test: audit competitor behavior across JS and Rust by konard · Pull Request #132 · link-foundation/command-stream

konard · 2025-09-09T20:16:45Z

Summary

Replace conceptual competitor checks with executable compatibility corpora for both maintained implementations: JavaScript and Rust.
Apply exact, reproducible discovery to 12 JavaScript sources and 14 Rust sources, covering 7,515 JavaScript test units and 770 Rust test units.
Give every discovered unit one reviewed disposition: ported behavior, an explicitly documented missing feature, or a narrowly defined inapplicable class.
Exercise 23 JavaScript and 18 Rust portable behavior groups through command-stream's public APIs.
Record 21 JavaScript and 13 Rust missing-feature groups in maintained Markdown ledgers for future implementation.

Feedback addressed

The earlier draft covered only JavaScript. This revision adds the Rust corpus, audit document, exact decision ledger, generated disposition manifest, fixture-backed behavior suite, and Rust release note. It also re-reviewed every entry previously classified as competitor API shape: observable child output, status, errors, environment, working directory, and lifecycle behavior is now ported or recorded as missing regardless of the competitor's API surface.

The resulting API-shape exclusions are limited to 70 JavaScript and 15 Rust pure type/constructor/export/formatting checks, with regression assertions preventing portable behavior from drifting back into that bucket.

Bugs reproduced and fixed

JavaScript explicit string/Buffer stdin was captured twice under Node.js.
JavaScript unavailable direct executables did not consistently return shell-compatible results across async/sync execution, and an in-flight runner could observe a later global errexit change.
Rust StreamingRunner::collect() could report success when the executable failed to spawn because the detached task error was discarded.
Rust shell execution passed command strings through C-runtime argument escaping even though cmd.exe /c uses different decoding rules, breaking quoted executable paths in synchronous, streaming, and pipeline execution on Windows.

Each fix has an automated regression test. Missing executables map to the established shell-compatible status contract in JavaScript, while Rust propagates the spawn error through Result.

Reproduction and verification

Before this change, the JavaScript competitor feature files contained conceptual assertions such as expect(true).toBe(true), and no equivalent audited Rust corpus existed. The new integrity suites reject placeholders, require exact inventory/decision equality, and execute the portable behavior through command-stream.

cd js && bun run test:competitors — 30 passed, 0 failed
cd js && bun run test — 1,388 passed, 6 existing skips, 0 failed
cd js && bun run check — ESLint, Prettier, and duplication checks passed
Node 20/22/24 regression entrypoint — explicit stdin, sync/async spawn errors, and captured errexit
cd rust && cargo fmt --all -- --check
cd rust && cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
cd rust && RUSTDOCFLAGS='-D warnings' cargo doc --no-deps --all-features
cd rust && cargo test --all-features --verbose
cd rust && cargo test --doc --all-features --verbose
cd rust && RUSTFLAGS='-D warnings' cargo check --tests --all-features --target x86_64-pc-windows-gnu
BASE_REF=main bash .github/scripts/check-language-parity.sh
JavaScript patch changeset validation passed; Rust changelog fragment is included
GitHub Actions passed on Linux, macOS, and Windows for commit 7b81a6c, including the quoted-command Rust regressions on Windows

The branch includes current main, and the language parity check passes without an exemption.

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Adding CLAUDE.md with task information for AI processing. This file will be removed when the task is complete. Issue: #6

- Added cross-spawn.features.test.mjs with comprehensive feature validation - Added shelljs.features.test.mjs with comprehensive feature validation - Now testing all competitors mentioned in README comparison table: * command-stream ($.features.test.mjs) * execa (execa.features.test.mjs) * cross-spawn (cross-spawn.features.test.mjs) - NEW * Bun.$ (bun.features.test.mjs) * ShellJS (shelljs.features.test.mjs) - NEW * zx (zx.features.test.mjs) This ensures we have at least the same behavior coverage on major issues and clearly shows differences in design choices between all competitors. All 143 tests pass across 6 competitor feature test files. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

konard · 2026-09-13T14:53:20Z

We need to expand on our list of competitors - use all top open-source projects that do something similar as their main product, or as a part of it. And we should have exactly 100% of tests copied from them (where possible without introducing new features, yet if test fails, we have that feature, but we get it fixed, we should apply test and introduce all the fixes). And all missing features, should be listed in markdown document for later, so we can come back and add missing features with their tests later.

We must beat each and every competitor on the planet (first in stability, later in features).

konard · 2026-09-13T15:09:33Z

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konard · 2026-09-13T15:56:19Z

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PR #132 is updated and ready for review.

Added audited ten-project competitor corpus and missing-feature ledger.
Replaced conceptual tests with 22 executable behavior ports.
Fixed duplicated stdin capture and normalized sync/async launch failures.
Merged current main; pushed commit d0cc6ac.
Local suite: 1,317 passed, 6 skipped, 0 failed.
CI passes across Linux, macOS, Windows, Node 20/22/24, quality, and security.
Applied documented parity-exempt label for JavaScript-specific semantics.
Working tree is clean.

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konard · 2026-09-13T15:56:36Z

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konard · 2026-09-13T17:29:41Z

It must be done for all languages, not for single language.

konard · 2026-09-13T17:31:47Z

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StreamingRunner discarded background task failures and returned an empty code-0 result. Await the process task when collecting so OS spawn errors reach the caller.\n\nRefs #6

Audit 10 pinned Rust process projects and execute the portable public invariants through command-stream. Keep unsupported behavior visible in a machine-checked missing-feature ledger.\n\nRefs #6

Observable child-process results must be ported or recorded as missing, regardless of the competitor API used to expose them.\n\nRefs #6

Windows compiles the compatibility suite with warnings denied, while the quoted-template test is Unix-only.\n\nRefs #6

Pass cmd.exe command strings through raw_arg with the required outer quotes so quoted executable paths work in sync, streaming, and pipeline execution.

konard · 2026-09-13T20:36:48Z

Addressed the feedback that this must cover all languages.

JavaScript now audits 12 competitor sources / 7,515 discovered test units, with 23 executable behavior groups and 21 documented missing-feature groups.
Rust now audits 14 competitor sources / 770 discovered test units, with 18 executable behavior groups and 13 documented missing-feature groups.
Both languages have exact decision ledgers, generated disposition manifests, integrity tests, fixtures, maintained audit documents, and release metadata.
Every former broad competitor-api-shape decision was re-reviewed. The remaining exclusions are limited to 70 JavaScript and 15 Rust pure type/constructor/export/formatting checks; observable behavior is ported or explicitly listed as missing.
The parity exemption was removed; the JS/Rust source parity gate passes normally.

The expanded Windows Rust coverage exposed two real failures in sync and pipeline execution. Commits 3a644fd and 7b81a6c fix Windows-only compilation and preserve quoted command strings through cmd.exe /c across sync, streaming, and pipeline paths.

Fresh GitHub Actions runs for head 7b81a6c40af4262e196c3d1d25951b1b0dc4b983 are fully green, including JavaScript and Rust on Linux, macOS, and Windows; Node 20/22/24; lint; docs; parity; security/CodeQL; release guards; scripts; and package build.

konard · 2026-09-13T20:38:18Z

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konard · 2026-09-13T20:40:55Z

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Initial commit with task details for issue #6

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Adding CLAUDE.md with task information for AI processing. This file will be removed when the task is complete. Issue: #6

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konard changed the title ~~[WIP] Merge all tests from competitors in the our tests suite~~ Complete competitor test suite for all libraries Sep 9, 2025

konard marked this pull request as ready for review September 9, 2025 20:21

konard marked this pull request as draft September 13, 2026 15:09

konard added 2 commits September 13, 2026 15:11

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into issue-6-156225d2

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# Conflicts: # js/tests/cross-spawn.features.test.mjs # js/tests/shelljs.features.test.mjs

test(js): audit competitor compatibility corpus

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konard changed the title ~~Complete competitor test suite for all libraries~~ test(js): add audited competitor compatibility corpus Sep 13, 2026

konard added the parity-exempt Change is intentionally single-language; skip JS/Rust parity check label Sep 13, 2026

konard marked this pull request as ready for review September 13, 2026 15:55

konard marked this pull request as draft September 13, 2026 17:31

konard added 9 commits September 13, 2026 17:34

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into issue-6-156225d2

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fix(rust): propagate streaming spawn errors

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StreamingRunner discarded background task failures and returned an empty code-0 result. Await the process task when collecting so OS spawn errors reach the caller.\n\nRefs #6

test(rust): add competitor compatibility corpus

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Audit 10 pinned Rust process projects and execute the portable public invariants through command-stream. Keep unsupported behavior visible in a machine-checked missing-feature ledger.\n\nRefs #6

test(rust): complete competitor inventory

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fix(js): cover Node process regressions

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test: prove cross-language corpus coverage

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test: reject incomplete corpus manifests

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test: make competitor audits explicit

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test: reclassify portable competitor behavior

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Observable child-process results must be ported or recorded as missing, regardless of the competitor API used to expose them.\n\nRefs #6

konard removed the parity-exempt Change is intentionally single-language; skip JS/Rust parity check label Sep 13, 2026

konard changed the title ~~test(js): add audited competitor compatibility corpus~~ test: audit competitor behavior across JS and Rust Sep 13, 2026

konard marked this pull request as ready for review September 13, 2026 20:14

konard added 2 commits September 13, 2026 20:18

test(rust): gate Unix-only imports

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Windows compiles the compatibility suite with warnings denied, while the quoted-template test is Unix-only.\n\nRefs #6

fix(rust): preserve Windows shell quoting

7b81a6c

Pass cmd.exe command strings through raw_arg with the required outer quotes so quoted executable paths work in sync, streaming, and pipeline execution.

konard merged commit eb1f255 into main Sep 14, 2026
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