93 test files read a single frontend source and asserted identifiers in it. The
MapWorkspace split showed what that costs: 24 tests went red for a move that
changed no behaviour at all. A contract belongs to the feature — a container,
its hooks, its domain layer — not to whichever file currently holds it.
232 read sites now resolve through read_feature(). The distinction that makes
this safe is direction: a *positive* contract ("this is wired") may widen,
because the identifier must still exist somewhere in the feature; a *negative*
one ("this component performs no transport") is a statement about one file, and
widening it would quietly weaken the check. The 73 single-file reads that
remain are exactly those, and a guard now enforces the rule for new tests.
Verified rather than assumed: of the 732 migrated positive assertions, 644 still
match exactly one module — as specific as before — and the other 86 already
spanned a container and its hook by nature. Two apparent misses are an artefact
of the checking regex reading an escaped newline literally.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
Jens