The coverage lint judges a HOST_TESTED row by a step of its workflow
that runs on every run of the workflow. It read the `if:` and the
`continue-on-error:` of a step and of its job, and not the job's
`needs:`. GitHub skips a job whose needed job did not run (an `if:`
that held it back, or a failure), unless the job says `always()`, so
a test step in a job that needs a conditional job runs on not every
push, and counted all the same: a host test behind a conditional
build keeps its row green and its paths covered. No workflow a row
names uses `needs:`.
workflow_steps now reads each job's `needs:` (_needs: a flow list,
one scalar, or a block list), keeps the jobs by name, and resolves
them when the workflow is read (_needs_run): a job's needs are met
on every run when every job it names runs on every run, that is,
carries no `if:` other than the literal true and has its own needs
met, transitively. A job the workflow does not have, a cycle, and a
`needs:` in a form the lint does not read each fail closed. A needed
job's `continue-on-error:` does not bear: its failure fails neither
the run nor the jobs after it. The job's dict carries the result as
"needs_run", and _on_every_run counts no step of a job whose needs
are not met, so workflow_runs and checkout_path refuse it as they
refuse a conditional step. The reason stays "does not run it". The
lint evaluates no condition, so a dependent job under `always()`
counts as no job, as a step under `always()` counts as no step. The
HOST_TESTED comment and the docstrings say what the lint reads.
Proof: forgetest-ci "Unit tests" (`python -B -m unittest discover -s
tests -v` in forgetest): test_manifest.py runs 40 tests, OK, on
Ubuntu 24.04 with python 3.12, in a private PID namespace. The new
case test_a_job_runs_only_when_every_job_it_needs_runs: a job that
needs an unconditional job runs its test, with the `needs:` as a
scalar, a flow list, a quoted flow list and a block list; the same
four with the needed job under `if: false` or `if: github.event_name
== 'push'` do not; a needed job under `continue-on-error: true`
runs it; a chain of three runs it, and does not with the first job
under `if: false`; a needed job the workflow does not have, a cycle
of two, a self-need and a `needs:` holding a mapping each do not;
`if: always()` on the dependent job, and on the middle job of the
chain, does not. test_the_workflow_has_to_run_the_host_test gains a
workflow whose test job needs a job under `if: false`, listed as
"does not run it". Control: the parent, e1d1c1b, with the new test
file fails both cases (failures=2). The coverage lint on the tree
manifest from the recipe pins, with meta-openglow at 1e163bd on
scarthgap, reports 0 uncovered paths, 0 empty entries, 0 host-tested
row problems, 43 tests. pyflakes reports no undefined name.
Acceptance: none. forgetest is dev-only and in no fingerprint; the
lint runs in CI, not in a campaign, and tests/ are in no fingerprint.
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.