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Build a real test harness (TODO.md section 1.0) The suite could not fail and did not run. test_linkedlist.c asserted nothing at all -- it printed node names and returned 0 -- so every confirmed list defect passed it. test_tree.c was red on every run because parms.steps was never reset between its three searches, and four libakerror tests registered but never built, reporting Not Run. CI, meanwhile, was not fetching the submodule, so configure failed before reaching any of it. - tests/aksl_capture.h: AKSL_CHECK (NDEBUG-proof), AKSL_CHECK_STATUS/_OK to run an akerror-returning call, assert its status and release the context, a capturing akerr_log_method, aksl_slots_in_use(), and an AKSL_RUN driver that fails any test leaking an error-pool slot. - test_linkedlist.c: rewritten as 15 assertion cases over the append, iterate and pop behaviour that is correct today. - test_tree.c: each search builds its own tree and params. - Registration driven by AKSL_TESTS, plus AKSL_WILL_FAIL_TESTS (aborts by design) and AKSL_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, which marks WILL_FAIL the three new tests asserting correct behaviour for the confirmed defects in TODO.md 2.1.1-2.1.3. Fixing a defect flips its test to "unexpectedly passed", which is the cue to promote it into AKSL_TESTS. - add_test/set_tests_properties are shadowed across the libakerror add_subdirectory call: CMake cannot un-register a test and set_tests_properties cannot cross directory scopes. The dependency has its own CI. - AKSL_SANITIZE=ON builds library, tests and dependency with ASan+UBSan. - scripts/mutation_test.py ported and retargeted at src/stdlib.c; wired to a manual `mutation` target, not a CI gate until 1.1-1.9 exist. - CI: checkout with submodules: recursive, and ctest --output-on-failure. ctest is now 5/5 green in both the default and sanitizer builds. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-28 12:39:54 -04:00
#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
Mutation testing harness for libakstdlib.
Mutation testing measures how good the test suite is at catching bugs. It works
by making many small, deliberate breakages ("mutants") to the library source --
flipping a comparison, deleting a statement, swapping true/false -- and then
running the whole CTest suite against each one. If the tests fail, the mutant is
"killed" (good: the tests noticed the bug). If the tests still pass, the mutant
"survived" (bad: a real bug of that shape would slip through unnoticed).
The mutation score is killed / (killed + survived). Surviving mutants are printed
with file:line and the exact change so they can be turned into new test cases.
This harness has no third-party dependencies (Python stdlib + the project's
normal cmake/ctest toolchain). It never mutates the real working tree: it copies
the repo to a scratch directory and mutates there.
Usage:
scripts/mutation_test.py [options]
--source-root DIR repo root to copy (default: parent of this script's dir)
--target FILE source file to mutate, relative to root; repeatable.
Default: src/stdlib.c and include/akstdlib.h
--work DIR scratch dir for the mutated copy (default: a temp dir)
--timeout SECONDS per-suite ctest timeout (default: 120)
--threshold PCT exit non-zero if mutation score < PCT (default: 0 = off)
--list only list the mutants that would be run, then exit
--keep keep the scratch working copy on exit (for debugging)
-j N (reserved) currently runs sequentially
"""
import argparse
import os
import re
import shutil
import subprocess
import sys
import tempfile
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
# Mutation operators
#
# Each operator yields zero or more (start, end, replacement) edits for a single
# line of source. The driver applies exactly one edit per mutant so every mutant
# differs from the original by one localized change.
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
# Relational operator replacement: map each operator to the alternatives that
# meaningfully change behaviour (not merely the strict negation).
_REL = {
"==": ["!="],
"!=": ["=="],
"<=": ["<", "=="],
">=": [">", "=="],
"<": ["<=", ">"],
">": [">=", "<"],
}
# Match a relational operator that is NOT part of ->, <<, >>, =>, <=, >=, ==, !=
# unless we intend it. We tokenize the two-char operators first, then single.
_REL_TWO = re.compile(r"(==|!=|<=|>=)")
_REL_ONE = re.compile(r"(?<![-<>=!+])([<>])(?![=<>])")
_LOGICAL = {"&&": "||", "||": "&&"}
_LOG_RE = re.compile(r"(&&|\|\|)")
_BOOL = {"true": "false", "false": "true"}
_BOOL_RE = re.compile(r"\b(true|false)\b")
# Arithmetic / compound-assignment on whitespace-delimited operands only, to
# avoid touching ++, --, ->, unary signs, or pointer/format punctuation.
_ARITH_RE = re.compile(r"(?<=\s)([+\-])(?=\s)")
_ARITH = {"+": "-", "-": "+"}
_COMPOUND_RE = re.compile(r"(\+=|-=)")
_COMPOUND = {"+=": "-=", "-=": "+="}
# Integer literal replacement: 0 <-> 1 (word-bounded, not inside identifiers or
# larger numbers, not a float).
_INT_RE = re.compile(r"(?<![\w.])([01])(?![\w.])")
_INT = {"0": "1", "1": "0"}
def _op_edits(line):
"""Yield (tag, start, end, replacement) for every candidate mutation."""
# Relational (two-char first so we don't split them with the one-char pass)
for m in _REL_TWO.finditer(line):
for alt in _REL[m.group(1)]:
yield ("ROR", m.start(1), m.end(1), alt)
for m in _REL_ONE.finditer(line):
for alt in _REL[m.group(1)]:
yield ("ROR", m.start(1), m.end(1), alt)
for m in _LOG_RE.finditer(line):
yield ("LCR", m.start(1), m.end(1), _LOGICAL[m.group(1)])
for m in _BOOL_RE.finditer(line):
yield ("BCR", m.start(1), m.end(1), _BOOL[m.group(1)])
for m in _COMPOUND_RE.finditer(line):
yield ("AOR", m.start(1), m.end(1), _COMPOUND[m.group(1)])
for m in _ARITH_RE.finditer(line):
yield ("AOR", m.start(1), m.end(1), _ARITH[m.group(1)])
for m in _INT_RE.finditer(line):
yield ("ICR", m.start(1), m.end(1), _INT[m.group(1)])
# Statement-deletion: neutralize a whole statement. We only delete statements
# that are safe to drop without guaranteeing a compile error, so a surviving
# deletion is a genuine test gap rather than compiler noise.
_STMT_DELETABLE = re.compile(
r"""^\s*(
break |
return\b[^;]* |
[A-Za-z_][-\w>().\[\]* ]*\s*=\s*[^;]* | # assignments
[A-Za-z_][\w]*\s*\([^;]*\) # bare function calls
)\s*;\s*(\\?)\s*$""",
re.VERBOSE,
)
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
# Deciding which lines are eligible to mutate
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
# Skip preprocessor control and the block of constant/error-code #defines in the
# template header: mutating buffer sizes or renumbering error codes produces
# equivalent or uninteresting mutants that swamp the signal.
_SKIP_LINE = re.compile(
r"""^\s*(
\#\s*(include|ifn?def|ifdef|if|elif|else|endif|error|pragma|undef) |
\#\s*define\s+AKERR_(MAX|LAST|NULLPOINTER|OUTOFBOUNDS|API|ATTRIBUTE|
TYPE|KEY|INDEX|FORMAT|IO|VALUE|RELATIONSHIP|EOF|CIRCULAR_REFERENCE|
ITERATOR_BREAK|NOT_IMPLEMENTED|BADEXC|NOIGNORE|USE_STDLIB)\b |
\* | // # comment bodies / line comments
)""",
re.VERBOSE,
)
def _is_comment_or_blank(line):
s = line.strip()
return (not s) or s.startswith("//") or s.startswith("/*") or s.startswith("*")
def eligible(line):
if _is_comment_or_blank(line):
return False
if _SKIP_LINE.match(line):
return False
return True
class Mutant:
__slots__ = ("path", "lineno", "op", "before", "after", "col")
def __init__(self, path, lineno, op, before, after, col):
self.path = path
self.lineno = lineno
self.op = op
self.before = before
self.after = after
self.col = col
def describe(self):
return (f"{self.path}:{self.lineno} [{self.op}] "
f"col{self.col}: {self.before.strip()} -> {self.after.strip()}")
def generate_mutants(root, rel_target):
"""Enumerate all mutants for one target file."""
abspath = os.path.join(root, rel_target)
with open(abspath, "r") as fh:
lines = fh.readlines()
mutants = []
for i, line in enumerate(lines, start=1):
if not eligible(line):
continue
# substitution operators
seen = set()
for tag, s, e, repl in _op_edits(line):
key = (s, e, repl)
if key in seen:
continue
seen.add(key)
mutated = line[:s] + repl + line[e:]
if mutated == line:
continue
mutants.append(Mutant(rel_target, i, tag, line, mutated, s))
# statement deletion
m = _STMT_DELETABLE.match(line)
if m:
indent = line[: len(line) - len(line.lstrip())]
cont = "\\" if line.rstrip().endswith("\\") else ""
deleted = f"{indent}/* mutant: deleted */ {cont}\n" if cont else f"{indent};\n"
mutants.append(Mutant(rel_target, i, "SDL", line, deleted, 0))
return mutants
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
# Build / test orchestration against a scratch copy
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
class Runner:
def __init__(self, work, timeout):
self.work = work
self.build = os.path.join(work, "build")
self.timeout = timeout
def _run(self, cmd, timeout=None):
return subprocess.run(
cmd, cwd=self.work, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,
timeout=timeout,
)
def configure(self):
r = self._run(["cmake", "-S", ".", "-B", "build"], timeout=self.timeout)
return r.returncode == 0, r.stdout
def build_and_test(self):
"""Return ('killed-compile' | 'killed-test' | 'killed-timeout' | 'survived')."""
try:
b = self._run(["cmake", "--build", "build"], timeout=self.timeout)
except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
return "killed-timeout"
if b.returncode != 0:
return "killed-compile"
try:
t = subprocess.run(
["ctest", "--test-dir", "build", "--output-on-failure",
"--stop-on-failure"],
cwd=self.work, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,
timeout=self.timeout,
)
except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
return "killed-timeout"
return "survived" if t.returncode == 0 else "killed-test"
def _xml_escape(s):
return (s.replace("&", "&amp;").replace("<", "&lt;").replace(">", "&gt;")
.replace('"', "&quot;"))
def write_junit(path, records, targets):
"""Write a JUnit XML report. One <testcase> per mutant; a surviving mutant
is a <failure> (test-suite gap), a killed mutant is a passing case."""
by_file = {t: [] for t in targets}
for m, result in records:
by_file.setdefault(m.path, []).append((m, result))
total = len(records)
total_fail = sum(1 for _, r in records if r == "survived")
out = ['<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>',
f'<testsuites name="mutation" tests="{total}" failures="{total_fail}">']
for f, items in by_file.items():
if not items:
continue
fails = sum(1 for _, r in items if r == "survived")
out.append(f' <testsuite name="mutation:{_xml_escape(f)}" '
f'tests="{len(items)}" failures="{fails}">')
for m, result in items:
name = _xml_escape(m.describe())
cls = "mutation." + _xml_escape(m.path)
if result == "survived":
detail = _xml_escape(f"{m.before.strip()} -> {m.after.strip()}")
out.append(f' <testcase name="{name}" classname="{cls}" time="0">')
out.append(f' <failure message="survived mutant '
f'({_xml_escape(m.op)} at {_xml_escape(m.path)}:'
f'{m.lineno})">{detail}</failure>')
out.append(' </testcase>')
else:
out.append(f' <testcase name="{name}" classname="{cls}" '
f'time="0"><system-out>{_xml_escape(result)}'
'</system-out></testcase>')
out.append(' </testsuite>')
out.append('</testsuites>')
with open(path, "w") as fh:
fh.write("\n".join(out) + "\n")
def copy_tree(src, dst):
Add code coverage to the CTest suite New AKSL_COVERAGE option instruments the library and its tests with --coverage -O0 and wires the report into the suite itself, so a plain ctest --test-dir build-coverage both runs the tests and produces coverage. Two CTest entries do the work, held in order by a CTest fixture rather than by declaration order so they also hold under ctest -j: coverage_reset (FIXTURES_SETUP) clears the .gcda counters before any test, since gcov counts are cumulative and would otherwise fold in earlier runs; coverage_report (FIXTURES_CLEANUP) aggregates gcov output afterwards. AKSL_COVERAGE_THRESHOLD / AKSL_COVERAGE_BRANCH_THRESHOLD gate the report, the same regression-ratchet idea as the mutation score. The `coverage` target builds, runs and prints in one step. scripts/coverage.py parses gcov's JSON output, aggregates line, branch and function counts across translation units, and lists every uncovered line and never-called function -- the actionable half, as with surviving mutants. Python stdlib plus gcc's own gcov only: no lcov, gcovr or genhtml. It also writes coverage-summary.txt (CTest hides the output of a passing test) and a Cobertura coverage.xml for CI publishers. Instrumentation is per target, so deps/libakerror stays out of the report. The mutation harness now ignores build*/ and gcov artifacts when copying the tree, so a coverage build does not slow it down. Baseline on src/stdlib.c: 52.0% of lines, 23.6% of branches, 8 of 21 functions. The uncovered functions are the untested wrappers the mutation survivors already point at (printf, ato*, stream, realpath, strhash). Verified: cmake -S . -B build-coverage -DAKSL_COVERAGE=ON cmake --build build-coverage --target coverage # 8/8, report printed ctest --test-dir build-coverage -j8 # fixture order holds cmake -S . -B build-coverage -DAKSL_COVERAGE=ON -DAKSL_COVERAGE_THRESHOLD=60 ctest --test-dir build-coverage --output-on-failure # gate fails as expected ctest --test-dir build --output-on-failure # 6/6, no .gcda emitted ctest --test-dir build-asan --output-on-failure # 6/6 scripts/mutation_test.py --target src/stdlib.c --list # 173 mutants, unchanged Totals match gcov itself: 51.98% of 202 lines, 23.60% of 661 branches. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# "build*" covers build/, build-asan/ and build-coverage/: the harness
# configures its own tree inside the copy, so copying those is pure IO --
# and a coverage tree drags along every .gcno/.gcda as well.
ignore = shutil.ignore_patterns("build*", ".git", "*.o", "*.so", "*~",
"#*#", "*.iso", "*.png", "*.gcno", "*.gcda")
Build a real test harness (TODO.md section 1.0) The suite could not fail and did not run. test_linkedlist.c asserted nothing at all -- it printed node names and returned 0 -- so every confirmed list defect passed it. test_tree.c was red on every run because parms.steps was never reset between its three searches, and four libakerror tests registered but never built, reporting Not Run. CI, meanwhile, was not fetching the submodule, so configure failed before reaching any of it. - tests/aksl_capture.h: AKSL_CHECK (NDEBUG-proof), AKSL_CHECK_STATUS/_OK to run an akerror-returning call, assert its status and release the context, a capturing akerr_log_method, aksl_slots_in_use(), and an AKSL_RUN driver that fails any test leaking an error-pool slot. - test_linkedlist.c: rewritten as 15 assertion cases over the append, iterate and pop behaviour that is correct today. - test_tree.c: each search builds its own tree and params. - Registration driven by AKSL_TESTS, plus AKSL_WILL_FAIL_TESTS (aborts by design) and AKSL_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, which marks WILL_FAIL the three new tests asserting correct behaviour for the confirmed defects in TODO.md 2.1.1-2.1.3. Fixing a defect flips its test to "unexpectedly passed", which is the cue to promote it into AKSL_TESTS. - add_test/set_tests_properties are shadowed across the libakerror add_subdirectory call: CMake cannot un-register a test and set_tests_properties cannot cross directory scopes. The dependency has its own CI. - AKSL_SANITIZE=ON builds library, tests and dependency with ASan+UBSan. - scripts/mutation_test.py ported and retargeted at src/stdlib.c; wired to a manual `mutation` target, not a CI gate until 1.1-1.9 exist. - CI: checkout with submodules: recursive, and ctest --output-on-failure. ctest is now 5/5 green in both the default and sanitizer builds. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-28 12:39:54 -04:00
shutil.copytree(src, dst, ignore=ignore, symlinks=True)
def read_lines(path):
with open(path) as fh:
return fh.readlines()
def write_lines(path, lines):
with open(path, "w") as fh:
fh.writelines(lines)
def main():
# Line-buffer stdout so progress is visible live under CI / the cmake target.
try:
sys.stdout.reconfigure(line_buffering=True)
except (AttributeError, ValueError):
pass
here = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
default_root = os.path.dirname(here)
ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Mutation testing for libakstdlib")
ap.add_argument("--source-root", default=default_root)
ap.add_argument("--target", action="append", default=None)
ap.add_argument("--work", default=None)
ap.add_argument("--timeout", type=int, default=120)
ap.add_argument("--threshold", type=float, default=0.0)
ap.add_argument("--junit", default=None,
help="write a JUnit XML report to this path")
ap.add_argument("--max-mutants", type=int, default=0,
help="cap the run at N evenly-sampled mutants (0 = all)")
ap.add_argument("--list", action="store_true")
ap.add_argument("--keep", action="store_true")
ap.add_argument("-j", type=int, default=1)
args = ap.parse_args()
root = os.path.abspath(args.source_root)
targets = args.target or ["src/stdlib.c", "include/akstdlib.h"]
# Enumerate mutants from the pristine sources.
all_mutants = []
for t in targets:
all_mutants.extend(generate_mutants(root, t))
print(f"Generated {len(all_mutants)} mutants across {len(targets)} file(s):")
for t in targets:
n = sum(1 for m in all_mutants if m.path == t)
print(f" {t}: {n}")
# Optional even-strided sampling to bound run time (CI / smoke tests).
if args.max_mutants and len(all_mutants) > args.max_mutants:
step = len(all_mutants) / args.max_mutants
sampled = [all_mutants[int(i * step)] for i in range(args.max_mutants)]
print(f"Sampling {len(sampled)} of {len(all_mutants)} mutants "
f"(--max-mutants {args.max_mutants}).")
all_mutants = sampled
if args.list:
for m in all_mutants:
print(" " + m.describe())
return 0
if not all_mutants:
print("No mutants generated; nothing to do.")
return 0
# Scratch working copy.
work_parent = args.work or tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="akerr_mut_")
work = os.path.join(work_parent, "src") if args.work else work_parent
if os.path.exists(work):
shutil.rmtree(work)
print(f"\nCopying sources to scratch dir: {work}")
copy_tree(root, work)
runner = Runner(work, args.timeout)
print("Configuring baseline ...")
ok, out = runner.configure()
if not ok:
sys.stderr.write(out.decode(errors="replace"))
sys.stderr.write("\nBaseline configure FAILED; aborting.\n")
return 2
print("Verifying baseline is green (no mutation) ...")
baseline = runner.build_and_test()
if baseline != "survived":
sys.stderr.write(f"Baseline is not green ({baseline}); aborting. "
"Fix the suite before mutation testing.\n")
return 2
print("Baseline OK.\n")
# Group mutants by file so we mutate one file at a time and restore it.
killed = {"killed-compile": 0, "killed-test": 0, "killed-timeout": 0}
survivors = []
records = []
total = len(all_mutants)
# Cache pristine contents per target.
pristine = {t: read_lines(os.path.join(work, t)) for t in targets}
for idx, m in enumerate(all_mutants, start=1):
tgt_abs = os.path.join(work, m.path)
lines = list(pristine[m.path])
lines[m.lineno - 1] = m.after
write_lines(tgt_abs, lines)
try:
result = runner.build_and_test()
finally:
write_lines(tgt_abs, pristine[m.path]) # always restore
records.append((m, result))
if result == "survived":
survivors.append(m)
mark = "SURVIVED"
else:
killed[result] += 1
mark = result.upper()
print(f"[{idx}/{total}] {mark:16} {m.describe()}")
total_killed = sum(killed.values())
score = 100.0 * total_killed / total if total else 100.0
print("\n" + "=" * 72)
print("MUTATION TESTING SUMMARY")
print("=" * 72)
print(f" total mutants : {total}")
print(f" killed (test) : {killed['killed-test']}")
print(f" killed (compile): {killed['killed-compile']}")
print(f" killed (timeout): {killed['killed-timeout']}")
print(f" survived : {len(survivors)}")
print(f" mutation score : {score:.1f}%")
if survivors:
print("\nSurviving mutants (test-suite gaps -- turn these into tests):")
for m in survivors:
print(" " + m.describe())
if args.junit:
junit_path = os.path.abspath(args.junit)
write_junit(junit_path, records, targets)
print(f"\nJUnit report written to: {junit_path}")
if not args.keep and not args.work:
shutil.rmtree(work_parent, ignore_errors=True)
else:
print(f"\nScratch working copy kept at: {work}")
if args.threshold > 0 and score < args.threshold:
print(f"\nFAIL: mutation score {score:.1f}% < threshold {args.threshold:.1f}%")
return 1
return 0
if __name__ == "__main__":
sys.exit(main())