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audit-coverage-gaps

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Discover test coverage gaps that could hide correctness defects

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  3. Review the proposed files and risks before you approve installation.
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Assume the existing tests miss at least one real defect.

  1. For each public method, identify the hardest-to-test edge cases:

    • Null values (where permitted)
    • Maximum/minimum weight
    • Zero-duration expiration
    • Mapping functions that return the same instance
    • Mapping functions that throw
    • Weighers that throw
    • Expiry callbacks that throw
    • CompletableFuture values (async cache edge cases)
    • Keys/values with adversarial hashCode/equals

  2. For each edge case, trace the code path. Does the code handle it correctly?

  3. Identify combinatorially hard behavioral dimensions:

    • Operation A on expired entry during concurrent operation B
    • Exception in user callback X while holding lock Y
    • GC collecting reference R between code points P and Q
    • Fast path falls through to slow path under contention (e.g., entry appears expired on fast path, recovers under lock on slow path)
    • Async cache: future completes between check and action (e.g., isComputingAsync returns true, but future completes before the code that depends on that check executes)

  4. For each candidate gap, provide a minimal test case with the specific cache configuration and thread interleaving needed to reach the code path.

Priority ordering:

  • Paths involving the catch-commit-rethrow pattern (doComputeIfAbsent, remap)
  • Slow paths reachable only via contention (synchronized blocks after optimistic checks)
  • Interactions between expiration and the async value lifecycle (ASYNC_EXPIRY, isComputingAsync)

Focus only on behavioral coverage gaps that could hide correctness bugs.