!5191test-quality-mutation → develop8798df35f1

Curated security mutations: follow-ups on develop's runner

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7 / 7mutants in fast set

1800 ssuite budget

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Logic18265%
Proto00%
Unit tests8229%
Regtest suite00%
Docs & API spec176%
Config & CI00%
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Read these3 files · 182 lines

scripts/test-security-mutations.py+99 −39 .gitlab-ci.yml+5 −23 scripts/test-security-mutations.json+8 −8

Tests1 files · 82 lines

…/scripts/tests/test_security_mutations.py+82 −0

1baselines pass2control survives37 mutants killed4exit 0

4-minute explainer

What changed

Mutants hit AddAttestation

Signature and replay mutants now guard the live gossip path.

One fast CI job

All seven mutants run on MRs; the scheduled deep job is gone.

5 fast+ chain halt+ signer count= 7 fast

skip: unchanged merge trainskip: fork MRsecurity-mutations-deep removed

One deadline

Lock wait and every go test fit inside start + budget.

Kill the process group

go test runs in its own session; the whole group is killed.

timeout → killpg(SIGKILL)
Ctrl-C, exception → kill + reap
SIGTERM / SIGHUP → SystemExit → same cleanup
normal exit → group killed before lock release

Runner tests

Zero and negative durations exit 2; lock wait stops at budget.

--lock-wait 0 → exit 2-1 → exit 2soon → exit 2held lock, budget 2 s → exit 1 < 30 s

What's the record

The cited results snapshot isn't in the tree; the CI artifact is.

test-quality-reports/mutations-fast.jsonalso in draft !5181

State + upgrade

Runner flags

changed--seconds-per-command~~any int (now ≥ 1)~~ → 300
changed--lock-wait~~any int (now ≥ 1)~~ → 600
changed--budget-seconds~~any int (now ≥ 1)~~ → 1800
newTHORNODE_TEST_QUALITY_LOCK/tmp/thornode-test-quality-build.lock

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Glossary

AddAttestation: AttestationState.AddAttestation verifies a peer's signature on an observation and ignores a repeated one. Every gossip handler calls it. generic_attestation.go ↗
Anchor: The exact 'old' text a mutant replaces. It must occur exactly once in the file, or the mutant is marked invalid. scripts/test-security-mutations.json ↗
Build lock: A file lock (flock) at /tmp/thornode-test-quality-build.lock that serialises heavy test-quality runs on one machine. THORNODE_TEST_QUALITY_LOCK now overrides the path. scripts/test-security-mutations.py ↗
Fast / deep mode: The manifest marks each mutant fast or deep. After this MR all seven are fast, and the scheduled deep job is removed. scripts/TEST_QUALITY_CI.md ↗
Go overlay: go build's -overlay flag maps a source file to a replacement file, so the mutant compiles without editing the checkout. go help build ↗
Merge train: GitLab queues approved MRs and tests each merged with the ones ahead. This job, like unit-tests, skips a car whose develop base has not moved. GitLab merge trains ↗
Mutant: A copy of the source with one exact line swapped for a weaker one. It is killed when its named test fails, and survives when the test still passes. scripts/test-security-mutations.md ↗
Process group: A set of processes signalled together. go test runs in a new session, so killpg reaches its compilers and test binaries too. Python os.killpg ↗
tss-lib-private: A private THORChain TSS library the observer package imports; fork MRs can't fetch it, so the job skips them.
Weak control: TestMutationWeakUnanimity, a deliberately incomplete test run against the quorum mutant. It must survive, showing the runner doesn't count everything as killed. scripts/test-security-mutations.md ↗