Re-measure the coverage entry against the tree this branch creates

84.9% line / 63.8% branch, 454 tests -> 87.1% line (2025/2324), 69.1% branch
(974/1410), 502 tests in 71 classes, as #132 and #133's ten children land.

The entry already instructs re-measuring before quoting, and that is why this is
here rather than in the batch: quoting these numbers before the work merged would
have described a tree that did not exist. It nearly went wrong the other way too
-- the first measurement for this commit was taken against a main that was three
merges stale and read 85.1%.

Also says something the bare numbers do not. Branch moved 5.3 points against
line's 2.2, and that asymmetry is the expected shape of this kind of work rather
than a curiosity: those children targeted decision code -- enum fallbacks,
refusal arms, cursor shapes, a `when` over container rules -- where one test
chooses a branch the suite had never taken. Line coverage barely notices that.
Branch coverage is the whole point.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

CLAUDE.md

@@ -130,8 +130,9 @@ install for code that can never run — and on API 37 the full APK does not fit
 - The `model` package is excluded from `ReturnCount` and `CyclomaticComplexMethod` only. It is the
   decision layer, where one branch is one documented user-visible outcome and the metric counts
   answers rather than complexity. Every other rule still applies there.
-- **Coverage is reported, not gated** — **84.9% of lines (1971/2321), 63.8% of branches**,
-  measured 2026-08-26 with `./gradlew :app:jacocoTestReport`, against 454 JVM tests in 67 classes.
+- **Coverage is reported, not gated** — **87.1% of lines (2025/2324), 69.1% of branches
+  (974/1410)**, measured 2026-08-27 with `./gradlew :app:jacocoTestReport`, against 502 JVM tests
+  in 71 classes.
 
   **Every figure this file carried before 2026-08-24 was an artifact, roughly half the real one.**
   Robolectric loads classes through its own sandbox classloader with no source location, JaCoCo
@@ -147,12 +148,19 @@ install for code that can never run — and on API 37 the full APK does not fit
   disproportionately Robolectric, so each one added denominator and no numerator — the measurement
   was punishing exactly the tests that were hardest to write.
 
-  Two things still hold. A floor needs a baseline that has settled, and this one has not: it moved
-  39 points in a single build change on 2026-08-24, then another 16 as the #52 test push and the
+  Two things still hold. A floor needs a baseline that has settled, and this one has not. It moved
+  39 points in a single build change on 2026-08-24; then another 16 as the #52 test push and the
   fixes it turned up landed — 69.2% -> 84.9% line, 53.2% -> 63.8% branch — while the denominator
-  grew 2194 -> 2321, because that work added production code of its own. And **re-measure before
-  quoting**: this entry was written quoting 81.4%, measured four hours earlier, and was already
-  three points stale by the time it was ready to merge.
+  grew 2194 -> 2321, because that work added production code of its own; then again on 2026-08-27
+  as #132 and #133's ten children landed — 84.9% -> 87.1% line, 63.8% -> **69.1%** branch, 454 ->
+  502 tests. **Branch moved four times as far as line that last time**, and that is the shape to
+  expect from this kind of work rather than a surprise: those children targeted decision code —
+  enum fallbacks, refusal arms, cursor shapes, a `when` over container rules — where one test
+  chooses a branch the suite had never taken. Line coverage barely notices; branch coverage is the
+  whole point.
+
+  And **re-measure before quoting**: this entry was once written quoting 81.4%, measured four hours
+  earlier, and was already three points stale by the time it was ready to merge.
 - **Testable code is not done until it is tested.** If a piece is unit testable, it gets unit
   tests before it counts as done. If it is e2e testable, it gets e2e tests. Both clauses apply —
   a change that is both needs both.

app/src/main/java/org/libremediaconverter/convert/MediaProbe.kt

@@ -92,7 +92,12 @@ object MediaProbe {
         else -> InputKind.UNPARSEABLE
     }
 
-    private class Extracted(
+    /**
+     * `internal` rather than `private` so [extractedFrom] can be named from a test. The JVM test
+     * source set is a friend of `main`, so this stays invisible outside the module — the precedent
+     * is `MainActivity`'s `Destination`, and [containerFrom] beside it.
+     */
+    internal class Extracted(
         val videoCodec: String?,
         val audioCodec: String?,
         val durationMs: Long,
@@ -100,33 +105,55 @@ object MediaProbe {
         val height: Int,
     )
 
+    /**
+     * What a set of track formats says about a file.
+     *
+     * Split out of [probeWithExtractor] so the rules below can be tested against tracks a test
+     * *chooses*, rather than against whatever the committed fixtures happen to contain. The device
+     * tests exercise this through real files; none of them can construct a two-video-track input,
+     * a track that omits its duration, or an audio-before-video ordering on purpose.
+     *
+     * Three rules live here, and each is a decision rather than plumbing:
+     *
+     * - **First track of a type wins.** `video == null` is the whole guard. A file with two video
+     *   tracks must report the first, because that is the one an engine will transcode.
+     * - **Duration is the maximum across tracks**, not the first one found or the last. A file
+     *   whose audio outlasts its video is ordinary, and reporting the video's length would cut the
+     *   progress bar short.
+     * - **A track that omits `KEY_DURATION` contributes nothing** rather than zero. `MediaExtractor`
+     *   omits it for plenty of real tracks — see `MediaProbeTrackFieldsTest` — and `maxOf` against a
+     *   fabricated 0 would still be correct here, but reading a key that is absent is not.
+     */
+    internal fun extractedFrom(formats: List<MediaFormat>): Extracted {
+        var video: String? = null
+        var audio: String? = null
+        var durationUs = 0L
+        var width = 0
+        var height = 0
+
+        for (format in formats) {
+            val mime = format.getString(MediaFormat.KEY_MIME).orEmpty()
+            if (format.containsKey(MediaFormat.KEY_DURATION)) {
+                durationUs = maxOf(durationUs, format.getLong(MediaFormat.KEY_DURATION))
+            }
+            when {
+                mime.startsWith("video/") && video == null -> {
+                    video = shortName(mime)
+                    width = format.intOr(MediaFormat.KEY_WIDTH)
+                    height = format.intOr(MediaFormat.KEY_HEIGHT)
+                }
+
+                mime.startsWith("audio/") && audio == null -> audio = shortName(mime)
+            }
+        }
+        return Extracted(video, audio, durationUs / US_PER_MS, width, height)
+    }
+
     private fun probeWithExtractor(context: Context, uri: Uri): Extracted? {
         val extractor = MediaExtractor()
         return try {
             extractor.setDataSource(context, uri, null)
-            var video: String? = null
-            var audio: String? = null
-            var durationUs = 0L
-            var width = 0
-            var height = 0
-
-            for (i in 0 until extractor.trackCount) {
-                val format = extractor.getTrackFormat(i)
-                val mime = format.getString(MediaFormat.KEY_MIME).orEmpty()
-                if (format.containsKey(MediaFormat.KEY_DURATION)) {
-                    durationUs = maxOf(durationUs, format.getLong(MediaFormat.KEY_DURATION))
-                }
-                when {
-                    mime.startsWith("video/") && video == null -> {
-                        video = shortName(mime)
-                        width = format.intOr(MediaFormat.KEY_WIDTH)
-                        height = format.intOr(MediaFormat.KEY_HEIGHT)
-                    }
-
-                    mime.startsWith("audio/") && audio == null -> audio = shortName(mime)
-                }
-            }
-            Extracted(video, audio, durationUs / US_PER_MS, width, height)
+            extractedFrom(extractor.trackFormats())
         } catch (e: Exception) {
             Log.i(TAG, "Platform extractor could not read $uri.", e)
             null
@@ -269,25 +296,7 @@ object MediaProbe {
         val extractor = MediaExtractor()
         return try {
             extractor.setDataSource(context, uri, null)
-            var video: String? = null
-            var audio: String? = null
-            var width = 0
-            var height = 0
-            var fps = 0
-
-            for (i in 0 until extractor.trackCount) {
-                val format = extractor.getTrackFormat(i)
-                val mime = format.getString(MediaFormat.KEY_MIME).orEmpty()
-                if (mime.startsWith("video/") && video == null) {
-                    video = shortName(mime)
-                    width = format.intOr(MediaFormat.KEY_WIDTH)
-                    height = format.intOr(MediaFormat.KEY_HEIGHT)
-                    fps = format.intOr(MediaFormat.KEY_FRAME_RATE)
-                } else if (mime.startsWith("audio/") && audio == null) {
-                    audio = shortName(mime)
-                }
-            }
-            ConcatInput(video, audio, width, height, fps)
+            concatInputFrom(extractor.trackFormats())
         } catch (e: Exception) {
             Log.i(TAG, "Could not probe $uri for concat; will re-encode.", e)
             ConcatInput(null, null, 0, 0, 0)
@@ -296,6 +305,45 @@ object MediaProbe {
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * The join flow's read of the same track formats. See [extractedFrom] for why this is separate
+     * from the extractor.
+     *
+     * Deliberately **not** folded into [extractedFrom] despite the overlap. This one reads frame
+     * rate and does not read duration; that one reads duration and does not read frame rate. A
+     * merged version would have to compute both for every caller, and `ConcatPlanner` treats an
+     * unknown frame rate as "cannot prove a match" — so a field this flow does not need must not
+     * start arriving as a number.
+     */
+    internal fun concatInputFrom(formats: List<MediaFormat>): ConcatInput {
+        var video: String? = null
+        var audio: String? = null
+        var width = 0
+        var height = 0
+        var fps = 0
+
+        for (format in formats) {
+            val mime = format.getString(MediaFormat.KEY_MIME).orEmpty()
+            if (mime.startsWith("video/") && video == null) {
+                video = shortName(mime)
+                width = format.intOr(MediaFormat.KEY_WIDTH)
+                height = format.intOr(MediaFormat.KEY_HEIGHT)
+                fps = format.intOr(MediaFormat.KEY_FRAME_RATE)
+            } else if (mime.startsWith("audio/") && audio == null) {
+                audio = shortName(mime)
+            }
+        }
+        return ConcatInput(video, audio, width, height, fps)
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Every track format this extractor holds, read once.
+     *
+     * The thin edge the two pure functions above leave behind: a `trackCount` and a
+     * `getTrackFormat` per index, which is the whole of what needs a real `MediaExtractor`.
+     */
+    private fun MediaExtractor.trackFormats(): List<MediaFormat> = (0 until trackCount).map(::getTrackFormat)
+
     /**
      * One track property as an Int, or [fallback] when the format has no Int to give.
      *

app/src/test/java/org/libremediaconverter/convert/MediaProbeTrackWalkTest.kt

@@ -0,0 +1,221 @@
+package org.libremediaconverter.convert
+
+import android.media.MediaFormat
+import org.junit.Assert.assertEquals
+import org.junit.Assert.assertNull
+import org.junit.Test
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith
+import org.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner
+
+/**
+ * The rules `MediaProbe` applies to a set of track formats.
+ *
+ * ## Why this exists, and what it revises
+ *
+ * Issue #84 classified `probeWithExtractor` and `probeForConcat` as device-bound and explicitly not
+ * a gap:
+ *
+ * > These are exercised by `RemuxTest`, `ConcatEngineTest` and `RealMediaBenchmark` in
+ * > `androidTest` … **Do not read their 0% as untested.**
+ *
+ * That was right about the measurement boundary and right about FFprobe. It was not right that
+ * these are only orchestration. The track walk is a **branch matrix**, and `androidTest` reaches it
+ * only through whatever the committed fixtures happen to contain — so none of the rules below is
+ * *chosen* by any test there. A fixture with two video tracks, a track that omits its duration, or
+ * an audio-before-video ordering is not something a device test would produce on purpose.
+ *
+ * The seam is the answer #133 preferred over driving `ShadowMediaExtractor`: the walk is a pure
+ * function over `List<MediaFormat>`, and what is left needing a device — `setDataSource`,
+ * `getTrackFormat`, `release` — is the thin edge `androidTest` should be covering. This is the
+ * `work/FailureOutcome.kt` pattern `CLAUDE.md` names.
+ *
+ * `MediaFormat` is a real one throughout, not a stub. `MediaProbeTrackFieldsTest` records why that
+ * matters: it is a heterogeneous map whose getters throw rather than coerce, and a hand-rolled
+ * double would not reproduce that.
+ */
+@RunWith(RobolectricTestRunner::class)
+class MediaProbeTrackWalkTest {
+
+    // --- extractedFrom: the conversion flow's read ---------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `the first video track wins when a file carries two`() {
+        // `video == null` is the entire guard. A file with two video tracks must report the first,
+        // because that is the one an engine will transcode -- and the width and height must come
+        // from the same track, not be mixed across them.
+        val extracted = MediaProbe.extractedFrom(
+            listOf(
+                video(MediaFormat.MIMETYPE_VIDEO_AVC, width = 1920, height = 1080),
+                video(MediaFormat.MIMETYPE_VIDEO_HEVC, width = 640, height = 480),
+            ),
+        )
+
+        assertEquals("h264", extracted.videoCodec)
+        assertEquals(1920, extracted.width)
+        assertEquals(1080, extracted.height)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `the first audio track wins when a file carries two`() {
+        val extracted = MediaProbe.extractedFrom(
+            listOf(
+                audio(MediaFormat.MIMETYPE_AUDIO_AAC),
+                audio(MediaFormat.MIMETYPE_AUDIO_OPUS),
+            ),
+        )
+
+        assertEquals("aac", extracted.audioCodec)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `duration is the longest track, not the first or the last`() {
+        // A file whose audio outlasts its video is ordinary. Taking the video's length would cut
+        // the progress bar short; taking the last track's would be right only by accident of order.
+        val extracted = MediaProbe.extractedFrom(
+            listOf(
+                video(MediaFormat.MIMETYPE_VIDEO_AVC, durationUs = 10_000_000),
+                audio(MediaFormat.MIMETYPE_AUDIO_AAC, durationUs = 12_500_000),
+                audio(MediaFormat.MIMETYPE_AUDIO_OPUS, durationUs = 1_000_000),
+            ),
+        )
+
+        assertEquals(12_500L, extracted.durationMs)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a track that does not declare its duration contributes nothing to it`() {
+        // MediaExtractor omits KEY_DURATION for plenty of real tracks -- MediaProbeTrackFieldsTest
+        // records the same for KEY_FRAME_RATE. Reading a key that is absent is what containsKey
+        // stands between us and.
+        val extracted = MediaProbe.extractedFrom(
+            listOf(
+                video(MediaFormat.MIMETYPE_VIDEO_AVC),
+                audio(MediaFormat.MIMETYPE_AUDIO_AAC, durationUs = 7_000_000),
+            ),
+        )
+
+        assertEquals(7_000L, extracted.durationMs)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `declaring audio before video changes nothing`() {
+        // Track order is a property of the container, not of the content. Both orderings have to
+        // reach the same answer or the same file remuxed twice would probe differently.
+        val videoFirst = MediaProbe.extractedFrom(
+            listOf(
+                video(MediaFormat.MIMETYPE_VIDEO_AVC, width = 1280, height = 720),
+                audio(MediaFormat.MIMETYPE_AUDIO_AAC),
+            ),
+        )
+        val audioFirst = MediaProbe.extractedFrom(
+            listOf(
+                audio(MediaFormat.MIMETYPE_AUDIO_AAC),
+                video(MediaFormat.MIMETYPE_VIDEO_AVC, width = 1280, height = 720),
+            ),
+        )
+
+        assertEquals(videoFirst.videoCodec, audioFirst.videoCodec)
+        assertEquals(videoFirst.audioCodec, audioFirst.audioCodec)
+        assertEquals(videoFirst.width, audioFirst.width)
+        assertEquals(videoFirst.height, audioFirst.height)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a track that is neither audio nor video is ignored`() {
+        // Subtitle and timed-metadata tracks are common in MKV and MP4. Neither prefix matches, so
+        // neither slot is filled -- and, importantly, a subtitle track must not be mistaken for the
+        // absence of an audio track by some later `else`.
+        val extracted = MediaProbe.extractedFrom(
+            listOf(
+                MediaFormat().apply { setString(MediaFormat.KEY_MIME, "text/vtt") },
+                video(MediaFormat.MIMETYPE_VIDEO_AVC),
+            ),
+        )
+
+        assertEquals("h264", extracted.videoCodec)
+        assertNull(extracted.audioCodec)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a file with no tracks reports nothing rather than zero-width video`() {
+        val extracted = MediaProbe.extractedFrom(emptyList())
+
+        assertNull(extracted.videoCodec)
+        assertNull(extracted.audioCodec)
+        assertEquals(0L, extracted.durationMs)
+        assertEquals(0, extracted.width)
+        assertEquals(0, extracted.height)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `an audio-only file reports no video codec at all`() {
+        // The distinction MediaProbe.classify turns into InputKind.AUDIO_ONLY, and the reason
+        // `hasVideo` exists: an audio file and a corrupt file must not look alike.
+        val extracted = MediaProbe.extractedFrom(listOf(audio(MediaFormat.MIMETYPE_AUDIO_AAC)))
+
+        assertNull(extracted.videoCodec)
+        assertEquals("aac", extracted.audioCodec)
+        assertEquals(0, extracted.width)
+    }
+
+    // --- concatInputFrom: the join flow's read -------------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `the join read takes frame rate from the first video track`() {
+        val input = MediaProbe.concatInputFrom(
+            listOf(
+                video(MediaFormat.MIMETYPE_VIDEO_AVC, width = 1920, height = 1080, frameRate = 30),
+                video(MediaFormat.MIMETYPE_VIDEO_HEVC, width = 640, height = 480, frameRate = 60),
+                audio(MediaFormat.MIMETYPE_AUDIO_AAC),
+            ),
+        )
+
+        assertEquals("h264", input.videoCodec)
+        assertEquals("aac", input.audioCodec)
+        assertEquals(1920, input.width)
+        assertEquals(1080, input.height)
+        assertEquals(30, input.frameRate)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a video track with no declared frame rate reports zero rather than guessing`() {
+        // ConcatPlanner treats 0 as "cannot prove a match" and re-encodes. A guessed 30 would read
+        // as agreement and produce a stream copy of clips that do not actually match -- the failure
+        // its KDoc says the whole flow is arranged to avoid.
+        val input = MediaProbe.concatInputFrom(listOf(video(MediaFormat.MIMETYPE_VIDEO_AVC)))
+
+        assertEquals(0, input.frameRate)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a file with no tracks joins as entirely unknown`() {
+        val input = MediaProbe.concatInputFrom(emptyList())
+
+        assertNull(input.videoCodec)
+        assertNull(input.audioCodec)
+        assertEquals(0, input.width)
+        assertEquals(0, input.height)
+        assertEquals(0, input.frameRate)
+    }
+
+    private fun video(
+        mime: String,
+        width: Int = 1920,
+        height: Int = 1080,
+        durationUs: Long? = null,
+        frameRate: Int? = null,
+    ): MediaFormat = MediaFormat.createVideoFormat(mime, width, height).apply {
+        durationUs?.let { setLong(MediaFormat.KEY_DURATION, it) }
+        frameRate?.let { setInteger(MediaFormat.KEY_FRAME_RATE, it) }
+    }
+
+    private fun audio(mime: String, durationUs: Long? = null): MediaFormat =
+        MediaFormat.createAudioFormat(mime, SAMPLE_RATE, CHANNELS).apply {
+            durationUs?.let { setLong(MediaFormat.KEY_DURATION, it) }
+        }
+
+    private companion object {
+        const val SAMPLE_RATE = 48_000
+        const val CHANNELS = 2
+    }
+}

app/src/test/java/org/libremediaconverter/work/RefusedJobTest.kt

@@ -0,0 +1,276 @@
+package org.libremediaconverter.work
+
+import android.app.Application
+import android.net.Uri
+import androidx.media3.common.util.UnstableApi
+import androidx.work.Data
+import androidx.work.ListenableWorker
+import androidx.work.testing.TestListenableWorkerBuilder
+import androidx.work.workDataOf
+import kotlinx.coroutines.runBlocking
+import org.junit.After
+import org.junit.Assert.assertEquals
+import org.junit.Assert.assertTrue
+import org.junit.Before
+import org.junit.Test
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith
+import org.libremediaconverter.convert.ConversionDependencies
+import org.libremediaconverter.convert.OutputPublisher
+import org.libremediaconverter.convert.SoftwareTranscoder
+import org.libremediaconverter.convert.installTestWorkManager
+import org.libremediaconverter.model.AudioCodec
+import org.libremediaconverter.model.ContainerCapabilities
+import org.libremediaconverter.model.ConversionRequest
+import org.libremediaconverter.model.DeviceCodecs
+import org.libremediaconverter.model.EnginePreference
+import org.libremediaconverter.model.InputProbe
+import org.libremediaconverter.model.OutputFormat
+import org.libremediaconverter.model.OutputSpec
+import org.libremediaconverter.model.Validation
+import org.libremediaconverter.model.VideoCodec
+import org.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner
+import org.robolectric.RuntimeEnvironment
+import java.io.File
+import java.util.UUID
+
+/**
+ * Jobs the worker refuses before it converts anything, and what it says about them.
+ *
+ * Two exits, both cold before this file, and both reachable for the same underlying reason: **a job
+ * does not have to come from the picker.** WorkManager keeps queued and finished work for about a
+ * week, so a downgrade or a rollback hands this build a job enqueued by another one — the premise
+ * `WorkerEnumFallbackTest` and `JobTags` are both written on — and `ConversionWorker.request(...)`
+ * is callable directly.
+ *
+ * What makes these worth their own file rather than another case in an existing one is that both
+ * are about the *message*. A refusal that fails with empty output `Data` renders the UI's generic
+ * "Conversion failed." with nothing else to say, which is the defect shape `DeniedForegroundStartTest`
+ * records from the device pass. Asserting the verdict alone would pass against exactly that.
+ */
+@UnstableApi
+@RunWith(RobolectricTestRunner::class)
+class RefusedJobTest {
+
+    private lateinit var app: Application
+    private lateinit var publisher: OutputPublisher
+    private lateinit var engine: RefusingTranscoder
+
+    @Before
+    fun setUp() {
+        app = RuntimeEnvironment.getApplication()
+        publisher = AlwaysRoomPublisher(app)
+        engine = RefusingTranscoder()
+        ConversionDependencies.publisher = { publisher }
+        ConversionDependencies.software = { engine }
+        // Neither test is about probing or about this machine's codecs; both would otherwise decide
+        // the outcome for reasons no assertion mentions. See WorkerCancellationTest's setUp.
+        ConversionDependencies.probe = { _, _ -> InputProbe() }
+        ConversionDependencies.deviceCodecs = { DeviceCodecs.PERMISSIVE }
+        installTestWorkManager(app, Data.EMPTY)
+    }
+
+    @After
+    fun tearDown() {
+        ConversionDependencies.reset()
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a job with no input URI fails with a message rather than a bare failure`() {
+        val result = runBlocking { workerWithout(ConversionWorker.KEY_INPUT_URI).doWork() }
+
+        // `Failure.equals` compares output data, so this pins the message and the verdict together.
+        assertEquals(
+            ListenableWorker.Result.failure(workDataOf(ConversionWorker.KEY_ERROR to "No input file.")),
+            result,
+        )
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a job with no input URI stages nothing`() {
+        // The URI read is the first thing doWork does -- above the space check, above the staging
+        // name, above the try. A refusal there must not have reserved anything.
+        runBlocking { workerWithout(ConversionWorker.KEY_INPUT_URI).doWork() }
+
+        assertEquals("a job refused for having no input must not stage a file", emptyList<String>(), stagedNames())
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a spec the picker would never have allowed is refused with the reason`() {
+        // WAV carries PCM and nothing else. The picker cannot produce this combination today, which
+        // is exactly why the worker checks: the job can arrive from a queue written before the
+        // settings changed, or from a direct request(...) call.
+        val expected = ContainerCapabilities.validate(REFUSED_SPEC, InputProbe()) as? Validation.Invalid
+            ?: throw AssertionError("the fixture spec is supposed to be invalid; ContainerCapabilities disagrees")
+
+        val result = runBlocking { worker(REFUSED_SPEC).doWork() }
+
+        assertEquals(
+            ListenableWorker.Result.failure(workDataOf(ConversionWorker.KEY_ERROR to expected.message)),
+            result,
+        )
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a refused spec never reaches an engine`() {
+        // The half that says it failed *before* converting rather than during. Without this, a
+        // worker that ran the job and then reported the validation message would pass the test
+        // above -- and would have spent the user's battery on a file it was going to refuse.
+        runBlocking { worker(REFUSED_SPEC).doWork() }
+
+        assertTrue("a refused spec must be refused before any engine runs", engine.invocations.isEmpty())
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a valid spec is not refused`() {
+        // The control. Every assertion above is about a refusal, so without this they would all
+        // still pass against a worker that refused everything.
+        val result = runBlocking { worker(OutputFormat.MP4_H265.spec).doWork() }
+
+        assertEquals(ListenableWorker.Result.success(), stripOutput(result))
+        assertEquals(listOf(OutputFormat.MP4_H265.spec), engine.invocations)
+    }
+
+    // --- the same refusal, on the join side ----------------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a join of a single file is refused with a message rather than joined`() {
+        // The arm beside it -- a job with no URI array at all -- is covered on the device by
+        // `UnopenableUriTest.aJoinWithNoInputArrayFailsWithAMessage`. This one was covered by
+        // nothing in either source set, which a coverage report cannot say because it cannot see
+        // androidTest: the two arms are adjacent lines and only one of them had a test.
+        //
+        // Reachable for the reason this file's header gives, plus one of its own: `request(...)`
+        // takes a `List<Uri>` and checks nothing about its length, so a single-item join is a
+        // well-formed call, not a corrupted queue entry.
+        val result = runBlocking { joinWorker(INPUT).doWork() }
+
+        assertEquals(
+            ListenableWorker.Result.failure(
+                workDataOf(ConcatWorker.KEY_ERROR to "Pick at least two files to join."),
+            ),
+            result,
+        )
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a join of two files is not refused for its count`() {
+        // The control, and the half that makes the test above bite on the boundary rather than on
+        // the message: without it, `uris.size < 3` passes everything here.
+        //
+        // It refuses the space instead of letting the job run, because the next thing past the
+        // count guard is `ConcatEngine`, which is native -- `NamingPublisher`'s KDoc records that
+        // no JVM test gets past it. A refusal with the *space* message is proof that execution
+        // reached line 57, which is proof it got past line 42, and it costs no engine to say so.
+        val noRoom = NamingPublisher(app).apply { refuseSpace = true }
+        ConversionDependencies.publisher = { noRoom }
+
+        val result = runBlocking { joinWorker(INPUT, SECOND_INPUT).doWork() }
+
+        assertEquals(
+            ListenableWorker.Result.failure(
+                workDataOf(ConcatWorker.KEY_ERROR to "Not enough free space to join these files."),
+            ),
+            result,
+        )
+    }
+
+    /** [ListenableWorker.Result.Success] compares its output data, which these tests do not pin. */
+    private fun stripOutput(result: ListenableWorker.Result): ListenableWorker.Result =
+        if (result is ListenableWorker.Result.Success) ListenableWorker.Result.success() else result
+
+    private fun worker(spec: OutputSpec): ConversionWorker = build(
+        workDataOf(
+            ConversionWorker.KEY_INPUT_URI to INPUT.toString(),
+            ConversionWorker.KEY_DISPLAY_NAME to DISPLAY_NAME,
+            ConversionWorker.KEY_SIZE_BYTES to INPUT_BYTES,
+            ConversionWorker.KEY_CONTAINER to spec.container.name,
+            ConversionWorker.KEY_VIDEO_CODEC to spec.videoCodec.name,
+            ConversionWorker.KEY_AUDIO_CODEC to spec.audioCodec.name,
+            ConversionWorker.KEY_ENGINE_PREFERENCE to EnginePreference.FORCE_SOFTWARE.name,
+        ),
+    )
+
+    /**
+     * The ordinary input `Data`, less one key.
+     *
+     * Built by removal rather than by spelling out a shorter map, so the test cannot drift into
+     * omitting something else as well and passing for a reason it does not name.
+     */
+    private fun workerWithout(key: String): ConversionWorker {
+        val full = OutputFormat.MP4_H265.spec
+        val entries = mapOf(
+            ConversionWorker.KEY_INPUT_URI to INPUT.toString(),
+            ConversionWorker.KEY_DISPLAY_NAME to DISPLAY_NAME,
+            ConversionWorker.KEY_SIZE_BYTES to INPUT_BYTES,
+            ConversionWorker.KEY_CONTAINER to full.container.name,
+            ConversionWorker.KEY_VIDEO_CODEC to full.videoCodec.name,
+            ConversionWorker.KEY_AUDIO_CODEC to full.audioCodec.name,
+            ConversionWorker.KEY_ENGINE_PREFERENCE to EnginePreference.FORCE_SOFTWARE.name,
+        ) - key
+        return build(Data.Builder().putAll(entries).build())
+    }
+
+    private fun build(data: Data): ConversionWorker =
+        TestListenableWorkerBuilder<ConversionWorker>(context = app, inputData = data, runAttemptCount = 0)
+            .setId(JOB_ID)
+            .build()
+
+    /**
+     * A join job carrying [inputs], a declared total, and a format.
+     *
+     * The total is declared so `hasRoomFor` takes its `hasSpaceFor` branch: the other branch is
+     * `hasSpaceForUnknownSize`, which `NamingPublisher` does not override and which would measure
+     * this machine's real disk.
+     */
+    private fun joinWorker(vararg inputs: Uri): ConcatWorker = TestListenableWorkerBuilder<ConcatWorker>(
+        context = app,
+        inputData = workDataOf(
+            ConcatWorker.KEY_INPUT_URIS to inputs.map(Uri::toString).toTypedArray(),
+            ConcatWorker.KEY_TOTAL_BYTES to INPUT_BYTES * inputs.size,
+            ConcatWorker.KEY_FORMAT to OutputFormat.MP4_H264.name,
+        ),
+        runAttemptCount = 0,
+    ).setId(JOB_ID).build()
+
+    private fun stagedNames(): List<String> =
+        publisher.createStagingFile("anything").parentFile?.listFiles().orEmpty().map { it.name }.sorted()
+
+    private companion object {
+        val INPUT: Uri = Uri.parse("file:///tmp/holiday.mp4")
+        const val DISPLAY_NAME = "holiday.mp4"
+        const val INPUT_BYTES = 1024L
+
+        /** A join needs two, and "two" is the boundary the count guard is about. */
+        val SECOND_INPUT: Uri = Uri.parse("file:///tmp/holiday-2.mp4")
+
+        /** WAV carries PCM and nothing else, so AAC in WAV has nowhere to go. */
+        val REFUSED_SPEC = OutputSpec(
+            org.libremediaconverter.model.Container.WAV,
+            VideoCodec.NONE,
+            AudioCodec.AAC,
+        )
+        val JOB_ID: UUID = UUID.fromString("00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000005")
+    }
+}
+
+/** An engine that records what it was asked for and writes an output, so a success is a success. */
+private class RefusingTranscoder : SoftwareTranscoder {
+
+    /** Every spec that actually reached an engine. Empty is the assertion for a refused job. */
+    val invocations = mutableListOf<OutputSpec>()
+
+    override suspend fun run(
+        request: ConversionRequest,
+        inputPath: String,
+        output: File,
+        durationMs: Long,
+        onProgress: (Int) -> Unit,
+    ) {
+        invocations += request.spec
+        output.writeBytes(ByteArray(OUTPUT_BYTES))
+    }
+
+    private companion object {
+        const val OUTPUT_BYTES = 512
+    }
+}