mars-nwe/tests/README.md

mars_nwe test helpers

The test tree contains small smoke helpers for protocol areas that are easier to exercise outside the normal install flow.

AFP

tests/afp contains the current AFP endpoint smoke suite and AFP-specific notes. AFP deleted-file endpoint 0x13 is intentionally still unsupported until the shared salvage backend exposes scan/recover/purge semantics.

Salvage

tests/salvage contains the shared NetWare salvage coverage. These tests are kept outside tests/afp because AFP 0x13 must become a thin adapter over the same backend that serves the NetWare NCP salvage calls.

The current salvage tests cover:

• local layout contract for .recycle payloads and .salvage JSON metadata,
• NCP create/delete capture through the normal server delete path,
• Samba-compatible history naming with Copy #1 of NAME,
• NCP 87/16 Scan Salvageable Files through the official ncpfs helper API,
• report-file generation with --out FILE.

tests/salvage/salvage_smoke_suite.sh is the single NCP integration entry point. It creates and deletes the same file twice, then appends the 87/16 scan check, so one report covers delete capture, history/versioning, and scan visibility. The scan check expects duplicate sequence entries for the original deleted name; the Copy #1 of ... history path is validated through the JSON sidecars.

The NCP smoke suite is intended to run as the same Unix user that normally runs the test client, not necessarily as root. Pre-clean of old .recycle or .salvage artifacts is therefore best-effort: permission failures are reported as warnings and do not by themselves fail the smoke. The actual pass/fail check is based on artifacts created by the NCP delete path.