refactor(spec-0031): align BoxProvisioning test naming to convention

[iancooper]

Summary

Spec 0031 — a pure rename refactor that brings 5 BoxProvisioning test projects into line with the test naming convention in .agent_instructions/testing.md:

• Class → [Subject]Tests
• Method → When_..._should_...
• File → matches the method (When_....cs)

118 non-conforming test files renamed across MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite and the shared BoxProvisioning.Tests. 0 WRONG + 0 MIXED classifications remain. Closes #4157.

What did NOT change

This is style-only — identifier and comment renames. No behaviour, no assertions, no logic, no test counts:

• 0 Assert. lines touched
• 0 changes to src/, analyzers, CI, or agent-instruction files
• Test count + green/red parity verified against baseline per project

Verification

All 5 projects build clean and the suites match baseline. MSSQL retains its 13 pre-existing failures (12 = DateTimeOffset/BST #4161, 1 now under a renamed FQN) — unchanged by this PR.

dotnet test tests/Paramore.Brighter.<Project>.Tests --framework net9.0 -q

Full sign-off evidence: specs/0031-test_naming_conventions/.scratch/T7-signoff.md.

Commits

Task	Scope
T2	BoxProvisioning.Tests (2)
T3	Sqlite (22)
T4	MSSQL (33)
T5	MySQL (27)
T6	PostgreSQL (34)
T1/T7	spec docs + baseline + sign-off

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[claude]

Review — refactor(spec-0031): align BoxProvisioning test naming

Reviewed as a pure rename refactor (118 test files; class to [Subject]Tests, method to When_..._should_...). Verified mechanical correctness statically. Overall clean, well-scoped work — a few points worth raising before merge.

✅ What checks out

• No logic/assertion changes in test code. The only Assert. strings in the diff live in the committed baseline logs, not in any .cs under test.
• No class-name collisions. uniq -d over public class …Tests per project (MSSQL / MySQL / PostgreSQL / SQLite) returns nothing.
• Constructors renamed with their classes. Spot-checked several (MsSqlOutboxProvisionerIdempotencyTests, MsSqlInboxConnectionNameResolutionTests, …) — ctor names track the class. No mismatched-ctor compile traps.
• No leftover non-conforming names in scope. class When_ and Should_ test methods come back empty across the five BoxProvisioning folders (remaining class When_ hits are all in MSSQL MessagingGateway/, correctly out of scope).
• [Collection("BoxProvisioningObservability")] fixtures untouched and the …ObservabilityCollection definition correctly left alone.

🟡 Minor: SQLite project is inconsistently prefixed
MSSQL/MySQL/PostgreSQL consistently apply a dialect prefix (MsSql…, MySql…, PostgreSql…). In Paramore.Brighter.Sqlite.Tests/BoxProvisioning, 9 classes keep a Sqlite prefix but 20 do not (e.g. SqliteInboxMigrationsTests vs ProvisioningUnitOfWorkBeginThrowsTests). Compiles fine (distinct namespace, no collisions), but for a PR whose stated goal is convention alignment, the one internally-inconsistent project is a small wart. Either drop the Sqlite prefixes there or apply them uniformly.

🟡 Minor: file name no longer matches class name
Per .agent_instructions/testing.md the file is named after the method (When_….cs) while the class is now [Subject]Tests — by design, so not a defect. Just flagging it breaks the usual C# file==class navigation (and that git mv was correctly not needed).

🧹 Cleanup: scratch evidence + PROMPT.md churn in the diff
This PR commits specs/0031-test_naming_conventions/.scratch/* — full xUnit run logs containing machine-specific absolute paths (/Users/ian_hammond_cooper/CSharpProjects/…) — and re-churns PROMPT.md (listed in .gitignore but tracked, so edits still land). This is the first spec to commit a .scratch/ directory. Consider .gitignore-ing .scratch/ and keeping resume-state PROMPT.md churn out of feature PRs so the reviewable diff stays focused. The T7 sign-off doc is the useful artifact; the raw baseline log dumps are noise.

⚠️ Verification note
I could not compile in the review environment (no dotnet/restore), so I relied on static analysis plus the author sign-off evidence. For a 140-file rename, compile-green + test-count parity is the real gate — please confirm CI is green (especially that the renamed MSSQL FQN preserves the documented 13 pre-existing failures rather than masking a new one) before merging.

Nice, disciplined refactor. The substantive ask is just the SQLite prefix consistency; the rest is cleanup/process.

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[claude]

Review — refactor(spec-0031): align BoxProvisioning test naming to convention

Thanks for the careful, well-documented refactor. I verified the diff against the base (51c2d9f) and the testing convention in .agent_instructions/testing.md. Overall this is a clean, high-quality rename. One change, however, breaks the "pure rename" framing and should be addressed.

✅ What checks out

• Convention compliance is correct. Every renamed class now matches [Behavior]Tests and none start with When_ (per testing.md:6). Every When_… test method retains _should_. Filenames already conformed to When_….cs and are unchanged — so this PR is, as intended, an identifier rename (120 files modified, 0 file renames, 0 deletions).
• No class-name collisions introduced in any of the five BoxProvisioning test areas, so no compile-time ambiguity.
• Good attention to cross-references — doc comments (<c>…</c>) and inline comments that referenced the old When_… class names were updated to track the new names (e.g. the Companion to … comments in the UoW tests). Easy to miss; nice.
• Spec workflow artifacts (requirements/design/tasks approvals + T7 sign-off) are present.

⚠️ Behavioral change bundled into a "pure rename" PR

The PR description states "No behaviour, no logic, no assertions … 0 changes to logic." That is true for 119 of the 120 files, but not for:

tests/Paramore.Brighter.MSSQL.Tests/BoxProvisioning/When_mssql_runner_acquires_lock_resource_should_be_qualified_by_schema.cs

The Act section was changed beyond the rename:

+        // Mirror how SqlBoxProvisioner calls the runner: a null configured schema is passed as a
+        // genuinely-null SchemaName, not a SchemaName wrapping null. ...
         await Assert.ThrowsAsync<InvalidOperationException>(() =>
             runner.MigrateAsync(
-                tableName, configuredSchema, BoxType.Outbox, freshHint));
+                tableName,
+                configuredSchema is null ? null : (SchemaName)configuredSchema,
+                BoxType.Outbox, freshHint));

This is a genuine behavioral change to the test: for the [InlineData(null, "dbo")] case the SUT is now invoked with a genuinely-null SchemaName rather than a SchemaName wrapper-around-null produced by the implicit string→SchemaName operator. The assertion line is unchanged, but what the test exercises is different — it now reaches a different MigrateAsync path than before.

This touches two repo guardrails:

1. Tidy First (mandated). The repo requires structural and behavioral changes be kept separate (/tidy-first, .claude/commands/refactor). A correctness fix to a test's Act does not belong in a rename-only PR.
2. Change Scope (CLAUDE.md). "Do NOT … make changes beyond what was explicitly requested." Even though the change looks correct and well-reasoned, it is out of scope for spec-0031.

Suggestion: revert this one Act change to make the PR a true no-op rename, and land the SchemaName null-handling fix as its own small behavioral commit/PR (ideally via /test-first so the intent is captured with its own justification). At minimum, correct the "0 logic changes" claim in the description, since it currently reads as fully verified parity.

Also: the "0 Assert. lines touched" claim is technically accurate (the Assert.ThrowsAsync<…> line is untouched), but it undersells the above — the argument handed to the method inside the assertion changed.

🧹 Minor — committing .scratch/ artifacts

This PR adds specs/0031-test_naming_conventions/.scratch/ (baseline *.txt, sign-off .md) to version control. No other spec under specs/ commits a .scratch/ directory, so this is inconsistent with the existing convention. If .scratch/ is meant to be working scratch space, consider gitignoring it (or keeping only T7-signoff.md) rather than checking in the raw baseline dumps. Non-blocking.

Notes / not verified here

• I could not reproduce the test runs — MSSQL/MySQL/Postgres suites need their containers. I'm trusting the T7 sign-off for green/red parity. Given the renamed FQN on the changed MSSQL test, it is worth double-checking that test specifically still passes for the null schema case after the Act change.

Nice, disciplined work overall — the only real ask is unbundling that one behavioral edit.

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[claude]

Code Review — PR 4172 (spec-0031 test naming)

Reviewed the diff against CLAUDE.md / .agent_instructions/. The 118-file rename is mechanical and clean; the one thing worth real scrutiny is the src/ change that rode in on the final commit. Overall solid work — notes below, with the scope mismatch being the only item I'd ask you to action before merge.

1. Scope / description mismatch (please address)

The PR is titled and described as a pure rename refactor and the What did NOT change section states 0 changes to src/. But the final commit cabd725c (fix(box-provisioning): treat null/empty SchemaName as not supplied) is a behavioural fix to src/Paramore.Brighter.BoxProvisioning/SqlBoxMigrationRunner.cs. So the description is inaccurate as written. This also runs against the repo's own Tidy First / Change Scope guidance (CLAUDE.md): structural (rename) and behavioural (bug fix) changes should not be mixed. The fix is good — but ideally it lands as its own PR (it's a spec-0030 regression, not spec-0031), or the PR body should be corrected so reviewers/changelog don't trust 0 changes to src/.

2. The SchemaName fix is correct and well-reasoned

Subtle root cause: implicit operator SchemaName(string) wraps a null string into a non-null SchemaName whose Value is null, so the old if (schemaName is not null) check passed and AssertSafe(null) threw — a path no caller intends. Collapsing every absent form to a single null via SchemaName.IsNullOrEmpty (mirroring Id.IsNullOrEmpty) restores the original string? semantics, and the downstream schemaName?.Value ?? default sites behave identically. The [NotNullWhen(false)] annotation keeps the else branch null-safe. Well documented.

3. Test coverage for the fix is thin relative to its blast radius

The fix lives in the shared base SqlBoxMigrationRunner, affecting MSSQL/PostgreSQL/MySQL/SQLite. The only regression guard is MsSqlRunnerLockResourceSchemaQualificationTests (the [InlineData(null, dbo)] case) — an MSSQL integration test that opens a real connection before the probe throws (MigrateAsync opens the connection ~line 267 before the lock acquire), so the one guard for this fix requires live MSSQL infra. The canonical case the fix exists for is SQLite (no schema concept, null legitimate), yet there's no SQLite/unit-level guard for the wrapped-null path. Consider a cheap backend-agnostic test that drives MigrateAsync with a wrapped-null/empty SchemaName and asserts it does not throw ConfigurationException — pins the behaviour without Docker, at the layer the bug lives in. (Per CLAUDE.md this is a /test-first situation since it's a behavioural change to src/.)

4. Minor: sibling checks don't share the new absent=null-or-empty semantics

The fix makes empty-wrapped schema mean absent for the schemaName parameter, but two nearby sites still use bare is null on Configuration.SchemaName (string?): the PerSchema misconfiguration guard (SqlBoxMigrationRunner.cs:213) and ResolveHistorySchema() (lines 173-176). A Configuration.SchemaName of empty-string would slip past the guard and resolve history into an empty schema — inconsistent with how the parameter now treats empty. Pre-existing and arguably out of scope, but worth aligning now that null-or-empty==absent is the intended convention (or noting why they differ).

5. Renames — looks good

Spot-checked the mechanics: class + constructor + method + doc-comment cross-refs updated together (e.g. MsSqlHistoryTableNonDboSchemaTests ctor renamed in step), file names already conformed so no git mv churn, and no Assert. lines touched. Build-clean + test-count parity per project is the right bar for a rename, and the per-commit evidence is documented. The new [Subject]Tests names read well and the backend prefixes reduce cross-project ambiguity.

Summary: No blockers in the code itself — the rename is clean and the SchemaName fix is correct. The one thing to resolve before merge is the scope/description mismatch (item 1): split the behavioural fix out or correct the 0 changes to src/ claim, and ideally add the cheaper regression guard from item 3.

Reviewed by Claude (Opus 4.8).

[claude]

Code Review — PR #4172 (spec-0031 test naming)

Thanks for the careful, well-documented work. The 118 renames are clean: license headers, namespace, and [Fact]/[Theory] attributes are all preserved, and the new [Subject]Tests class names / When_..._should_... methods match the convention in .agent_instructions/testing.md. Spot-checked several files across all five projects — no broken usings, no lost InlineData. 👍

I do have one substantive concern about scope/accuracy that I'd ask you to address before merge.

🔴 The PR is not actually rename-only — it contains a behavioural src/ change

The description states (three times) "0 changes to src/", "style-only", "No behaviour, no assertions, no logic". That's not accurate. Commit cabd725c2 is a genuine production fix:

src/Paramore.Brighter.BoxProvisioning/SqlBoxMigrationRunner.cs — MigrateAsync now does:

```csharp
if (SchemaName.IsNullOrEmpty(schemaName)) // was: if (schemaName is not null)
{
schemaName = null;
}
else
{
Identifiers.AssertSafe(schemaName.Value, nameof(schemaName));
}
```

This changes runtime behaviour (a SchemaName wrapping a null/empty string previously reached AssertSafe(null) and threw ConfigurationException; now it is normalised to null and treated as "not supplied"). It affects all four relational backends via the shared base runner.

To be clear: the fix itself is good. The commit message has a clear root-cause analysis (the spec-0030 string? → SchemaName retype silently broke the null path), it uses the canonical SchemaName.IsNullOrEmpty, and it ships a real regression guard — the [InlineData(null, "dbo")] case in When_mssql_runner_acquires_lock_resource_should_be_qualified_by_schema.cs, which fails before the fix and passes after.

The problem is purely scope and disclosure, and it bumps against this repo's own rules:

• CLAUDE.md / Tidy First: "Separate structural (refactoring) from behavioral (feature) changes." A fix(...) commit bundled into a refactor-only PR is exactly what that guideline exists to prevent.
• A reader trusting the "style-only" description could fast-track this without reviewing the one change that actually warrants review, and the behavioural change is invisible in a changelog that keys off the refactor(...) PR title.

Suggested resolution (either is fine):

1. Split cabd725c2 (the fix) — and ideally the de703c940 .gitignore chore — into their own PRs, leaving this one genuinely rename-only; or
2. Keep them together but rewrite the description to disclose the behavioural fix + its regression test, and reconsider the refactor(...) PR title.

🟡 Minor

• Bundling: three unrelated concerns ride in one PR — 118 renames, a behavioural fix, and a .gitignore chore. Beyond the Tidy-First point above, this hurts git bisect and makes the diff noisier than it needs to be.
• .gitignore additions (*.db-shm, *.db-wal, *.db-journal) are sensible and, being extension-specific, won't trip the documented *.sqlite→.Sqlite/-directory gotcha. Fine as-is.
• Param mutation: MigrateAsync reassigns its schemaName parameter to null. Acceptable, but note the downstream PerSchema guard and ResolveHistorySchema() read Configuration.SchemaName rather than the normalised local — consistent only because the sole production caller passes _configuration.SchemaName. Worth a comment if you expect other direct callers.

Verdict

Renames look correct and the embedded fix is sound and tested. Not blocking on correctness — blocking on the inaccurate "no src / no behaviour" framing. Please either split out the fix or update the description (and title) to disclose it, and the PR is good to go.

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[iancooper]

I do have one substantive concern about scope/accuracy that I'd ask you to address before merge.

🔴 The PR is not actually rename-only — it contains a behavioural src/ change

This was a bug caused by an earlier merge to remove primitive obsession. As it prevented a green build, we needed to fix it to merge. We prioritize a clean build over the fix mixing with this PR.