A separate mutation_test job runs scripts/mutation_test.py over src/stdlib.c
with a --threshold gate and publishes a JUnit report, mirroring libakerror's
CI. Checkout needs submodules: recursive -- the harness copies the repo and
builds the copy top-level, so deps/libakerror has to be there.
Measured score on the section 1.0 suite is 46.8% (81/173 killed). The gate is
set at 40: a regression ratchet, not a quality bar. Survivors cluster in the
wrappers that have no tests yet (printf family, ato* family, realpath, the
memory and stream wrappers); the list and tree code that section 1.0 does
cover leaves only 5 survivors between them.
Also caps every test with TIMEOUT 30. Measuring the score turned this up: a
mutant deleting `fast = fast->next->next` makes aksl_list_iterate spin
forever, so ctest never returned, the harness killed ctest at its own 120s
timeout, and the orphaned test binary kept burning a core while holding the
pipe open -- the run wedged and needed killing by hand. With a per-test
timeout ctest reaps its own child, those mutants are killed in 30s, and
nothing is left behind. It guards the real suite against the same shape of
bug too.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Andrew Kesterson
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