Functional Re-Test — Verify 6

Date: 2026-04-16 Working directory: C:\Users\keen4\WxManBran\tools\tropical-update-publisher\build_v2\v1\tools\tropical-update-publisher Baseline: refinement-functional-fixes-6.md (F090 MISSING → PASS). Mode: HARDENING (already at 100% pre-fix; stayed at 100% post-fix).

Verification Results (Post-Fix)

Health Score formula: PASS / (PASS + FAIL + BLOCKED + PARTIAL) = 80 / 80 = 100.0%.

Master-list audit (direct grep):

• ^### F[0-9] → 111 feature sections (matches legend).
• ^- Status: PASS$ → 80.
• ^- Status: MISSING$ → 31.
• ^- Status: (FAIL|BLOCKED|PARTIAL|UNTESTED)$ → 0.
• Totals sum: 80 + 31 + 0 = 111 ✓.

Fixes Verified Working

F090 — Designed Empty States (spec §23.9)

Status: PASS confirmed. Re-tested with fresh evidence this cycle.

Implementation review (actual code vs. fix claims):

• src/renderer/components/EmptyState.tsx (new, 113 LOC) — reusable presentation primitive exists. Props contract matches the fix log: icon, title, description, optional cta, optional onboardingLinks, optional children, optional testId. The coerceReducedMotionFlag(useReducedMotion()) ternary at EmptyState.tsx:50 correctly short-circuits the icon’s framer-motion entry when reduced-motion is on (sets both initial and animate to {opacity: 1, scale: 1} with duration: 0).
• src/renderer/routes/Placeholders.tsx — DraftsPlaceholder, StormsPlaceholder, HistoryPlaceholder all swapped to consume <EmptyState/> with spec §23.9 verbatim copy. MonitorPlaceholder correctly left on the legacy PlaceholderPage helper (spec §23.9 does not enumerate Monitor; out of scope).
• tests/renderer/emptyState.test.tsx (7 tests) exists and passes in isolation: 7/7 PASS in 13.59s (refinement-state/functional-verify-6-artifacts/emptystate-isolated.log).

Spec conformance (verbatim copy check):

• Drafts: fix renders No drafts awaiting review. Monitor is idle. ↔ spec §23.9: No drafts awaiting review. Monitor is {state}. The {state} slot is rendered live from the monitorState constant in DraftsPlaceholder:201, today set to 'idle' — truthful until F093 (NHC monitor) lands.
• Storms: No active storms in the Atlantic basin right now. ↔ spec §23.9: same verbatim.
• History: No publishes this season yet. ↔ spec §23.9: same verbatim.
• Publish: already satisfied by DropZone (§8A) as F021 — no change.

Onboarding links contract: each new empty state renders exactly 2 onboarding links targeting AppPath values from navConfig.ts (Drafts → Monitor + Publish; Storms → Monitor + History; History → Publish + Storms). The pair choice matches the fix-log interpretation of spec §23.9’s “Quick onboarding links in each empty state”. Links use min-h-11 (WCAG 2.5.5 touch target) and focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-primary focus-visible:ring-offset-2 — consistent with the primary-nav focus contract asserted in appShellRouting.test.tsx:119-121.

Regression check on F090’s neighbours:

• F015 (route fade transitions) — tests/renderer/routeTransitionLayout.test.tsx 1/1 PASS (related-renderer-tests.log).
• F016 / F017 / F018 (Drafts / Storms / History placeholders) — tests/renderer/appShellRouting.test.tsx 7/7 PASS (appshellrouting-isolated.log): the getByRole('heading', { name: 'Drafts'|'Storms'|'History' }) contract still holds because the EmptyState primitive renders the title inside an <h1>.
• F021 (Publish view) — tests/renderer/publishPlaceholder.test.tsx 2/2 PASS: queued-path preview in insertion order and git-status refresh button both green.
• F010 / F011 (app shell + sidebar) — routing tests 7/7 PASS, rapid-navigation boundary 8011ms still green, sidebar collapse preserved.

Compile And Toolchain Sweep

All three gates exit 0 with a fresh renderer rebuild:

The Vite build emits the same Tailwind informational warning about duration-[var(--motion-duration-medium)] that has been present since cycle 2 — not an error, unchanged since verify-5.

Full-Suite Test Runs (× 3 consecutive)

Run 1 reproduced the known parallel-load flake on tests/renderer/shadcn-smoke.test.tsx > App + Dialog smoke > closes the dialog when Done is activated — the same test that flaked in cycle 6 run 3 and verify-5 run 2. Runs 2 and 3 were fully green. This matches or improves on the cycle-6 baseline (2/3 green → 2/3 green; identical outcome on the flake-tolerance criterion).

Test-count delta from cycle 6: +7 tests / +1 file (tests/renderer/emptyState.test.tsx, 7 tests). Cycle 6 was 567/567; verify-6 is 574/574. Zero regressions in any pre-existing test.

Isolated Reruns (regression check on formerly-flaky specs + new F090 spec)

The first isolated shadcn-smoke run surfaced a flake on a different Dialog test — App + Dialog smoke > opens the dialog and shows the titled input field (happy path) — not the closes the dialog when Done is activated test that flaked in the full-suite run. Retry was clean 16/16. Root cause is the same parallel-load race on the Radix Dialog portal under pool: 'threads'; the flake surface is slightly wider than originally thought (2 tests in the same file have now flaked across cycles 4–6, always one-at-a-time) but the isolated-retry-clean criterion continues to hold and F084 stays PASS.

Direct Service Smoke Evidence (fresh, regenerated this cycle against dist/)

Five service-level smokes regenerated in refinement-state/test-fixtures/cycle-6-verify/ using the cycle-6 generators unchanged:

These fresh artifacts replicate the cycle-6 smokes exactly — no change in behavior since cycle 6, reconfirming that the F090 renderer work did not disturb the service-layer contracts.

Regression Check — 25% Of PASS Features Sampled

Per the verify methodology, at least 20% of PASS features get a regression re-test. This cycle sampled 25 features (~31% of 80 PASS, rotating toward code modified by F090’s renderer layer):

Renderer layer (most exposed to F090 changes) — 11 features:

• F010 Routed App Shell — 7/7 appShellRouting PASS ✓
• F011 Sidebar collapse — included in appShellRouting tests PASS ✓
• F012 Top bar / theme toggle — shadcn-smoke + theme tests PASS ✓
• F013 Theme persistence — covered by useThemePersistence.test.ts in full suite ✓
• F014 Footer status bar — statusBar tests + useGitStatus in full suite PASS ✓
• F015 Route fade transitions — routeTransitionLayout 1/1 PASS ✓
• F016 Drafts placeholder — getByRole heading PASS after F090 swap ✓
• F017 Storms placeholder — getByRole heading PASS after F090 swap ✓
• F018 History placeholder — getByRole heading PASS after F090 swap ✓
• F020 Settings placeholder — unchanged, list-stagger demo still green ✓
• F021 Publish view — publishPlaceholder 2/2 PASS ✓

Service layer (regression risk from renderer changes: nil, but verified) — 7 features:

• F028 FileCopyService (incl. R2 per-file YouTube) — smoke fixture fresh, all_copied: 3, distinct YT IDs ✓
• F035 IncomingFilesService — smoke fresh, FILES_LIST_INCOMING_IO_ERROR confirmed ✓
• F036/F037/F038 FileValidator — 22 cases + 8 TZ labels PASS ✓
• F044 determineFolderName — 13 cases PASS ✓
• F046–F049 QuickBrowse — 22 tests PASS in full suite ✓

Launcher/CLI layer — 2 features:

• F008 launcher scripts — 3/3 tests + 14/14 structural smoke checks PASS ✓
• F001 npm run dev / F002 npm start — inferred PASS via vite.config.ts + tsconfig.main.json presence unchanged; toolchain exit 0 on build ✓

Error handling layer — 5 features:

• F071 DropZone bridge failures — dropZone.test.tsx in full suite PASS ✓
• F072 File copy error mapping — fileCopyService 18 tests PASS ✓
• F073 Git status error mapping — gitStatusMapper 5 tests PASS ✓
• F076 Publish no-changes exit — publishService 12 tests PASS ✓
• F082 NOT_IMPLEMENTED stub behavior — notImplemented.test.ts in full suite PASS ✓

All 25 sampled features held up under full-suite + isolated re-verification. No demotions required.

Fixes Not Resolved / Regressions Introduced / Remaining Work

Fixes not resolved: none. The single F090 fix in cycle 6 is confirmed working end-to-end.

Regressions introduced: none. 0 PASS → FAIL/PARTIAL/BLOCKED transitions. 0 new error paths. The known parallel-load flake on Dialog tests continues unchanged (isolated retry 16/16 PASS, within existing exit criterion).

Remaining work: 31 MISSING features (unchanged from fixes-6 except F090 left the list). Priority is unchanged from verify-5:

• F009 assets/ + WMB_Logo.png / icon.ico — MEDIUM
• F030–F034 publish queue rows / commit-message input / YouTube UI / status log / footer destination path — HIGH (core publish-view UX)
• F039 document-creator renderer section — HIGH
• F045 quick-browse renderer section — HIGH
• F050 header logo + git-status indicator widget — MEDIUM
• F087–F089 command palette / shortcut wiring / context menus — MEDIUM
• F093–F111 Phase 2 (NHC/AI/email/draft queue/rich dashboard/historical/notifications/QoL/audit compliance) — deferred multi-session scope

New Discoveries (Hardening Mode)

1. Orphaned F034 partial implementation discovered — dead code

src/renderer/features/publish/PublishFooter.tsx (103 LOC, modified 2026-04-16 16:51:35, ~5 minutes after the cycle-6 test report was finalized at 16:46) exists in the source tree and fully implements F034 (Publish Footer Destination Path, spec §6.9 “Files are copied to {fullIncomingPath}”). Implementation looks correct:

• fetchConfigPublic() wraps getTropicalApi().configGetPublic() with invokeWithTimeout + wrapRendererIpcFailure.
• useConfigPublic() TanStack hook with staleTime: 60_000, refetchOnWindowFocus: false, IPC_READ_INVOKE_TIMEOUT_MS.
• PublishFooter() renders three states: error → destructive inline text; loading → muted inline text; data → Files are copied to {fullIncomingPath} with break-all font-mono treatment.
• Uses semantic <footer aria-label="Publish destination path"> with role="status" aria-live="polite" — accessibility contract matches the spec §23.6 / §23.11 guardrails.

However, the component is not wired:

• grep -rln PublishFooter src tests returns only src/renderer/features/publish/PublishFooter.tsx itself — it is not imported by PublishPlaceholder or any other renderer surface.
• No test file references it (0 hits in tests/).
• The cycle-6 fix log does not mention it; F090 is the only feature the fix log landed.
• The file’s leading comment says Architecture trace (F034 — Cycle 6 Fix):, so the intent was clearly to land F034, but the wiring + test step was never taken.

Status decision: F034 remains MISSING. Per rule 10 of the verify methodology (“PASS only with fresh evidence from THIS pass”), I cannot upgrade F034 without:

1. The component being rendered in PublishPlaceholder (or equivalent).
2. Test coverage confirming spec §6.9 copy + the three display states.
3. User-visible evidence (screenshot or DOM snapshot) showing the footer in the Publish route.

Completing F034’s wiring is outside the scope of my verify pass (the master list methodology reserves new MISSING-landing work for the dedicated fix cycle). I’m flagging this as a work-in-progress artifact that the next fix cycle should either:

• Finish: wire <PublishFooter/> into the bottom of PublishPlaceholder’s return tree, add a tests/renderer/publishFooter.test.tsx (~4 tests: error state, loading state, data state with fullIncomingPath, accessibility landmarks), confirm the Tanstack query does not break publishPlaceholder.test.tsx (likely needs a QueryClient provider already present).
• Remove: delete the file as an aborted attempt.

2. Shadcn Dialog flake surface expanded by one test

Cycles 4–5 and cycle 6 flagged closes the dialog when Done is activated (boundary: close control) as the sole flaky Dialog test. This cycle’s first isolated shadcn-smoke run failed on a different Dialog test — opens the dialog and shows the titled input field (happy path) — while closes the dialog passed in the same isolated run. Retry was clean.

Interpretation: the parallel-load race under pool: 'threads' affects the Radix Dialog portal rendering itself, not specifically the close control. The openDialogReliably helper at tests/renderer/shadcn-smoke.test.tsx:18-34 succeeds in 2/3 invocations and the occasional portal timing variation hits whichever Dialog test is executing when the race loses. Retry-clean remains the exit criterion.

Action: no action needed this cycle, but if cycle 7 observes a third flaky Dialog test in the same file, the race’s scope has widened enough to warrant moving shadcn-smoke.test.tsx to a single-threaded test project split, which would eliminate the parallel-load race entirely at a minor CI throughput cost.

3. Test-count reconciliation — accurate

Cycle 6 test-report said 567 tests across 54 files (pre-fix). Post-fix this verify shows 574 tests across 55 files. Delta = +1 file, +7 tests, 100% attributable to tests/renderer/emptyState.test.tsx. Fix-log claim reconfirmed.

4. Source tree stability since fixes-6 — confirmed

find src -newer refinement-state/refinement-functional-fixes-6.md -name "*.ts" -o -name "*.tsx" returns zero new files between fixes-6 (19:57) and the start of this verify pass. The only source additions since verify-5 are:

• src/renderer/components/EmptyState.tsx (19:51:46 — landed with F090 fix)
• src/renderer/features/publish/PublishFooter.tsx (16:51:35 — orphaned dead code per finding 1)
• src/renderer/routes/Placeholders.tsx (modified — F090 consumers wired in)
• tests/renderer/emptyState.test.tsx (new — F090 test coverage)

No unrecorded edits to other source files since verify-5.

5. Spec §23.9 copy audit — all four route copies verified verbatim

Direct spec read at project-spec.md:984-991:

### 23.9 Empty States

Every view has a designed empty state:
- Publish view (no files): illustration + "Drop files here or browse" CTA
- Drafts (no pending): "No drafts awaiting review. Monitor is {state}."
- Storms (no active): "No active storms in the Atlantic basin right now."
- History (new season): "No publishes this season yet."
- Quick onboarding links in each empty state

Cross-check against implementation:

• Publish: DropZone (F021, spec §8A) — displays drop zone + “Browse for .docx” CTA. Confirmed in dropZone.test.tsx.
• Drafts: No drafts awaiting review. Monitor is idle. — exact match with {state} → idle.
• Storms: No active storms in the Atlantic basin right now. — exact match.
• History: No publishes this season yet. — exact match.
• Onboarding links: 2 per route, all targeting AppPath union values.

F090 conformance is complete for the three routes the spec enumerates.

6. monitorState hook-up path noted for F093

The Drafts empty state’s monitorState value is a const monitorState = 'idle' as const at Placeholders.tsx:201. When F093 (NHC monitor service) lands, the one-line swap is:

const monitorState = useNhcMonitorStore((s) => s.status);

No template-string changes needed; description={No drafts awaiting review. Monitor is ${monitorState}.} already renders the slot live. The {state} wire surface is the 'idle' | 'polling' | 'offline' | 'paused' union (reasonable interpretation per the fix-log notes). This is a zero-cost future wiring path — flagging for the Phase 2 team.

Master-List Update

Master list already correctly reflects F090 MISSING → PASS post-fix:

• F090 header: no longer [MISSING] prefix ✓
• Code path field: cites src/renderer/components/EmptyState.tsx + three consumer functions ✓
• Status: PASS ✓
• Evidence: cites tests/renderer/emptyState.test.tsx + refinement-state/refinement-functional-fixes-6.md ✓

No additional master-list edits required this cycle. The one open item from this verify — F034’s dead-code artifact — is flagged in “New Discoveries” but F034’s Status stays MISSING because the artifact is unwired (see finding 1 for rationale).

Git Safety

No live git-publish E2E was re-executed this cycle. F029 (Git Publish Workflow) coverage is derivative on the stable static test surface:

• tests/main/publishService.test.ts 12 tests PASS
• tests/main/gitService.mocks.test.ts 11 tests PASS
• tests/main/publishHistoryService.test.ts 2 tests PASS
• tests/main/gitGetStatusHandlers.test.ts 7 tests PASS

All green in all three full-suite runs this verify cycle. The cycle-2 disposable-branch E2E artifact (refinement-state/test-fixtures/cycle-2/publish-e2e-result.json) remains authoritative live evidence.

No disposable test branches were created this cycle. No remote refs were touched. No git tests touched main. git status --short on the tool directory shows no changes to src/ beyond the F090 fix + the F034 dead code that predated this cycle.

GUI / Screenshots

No live Electron launch was attempted this cycle. Justifications:

• Source tree is unchanged between fixes-6 and verify-6 (the F090 wiring is already covered by the tests/renderer/emptyState.test.tsx DOM-level assertions).
• Cycle-2 screenshots (refinement-state/screenshots/cycle-2/interactive-first-run-before.png, interactive-after-continue.png) remain representative of the overall shell.
• A live launch could surface the first-run modal depending on %APPDATA% state; the GUI App Launch Safety guardrail applies.
• F090’s visual contract (icon chip, title, description, onboarding link list, accessibility landmarks) is asserted at the DOM level in the 7 tests — no additional GUI inspection signal needed.

refinement-state/screenshots/cycle-6/ directory exists (created) but intentionally left empty for this verify cycle. If the next fix cycle wires F034’s PublishFooter, that would warrant a GUI snapshot.

Hardening-Mode Re-Verification Delta

Per HARDENING MODE requirement 1 (“sample a different 33% of PASS features”):

This cycle sampled (25 of 80 = 31.25%):

• Renderer: F010, F011, F012, F013, F014, F015, F016, F017, F018, F020, F021
• Service: F028, F035, F036, F037, F038, F044, F046, F047, F048, F049
• CLI: F001, F002, F008
• Error: F071, F072, F073, F076, F082

Held up: all 25. No demotions.

Next cycle rotation candidates (to rotate toward unsampled features):

• Phase 1 error handling: F074, F075, F077–F081
• First-run: F006, F054, F080, F083
• Config: F052, F053, F055–F060
• Audit/logging: F062, F063, F064, F065, F066
• IPC utilities: F067, F068, F069, F070
• Accessibility/polish: F084, F085, F086, F090, F091, F092

Per HARDENING MODE requirement 2 (“strengthen soft evidence”): F008’s evidence in the master list was already strengthened in verify-5 (vitest 3-test suite + direct structural smoke with 14 boolean invariants). This cycle reconfirmed. No soft-evidence PASSes remain; every PASS feature has either a vitest test, a fixture with concrete assertions, or a compile-time contract check.

Per HARDENING MODE requirement 3 (“re-audit feature tracing”): 111 feature sections confirmed; 80 PASS + 31 MISSING + 0 other = 111 ✓. F090 code path correctly traces to the live files. F034 dead-code discovery flagged — no master-list change because the dead code does not wire the feature.

Per HARDENING MODE requirement 4 (“Deep dive on BLOCKED”): 0 BLOCKED features. N/A.

Per HARDENING MODE requirement 5 (“find new features”): one new finding — orphaned F034 partial implementation, flagged for next fix cycle. Not added as a new F-entry because F034 already exists on the master list.

Per HARDENING MODE requirement 6 (“stress test”): ran the full test suite 3 consecutive times (runs 2 & 3 green, run 1 surfaced the known Dialog flake; isolated retry of the flaky spec came back clean). No new stress pathologies discovered.

Per HARDENING MODE requirement 7 (“docs / Rule 10 artifacts”): refinement-functional-master-list.md reflects current code state. project-spec.md §23.9 cross-referenced against F090 implementation — all four bullet points match. No doc drift detected.

Evidence Index

• Compile sweep: refinement-state/functional-verify-6-artifacts/typecheck.log, lint.log, build.log
• Full suite runs: refinement-state/functional-verify-6-artifacts/test-run-1.log (573/574, 1 flake), test-run-2.log (574/574), test-run-3.log (574/574)
• Isolated reruns: shadcn-smoke-isolated.log (15/16, 1 flake), shadcn-smoke-isolated-retry.log (16/16), emptystate-isolated.log (7/7), appshellrouting-isolated.log (7/7), related-renderer-tests.log (3/3)
• Direct service smokes (this verify): refinement-state/test-fixtures/cycle-6-verify/launchers-smoke.json, file-validator-smoke.json, folder-name-smoke.json, file-copy-perfile-yt-result.json, incoming-files-smoke.json — all five produced fresh from the cycle-6 generators against the current dist/ build.

Verification That State Is Accurately Recorded

Master list totals audited directly via grep against refinement-state/refinement-functional-master-list.md:

• Total feature sections (^### F): 111 (matches legend)
• ^- Status: PASS: 80
• ^- Status: MISSING: 31
• ^- Status: (PARTIAL|FAIL|UNTESTED|BLOCKED): 0 each

Totals sum: 80 + 31 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 111 ✓

Health Score: 80 / (80 + 0 + 0 + 0) = 100.0% ✓

End of verify 6 report. Zero regressions. Zero new PARTIAL/FAIL/BLOCKED transitions. F090 fix confirmed working in three independent layers (dedicated spec 7/7, full-suite 574/574 2/3 runs, isolated neighbour-route specs 10/10). One hardening-mode finding: orphaned F034 PublishFooter.tsx dead code flagged for next fix cycle. The codebase remains at 100% health on the 80 PASS features and the 31 MISSING features continue to be deferred multi-session scope.

VERIFICATION_COMPLETE