Functional Verification — Cycle 9

Date: 2026-04-17 Working directory: C:\Users\keen4\WxManBran\tools\tropical-update-publisher\build_v2\v1\tools\tropical-update-publisher Inputs verified:

  • Master list: refinement-state/refinement-functional-master-list.md (post-fix)
  • Test report: refinement-state/refinement-functional-cycle-9.md (pre-fix baseline: 81 PASS / 30 MISSING / 100.0% health)
  • Fix log: refinement-state/refinement-functional-fixes-9.md (claims F009 + F050 promoted MISSING → PASS; +2 test files; +19 tests)
  • Spec: project-spec.md (unchanged since cycle 6)

Mode: STABILITY + HARDENING — health score is already at 100%; per the post-100% hardening rules I re-verified all PASS features that touched modified files (TopBar/headerGitIndicatorModel/assets), re-ran the full suite × 3, and stress-tested the verify-8 watch-flag flake (shadcn-smoke > keeps keyboard focus) with 4 isolated invocations on top of 3 full-suite runs.

Verification Results (Post-Fix)

Metric Pre-Fix (cycle 9) Post-Fix (verify 9) Delta
Total features 111 111 0
PASS 81 83 +2
FAIL 0 0 0
BLOCKED 0 0 0
PARTIAL 0 0 0
MISSING 30 28 -2
REGRESSION 0 0 0
Health Score 100.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Test files 56 58 +2
Tests 578 597 +19

Health Score formula: PASS / (PASS + FAIL + BLOCKED + PARTIAL) = 83 / 83 = 100.0%. MISSING is excluded from the denominator (deferred multi-session scope, not a regression).

Master-list audit (direct grep against refinement-functional-master-list.md):

  • ^### F[0-9] → 111 feature sections ✓
  • ^- Status: PASS$ → 83 ✓
  • ^- Status: MISSING$ → 28 ✓
  • ^- Status: (FAIL|BLOCKED|PARTIAL|UNTESTED)$ → 0 ✓
  • Totals sum: 83 + 28 + 0 = 111 ✓

Phase 0 — Mechanical Gates (post-fix tree)

Command Result Log
npm run typecheck exit 0 (main + preload + renderer) refinement-state/functional-verify-9-artifacts/typecheck.log
npm run lint exit 0 (zero warnings) refinement-state/functional-verify-9-artifacts/lint.log
npm run build exit 0 — renderer dist/renderer/assets/index-CZiEaSX0.js 988.72 kB / index-D9cTXXBu.css 53.76 kB; dist/renderer/{WMB_Logo.png, icon.ico, README.md} shipped via publicDir: 'assets' refinement-state/functional-verify-9-artifacts/build.log

The cycle-9 baseline had renderer hash index-DHPen0XE.js 984.45 kB. The verify-9 hash is index-CZiEaSX0.js 988.72 kB — a +4.27 kB delta that matches the F050 TopBar additions (logo <img> element + computeHeaderGitIndicator model + 4 new test cases imported into the renderer test bundle has zero effect on the production bundle, but the model + JSX growth does). New hash = expected change confirms code-edit traceability.

The same Tailwind informational warning on duration-[var(--motion-duration-medium)] is still emitted (unchanged since cycle 2).

Step 1: Re-test of fix targets

F009 — Required App Assets — VERIFIED PASS

Check Method Result
assets/WMB_Logo.png exists ls assets/ 640 B file present
assets/icon.ico exists ls assets/ 662 B file present
assets/README.md exists ls assets/ 1635 B file present
tests/shared/assets.test.ts npx vitest run 6/6 PASS in 9 ms
Asset generator deterministic node scripts/generate-assets.mjs re-run sha256 89ec2900…cac7 (PNG) + a747b6ea…ebbb (ICO) — byte-identical to fix-log claim
Assets ship to renderer npm run build then ls dist/renderer/ WMB_Logo.png + icon.ico + README.md present
package.json > build.win.icon assets.test.ts case 4 PASS — pinned to assets/icon.ico
vite.config.ts publicDir assets.test.ts case 5 PASS — pinned to assets
createMainWindow.ts icon path assets.test.ts case 6 PASS — 'assets', 'icon.ico' regex match

Spec parity (§15, §2.2, §16): all three required assets exist with matching paths; NSIS installer pin holds; main-window icon wiring intact. Fix landed correctly.

F050 — Header Logo And Git Status Indicator — VERIFIED PASS

Check Method Result
tests/renderer/headerGitIndicatorModel.test.ts npx vitest run 9/9 PASS in 67 ms
tests/renderer/topBar.test.tsx npx vitest run 7/7 PASS in 1.63 s
Logo <img> rendered topBar.test.tsx case 4 PASS — src="./WMB_Logo.png" + alt="WxManBran logo"
Green dot + branch on clean (§14) topBar.test.tsx case 5 PASS — data-variant="connected" + bg-success + branch text “main”
Yellow dot + “(uncommitted changes)” on dirty topBar.test.tsx case 6 PASS — data-variant="warning" + bg-warning + warning text visible
Red dot + error text when git fails topBar.test.tsx case 7 PASS — data-variant="error" + bg-destructive
StatusBar (footer git chip) regression tests/renderer/statusBar.test.tsx 3/3 PASS — unchanged behavior, no duplication regression
AppShell composition TopBar consumed by AppShell + full-suite covers Green in 3/3 full-suite runs (where appShell.test.tsx participates)

Spec parity (§6.1 + §14 + §15): logo asset wired; four-variant color ladder (connected/warning/error/loading) maps to documented Tailwind tokens (bg-success/bg-warning/bg-destructive/bg-muted-foreground); (uncommitted changes) literal text matches §6.1 exactly. Fix landed correctly.

Step 2: Regression Check — sample of PASS features near modified code

Modified code paths in fix-9: vite.config.ts, src/renderer/layout/TopBar.tsx, plus 4 new files (assets/*, scripts/generate-assets.mjs, src/renderer/layout/headerGitIndicatorModel.ts, two test files). Sampled ~17 PASS features whose code/tests overlap with these areas:

Feature(s) Test file(s) Result
F049 git indicator (footer StatusBar) tests/renderer/statusBar.test.tsx 3/3 PASS — footer chip behavior unchanged after F050 added the header chip
F048 layout / status bar model tests/renderer/statusBarModel.test.ts 9/9 PASS
F046 / F047 top bar model + chrome tests/renderer/topBarModel.test.ts 6/6 PASS
F034 publish footer destination path tests/renderer/publishFooter.test.tsx 4/4 PASS
F029-derivative publish hook timeout tests/renderer/useGitPublish.test.tsx 2/2 PASS
F090 empty state component tests/renderer/emptyState.test.tsx 7/7 PASS
F029 git publish workflow (mocked) tests/main/publishService.test.ts + gitService.mocks.test.ts + publishHistoryService.test.ts + gitGetStatusHandlers.test.ts 32/32 PASS combined (12 + 11 + 2 + 7)
F008 launcher scripts tests/shared/launchers.test.ts 3/3 PASS
F035 incoming files tests/main/incomingFilesService.test.ts 7/7 PASS
F036 / F037 / F038 file validator tests/shared/fileValidator.test.ts 55/55 PASS
F028 + R2 file copy tests/main/fileCopyService.test.ts 18/18 PASS

Regression sample total: 11 test files, 126 tests, 0 failures. All sampled PASS features hold up post-fix. Logs: regression-layout.log, regression-publish-empty.log, regression-services.log, regression-validators.log.

Step 3: Test unblocked features

F050’s master-list Dependencies field was F009, F014. F009 was previously MISSING and unblocked F050 in this same fix pass — now both PASS. There are no remaining BLOCKED-on-F009 features in the master list.

F051 (Application Menu) had no F009 dependency — it depends on src/main/menu/appMenu.ts which was untouched.

No other features had a dependency on either F009 or F050; nothing newly unblocked beyond the fix-pass scope.

Full-Suite Test Runs (× 3 consecutive, post-fix)

Run Test Files Tests Duration Log
1 57/58 PASS, 1 FAIL 596/597 PASS, 1 FAIL 45.56 s test-run-1.log
2 58/58 PASS 597/597 PASS 31.95 s test-run-2.log
3 58/58 PASS 597/597 PASS 61.86 s test-run-3.log

Result: 2/3 fully green; 1/3 saw a single test fail. The single failure was the verify-8 watch-flag flake — tests/renderer/shadcn-smoke.test.tsx > App + Dialog smoke > keeps keyboard focus inside the dialog while open — failing at line 173 with expect(dialog.contains(active)).toBe(true) returning false. This is a flake re-activation, not a fresh regression (verify-8 saw the same shape; cycle-9 saw 0/3 activations and downgraded to MONITOR; verify-9 brings the flake back into view).

Test-count delta: +19 tests / +2 test files versus cycle-9, exactly matching the fix-9 claim (2 new test files: assets.test.ts 6 cases + headerGitIndicatorModel.test.ts 9 cases + 4 new cases in topBar.test.tsx = 19 new tests; 597 = 578 + 19 ✓).

Isolated Reruns — shadcn-smoke.test.tsx × 4 (extra stress on the watch-flag flake)

Invocation Result Failed Cases Log
Isolated run 1 2 failed / 14 passed (16) “opens the dialog and shows the titled input field (happy path)” + “keeps keyboard focus inside the dialog while open” shadcn-smoke-isolated-1.log
Isolated run 2 16/16 PASS none shadcn-smoke-isolated-2.log
Isolated run 3 16/16 PASS none shadcn-smoke-isolated-3.log
Isolated run 4 16/16 PASS none shadcn-smoke-isolated-4.log

Verify-9 flake activation rate (combined): 2 invocation activations / 7 total invocations (3 full-suite + 4 isolated) = ~29%. Verify-8’s rate was 2/6 = ~33%; cycle-9’s was 0/6 = 0%. The flake is NOT closed — it has reactivated at a similar rate to verify-8 after a single quiet cycle.

Failure shape (both isolated run 1 cases): the FIRST test in the file (opens the dialog) fails on expect(dialog).toBeVisible() and the THIRD test (keeps keyboard focus) fails on expect(dialog.contains(active)).toBe(true). Both failures occur in the test that runs immediately after a sibling test that pressed Escape to close a dialog — strongly suggesting a stray Escape-key event leaks from one test’s userEvent queue into the next test’s setup window before the next dialog can fully mount/trap focus. This matches the verify-8 root-cause hypothesis exactly.

Step 4: Fix Verification Summary

Fixes verified working

  • F009 — Required App Assets ✓ — assets exist with documented sha256s; assets.test.ts 6/6 green; build ships them to dist/renderer/; package.json pin + vite.config.ts publicDir + createMainWindow.ts lookup all wired.
  • F050 — Header Logo + Git Status Indicator ✓ — logo <img> rendered, four §14 variants map to documented Tailwind tokens, (uncommitted changes) warning literal matches spec, useGitStatus hook reused (no IPC duplication), StatusBar footer chip unaffected.

Fixes not resolved

  • None. Both Session A items landed cleanly.

Regressions introduced

  • None. The single failing test in full-suite run 1 is the verify-8 watch-flag flake reactivating, which was pre-existing in the codebase (root cause is in the shadcn-smoke.test.tsx test setup itself — stray Escape-key event between sibling tests — and was untouched by this fix pass). No PASS feature transitioned to FAIL/PARTIAL/BLOCKED. The master-list still shows 0 in those columns.

Remaining work (Watch Flags carried forward to Cycle 10)

  1. shadcn-smoke > keeps keyboard focus inside the dialog while open — ESCALATED back to SCHEDULE REMEDIATION (cycle-9 had downgraded to MONITOR). Verify-9 saw 2 invocation activations across 7 invocations (1 full-suite + 1 isolated, with the isolated run failing 2 sibling cases), which crosses the cycle-9 escalation threshold (“≥2 activations triggers re-escalation”). Recommended remediation (carried over from verify-8): add beforeEach(() => fireEvent.keyUp(document.body, { key: 'Escape' })) to flush any stray pressed-key state between tests, OR migrate shadcn-smoke.test.tsx to a single-threaded vitest project. The remediation should land in the next fix cycle to prevent the flake from masking real regressions in future verification passes.

  2. 28 MISSING features remain — Sessions B–E + Phase 2 still open:
    • Session B: F030 → F031 → F032 → F033 (publish queue UI, commit message, per-file YouTube, status log)
    • Session C: F087 → F088 → F089 (command palette, global shortcuts, context menus)
    • Session D: F039 (Document Creator renderer)
    • Session E: F045 (Quick Browse renderer)
    • Phase 2 epic: F093 → F111 (NHC integration, AI summarization, email automation, draft queue, dashboard, historical, notifications, QoL, audit compliance)
    • Recommended sequencing for next fix cycle (smallest coherent slice): Session B starting with F030 (publish queue rows depend on no other MISSING feature; spec §6.2 fully describes the contract).

  3. Service-layer byte-stability — not re-measured this verification because the fix only touched renderer + asset files; service smokes (F008 / F028+R2 / F035 / F036-F038 / F044) were not regenerated this pass, but the regression sample re-ran their unit tests (32+7+55+18 = 112 PASS) and they remain green. Next cycle should regenerate the byte-equality smokes if a service-layer edit lands.

  4. Build hash drift — the renderer hash changed from cycle-9’s index-DHPen0XE.js (984.45 kB) to verify-9’s index-CZiEaSX0.js (988.72 kB). The +4.27 kB delta is consistent with the F050 TopBar additions (model file + JSX); no unexplained drift. Future cycles should expect a stable hash again until the next renderer-touching fix.

Step 5: Master-List Update

No additional edits required this verification pass. Fix-9 already promoted F009 and F050 to PASS with correct evidence fields citing the new test files. I re-read both entries and confirmed:

  • F009 (line 136): Status: PASS, evidence cites tests/shared/assets.test.ts (6/6 PASS) + refinement-state/refinement-functional-fixes-9.md. Code path documents scripts/generate-assets.mjs, vite.config.ts publicDir, createMainWindow.ts icon read, and package.json > build.win.icon NSIS pin.
  • F050 (line 757): Status: PASS, evidence cites tests/renderer/topBar.test.tsx (7/7) + tests/renderer/headerGitIndicatorModel.test.ts (9/9) + the fix log. Code path documents TopBar.tsx logo + indicator wiring → headerGitIndicatorModel.ts (§14 ladder) → useGitStatus.ts → git:getStatus IPC.

Status totals re-audited via grep: 83 PASS + 28 MISSING + 0 FAIL + 0 BLOCKED + 0 PARTIAL + 0 UNTESTED = 111 ✓.

Hardening-Mode Outputs (per post-100% rules)

Re-verification delta

PASS sample re-run this verification (in addition to the 3 full-suite runs covering all test-bound PASS features): F008, F028+R2, F029, F029-derivative, F034, F035, F036, F037, F038, F046, F047, F048, F049, F090 — all held up, none demoted. Plus F009 + F050 newly verified PASS. Sampling rotation note for cycle-10: rotate the regression sample toward the 30+ PASS features that did NOT receive direct re-test logs this cycle (e.g., F010-F021 core navigation/routing, F022-F027 publish view scaffolding, F040-F044 settings/config display, F052-F066 main-process plumbing, F067-F086 misc UI/utility).

Soft-evidence hardening

F009 evidence was previously “no implementation” (MISSING). Verify-9 hardened it with a 6-test contract suite that actually reads the file bytes (PNG signature byte check, ICO header byte check) plus repo-wiring assertions (vite/nsis/main process). This is harder evidence than “files exist on disk” — it would catch a regression where the PNG got truncated or the ICO header was malformed.

F050 evidence was previously “no implementation” (MISSING). Verify-9 hardened it with a 9-test pure-model suite + 4 new DOM-rendering tests. The pure-model split gives exhaustive variant-state coverage without React rendering overhead, and the DOM tests prove the model’s outputs map to the documented Tailwind classes.

New finding surfaced

Latent issue re-confirmed: The shadcn-smoke focus-trap flake re-activated this cycle after a single quiet cycle (cycle-9). Verify-9’s 2/7 activation rate matches verify-8’s 2/6 rate, suggesting cycle-9’s 0/6 was the outlier (machine-load happenstance), not evidence of a self-resolved flake. Per cycle-9 Watch Flag 1 escalation rule, this is now back to SCHEDULE REMEDIATION for the next fix cycle. The remediation plan from verify-8 still stands (beforeEach Escape-key flush OR single-threaded vitest project); both are low-risk and would close the watch flag.

Master-list parity scan re-confirmation

Cycle-9 closed Watch Flag 3 by completing the spec↔master-list parity scan (192 Section refs across 101 F-entries, 0 broken, 10 explicit UNDOCUMENTED, 4 intentionally non-referenced spec sections). Verify-9 spot-checked the F009 and F050 entries against project-spec.md §15 / §2.2 / §16 (F009) and §6.1 / §14 / §15 (F050) — all sections still present in the spec, all citations resolve correctly. Parity scan remains valid; no re-walk needed this cycle. Spec is unchanged since cycle 6 (mtime hasn’t moved); only the master list received the F009 + F050 PASS updates.

MISSING spot-check (no ghost implementations introduced)

Direct filesystem checks against the four canonical MISSING-feature sentinels:

  • F030–F033 publish queue/commit/YouTube/status-log UI: src/renderer/features/publish/ contains only DropZone.tsx, PublishFooter.tsx, dropZoneModel.ts — no FileList/CommitMessage/YouTube/StatusLog modules. Still MISSING ✓
  • F039 doc-creator renderer: src/renderer/features/doc-creator/ does not exist (ls: cannot access). Still MISSING ✓
  • F045 quick-browse renderer: src/renderer/features/quick-browse/ does not exist. Still MISSING ✓

All MISSING statuses remain valid. No accidental ghost implementations landed during the F009/F050 fix pass.

Git Safety

  • No live git-publish E2E executed this verification. F029 (Git Publish Workflow) derivative coverage held green via the mocked-git suite (12 + 11 + 2 + 7 = 32/32 PASS).
  • The cycle-2 disposable-branch E2E artifact remains the authoritative live-git evidence — no live-git code path changed in fix-9 (which only touched renderer + asset files), so no fresh live-git E2E is warranted.
  • No disposable test branches created. No remote refs touched. No main writes. No config.json mutations.

GUI / Screenshots

  • No live Electron launch attempted this verification. The fix-9 changes were exhaustively covered at the DOM level by:
    • topBar.test.tsx (7/7) — logo <img>, three §14 dot variants, theme toggle + command-button regression
    • headerGitIndicatorModel.test.ts (9/9) — pure-model coverage of all four variants + edge cases
    • assets.test.ts (6/6) — file-bytes-on-disk + wiring assertions
  • refinement-state/screenshots/cycle-9/ directory exists but intentionally left empty for verify-9 — DOM-level coverage is comprehensive for the F009/F050 contract; live-launch screenshots add no new verification signal beyond what the 22 tests already assert.
  • Future cycles that land Sessions B–E (publish queue UI, doc-creator, quick-browse) must capture live-launch screenshots into cycle-XX/ because those features have user-perceptible visual contracts not fully expressible in DOM tests.

Evidence Index

  • Mechanical gates: refinement-state/functional-verify-9-artifacts/typecheck.log, lint.log, build.log
  • Full-suite runs: test-run-1.log (596/597, 45.56s — 1 flake), test-run-2.log (597/597, 31.95s), test-run-3.log (597/597, 61.86s)
  • Fix-target re-tests: f009-f050-isolated.log (22/22 PASS — assets + headerGitIndicatorModel + topBar)
  • Regression samples: regression-layout.log (statusBar + topBarModel + statusBarModel = 18/18), regression-publish-empty.log (publishFooter + useGitPublish + emptyState = 13/13), regression-services.log (publishService + gitService.mocks + publishHistoryService + gitGetStatusHandlers + launchers + incomingFilesService = 42/42), regression-validators.log (fileValidator + fileCopyService = 73/73)
  • Watch-flag flake stress: shadcn-smoke-isolated-1.log (2 failed/16), shadcn-smoke-isolated-2.log (16/16), shadcn-smoke-isolated-3.log (16/16), shadcn-smoke-isolated-4.log (16/16)
  • Asset generator determinism: generate-assets-rerun.log (sha256 byte-equal to fix-log claim)

Verification That State Is Accurately Recorded

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

  • ^### F[0-9] → 111 feature sections ✓
  • ^- Status: PASS$ → 83 ✓
  • ^- Status: MISSING$ → 28 ✓
  • ^- Status: (PARTIAL|FAIL|UNTESTED|BLOCKED)$ → 0 ✓

Totals sum: 83 + 28 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 111 ✓ Health Score: 83 / (83 + 0 + 0 + 0) = 100.0% ✓ (HARDENING MODE — refinement continues; this is not a “done” signal)

Mechanical gates: 3/3 green. Full suite × 3: 2/3 fully green + 1/3 with verify-8 watch-flag flake reactivating (1 test failed). Isolated stress on the flake: 3/4 green + 1/4 with 2 sibling cases failing — confirming the flake’s verify-8 root-cause hypothesis (Escape-key event leak between sibling tests). Fix-9 targets (F009 + F050) verified PASS with fresh evidence: 22/22 isolated tests + asset bytes match claimed sha256s + ships to dist/renderer/ after build. Regression sample of ~17 PASS features near modified code: 126/126 PASS. No regressions introduced. Two MISSING → PASS promotions held up. One pre-existing flake re-activated and is now escalated back to SCHEDULE REMEDIATION for cycle 10.

End of verify 9. STABILITY + HARDENING verification: F009 + F050 fix landings verified, 2 PASS gained, 0 demoted. Renderer bundle hash changed as expected (TopBar/model additions). Verify-8 watch-flag flake reactivated at ~29% rate (2/7 invocations); cycle-9’s 0% rate was an outlier and the flake remains an open watch flag, escalated back to SCHEDULE REMEDIATION per the cycle-9 trigger threshold. 28 MISSING features still represent multi-session deferred scope; Session B (F030 first) is the recommended next slice for the next fix cycle. Codebase remains at 100% health on 83 PASS features. Hardening mode continues — refinement is not done.

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