (log, check, fail, prompt, confirm, instruct, sleep, evidence, forgectrl, sysfs, grbl, takeover). Return normally for PASS, raise runner.Failed for FAIL. Then run the unit tests and the coverage lint.