19 tests were failing on main. All of them assert that a literal substring
occurs in a TSX file, and all of them broke on renames and copy changes rather
than on behaviour: `app.count("useEffect(") == 1` is a formatting rule, and a
changed button label is not a regression. 211 of 249 backend test files read
frontend sources this way, so the suite gave no trustworthy signal and blocked
refactoring.
tests/frontend_contract.py keeps the useful half of the idea — a documented
product contract must remain wired somewhere — and drops the brittle half:
assert_wired for identifiers and API paths, assert_calls for a call whose
later arguments were refactored, assert_mentions for a concept that must still
be explained. The failing assertions are converted to those, or removed where
they only pinned user-visible copy.
test_frontend_contract_test_style.py blocks the pattern from returning: no
test may assert how often a code fragment appears. Counting list values or
network calls is unaffected.
This does not migrate the ~190 files that pass today; those encode real
contracts and are a separate pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>