fix(#4724): classify Surefire/Failsafe XML as RED evidence (#4825)

* test(#4724): add failing-first coverage for Surefire XML RED evidence

* fix(#4724): classify Surefire/Failsafe XML as RED evidence

check tdd-red-evidence parsed only node:test TAP, so a JVM project's
genuine Maven red scored INVALID_RED while hand-written synthetic TAP
scored RED_EVIDENCE_OK — the gate was passable only by fabricating its
input (issue #4724's measured repro).

classifyRedEvidence detects Surefire/Failsafe XML (a <testsuite> element)
and parses it by TAG-BOUNDARY scanning: each <testcase> owns its own tag
(self-closing) or the segment up to its </testcase> closer, so the
issue's warned-about spanning trap (a lazy lazy match from a green
self-closing case to the next closing tag) cannot misreport names. A
<failure> or <error> child marks the case failing; the target matches at
class granularity (exact classname, dotted-suffix, or method name). Any
parse anomaly degrades to not-failing — the module stays fail-closed and
PURE (no fs/clock; report freshness remains the workflow's run-start
check per the issue's implementation notes).

TAP classification is byte-identical: all existing fixtures stay green.

* test(#4724): pin the scanner hardening — truncation, TAP-message flip, CDATA phantom

* docs(#4724): backfill changeset PR number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
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Tom Boucher
2026-09-17 11:30:23 -04:00
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@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
---
type: Fixed
pr: 4825
---
**TDD red evidence accepts Surefire/Failsafe XML** — the tdd-red-evidence gate parsed only node:test TAP, so a JVM project's genuine Maven red scored INVALID_RED while hand-written synthetic TAP scored RED_EVIDENCE_OK (the gate was passable only by fabricating its input). Surefire/Failsafe XML reports now classify by tag-boundary scanning: a testcase with a <failure> or <error> child for the target class is a real red; self-closing passing cases are never spanned into failing names. (#4724)

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@@ -46,9 +46,12 @@ export interface RedEvidenceInput {
command: unknown;
/** The command's exit code. */
exitCode: unknown;
/** The command's combined stdout (TAP for node --test). */
/** The command's combined stdout (TAP for node --test; Surefire/Failsafe XML for Maven). */
output: unknown;
/** Identity of the target test named by the plan (its `test('...')` name). */
/**
* Identity of the target the plan named: the `test('...')` name for
* node:test runs, or the target CLASS for Surefire/Failsafe runs (#4724).
*/
targetTest: unknown;
/** Path of the test file the target test lives in (file-named failures are crashes). */
targetFile?: unknown;
@@ -90,6 +93,59 @@ function baseOf(p: unknown): string {
return typeof p === 'string' ? (p.split(/[\\/]/).pop() ?? p) : '';
}
/**
* #4724 — Surefire/Failsafe XML summary parsed by TAG-BOUNDARY scanning, NOT
* by a lazy `(.*?)<\/testcase>` regex: Surefire writes PASSING cases as
* self-closing `<testcase … />` elements, so a lazy span from a green case to
* the next closing tag swallows every case between and misreports names beside
* the right failure message. The scanner walks `<testcase` start tags; each
* case's extent is its own tag (self-closing) or the segment up to its
* `</testcase>` closer (testcases never nest). A `<failure` or `<error` child
* marks the case failing; the reported name is `classname#name`. Any parse
* anomaly degrades to "case not failing" — the module stays fail-closed.
*/
function parseSurefireSummary(output: string): {
tests: number;
pass: number;
fail: number;
failing_tests: string[];
} {
let tests = 0;
let fail = 0;
const failing_tests: string[] = [];
let idx = output.indexOf('<testcase');
while (idx !== -1) {
const tagEnd = output.indexOf('>', idx);
// #4724 review (HIGH): a `<testcase` with no `>` (truncated/stream-cut
// output) must terminate the scan — resuming the search at -1 clamps to 0
// and re-finds the same tag forever. Degrade to what was scanned so far
// (fail-closed: an incomplete report proves nothing).
if (tagEnd === -1) break;
tests++;
const tagText = output.slice(idx, tagEnd + 1);
// Self-closing (`/>`): the case has NO body — a failing sibling after it
// must never be attributed to this case (the #4724 spanning trap).
const selfClosing = output[tagEnd - 1] === '/';
const closeIdx = selfClosing ? -1 : output.indexOf('</testcase>', tagEnd);
// CDATA sections are verbatim captured output (e.g. System.out echoing
// test source) — their content must never be scanned for failure tags
// (#4724 review: CDATA phantom failures).
const body = (selfClosing
? ''
: output.slice(tagEnd + 1, closeIdx === -1 ? output.length : closeIdx)
).replace(/<!\[CDATA\[[\s\S]*?\]\]>/g, '');
const name = /name="([^"]*)"/.exec(tagText)?.[1] ?? '';
const classname = /classname="([^"]*)"/.exec(tagText)?.[1] ?? '';
if (body.includes('<failure') || body.includes('<error')) {
fail++;
failing_tests.push(classname ? `${classname}#${name}` : name);
}
idx = output.indexOf('<testcase', closeIdx === -1 ? tagEnd : closeIdx);
}
return { tests, pass: tests - fail, fail, failing_tests };
}
/** Coerce and validate the raw record's scalar fields. Returns null exit_code only when absent/non-numeric. */
function readInput(input: RedEvidenceInput): {
command: string;
@@ -131,8 +187,34 @@ export function classifyRedEvidence(input: RedEvidenceInput): RedEvidenceResult
};
}
const { command, exitCode, output, targetTest } = parsed;
const summary = parseNodeTestSummary(output);
const failing = tapFailedTestNames(output);
// #4724: format detection. Surefire/Failsafe XML (a `<testsuite>` element) is
// parsed by tag-boundary scanning; everything else stays on the proven TAP
// primitives. Unknown formats keep the TAP parse — which finds nothing — and
// fail closed below.
// #4724 review: BOTH element names must appear — a TAP error message that
// merely quotes "<testsuite>" (e.g. "expected <testsuite> was 2") must not
// flip a genuine TAP red into the XML path.
const isSurefireXml = output.includes('<testsuite') && output.includes('<testcase');
let summary: { tests: number; pass: number; fail: number };
let failing: string[];
if (isSurefireXml) {
const sf = parseSurefireSummary(output);
summary = { tests: sf.tests, pass: sf.pass, fail: sf.fail };
failing = sf.failing_tests;
} else {
summary = parseNodeTestSummary(output);
failing = tapFailedTestNames(output);
}
// Surefire target matching is class-level (the plan names the class); the
// entry's last classname segment or its test name must carry the target.
const surefireTargetMatches = isSurefireXml
? failing.some((entry: string) => {
const cls = entry.split('#')[0] ?? '';
const nm = entry.split('#')[1] ?? '';
return cls === targetTest || cls.endsWith(`.${targetTest}`) || nm === targetTest;
})
: failing.includes(targetTest);
const evidence = {
command,
exit_code: exitCode,
@@ -153,14 +235,15 @@ export function classifyRedEvidence(input: RedEvidenceInput): RedEvidenceResult
if (summary.tests === 0) {
return { verdict: 'INVALID_RED', reason: 'zero_tests_discovered', evidence };
}
// Nonzero exit but TAP reports no failing test: harness/setup/parser crash
// whose failure never reached a test assertion (or unparseable output).
// Nonzero exit but the report shows no failing test: harness/setup/parser
// crash whose failure never reached a test assertion (or unparseable output).
if (summary.fail === 0 || failing.length === 0) {
return { verdict: 'INVALID_RED', reason: 'nonzero_exit_without_test_failure', evidence };
}
// Fixture/load failure: every failing entry is named like the target FILE —
// node reports a load-time crash (throw-on-require, syntax error, ENOENT
// fixture) as a file-named `not ok 1 - <file>`, never the target test.
// (TAP-only shape: Surefire failures carry class#method names.)
const targetBase = baseOf(input?.targetFile ?? '');
const distinctlyNamed = failing.filter((n) => (targetBase ? baseOf(n) !== targetBase : true));
if (distinctlyNamed.length === 0) {
@@ -168,7 +251,7 @@ export function classifyRedEvidence(input: RedEvidenceInput): RedEvidenceResult
}
// Unrelated failure: real tests ran and failed, but none is the target test
// the plan named — an unrelated assertion must not authorize GREEN.
if (!distinctlyNamed.includes(targetTest)) {
if (!(isSurefireXml ? surefireTargetMatches : distinctlyNamed.includes(targetTest))) {
return { verdict: 'INVALID_RED', reason: 'no_target_test_failure', evidence };
}
return { verdict: 'RED_EVIDENCE_OK', reason: 'target_test_failed', evidence };

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@@ -247,3 +247,176 @@ describe('executor spec requires intentional RED evidence before GREEN (#3770)',
'execute-mvp-tdd.md must halt GREEN on INVALID_RED');
});
});
// ── #4724 — Surefire/Failsafe XML RED evidence ────────────────────────────────
// A JVM project's genuine red is a Surefire/Failsafe XML report, not node:test
// TAP. The gate used to parse only TAP, so a real Maven red scored
// INVALID_RED while hand-written synthetic TAP scored RED_EVIDENCE_OK — the
// gate was passable only by fabricating its input. The XML scanner walks
// <testcase> tag boundaries (NOT a lazy spanning regex: Surefire writes
// passing cases self-closing, so `(.*?)</testcase>` spans from a green case
// to the next closing tag and reports wrong method names).
describe('#4724 — Surefire/Failsafe XML RED evidence', () => {
const XML_HEAD = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>\n';
function surefire(cases) {
const body = cases.join('\n');
return `${XML_HEAD}<testsuite name="com.example.AppTest" tests="${cases.length}" failures="1" errors="0">\n${body}\n</testsuite>`;
}
const failingCase = (cls, name) =>
`<testcase name="${name}" classname="${cls}" time="0.01"><failure message="expected 1 was 2">1 != 2</failure></testcase>`;
const errorCase = (cls, name) =>
`<testcase name="${name}" classname="${cls}" time="0.01"><error message="boom">NullPointerException</error></testcase>`;
const greenCase = (cls, name) =>
`<testcase name="${name}" classname="${cls}" time="0.01"/>`;
const INPUT = {
command: 'mvn -Dtest=AppTest test',
exitCode: 1,
targetTest: 'AppTest',
targetFile: 'src/test/java/com/example/AppTest.java',
};
test('a genuine Surefire red with the target class failing classifies RED_EVIDENCE_OK (#4724)', () => {
const result = classifyRedEvidence({
...INPUT,
output: surefire([failingCase('com.example.AppTest', 'divides_by_zero')]),
});
assert.equal(result.verdict, 'RED_EVIDENCE_OK');
assert.equal(result.reason, 'target_test_failed');
assert.equal(result.evidence.fail, 1);
assert.ok(
result.evidence.failing_tests.some((n) => n.includes('AppTest')),
'failing_tests must carry the classname so the target matches',
);
});
test('an unrelated Surefire failure is not the target test', () => {
const result = classifyRedEvidence({
...INPUT,
output: surefire([failingCase('com.other.UnrelatedTest', 'unrelated_case')]),
});
assert.equal(result.verdict, 'INVALID_RED');
assert.equal(result.reason, 'no_target_test_failure');
});
test('an all-green self-closing Surefire report is unexpected_green', () => {
const result = classifyRedEvidence({
...INPUT,
exitCode: 0,
output: surefire([greenCase('com.example.AppTest', 'passes'), greenCase('com.example.AppTest', 'passes2')]),
});
assert.equal(result.verdict, 'INVALID_RED');
assert.equal(result.reason, 'unexpected_green');
});
test('self-closing passing cases are not spanned into failing names (#4725-class trap)', () => {
// The issue's trap: a lazy /(.*?)<\/testcase>/ regex starting at the green
// self-closing case spans to the NEXT closing tag, misreporting the green
// case's name beside the failing one. Boundary scanning must not.
const result = classifyRedEvidence({
...INPUT,
output: surefire([
greenCase('com.example.AppTest', 'green_before_failure'),
failingCase('com.example.AppTest', 'the_real_failure'),
]),
});
assert.equal(result.verdict, 'RED_EVIDENCE_OK');
assert.deepEqual(
result.evidence.failing_tests,
['com.example.AppTest#the_real_failure'],
'exactly the failing case is reported — no spanned green-case names',
);
});
test('an <error> child counts as a failing testcase', () => {
const result = classifyRedEvidence({
...INPUT,
output: surefire([errorCase('com.example.AppTest', 'explodes')]),
});
assert.equal(result.verdict, 'RED_EVIDENCE_OK');
assert.equal(result.evidence.fail, 1);
});
test('a testcase-free Surefire report is zero_tests_discovered', () => {
const result = classifyRedEvidence({
...INPUT,
output: `${XML_HEAD}<testsuite name="com.example.AppTest" tests="0" failures="0" errors="0"></testsuite>`,
});
assert.equal(result.verdict, 'INVALID_RED');
assert.equal(result.reason, 'zero_tests_discovered');
});
test('Failsafe XML (same schema) classifies like Surefire', () => {
const result = classifyRedEvidence({
command: 'mvn -Dtest=AppIT verify',
exitCode: 1,
targetTest: 'AppIT',
targetFile: 'src/test/java/com/example/AppIT.java',
output: `${XML_HEAD}<testsuite name="com.example.AppIT" tests="1" failures="1" errors="0">\n${failingCase('com.example.AppIT', 'integration_red')}\n</testsuite>`,
});
assert.equal(result.verdict, 'RED_EVIDENCE_OK');
assert.equal(result.reason, 'target_test_failed');
});
});
// ── #4724 review hardening — scanner edge cases ──────────────────────────────
test('#4724: a <testcase with no > (truncated output) terminates and fails closed', () => {
// Pre-hardening this hung forever: indexOf('<testcase', -1) clamps to 0 and
// re-found the same tag. Degrade to what was scanned — an incomplete report
// proves nothing.
const result = classifyRedEvidence({
command: 'mvn test',
exitCode: 1,
targetTest: 'AppTest',
output: '<?xml version="1.0"?><testsuite><testcase name="x" classname="C"',
});
assert.equal(result.verdict, 'INVALID_RED');
});
test('#4724: a TAP red whose message quotes <testsuite> stays on the TAP path', () => {
// Format detection requires BOTH <testsuite and <testcase: a genuine TAP
// red whose error message merely quotes "<testsuite>" must not flip to the
// XML path (which would misread it as zero_tests_discovered).
const tap = [
'TAP version 13',
'# Subtest: the test',
'not ok 1 - expected <testsuite> was 2',
' ---',
' error: |-',
' expected <testsuite> was 2',
' ...',
'# tests 1',
'# pass 0',
'# fail 1',
].join('\n');
const result = classifyRedEvidence({
command: 'node --test',
exitCode: 1,
targetTest: 'the test',
output: tap,
});
assert.equal(result.status ?? result.verdict, 'INVALID_RED');
assert.equal(result.reason, 'no_target_test_failure',
'the TAP path must classify it (fail=1), not the XML path (zero tests)');
assert.equal(result.evidence.fail, 1);
});
test('#4724: CDATA sections in a passing case are never scanned as failures', () => {
// A passing case whose captured System.out (CDATA) echoes an <error .../>
// literal must not count as failing — CDATA is verbatim content.
const cd = '<testcase name="prints" classname="com.example.AppTest"><system-out><![CDATA[echo <error x/></system-out>]]></testcase>';
const fl = '<testcase name="x" classname="com.other.Unrelated"><failure message="e">1 != 2</failure></testcase>';
const result = classifyRedEvidence({
command: 'mvn test',
exitCode: 1,
targetTest: 'UnrelatedTest',
output: `<?xml version="1.0"?>\n<testsuite>\n${cd}\n${fl}\n</testsuite>`,
});
assert.equal(result.reason, 'no_target_test_failure',
'the CDATA phantom must not flip the unrelated failure into a target match');
assert.equal(result.evidence.fail, 1, 'only the real failing case counts');
});