The reference package is installed with motion.job granted, writes a program into its own data directory, and asks the host to run it. What it proves on the machine: a program named with a path and one that is not there are refused by the host, with the machine never asked; the real one is taken by the machine as the package, every line sent and acknowledged; the head moves and the head accelerometer sees it; and the laser latch stays locked with every emission witness at zero. The program commands no laser, so the runner ends the job as one that ended without a discharge. That is what a dark program is, and the test asserts it rather than glossing it: the whole program ran and nothing fired. A job that does fire is cloud.dark-print's and laser.emission-witness's. Three things the first runs taught. A button press needs an "until" - what the press is expected to do - and a dark program never opens an armed window, so there is nothing for a press to arm and the test does not press. The job's lease owner is prefixed "job:". And the job record's emission.samples counts samples taken, not samples that saw light; the witnesses are laser_on_samples, lit_s and thermopile_delta. Proven. The unit suite: 451 tests; install_test: 225 checks. On the bench reference, image 20260922014545 with the cross-built daemons mounted over the image's: exthost.motion-job PASS, with exthost.service, exthost.motion-jog and motion.job PASS beside it. Against the image's own daemons the route is 404.
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.