Description

The current test suite for new_test in the manifest module primarily validates
basic success and failure cases, but does not comprehensively verify parsed
field values or default behavior.

This limits confidence when modifying or extending test configuration logic.

Observed Gaps

• Parsed values for fields such as:

  • source-dir
  • main
  • link
  • dependencies
    are not explicitly asserted

• Default values for optional fields are not tested

• Error handling (e.g., invalid test names) is not fully validated

Proposed Improvement

Add unit tests that:

• Verify full parsing of all supported fields
• Validate default values when optional fields are omitted
• Ensure invalid configurations produce meaningful errors

Related Work

A pull request has been opened to address these gaps:

• test(manifest): add comprehensive unit tests for test configuration parsing #1266