test(mutation): gate nightly mutation runs on untriaged survivors

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Summary

mutmut run exits 0 however many mutants survive (verified on 3.7.0, and again on 3.8.0 after #208). So mutation.yml has been green whatever it found. The two accepted survivors were recorded only in a pyproject.toml comment that nothing checked. A local run showed what that cost: a third survivor, in the shared TLV walker, had gone untriaged and unkilled.

This is the QA groundwork for upcoming HTTP/1.1 codec work, but it is independent of HTTP and also repairs the existing DNS/checksum/TLV audit.

What's included

• scripts/check_mutmut_survivors.py is a new final step in mutation.yml. It reads mutmut results --all true. The job fails on any of:

  • an undetected mutant that isn't in the new triage record, scripts/mutmut_survivors.txt;
  • a stale entry in that record;
  • an only_mutate file with no checked mutant at all.

  Unknown mutmut statuses fail closed. The two accepted survivors and their reasoning moved into the record.

• tests/test_tlv.py kills the third survivor: walk_kind_length_value discarded a caller's min_option_length when the length byte counts its own header.

• tests/conftest.py now:

  • clears every package-level functools cache before each test. mutmut forks each mutant from a parent that has already run the suite, so a warm DNS cache could hide a mutant.
  • loads the Hypothesis profiles for every test selection. mutmut's selection never imported test_fuzz.py, where they were registered.

• fuzz.yml / mutation.yml key their concurrency group on the triggering event, so the cron can't cancel a manual run.

• CONTRIBUTING.md gains Mutation testing and Releasing sections. Before tagging, dispatch both nightly jobs and require them green.

• tests/test_workflows.py guards each of the above. It also checks that every tests/fuzz/*.py harness is run.

• pyproject.toml's mutmut comment now notes that decorated functions (the @lru_cache DNS parsers) are never mutated.

Verification

• uv run ruff check and uv run ruff format --check are clean
• uv run mypy is clean (strict)
• uv run pytest passes locally (99.95% coverage)
• CHANGELOG.md has an entry under ## [Unreleased]

Gate checked against a real run on mutmut 3.8.0: 499 mutants checked, exactly the two triaged survivors, exit 0. With an empty allowlist it fails, naming both survivors.

Notes

Pre-existing and out of scope here: coverage counts 2,055 statements, while pyproject.toml and docs/CLAIMS.md still say 2,052. src/ is unchanged by this PR.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Testing
  • Added a nightly mutation-testing check that flags unexpected surviving mutations and keeps documented exceptions current.
  • Improved test isolation by clearing caches before tests and made Hypothesis profiles available across test selections.
  • Added coverage for TLV length validation and automated checks for fuzz and mutation workflows.
• Documentation
  • Added contributor guidance for running mutation audits and fuzz and mutation workflows before releases.
  • Documented mutation-audit exceptions and updated development notes.

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Walkthrough

The pull request adds a mutation-survivor checker and triage record, updates test profile and cache setup, adds TLV boundary tests, and changes fuzz and mutation workflow concurrency and validation.

Changes

Mutation audit and test workflows

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Test profiles and per-test state tests/conftest.py, tests/test_fuzz.py, tests/test_dns.py, tests/test_tlv.py, CHANGELOG.md	Hypothesis profiles now load from conftest.py, and package caches are cleared before each test. DNS cache-state and TLV minimum-length tests are added.
Survivor checker and triage scripts/check_mutmut_survivors.py, scripts/mutmut_survivors.txt, tests/test_mutmut_gate.py, pyproject.toml, CONTRIBUTING.md, tests/test_tlv.py, CHANGELOG.md	The checker validates mutation results against the triage record and configured mutation scopes. Tests cover parsing, survivor status, allowlist entries, scope coverage, and CLI outcomes.
Workflow integration and release guidance .github/workflows/fuzz.yml, .github/workflows/mutation.yml, .gitignore, tests/test_workflows.py, CONTRIBUTING.md, CHANGELOG.md	Workflow concurrency keys include the triggering event. The mutation job saves results and runs the checker; workflow tests validate harness coverage and gate ordering. Contributor guidance describes mutation audits and release runs.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Other

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MutationWorkflow
  participant Mutmut
  participant ResultsFile
  participant SurvivorChecker
  participant TriageRecord
  participant ProjectConfig
  MutationWorkflow->>Mutmut: Run mutation tests
  Mutmut->>ResultsFile: Write mutation results
  MutationWorkflow->>SurvivorChecker: Check results
  SurvivorChecker->>ResultsFile: Read statuses
  SurvivorChecker->>TriageRecord: Read allowlist
  SurvivorChecker->>ProjectConfig: Read mutation scopes
  SurvivorChecker-->>MutationWorkflow: Return check status
  MutationWorkflow->>ResultsFile: Include results in failure artifact

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 98ffc

The nightly mutation gate can pass an allowlisted mutant with an unknown status. Fix the status check before relying on the gate; the risk is narrow and does not otherwise block the workflow.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 61.11% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 36 functions across 7 files. (7 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: gating nightly mutation runs on untriaged survivors.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description follows the repository template. It explains the purpose, lists the included changes, records verification results, and provides relevant notes. The protocol-specific section is correc…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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- Around line 92-96: Update the status classification in the `undetected`
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• .github/workflows/fuzz.yml
• .github/workflows/mutation.yml
• .gitignore
• CHANGELOG.md
• CONTRIBUTING.md
• pyproject.toml
• scripts/check_mutmut_survivors.py
• scripts/mutmut_survivors.txt
• tests/conftest.py
• tests/test_dns.py
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• tests/test_mutmut_gate.py
• tests/test_tlv.py
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