Reference

Authoritative descriptions of every public interface in utest. Each page documents a distinct layer of the framework.

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Page	Description
Glossary	Definitions of every term used in this documentation: test, suite, bundle, mock, shim, proxy, layer, behavior override, strict mode, worker, coordinator.
CLI and Configuration	Command-line flags, utest.config.uc format, and all recognised configuration keys including the mocks declaration.
DSL	All suite-structure and hook functions importable from 'utest': describe, it, skip, xit, xdescribe, beforeEach, afterEach, setup, and teardown.
Assertions	Every assertion on the assert object, plus the combinator factories (equals, contains, truthy, falsy, not, pred, regex, any, any_order, starts_with, ends_with, has_length, between, is_type). All imported from 'utest'.
Property-based testing	The prop DSL, forall engine, and the gen generator factories.
Mock API	The mock object and spy() function from 'utest': scoped injection, global patch/unpatch, snapshot, restore, and call inspection.
Proxy Data Models	The data key format accepted by each built-in proxy: fs, uci, ubus, uloop, and uclient.

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Internals

Authoritative description of internal protocols and APIs for framework contributors.

Page	Description
Source layout	Map of the repository structure and the role of each source file.
Message protocol	Format of JSON messages exchanged between workers and the coordinator.
Proxy context API	Registry operations and data-access helpers available to proxy factories.
Reporter API	Hook signatures and state data models for implementing custom output formats.