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Five findings from review, all confirmed against the source.
Failure classification (P2). Testing replies for an "Err" prefix passed five
other shapes off as success: "Unknown command", "unknown config: x", "??: x",
"Can't find GPS", "(ERR: clock cannot go backwards)" and "File system erase:
Err". They rendered green, and worse, left _batch_all_ok true — so a queued
reboot went ahead after commands that had failed, defeating the gate entirely.
Rather than lengthen one guess, the two questions are now asked separately,
each erring safe:
- colour asks "does this look like a failure", against every shape CommonCLI
actually emits, enumerated in WebConfigBatch.h and pinned by a host test
that uses the literal strings. Getting this wrong is cosmetic.
- the reboot gate asks something narrower and answerable: "did every setting
I asked for take". Only `set`/`password` gate it, and only on the "OK"
prefix every setter keeps. Diagnostics no longer gate a reboot at all, so a
harmless `memory` cannot strand one and no guess is made about "> value".
Reboot deferral (P2). CommonCLI dispatches on a six-byte prefix, so `reboot
now` and `rebooted` reach Board::reboot() too. Matching exactly meant those
variants skipped both the confirmation and the deferral and took the node down
mid-drain — the precise failure deferral exists to prevent. Both sides now
anchor the way the firmware dispatches, and the UI's risk matcher with them.
Three commands the portal cannot honestly serve are refused at POST with a
reason, and dropped from autocomplete, instead of running and lying:
- `start ota` builds a second AsyncWebServer on port 80 with no bind check
and answers "Started" regardless; the portal already holds that port, so it
could only leak the allocation and inhibit sleep.
- `clock sync` takes its time from the caller's timestamp, which a web
request has none of, so CommonCLI always rejected it. `time <epoch>` works
and remains offered.
- bare `log` and `get acl` write their real output to Serial and hand back a
stub the terminal showed as success; `log` also streams a whole file from
the loop task, stalling the mesh and radio while it does.
The mock now emits the same failure shapes it used to fake as successes, so
these are reproducible off-hardware. 24 batch + 14 keys tests pass; audit
reports 119/119 answered, 0 missing, 4/4 refused with a reason.
Host unit tests
Fast, hardware-free unit tests for the fork's pure logic, run on the host with
GoogleTest via PlatformIO's native environment. They cover the extractable
observer/WebConfig logic (validation, preset table, topic templates, key
parsing) — the parts that don't depend on the ESP32, radio, or network stack.
Integration behavior (AsyncTCP transport, WiFi/MQTT, SoftAP) is exercised
separately; see "Local testing without hardware" in MQTT_IMPLEMENTATION.md.
Running
pio test -e native # all suites
pio test -e native -f test_webconfig_keys # a single suite
A green [PASSED] per suite means GoogleTest returned 0 (all assertions
passed). PlatformIO's "0 test cases" line is just its Unity-style counter and
does not reflect the GoogleTest count — run the built binary directly
(.pio/build/native/program) to see the per-assertion breakdown.
Suites
| Suite | Source under test | Covers |
|---|---|---|
test_mqtt_presets |
src/helpers/MQTTPresets.h |
preset lookup; table integrity (unique names, non-empty URLs, JWT-audience invariant, names fit the slot buffer); mqttPresetNeedsSlotCredentials; slot-count constants |
test_observer_validation |
src/helpers/MQTTObserverValidation.h |
IATA (exactly 3 alphanumerics), owner key (64 hex), NTP hostname, and the buffer-fit check behind the #17 length validation — including boundaries and nulls |
test_webconfig_keys |
src/helpers/WebConfigKeys.h |
POST-key allowlist, secret detection, admin-password classification/validation, slot-index bounds, and the short-key out-of-bounds guard (attacker-supplied keys) |
test_topic_template |
src/helpers/MQTTTopicTemplate.h |
{iata}/{device}/{token}/{type} expansion, overflow/NUL-termination, and a buffer-size fuzz |
test_mqtt_topic_router |
src/helpers/MQTTTopicRouter.h |
complete preset/custom topic-routing contract; MeshRank all types except raw; required identifiers; invalid inputs/slots; exact buffer boundaries |
test_mqtt_connection_policy |
src/helpers/MQTTConnectionPolicy.h |
reconnect guard/backoff/stagger and breaker transitions; stable reset; JWT lifetime/renewal policy; exact timing boundaries and 32-bit millis() rollover |
test_mqtt_packet_queue_policy |
src/helpers/MQTTPacketQueuePolicy.h |
queue-full eviction; stale-disconnect flush; adaptive drain limits; bounded QoS0 retries; exact timing boundaries and 32-bit millis() rollover |
test_mqtt_packet_filter |
src/helpers/MQTTPacketFilter.h |
per-slot 0-15 allowlist parsing/formatting, numeric and named spellings; exact bounds; membership; candidate/eligible split and retry-completion policy; pre-queue union gate; default-mask detection |
test_mqtt_runtime_buffer_lifecycle |
src/helpers/MQTTRuntimeBufferLifecycle.h |
idempotent allocation/release; partial-allocation degradation; retry of only missing buffers |
test_mqtt_prefs_codec |
src/helpers/MQTTPrefsStorage.h, src/helpers/MQTTPrefsCodec.h |
binary pre-slot/3-slot/6-slot migration fixtures; v1 header integrity; downgrade preservation; shortest-payload write policy (default filters stay downgrade-readable) |
test_mqtt_prefs_atomic_store |
src/helpers/MQTTPrefsAtomicStore.h |
transactional MQTT writes and legacy /node_prefs handoff; exact short-write detection; begin/finish/rename failure cleanup; original-file preservation |
test_mqtt_payload_builder |
src/helpers/MQTTPayloadBuilder.cpp |
status/packet/raw JSON contracts; optional fields; escaping; RX metrics and path; score handling; exact buffer bounds; maximum representative payloads |
test_utils |
src/Utils.cpp |
Utils::toHex (upstream) |
Conventions (and how to add a suite)
- Each
test/test_<name>/directory builds into its own GoogleTest program and must define its ownmain()(::testing::InitGoogleTest+RUN_ALL_TESTS). - Tests are host-only: include only pure headers. Arduino/crypto stubs live
in
test/mocks/(on the include path via-I test/mocks). - Firmware headers are included from
src(via-I src, e.g.#include "helpers/MQTTPresets.h"). Some are guarded or ESP-flavored, so a suite may need shims before the include — e.g.test_mqtt_presetsdoes#define WITH_MQTT_BRIDGE 1(the preset table is behind that flag) and#define PROGMEM(the embedded CA-cert strings are PROGMEM-qualified). - To add a suite: create
test/test_<name>/test_<name>.cppwith amain(), and add any host-only source it links to thenativeenv'sbuild_src_filterinplatformio.ini(header-only code needs no source entry). No other wiring. - Keep logic testable by extracting pure functions into headers (as
MQTTObserverValidation.h/WebConfigKeys.h/MQTTTopicTemplate.hdo) and having the firmware call the same functions.