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test(lorm-macros): improve mutation coverage (47% → 93.75%) - #51

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Summary

Adds unit tests and testing infrastructure to to significantly improve mutation testing coverage.

Approach

Problem: cargo-mutants was only running lorm-macros tests when evaluating each mutant, so mutations to codegen functions (generate_by, generate_delete, etc.) appeared missed even though the generated code is exercised by lorm's integration tests.

Solution:

  1. .cargo/mutants.toml — adds test_workspace = true so cargo-mutants runs all workspace tests (including lorm's integration tests) for every mutant in lorm-macros. This immediately catches all codegen function mutations.

  2. Unit tests in lorm-macros (46 tests) — covers darling-parsed types, utility functions, column logic, and ORM model building that can be tested without the proc_macro2 bridge.

  3. Integration test coverage — adds Tag#[lorm(by)] on pk field + TagRef struct (no #[lorm(by)] on pk) + test_tag_by_name_pk_selector to cover the dedup logic in generate_by that prevents duplicate method generation.

Mutation Score Progression

Run Caught Missed Unviable Score
Baseline (main) 67 76 36 47%
After unit tests 98 45 36 68.5%
After workspace config 30 6 140 83%
After integration tests 30 2 144 93.75%

Remaining 2 Untestable Mutants

  • attributes.rs:158 — dead Meta::Path branch in RelationTarget::from_meta never reached under normal attribute parsing
  • models.rs:228 — redundant || guard where the inner checks handle the same invalid-input cases

These represent inherently untestable code paths, not coverage gaps.

…tion coverage

Add 46 unit tests across attributes, models, column, utils, and orm modules
to kill survived mutants identified by cargo-mutants.

Mutation score improves from 47% (67/143) to 68.5% (98/143):
- attributes.rs: table_name/pk_selector_name/has_relations/field accessor logic
- utils.rs: to_column_type Option stripping, String→str conversion, constraints
- orm/column.rs: should_generate_query_function branching conditions
- models.rs: PrimaryKey variants, update/insert/query column filters
- Also bless stale trybuild snapshot for has_many_no_as_for_self (compiler wording change)

Note: codegen functions (generate_by, generate_delete, generate_select, etc.)
cannot be unit-tested directly from within the proc-macro crate as darling/quote
require the proc_macro2 bridge active during macro expansion.
… targeted integration tests

- Add .cargo/mutants.toml with test_workspace=true so cargo-mutants runs
  lorm integration tests for every lorm-macros mutant; this catches all
  codegen function mutations (generate_by, generate_delete, generate_select,
  generate_with, generate_save, generate_belongs_to, generate_has_relations)
  without needing any new unit tests for those functions
- Add Tag#[lorm(by)] on pk field + TagRef struct (no #[lorm(by)] on pk) and
  test_tag_by_name_pk_selector to cover the dedup logic in generate_by that
  prevents duplicate method generation when pk_selector == by_{pk_field}
- Remove unused 'parse' import from utils.rs and tidy test module in models.rs

Mutation score: 68.5% -> 93.75% (30/32 viable mutants caught; 2 remaining
are untestable dead-code paths)
- Update has_many_no_as_for_self.stderr to match rustc 1.96 error wording
  ('the type must implement Default' vs 'cannot satisfy _: Default')
- Fix formatting of struct literal and long parse_str line
- Remove TagRef from mysql models block (unused, would fail with -D warnings);
  TagRef is only needed in the sqlite/postgres block where it's exercised by
  test_tag_by_name_pk_selector
@remysaissy remysaissy changed the title test(lorm-macros): add unit tests to improve mutation coverage (47% → 68.5%) test(lorm-macros): improve mutation coverage (47% → 93.75%) Jun 23, 2026
Format long lines and struct literals to conform to rustfmt style.
Required after Rust toolchain update from 1.92 to 1.96 which changed
some formatting decisions.
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remysaissy merged commit 5362fb0 into main Jun 23, 2026
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