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Environment promotion plan: Untested artifacts reach the target · case 01

Untested artifacts reach the target.

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ROOT CAUSE

The implementation substitutes if False: for if not tested:, so untested artifacts reach the target.

VERIFIED REPAIR

Require test evidence for an actual promotion.

Unsuccessful approach: The attempted repair substitutes if tested:. Fixture 3 still yields 'untested' instead of {'prod': (1, 'a')}.

Case contract

Reject unknown targets, reject downgrade unless allowed, skip identical digests, reject missing test evidence, otherwise update target to candidate digest and version while preserving other environments.

Why this case matters

An offline model of environment promotion plan, suitable for testing build and release tooling without external services.

1 / The failure

Exit 1
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json

N = 1
observations = []
def solve(environments, target, version, digest, tested, allow_downgrade):
    if target not in environments: return 'unknown'
    old_version, old_digest = environments[target]
    if version < old_version and not allow_downgrade: return 'downgrade'
    if digest == old_digest: return 'unchanged'
    if False: return 'untested'
    result = dict(environments)
    result[target] = (version, digest)
    return result
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
check('fixture 1', solve({}, 'prod', 1, 'a', True, False), 'unknown')
check('fixture 2', solve({'prod': (2, 'b')}, 'prod', 1, 'a', True, False), 'downgrade')
check('fixture 3', solve({'prod': (2, 'b')}, 'prod', 1, 'a', True, True), {'prod': (1, 'a')})
check('fixture 4', solve({'prod': (1, 'a')}, 'prod', 1, 'a', False, False), 'unchanged')
check('fixture 5', solve({'prod': (1, 'a')}, 'prod', 2, 'b', False, False), 'untested')
check('fixture 6', solve({'prod': (1, 'a'), 'stage': (2, 'b')}, 'prod', 2, 'b', True, False), {'prod': (2, 'b'), 'stage': (2, 'b')})
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)
Boundary fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
fixture 1unknownunknownPassed
fixture 2downgradedowngradePassed
fixture 3{'prod': [1, 'a']}{'prod': [1, 'a']}Passed
fixture 4unchangedunchangedPassed
fixture 5{'prod': [2, 'b']}untestedFailed
fixture 6{'prod': [2, 'b'], 'stage': [2, 'b']}{'prod': [2, 'b'], 'stage': [2, 'b']}Passed

SHA-256 / 38837464f5552fdf12edf54b1cdc9d0a39982f7e2664c7ec3f6719e1272f03ba

2 / The unsuccessful fix

Exit 1
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json

N = 1
observations = []
def solve(environments, target, version, digest, tested, allow_downgrade):
    if target not in environments: return 'unknown'
    old_version, old_digest = environments[target]
    if version < old_version and not allow_downgrade: return 'downgrade'
    if digest == old_digest: return 'unchanged'
    if tested: return 'untested'
    result = dict(environments)
    result[target] = (version, digest)
    return result
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
check('fixture 1', solve({}, 'prod', 1, 'a', True, False), 'unknown')
check('fixture 2', solve({'prod': (2, 'b')}, 'prod', 1, 'a', True, False), 'downgrade')
check('fixture 3', solve({'prod': (2, 'b')}, 'prod', 1, 'a', True, True), {'prod': (1, 'a')})
check('fixture 4', solve({'prod': (1, 'a')}, 'prod', 1, 'a', False, False), 'unchanged')
check('fixture 5', solve({'prod': (1, 'a')}, 'prod', 2, 'b', False, False), 'untested')
check('fixture 6', solve({'prod': (1, 'a'), 'stage': (2, 'b')}, 'prod', 2, 'b', True, False), {'prod': (2, 'b'), 'stage': (2, 'b')})
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)
Boundary fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
fixture 1unknownunknownPassed
fixture 2downgradedowngradePassed
fixture 3untested{'prod': [1, 'a']}Failed
fixture 4unchangedunchangedPassed
fixture 5{'prod': [2, 'b']}untestedFailed
fixture 6untested{'prod': [2, 'b'], 'stage': [2, 'b']}Failed

SHA-256 / 2169019d3c93bddfb679f5bd89135fa33f3b2e2006103478601879ffaf79828d

3 / The verified repair

Exit 0
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json

N = 1
observations = []
def solve(environments, target, version, digest, tested, allow_downgrade):
    if target not in environments: return 'unknown'
    old_version, old_digest = environments[target]
    if version < old_version and not allow_downgrade: return 'downgrade'
    if digest == old_digest: return 'unchanged'
    if not tested: return 'untested'
    result = dict(environments)
    result[target] = (version, digest)
    return result
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
check('fixture 1', solve({}, 'prod', 1, 'a', True, False), 'unknown')
check('fixture 2', solve({'prod': (2, 'b')}, 'prod', 1, 'a', True, False), 'downgrade')
check('fixture 3', solve({'prod': (2, 'b')}, 'prod', 1, 'a', True, True), {'prod': (1, 'a')})
check('fixture 4', solve({'prod': (1, 'a')}, 'prod', 1, 'a', False, False), 'unchanged')
check('fixture 5', solve({'prod': (1, 'a')}, 'prod', 2, 'b', False, False), 'untested')
check('fixture 6', solve({'prod': (1, 'a'), 'stage': (2, 'b')}, 'prod', 2, 'b', True, False), {'prod': (2, 'b'), 'stage': (2, 'b')})
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)
Boundary fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
fixture 1unknownunknownPassed
fixture 2downgradedowngradePassed
fixture 3{'prod': [1, 'a']}{'prod': [1, 'a']}Passed
fixture 4unchangedunchangedPassed
fixture 5untesteduntestedPassed
fixture 6{'prod': [2, 'b'], 'stage': [2, 'b']}{'prod': [2, 'b'], 'stage': [2, 'b']}Passed

SHA-256 / da9ffb36334f677e30b5cece004ddbd130b619c2077b96c8e4b30fa9ea92394c

Verification & scope

This reproducer isolates one failure mechanism. Results cover the supplied fixtures. Variants within a family share a test contract and should remain grouped when constructing evaluation splits. Related mechanisms with a shared evaluation_group must also remain together; these controlled models are not independent production incidents.

Observations recorded using Python 3.12.14 at 2026-09-29T14:38:36.984364+00:00.

Case digest / 34606f4d1fbc934b243faa0f1947d1bbcc948848328627647e1cbbf70c350399