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pj a460eba3db fix(web): offer the aria roles a user activates
only role=button was in the tappable set, so link, checkbox, radio,
switch, tab, option, the menuitems and treeitem were invisible to the
enumeration however plain the control looked. the replay ui builds its
step rows as <li role="option">, and the spec dogfooding it had to
hand-write an action to reach them because no default verb could see a
single row.

both producers build the set from the same role list, since the parity
test compares them element by element.
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@sanderling/spec

TypeScript spec API for sanderling, a property-based UI fuzzer for mobile and web apps.

Spec authors write properties (what the app must always or eventually do), extractors (structured state from the UI), and action generators (what sanderling is allowed to do). The sanderling CLI evaluates the spec in a loop against a running app.

Install

npm install --save-dev @sanderling/spec

Usage

import { extract, always, eventually, actions, weighted, taps, swipes, InputText, Tap } from "@sanderling/spec";

const loggedIn = extract((s) => !!s.ax.find("id:home-tab-bar"));
const balance = extract<number>((s) => (s.snapshots.balance as number) ?? 0);
const emailField = extract((s) => s.ax.find("id:email-field"));
const submitButton = extract((s) => s.ax.find("id:sign-in-button"));

export const properties = {
  balanceNeverNegative: always(() => balance.current >= 0),
  loginSucceeds: eventually(() => loggedIn.current).within(30, "seconds"),
};

const doLogin = actions(() => {
  if (loggedIn.current) return [];
  const email = emailField.current;
  const submit = submitButton.current;
  if (!email || !submit) return [];
  return [InputText({ into: email, text: "[email protected]" }), Tap({ on: submit })];
});

export const actionsRoot = weighted(
  [50, doLogin],
  [10, taps],
  [2,  swipes],
);

Setup actions

Some action generators are not fuzz targets but preconditions: they drive the app from a fresh state into the surface you actually want to fuzz (login, onboarding, permission grants, seed data). Export them as setup instead of mixing them into actionsRoot. The runner tries setup first; if it yields no action, it falls through to actionsRoot. State regressing back across the precondition (e.g. logout under fuzz) automatically re-engages setup.

const login = actions(() => {
  if (loggedIn.current) return [];
  return [InputText({ into: emailField.current!, text: "[email protected]" }), Tap({ on: submitButton.current! })];
});

export const setup = login;
export const actionsRoot = weighted([60, browse], [40, edit]);

(globalThis as { setup?: unknown }).setup = setup;

Setup is just an ActionGenerator; compose with actions, weighted, or whenRoute exactly like the main pool.

Works identically across Android, iOS, and web targets.