freenet-mail-qa

name: freenet-mail-qa description: QA inventory for the freenet-email project. Use this skill before merging feature PRs, after fixing bugs, or when asked "what's tested" / "what's manual". Source of truth is docs/qa/manual-test-inventory.md.

Freenet Mail QA

When to invoke

• User asks: "what's tested?", "what's manual?", "what bugs are we missing?", "did we test X?", "QA inventory", "what should I test before merging?".
• About to merge a non-trivial UI/contract/delegate PR.
• After a bug fix — the row needs to flip from manual to auto, or a new row needs to be added.
• Before a release — walk manual rows for the touched areas.

How to use

1. Read docs/qa/manual-test-inventory.md first. The matrix is keyed by feature area (Identity, Contacts, Inbox, Compose, Drafts, Sent, Archive, Settings, Layout, Network).
2. Filter to the area the PR / bug touches. Each row has a Status column: auto / manual / automatable / blocked.
3. For auto rows: confirm the linked test still exists and still exercises the behavior (search ui/tests for the title).
4. For manual rows: do the recipe; report what passed / failed.
5. For automatable rows: if you're already touching that area, write the test in the matching spec file. Then flip the row to auto.
6. For blocked rows: cite the blocking issue; don't try to automate.

Updating the inventory

When you add a test:

| <Behavior> | auto | <suite>: `<test title>` |

Suites: offline (ui/tests/email-app.spec.ts), iso (ui/tests/live-node.spec.ts), liveness (ui/tests/production-liveness.spec.ts), rust (cargo test).

When you remove a test, flip the row back to manual (with recipe) or delete the row if the behavior is gone.

Running the suites

Iso harness is heavy (~5–10 min, full freenet net + dx build + headed browser). Don't run on every change — gate to tags / nightly.

WIP settings gating

Settings controls whose backend isn't fully wired live behind the wip-settings cargo feature (off by default). When you add or modify a Settings control:

1. Has a real consumer in non-Settings code? Ship it ungated. Verify by grepping the persisted field name across ui/src/ excluding settings.rs — if zero hits, it's WIP.
2. No consumer yet? Gate with #[cfg(feature = "wip-settings")] on the enum variant / route / nav entry / locals / SettingRow rsx block. Cite the blocking issue (#69, #85, etc.) in the surrounding comment.
3. Backend just landed? Drop the gate, add row to the matrix as manual (with recipe) or auto (with test link).

Verify all three configs build clean before pushing:

cargo check -p freenet-email-ui
cargo check -p freenet-email-ui --features wip-settings
cargo check -p freenet-email-ui --no-default-features --features example-data,no-sync

The matrix's "Settings" section flags WIP rows with (gated behind \wip-settings`)and statusblocked` + the issue link.

Anti-patterns

• Don't add a test that requires --features example-data,no-sync for cross-node behavior. Mock data lives in offline; real protocol behavior belongs in iso.
• Don't flip a row to auto without linking the spec + title. Future agents need to verify the link.
• Don't automate blocked rows. Cite the issue and move on.
• Don't delete rows just because they're tedious to test. Mark them automatable and add to the gap-conversion list at the bottom of the matrix.