The supervisor holds every controller spawn until the enclosure is closed (forgectrl 0.1.25), and the test opened the lid before it asked for the cloud controller: POST /mode answered "waiting, the lid is open" and the controller never came up. The round trip now switches with the lid closed, polls /mode five times a second, and opens the lid the moment the controller is running. The client requests its connect-time hunt a few seconds after its start, right behind its session, so the hunt still finds the lid open. The order is recorded and judged: the hunt's request line must not be in the client's log when the lid reads open (hunt_before_lid_open), and the test refuses to start with the lid open. The catalog text tells the operator to open the lid at once, with a hand ready on it. Proof. Host: test_cloud_suite drives the round trip with the hunt landing only once the lid reads open, as on the bench, plus the lost race (the hunt requested before the lid opened fails the test with "before the lid was open") and the start with the lid open refused; 8 mode-switch cases green. Bench reference (dev image 20260915001814, forgectrl 0.1.25): cloud.mode-switch PASS in 118 s, the lid open 4 s before the client requested its hunt, no refusal before the hunt's end, the lens homed, the exhaust row unjudged, 5 service motions after the lid closed, $H under gfhome homed in 48.4 s with 9 motion windows. No catalog consequence beyond the test itself: its covers map is unchanged.
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.