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Summary

The weekly Mutation score job has failed since 24 August, and there were two
faults stacked on top of each other.

Collection. tests/test_readme.py reads README.md and docs/ from the
repository root, while mutmut runs pytest from its mutants/ copy, which holds
the package and the tests and nothing else. Every run died on
FileNotFoundError before a mutant was tested. The file imports no library
code and could not kill a mutant, so it joins the exclusions.

Budget. With collection fixed the run showed 32 survivors against
SURVIVOR_BUDGET: 23. Nine arrived with #194 and #195, and each is a missing
assertion:

Mutation What no test noticed
validate_unreachable_exceptions, the reported type match='must be a tuple' never looked at the got: ... half, so the message could report NoneType for every input
validate_backoff_support, six wording mutations the refusal was matched on its first word; it is now asserted whole, because the message is the whole remedy — it names the two ways out
_settle: and isinstance(...)or isinstance(...) a breaker with unreachable_exceptions configured would read an ordinary probe failure as inconclusive, then sit in HALF_OPEN while the dependency kept failing
_close: _failed_rounds = 0None the reset test stopped at the next wait being the base one, which None also produces; the round after it is where the counter has to be an integer

Local run afterwards: 614 of 637 killed (96.4%), and the 23 survivors are
exactly the five equivalent classes CONTRIBUTING.md enumerates. Its baseline
(526 of 549) is updated to match. SURVIVOR_BUDGET stays at 23.

No behaviour changes, so no docs/ page and no CHANGELOG.md entry: the
production code is untouched.

Checklist

  • Tests added or updated (suite stays at 100% coverage)
  • uv run ruff format --check and uv run ruff check pass
  • uv run mypy, uv run pyright and uv run pyrefly check pass
  • Docs updated (docs/) for user-facing changes — n/a, tests and the mutation config only
  • CHANGELOG.md [Unreleased] updated — n/a, nothing user-facing
  • Commits follow Conventional Commits

Related issues

Follow-up to #194 and #195.

Fixed

  • Restore the weekly mutation-testing job by excluding tests/test_readme.py from mutmut runs.

Changed

  • Update the mutation-testing baseline to 614/637 killed mutants (96.4%).
  • Keep the documented survivor budget at 23 mutants.

`tests/test_readme.py` reads README.md and docs/ from the repository root,
but mutmut runs pytest from its `mutants/` copy, which holds the package and
the tests and nothing else. Collection raised FileNotFoundError there, so
every scheduled run since it landed failed before a single mutant ran.

The file imports no library code and could not kill a mutant anyway, so it
joins the exclusions rather than learning where it is being run from.
With collection fixed the run surfaced 32 survivors against a budget of 23.
Nine came in with #194 and #195 and every one of them is a missing
assertion, not an equivalent mutant:

- the refusal messages of `validate_unreachable_exceptions` and
  `validate_backoff_support` were matched on a fragment, so six mutations of
  the wording and one of the reported type went unnoticed. The backoff
  refusal is now asserted whole: it names the two ways out, and a caller who
  hits it has nothing else to go on.
- `_settle` could have combined its unreachable test with `or` and no test
  would have failed. A breaker with `unreachable_exceptions` configured would
  then read an ordinary probe failure as inconclusive and sit in HALF_OPEN
  while the dependency kept failing.
- `_close` could have left `_failed_rounds` at `None`. The backoff reset was
  only checked as far as the next wait being the base one, which `None` also
  produces; the round after it is where the counter has to be an integer.

Local run: 614 of 637 killed, and the 23 survivors are exactly the five
equivalent classes CONTRIBUTING.md enumerates. Its baseline is updated.
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The pull request updates mutation-test exclusions and baseline documentation. It strengthens error-message assertions and adds regression coverage for HALF_OPEN probe handling and backoff reset behavior.

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Mutation testing and regression coverage

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pyproject.toml, CONTRIBUTING.md
The mutation-test configuration excludes README link checks. The documented baseline changes to 614/637 mutants killed (96.4%).
Error-message assertion precision
tests/test_coordination.py, tests/test_engine.py
Tests match the complete coordination refusal and invalid unreachable_exceptions type messages.
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tests/test_engine.py, tests/test_state_machine.py
Tests cover ordinary exceptions during HALF_OPEN probes and verify that backoff restarts at 5 seconds before doubling to 10 seconds.

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bagowix and others added 3 commits September 14, 2026 19:24
`pytest.raises(match=...)` searches, so both tests passed on a message that
merely contained the expected one. The point of asserting a whole message is
that it is the whole message, so `\A` and `\Z` say so.
The rule exempts the paths that never reach the published package —
.github/, planning/, benchmarks/, developer tooling — and CONTRIBUTING.md is
one of those, so updating the mutation baseline asked for a changelog entry
no user could read. The exemption only applies when a PR touches nothing but
these paths, so a behaviour change shipped alongside it still needs one.
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