The test added the owner's key by copying the file. It now adds it the way an operator does: POST /ext/key with the machine's button held. Without the button it is 409 and no file lands; a name with a space, a name that is a path, and no key at all are 400; a key that is no key is 409 from the host; with the button held it is added and listed with its id. Removed again, the same archive reads unverified, and removing a key that is not there is 409. The bench actuator's press was 200 ms, the firmware's default, and a request that must reach the machine while the button is down often missed it: the unverified install took three presses on one run and all ten on another. ctx.act() now takes `ms`, the fixture client passes it to the box (the firmware clamps it into 20 to 500), and the two button-held steps ask for 500. Both landed on the first or second press afterward. Proven. The unit suite: 451 tests, 0 undefined names (both stub fixtures take the new argument, and the fixture test pins that the box is asked for the longest press). On the bench reference, image 20260921161446 with the cross-built forgectrl and extension host mounted over the image's: exthost.panel-install PASS, exthost.package-routes PASS, exthost.hold-pause-tier PASS. Against the image's own daemons the install test FAILS, as it should. Acceptance. exthost.panel-install covers forgectrl's src/extpkg.*, src/main.c, src/auth.* and forgeext's src/main.c, src/install.*, src/pkg.*; the runner and the fixture client are harness, outside the suite and outside every 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.