tabularis-pr-review

Testing & Quality

Use when reviewing a Tabularis pull request locally — checking code quality against the repo's own rules, verifying the PR's claims, running its tests on the correct branch, and preparing real test data plus a manual test plan for the human. Use when the user says 'review PR #N', 'lass uns PR reviewen', 'check this PR', or wants to test a PR with real data before merging.

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Tabularis Local PR Review

Overview

A read-everything-then-verify review for Tabularis PRs. Goes beyond a diff skim: judges the diff against the repo's own .rules/, confirms the PR's stated claims are true, runs the PR's tests on the PR branch, and stages real data so the human can manually exercise the change. The deliverable is a review plus a copy-paste test plan, not just opinions.

Core principle: Don't trust the PR description — verify every claim against the code, then prove the behavior with real data.

Workflow

Work top to bottom. Each step feeds the next.

1. Pull the PR

gh pr view <N> --json title,body,author,baseRefName,headRefName,state,additions,deletions,changedFiles,labels
gh pr diff <N> --name-only      # scope
gh pr diff <N>                  # full diff

2. Load the rules you'll judge against

Read .rules/*.md for every changed file's domain before forming opinions. The common offenders:

react.md #2 — setState called synchronously in useEffect (async-after-await is fine). Very common in modal/form PRs.
react.md #1 — exhaustive useEffect/useMemo/useCallback deps.
typescript.md — no any.
rust.md — pure helpers extracted + unit-tested; mod.rs stays orchestration-only; public APIs re-exported on refactor.
general.md — English-only comments; new user-facing strings need i18n keys in src/i18n/locales/*.

3. Verify the PR's claims — don't take them on faith

For each factual assertion in the description, prove it:

"Uses common.search / common.noResults i18n keys" → grep '"search"\|"noResults"' src/i18n/locales/en.json.
"Removing searchable={false} enables search" → read the component default (grep searchable src/components/ui/Select.tsx).
"Reads default_port from the manifest" → check the type (src/types/plugins.ts) — is it nullable? What's the fallback?
New Tauri command → confirm it's registered in src-tauri/src/lib.rs invoke_handler.

4. Impact analysis (per CLAUDE.md)

For each non-trivial symbol the PR touches, run gitnexus_impact({target, direction: "upstream"}) and note blast radius / risk. Flag HIGH/CRITICAL.

5. Check out the PR branch — this is mandatory before running tests

Your local checkout is almost never the PR branch, so its tests silently don't exist (cargo test <name> → "0 filtered out", vitest count looks normal but is missing the new cases). Always:

git branch --show-current        # confirm you are NOT on the PR branch
gh pr checkout <N>               # handles forks; working tree must be clean

Tell the user which branch they were on so they can return (git checkout <their-branch>).

6. Run the PR's tests on that branch

pnpm vitest run <changed test files>          # e.g. tests/utils/k8s.test.ts
cd src-tauri && cargo test --lib <module>::<test_mod>   # full path; partial names filter to 0

Report real pass counts, not "looks fine."

7. Prepare REAL test data + a manual test plan

This is the highest-value step and the reason to review locally. Decide what real inputs the feature consumes, stage them, and verify the change's core command/logic against them directly before handing off. Pattern:

Identify the external input (a K8s cluster, a DB, a file, an API).
Stand it up reproducibly — write a manifest/seed to /tmp/pr<N>-*.{yaml,sql} covering every code path: the happy path, the path that must NOT trigger, and the rejected/edge path.
Run the change's actual command against it to prove the backend logic (e.g. run the exact kubectl ... -o jsonpath=... the PR added and confirm output).
Hand the user a table: input → expected behavior, one row per test case, plus a cleanup command.

Example (K8s dialog PR): minikube + manifest with a single-port service (auto-prefill should fire), a multi-port service (must not fire), and a pod (skipped).

8. Verdict

Concise: what's solid, numbered non-blocker notes (rule + practical impact), blockers separately, and an approve / approve-with-nits / request-changes call.

Gotchas

Symptom	Cause
`cargo test` → "0 passed, N filtered out"	Wrong branch (PR code absent) or partial test name — use the full `module::test_mod` path.
Tests "pass" but new cases missing	Reviewing on your own branch, not the PR branch. Do step 5.
`Number(v)` on a cleared input → `0`	Empty form field coerces to 0; watch for it silently disabling defaults/guards.
Hardcoded fallback survives a "remove hardcoding" PR	Grep the magic value in the diff's neighborhood — a `?? 3306` often lingers.

Common Mistakes

Reviewing the diff without reading .rules/ → missing the project's own conventions.
Trusting the PR description's claims instead of grepping for proof.
Running tests on the wrong branch and reporting false green.
Handing the user "test it manually" with no data staged — defeats the point of a local review.