[quality] test: unit coverage for scripts/update_coverage_snapshot.py — new tests/unit/test_update_coverage_snapshot.py only

[kubestellar-hive]

Refs #775

Claimed ground (for disjointness checks)

• Adds (only file touched): tests/unit/test_update_coverage_snapshot.py (new)
• Subject under test: scripts/update_coverage_snapshot.py — parse_scenarios, classify, SuiteCounts.total, count_scenarios, render_snapshot, update_file, main
• Modifies: nothing. No production code, no workflow, no docs.

Disjoint from the open testsuite PRs: #774 (scripts/compose-e2e-image.sh), #773 (SSH transport), #771 (Containerfile.runner SHA-256), #768 (offline_boot_steps.py / sudo_rs_steps), #766 (scripts/generate_skill_index.py), #765 (behave environment quarantine gate), #757 (input-remapper QEMU), #751 (screenshot_steps.py). None of them touch scripts/update_coverage_snapshot.py or a file named tests/unit/test_update_coverage_snapshot.py.

Why

.github/workflows/pr-validate.yml:84 runs python3 scripts/update_coverage_snapshot.py --check as a required gate, and AGENTS.md forbids hand-editing the numbers it generates — but the script itself had zero unit tests. The gate is self-referential: it diffs the script's output against a table the same script produced, so a tag-precedence or feature-tag-inheritance regression moves both sides together and CI stays green while the suite-map numbers drift.

What this adds

44 tests in tests/unit/test_update_coverage_snapshot.py:

Area	Coverage
parse_scenarios	untagged scenarios, scenario tags, feature-tag inheritance, union of feature + scenario tags, tags not leaking to the next scenario, Scenario Outline counted once (not per Examples: row), comments ignored, Rule:/Background:/Examples: reset pending tags, hyphen/underscore tag names, file with no scenarios
classify	active default, unknown tags stay active, each of pending/future/hardware_blocked → pending, quarantine outranks every backlog tag
SuiteCounts	total sums all three buckets; zero defaults
count_scenarios	suite name = first path part under tests/, bucketing by precedence, multi-file accumulation, multi-suite separation, non-.feature files ignored
render_snapshot	marker wrapping, totals line (scenario + feature-file counts), rows sorted by suite, per-row column values, SUITE_NOTES prose for known suites, empty note for unknown suites, header row
update_file	missing markers → exit 2 with guidance on stderr, missing end marker → exit 2, write mode replaces block / preserves surrounding text / is idempotent, --check returns 1 on stale and never writes, --check returns 0 when current, --check catches a newly added scenario
main	--repo-root honoured, --check propagates and does not write
repository invariant	the committed snapshot is current — the CI --check assertion, reproduced inside the unit suite

All fixtures build synthetic feature trees under tmp_path; nothing touches the real docs/skills/test-authoring/suite-map/SKILL.md except the read-only invariant test.

Verification

$ python3 -m pytest tests/unit/test_update_coverage_snapshot.py -q
44 passed

Full unit suite before and after this branch is identical — 3 failed, 9 errors in both runs, all pre-existing and caused by behave/webdriver not being installed in the local sandbox; passing count goes 1236 → 1280 (+44).

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[hanthor]

44 genuine tests for update_coverage_snapshot.py. CI pytest is red, but the failures are pre-existing/unrelated (test_installer_environment.py / ssh_steps.run_ssh), not caused by this diff. Note: this overlaps #766 — both add tests/unit/test_update_coverage_snapshot.py at the same path with different content, which will conflict on merge; recommend landing the broader one (#766, which also covers generate_skill_index.py) and closing this one, flagged on both.

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