Hold the shape of the code under thirteen ceilings, counting only code by donislawdev · Pull Request #6 · donislawdev/BetterWindowsServices

donislawdev · 2026-09-23T08:17:36Z

What this does

Adds code-shape guards to tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests: ceilings that hold how long, how branching, how deep and how wide the code may get, set at what the tree measures today and allowed only to go down.

A C# parser reads the syntax tree once (CodeShape.cs, ShapeMeasures.cs). Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp 5.9.0, test project only: the same Roslyn the SDK compiler carries, and nothing that ships depends on it.
Ten new axes (CodeShapeGuards): method length in lines of code, McCabe complexity, nesting depth as indented on screen, and signature width, in src/ and in tests/. Plus the methods and state of a type summed across all its partial files, in src/.
The three file ceilings move to lines of code (SizeRatchetGuards). Comments, doc comments and blank lines are free in C# and in XAML. 63% of the lines under src/ are explanation, so a raw-line ceiling was a ceiling on explaining.
Every ceiling is pinned to the measurement exactly, and so is every count of what stands within 70% of it. The file ratchet's 100 lines of slack are gone. A red test says which way the number moved and what to set.
Named exemptions with reasons for three units that stand far above the rest (CommandLine.Read, the query field table, and the CLI's top-level statements). An exemption is refused once it is no longer needed.
AnalyzerRuleGuards: all of .editorconfig is recorded a second time, a build file that switches an analyser off is refused, and every #pragma warning disable and [SuppressMessage] is counted from the syntax tree.
MA0051 is off. It counted comment lines as method length and never reported top-level statements. Its three pragmas are removed, and their reasons stay beside the methods.

Found on the first run

The command line's top-level statements in Program.cs are the largest unit in the product: 209 lines of code, 54 forks. They were outside every ceiling, because the method-length analyser does not report top-level statements.

How it was checked

Release build of the solution: 0 warnings, 0 errors.
Bws.Architecture.Tests 139/139 (was 90), Bws.Core.Tests 650/650, Bws.Cli.Tests 66/66, Bws.Site.Tests 21/21.
22 tests of the measure itself, each rule paired with the case that must move the number.
21 mutation entries, all caught, including four that break the measure rather than the code.

What this does not check

Whether a method does one thing, whether its name is honest, nesting inside expressions (switch expressions, initialisers, LINQ), and nesting of XAML elements.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

Quality Improvements
- Automated checks now track code size, complexity, nesting, and related thresholds across application and test code.
- Build checks also verify analyzer settings and compiler-warning suppressions, helping catch unintended changes to these safeguards.
- Existing analyzer warnings remain enabled; method-length warnings are no longer used.
No User-Facing Changes
- This update does not change application behavior or add user-facing features.

Nobody reads this code line by line, so nothing noticed a method growing thirty lines a session. The size ratchet watched files, in raw lines, and 63% of the lines under src/ are comments and blank lines - so its ceiling was a ceiling on explaining, and splitting a type into partial files shrank the number it watched without shrinking the type. Now a C# parser (Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp 5.9.0, test project only, the same Roslyn the SDK compiler carries) reads the syntax tree once and holds ten more axes: method length in lines of code, McCabe complexity, nesting depth as indented on screen, signature width, and the methods and state of a type summed across every partial file - in src/ and, for the method axes, in tests/. The three file ceilings move to lines of code. Every ceiling, and every count of what stands within 70% of it, is pinned to today's measurement exactly. Shrinking the largest item asks for the number to come down in the same change and says to what. Three units far above the rest are named exemptions that are refused once no longer needed. Twenty-two tests check the measure itself, both halves of every rule. The first run found the command line's top-level statements to be the largest unit in the product - 209 lines of code, 54 forks - outside every ceiling, because MA0051 does not report top-level statements. MA0051 is off: it counted comments as method length, which the parser now does not. AnalyzerRuleGuards records all of .editorconfig a second time, refuses a build file that switches an analyser off, and counts every warning suppression from the syntax tree - a text search counted three that are not there. Proof that the guards can fail: 21 mutation entries, all caught. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

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The change adds architecture-test infrastructure to measure C# and XAML code shape and enforce configured ceilings. It updates file-size checks, disables the MA0051 analyzer rule, records method exemptions, and adds tests for analyzer configuration and warning suppressions.

Changes

Code shape guards

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Source parsing and shape measurements `tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests.csproj`, `tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/CodeShape.cs`, `tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/ShapeMeasures.cs`, `tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/CodeShapeMetricTests.cs`	Adds source parsing and metrics for code lines, markup, branching, nesting, signatures, types, and code units. Adds tests for the metric rules.
Shape ceilings and ratchet checks `tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/ShapeAxis.cs`, `tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/ShapeCeilings.cs`, `tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/CodeShapeGuards.cs`, `tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/SizeCeilings.cs`, `tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/SizeRatchetGuards.cs`, `tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/ShapeMarginReport.cs`	Adds ceilings, exemptions, and tests for code-shape limits. Updates file-size checks to use code-line measurements and exact ceilings.
Analyzer settings and recorded exemptions `.editorconfig`, `Directory.Build.props`, `src/Bws.Cli/CommandLine.Reading.cs`, `src/Bws.Cli/Refusals.cs`, `src/Bws.Core/Querying/QueryFields.cs`, `tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/AnalyzerRuleGuards.cs`, `tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/Sources.cs`, `tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/SupplyChainGuards.cs`	Disables MA0051 and documents selected shape exemptions. Adds checks for analyzer configuration and warning suppressions, and shares build-file discovery with supply-chain guards.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Other

Suggested labels: dependencies

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 039dc

The new guards can miss some configuration changes they are meant to catch. Close those gaps before relying on them to protect analyzer settings.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 13 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Safe File Parsing	⚠️ Warning	The new readers have no input-size bound. `CodeShape.cs:54,177` calls `File.ReadAllText` on every scanned XAML and C# file, then passes C# text to `CSharpSyntaxTree.ParseText`. `AnalyzerRuleGuards.cs:…	Set explicit maximum byte sizes for source, XAML, configuration, and project files. Read each file through a bounded stream and report a clear test failure when the limit is exceeded; do not call `File.ReadAllText` or `CSharpSyntaxTree.Pars…

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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title describes the code-shape guards, their thirteen ceilings, and code-only measurements. It is specific and within the length limit.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Tests For Changed Behavior	✅ Passed	The PR adds architecture-test code and changes analyzer configuration, comments, and MA0051 pragmas only. The source diff contains no executable-code changes, so it introduces no non-UI runtime behavi…
No Secrets Or Debug Leftovers	✅ Passed	The PR adds no CLAUDE.md, CLAUDE.local.md, AGENTS.md, .claude/, or .env files. Added lines contain no credential-like values, URLs, email addresses, internal hostnames/IPs, or hardcoded local absolute…
No Hardcoded Ui Styling	✅ Passed	The pull request does not touch UI code. Its changed-file list contains no XAML, Slint, or UI code-behind files, and the XAML/Slint diff is empty. The check does not apply.
No Obvious Performance Problems	✅ Passed	No clear performance problem was introduced. The production-source edits only change comments and MA0051 suppression directives; they do not change runtime behavior. The new parsing and filesystem sca…
Desktop Robustness	✅ Passed	No desktop robustness failure condition is introduced. The only changes under `src/` revise comments and remove MA0051 pragmas; they do not change runtime behavior. New test code reads repository sour…
System Changes Are Reversible	✅ Passed	The pull-request diff adds code-shape and analyzer-configuration checks, changes analyzer documentation, and adds a test-only Roslyn reference. The changed code contains no operations that modify netw…
Clear User-Facing Text	✅ Passed	This check applies only when the PR adds or changes text shown to users. The reviewed diff changes no UI, markup, or resource files. The production-source diffs only revise comments and MA0051 suppres…
No Resource Leaks	✅ Passed	No resource leak was introduced. The product-code diffs change comments and remove MA0051 pragmas; they add no runtime resource owners. New filesystem and parser code is confined to the non-packable a…
Scope, Duplication And Docs	✅ Passed	The changed work matches the title and description: it adds code-shape and analyzer guards, updates the existing file-size ratchet, and disables MA0051 because the new guards replace its measurement. …

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Explanation

The new readers have no input-size bound. CodeShape.cs:54,177 calls File.ReadAllText on every scanned XAML and C# file, then passes C# text to CSharpSyntaxTree.ParseText. AnalyzerRuleGuards.cs:126,128 also reads build files in full. A very large source or configuration file can exhaust test-process memory or make parsing take excessive time. The new OtherConfigurations() scan recursively enumerates from the repository root (AnalyzerRuleGuards.cs:224,228); it filters .git, build output, and other paths only after enumeration (:225,230-232), so a very large excluded tree still costs an unbounded traversal. The regex operations have a five-second timeout, but that does not bound file reads, Roslyn parsing, or directory traversal. The code uses no XML parser or deserializer, so it does not introduce external-entity resolution or arbitrary-type deserialization.

Resolution

Set explicit maximum byte sizes for source, XAML, configuration, and project files. Read each file through a bounded stream and report a clear test failure when the limit is exceeded; do not call File.ReadAllText or CSharpSyntaxTree.ParseText until the bound is enforced. Replace the repository-wide recursive enumeration with a directory walk that prunes excluded directories before descending and skips reparse points; keep the walk limited to intended repository folders.

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In `@src/Bws.Cli/Refusals.cs`:
- Around line 31-36: Update the shape-measurement explanations in the Refusals
comment, the CommandLine.Reading comments, and the ShapeCeilings test message to
match the current length, branching, and depth ceilings and measurements. Use
the suggested distinctions between exempt and non-exempt ceilings, and describe
where Refusals sits relative to its length ceiling.

In `@tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/AnalyzerRuleGuards.cs`:
- Around line 181-185: Update Settings parsing to recognize both `=` and `:` as
key/value separators, normalize parsed entries consistently, and record
unparseable lines as unreadable instead of silently skipping them.
- Around line 100-104: Add CodeAnalysisTreatWarningsAsErrors,
GlobalAnalyzerConfigFiles, and EditorConfigFiles to the Switches array so
Weakenings detects these analyzer-weakening properties and configuration-file
items.

In `@tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/CodeShapeMetricTests.cs`:
- Around line 82-93: Add focused complexity assertions to
Every_decision_forks_once for ConditionalExpression,
CoalesceAssignmentExpression, AndPattern, OrPattern, CasePatternSwitchLabel,
WhenClause, and ForEachVariableStatement. Ensure each fork kind is exercised by
an assertion whose expected score changes if that kind is removed.

In `@tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/Sources.cs`:
- Around line 53-61: Update BuildFiles() to apply the obj, bin, and tools
exclusions to each path relative to SourceTree.Root(), so ancestor directory
names do not exclude the entire tree. Also ensure the scan requires
Directory.Build.props and at least one *.csproj rather than silently passing
with no build files.

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src/Bws.Cli/CommandLine.Reading.cs
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src/Bws.Core/Querying/QueryFields.cs
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tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests.csproj
tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/CodeShape.cs
tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/CodeShapeGuards.cs
tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/CodeShapeMetricTests.cs
tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/ShapeAxis.cs
tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/ShapeCeilings.cs
tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/ShapeMarginReport.cs
tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/ShapeMeasures.cs
tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/SizeCeilings.cs
tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/SizeRatchetGuards.cs
tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/Sources.cs
tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/SupplyChainGuards.cs

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