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Meta-tests for resyntax/test failure reporting

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
75/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Quiet
Domain
testing

Research direction

Start with test/private/rackunit.rkt and inspect the code handling code-block pretty-printing and failure message rendering. Then review the raise-syntax-error paths in test.rkt and run the relevant checks through rackunit's run-test-case. Done means deliberately failing meta-tests assert the expected failure output and cover the unbound and non-statement identifier paths.

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Description

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test/private/rackunit.rkt is at 76.8% coverage (69 missed lines), and the misses are exactly the code that runs when a refactoring test fails: the code-block pretty-printing writer and the failure message rendering. The raise-syntax-error paths in test.rkt for unbound or non-statement identifiers are similarly untested. Covering these means meta-tests: deliberately-failing checks run via rackunit's run-test-case with assertions on the failure output.

This is worth more than the coverage points. Reviewers lean on this failure output when reviewing AI-written rule PRs, and right now it's the least-tested part of the test framework itself.

Part of #680.

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