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test(compat): vary lot-identity axes together in the booking fuzzer - #2117
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The first campaign answered one question well and never asked the others. Every divergence it found had same-date lots (12/12, against 0/189 for seeds without them), because random generation collided on date, cost and label only by accident: two lots at the same HIGHEST cost under HIFO, or two on the same date under STRICT, essentially never appeared. Lot identity has three components a method can tie on, so the generator now constructs each configuration deliberately — none, date, cost, both, label — and reports the tie mode with every divergence so the classes stay separable. All 20 method x tie cells are populated (17-31 runs per cell at --runs 500), which is what makes the empty ones meaningful: HIFO with tied costs and STRICT with tied dates now have real coverage and agree with beancount. Two corrections during the extension, both caught by measuring rather than reading: `none` was not a control. Costs were drawn with replacement from a four-element pool, so 79% of "no tie" runs quietly contained a cost tie and could not be used to attribute a divergence to the date axis. It now samples without replacement: 0 date ties, 0 cost ties. Tying exactly two lots LOST the FIFO coalescing divergence the first campaign had found. That shape needs three lots sharing a date with two of them sharing a cost — a NON-CONTIGUOUS repeat — and a uniform draw produced it about once in seven date-tied runs. Ties now span a random-sized group, and a date-tied group draws its costs from a deliberately narrow pool so repeats land non-contiguously. Verified against the known-divergent ledger directly: the bug was still there, the generator had stopped reaching it. At --runs 500 this finds 10 divergences: 8 LIFO x date, 1 FIFO x date, and one new class — LIFO x label, where two lots differ only by label and rledger REJECTS a ledger beancount books. That is the mirror of the acceptance divergence already reported, so the disagreement cuts both ways. All are the same root cause and are tracked in #2115.
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Pull request overview
Updates the booking compatibility fuzzer (scripts/compat-booking-fuzz.py) to deliberately generate lot-identity tie configurations (date/cost/label) and to report the tie mode alongside divergences, improving coverage of previously rare booking edge cases (notably LIFO/STRICT/HIFO ties).
Changes:
- Adds explicit tie-mode generation (
none,date,cost,both,label) rather than relying on incidental collisions. - Adjusts lot generation to tie a random-sized group and biases date-tied groups to increase repeated-cost patterns.
- Extends divergence reporting to include
tie=<mode>for easier classification.
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Both from review, and both were real. The generator gained a label axis but the comparison key did not, so two lots differing only by label collapsed into one entry on BOTH sides. The fuzzer could see a label divergence only when it changed acceptance; a divergence in which labelled lot got consumed was invisible by construction. Adding `cost_label` to the key took the campaign from 490/500 to 465/500 — 15 LIFO x label divergences where there had been 1. Seed 30 is representative: same total, same cost, same date, but rledger books lot-a=5/lot-b=1 where beancount books 3/3. The narrowed cost pool was described as producing non-contiguous repeats and did not. It drew independently per lot, so a group of two never repeated and a group of three usually came out contiguous or all-equal. The shape is now constructed outright ([a, b, a, ...]): 47 of 47 date-tied groups of three or more have it, against roughly one in seven before. FIFO divergences went from 1 to 7. Net effect of a comment that only claimed something and a key that only covered part of the identity it was generating: two thirds of the divergences in this space were not being reported.
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Both correct, both fixed in The comparison key didn't include the label. Exactly as you say: the generator gained a label axis but the key didn't, so two lots differing only by label collapsed into one entry on both sides. A label divergence was visible only when it changed acceptance; a divergence in which labelled lot got consumed was invisible by construction. Adding Same total, same cost, same date — different distribution across labels. The comment claimed a shape the code didn't produce. Also right: an independent draw per lot meant I'd been treating that comment as documentation when it was really an assertion I hadn't checked, which is the more useful half of the catch. |
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The first campaign answered one question well and never asked the others. Every divergence it found had same-date lots — 12/12, against 0/189 for seeds without them — because random generation collided on date, cost and label only by accident. Two lots at the same highest cost under HIFO, or two on the same date under STRICT, essentially never appeared.
Lot identity has three components a method can tie on, so the generator now constructs each configuration deliberately (
none,date,cost,both,label) and reports the tie mode with every divergence.Coverage is now checkable
All 20 cells populated at
--runs 500. That's what makes the empty results meaningful: HIFO with tied costs and STRICT with tied dates now have real coverage and agree with beancount. Previously "no HIFO divergences" just meant the case had never been generated.Two corrections, both from measuring rather than reading
nonewas not a control. Costs were drawn with replacement from a four-element pool, so 79% of "no tie" runs quietly contained a cost tie — useless for attributing a divergence to the date axis. Now sampled without replacement: 0 date ties, 0 cost ties.Tying exactly two lots lost a known bug. The FIFO coalescing divergence needs three lots sharing a date with two sharing a cost — a non-contiguous repeat — which a uniform draw produced about once in seven date-tied runs. I confirmed this by running the known-divergent ledger directly: the bug was still there, the generator had simply stopped reaching it. Ties now span a random-sized group, and date-tied groups draw costs from a narrow pool so repeats land non-contiguously. FIFO divergences reappeared immediately.
What it finds now
At
--runs 500: 490/500 agreed, 10 divergences — 8 LIFO × date, 1 FIFO × date, and one new class:LIFO × label — two lots differing only by label, where rledger rejects a ledger beancount books. That's the mirror of the acceptance divergence already in #2115, so the disagreement cuts both ways: depending on the ledger, either engine may be the one that refuses.
All are the same root cause and tracked in #2115.