Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into test/join-state-mapping

W1: cut the conversion state mapping into a seam, and choose all six arms

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/ConversionViewModel.kt

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import android.util.Log
 import androidx.lifecycle.AndroidViewModel
 import androidx.lifecycle.viewModelScope
 import androidx.media3.common.util.UnstableApi
+import androidx.work.Data
 import androidx.work.WorkInfo
 import androidx.work.WorkManager
 import kotlinx.coroutines.CoroutineDispatcher
@@ -71,6 +72,119 @@ data class InputFile(
     val probe: InputProbe? = null,
 )
 
+/**
+ * One update about a running conversion, as WorkManager last reported it.
+ *
+ * Only the fields [conversionStateFrom] reads — the same shape, and for the same reason, as
+ * `JobSnapshot` beside `Reattachment.choose`: the rule stays testable on the JVM because nothing
+ * in it needs a `WorkInfo`, which a test cannot readily build.
+ *
+ * [outputData] stays a `Data` rather than being unpacked into five nullable strings. It is what a
+ * test already builds with `workDataOf` everywhere in this suite, so unpacking would move the same
+ * reads without making anything easier to drive.
+ */
+internal data class ConversionUpdate(
+    val state: WorkInfo.State,
+    val progressPercent: Int,
+    val runAttemptCount: Int,
+    val outputData: Data,
+)
+
+/**
+ * What the screen should show, given what WorkManager last said about the job.
+ *
+ * ## Why this is a function rather than the body of a `collect`
+ *
+ * It was the body of one. `workManager` is built in the constructor from `WorkManager.getInstance`,
+ * `observe` is private, and nothing could hand either a chosen `WorkInfo` — so every arm below ran
+ * only when a real worker happened to produce it. A real worker produces a terminal state with
+ * well-formed output, which meant six of these arms had never been chosen by any test: the progress
+ * read, both sides of the retry check, a success with no file, a failure with nothing to say, and
+ * the two that map to a state the user cannot otherwise reach.
+ *
+ * That is the argument #141 made for `MediaProbe`'s track walk, against `WorkManager` instead of a
+ * media fixture, and it takes the same answer: the branch matrix is a pure function, and what is
+ * left needing the framework — the flow, the null check, the ownership check — is the thin edge.
+ *
+ * ## What is deliberately *not* in here
+ *
+ * The ownership check stays at the call site. Its comment is explicit that it guards the file
+ * ownership the `SUCCEEDED` arm takes, not merely the assignment, so moving it inside would change
+ * what it protects. And this function takes no responsibility for the staged file: it returns the
+ * state, and the caller reads the file off it. A pure function that deletes files is not a seam.
+ *
+ * @param cancelled where a cancellation lands, which differs for a reattached job — see [observe].
+ * @param fallbackSpec the current settings, read only when finished work predates the worker
+ *   reporting its own name and MIME type.
+ */
+@UnstableApi
+internal fun conversionStateFrom(
+    update: ConversionUpdate,
+    input: InputFile,
+    cancelled: ConversionState,
+    fallbackSpec: OutputSpec,
+): ConversionState = when (update.state) {
+    WorkInfo.State.RUNNING -> ConversionState.Converting(input, update.progressPercent)
+
+    // ENQUEUED after a run means a retry is pending. Either the six-hour foreground budget ran out
+    // mid-job, or the system refused to let the job start again while the app was in the background
+    // — the second being the likelier of the two, since it needs only a process restart. Nothing
+    // here can tell them apart, and nothing needs to: the answer is the same.
+    WorkInfo.State.ENQUEUED ->
+        if (update.runAttemptCount > 0) {
+            ConversionState.Waiting(input)
+        } else {
+            ConversionState.Converting(input, 0)
+        }
+
+    WorkInfo.State.SUCCEEDED -> convertedFrom(update.outputData, input, fallbackSpec)
+
+    // A worker that dies before it can report anything leaves no output data at all — a
+    // foreground-service start refused after a process restart is one way — and an exception's
+    // message can be an empty string. Both would read as a failure with nothing said, so blank
+    // falls back like missing does.
+    WorkInfo.State.FAILED -> ConversionState.Failed(
+        update.outputData.getString(ConversionWorker.KEY_ERROR)
+            ?.takeIf { it.isNotBlank() }
+            ?: ConversionWorker.GENERIC_FAILURE_MESSAGE,
+    )
+
+    WorkInfo.State.CANCELLED -> cancelled
+    WorkInfo.State.BLOCKED -> ConversionState.Converting(input, 0)
+}
+
+/**
+ * The `SUCCEEDED` arm, which is the only one that reads more than one field.
+ *
+ * Split out so [conversionStateFrom] stays a table of one line per state. A success with no output
+ * path is a failure: the job said it finished and named nothing, and there is no file to offer.
+ */
+@UnstableApi
+private fun convertedFrom(outputData: Data, input: InputFile, fallbackSpec: OutputSpec): ConversionState {
+    val path = outputData.getString(ConversionWorker.KEY_OUTPUT_PATH)
+        ?: return ConversionState.Failed(SUCCEEDED_WITHOUT_A_FILE_MESSAGE)
+    return ConversionState.Converted(
+        input = input,
+        staged = File(path),
+        engineUsed = outputData.getString(ConversionWorker.KEY_ENGINE_USED).orEmpty(),
+        routeReason = outputData.getString(ConversionWorker.KEY_ROUTE_REASON).orEmpty(),
+        // Work enqueued before the worker reported this carries nothing, and WorkManager keeps
+        // finished work for about a week -- so this branch is ordinary for a few days rather than a
+        // corner. It is the old derivation, kept because it is the same guess the app already made
+        // and there is genuinely nothing better available for such a job. New work never reaches it.
+        suggestedName = outputData.getString(ConversionWorker.KEY_SUGGESTED_NAME)
+            ?.takeIf { it.isNotBlank() }
+            ?: ConversionWorker.outputNameFor(input.displayName, fallbackSpec),
+        mimeType = outputData.getString(ConversionWorker.KEY_MIME_TYPE)
+            ?.takeIf { it.isNotBlank() }
+            ?: fallbackSpec.mimeType,
+    )
+}
+
+/** A job that reported success and named no file. There is nothing to offer the user to save. */
+internal const val SUCCEEDED_WITHOUT_A_FILE_MESSAGE: String =
+    "Conversion reported success but produced no file."
+
 sealed interface ConversionState {
     data object Idle : ConversionState
     data class Ready(val input: InputFile) : ConversionState
@@ -442,75 +556,24 @@ class ConversionViewModel @JvmOverloads constructor(
                 // that either. The state and `pendingStaged` are meant to refer to the same file
                 // or to no file, and this is where that stays true.
                 if (!ownership.stillHeldBy(token)) return@collect
-                _state.value = when (info.state) {
-                    WorkInfo.State.RUNNING -> ConversionState.Converting(
-                        input,
-                        info.progress.getInt(ConversionWorker.KEY_PROGRESS, 0),
-                    )
-
-                    // ENQUEUED after a run means a retry is pending. Either the six-hour
-                    // foreground budget ran out mid-job, or the system refused to let the job
-                    // start again while the app was in the background — the second being the
-                    // likelier of the two, since it needs only a process restart. Nothing here
-                    // can tell them apart, and nothing needs to: the answer is the same.
-                    WorkInfo.State.ENQUEUED ->
-                        if (info.runAttemptCount > 0) {
-                            ConversionState.Waiting(input)
-                        } else {
-                            ConversionState.Converting(input, 0)
-                        }
-
-                    WorkInfo.State.SUCCEEDED -> {
-                        val path = info.outputData.getString(ConversionWorker.KEY_OUTPUT_PATH)
-                        if (path == null) {
-                            ConversionState.Failed("Conversion reported success but produced no file.")
-                        } else {
-                            val staged = File(path)
-                            // Take responsibility for the file at the same moment the state
-                            // starts referring to it, so the two cannot disagree.
-                            pendingStaged = staged
-                            ConversionState.Converted(
-                                input = input,
-                                staged = staged,
-                                engineUsed = info.outputData
-                                    .getString(ConversionWorker.KEY_ENGINE_USED).orEmpty(),
-                                routeReason = info.outputData
-                                    .getString(ConversionWorker.KEY_ROUTE_REASON).orEmpty(),
-                                suggestedName = info.outputData
-                                    .getString(ConversionWorker.KEY_SUGGESTED_NAME)
-                                    ?.takeIf { it.isNotBlank() }
-                                    // Work enqueued before the worker reported this carries
-                                    // nothing, and WorkManager keeps finished work for about a
-                                    // week -- so this branch is ordinary for a few days rather
-                                    // than a corner. It is the old derivation, kept because it is
-                                    // the same guess the app already made and there is genuinely
-                                    // nothing better available for such a job. New work never
-                                    // reaches it.
-                                    ?: ConversionWorker.outputNameFor(
-                                        input.displayName,
-                                        _settings.value.spec,
-                                    ),
-                                mimeType = info.outputData
-                                    .getString(ConversionWorker.KEY_MIME_TYPE)
-                                    ?.takeIf { it.isNotBlank() }
-                                    ?: _settings.value.spec.mimeType,
-                            )
-                        }
-                    }
-
-                    // A worker that dies before it can report anything leaves no output data at
-                    // all — a foreground-service start refused after a process restart is one
-                    // way — and an exception's message can be an empty string. Both would read
-                    // as a failure with nothing said, so blank falls back like missing does.
-                    WorkInfo.State.FAILED -> ConversionState.Failed(
-                        info.outputData.getString(ConversionWorker.KEY_ERROR)
-                            ?.takeIf { it.isNotBlank() }
-                            ?: "Conversion failed.",
-                    )
-
-                    WorkInfo.State.CANCELLED -> cancelled
-                    WorkInfo.State.BLOCKED -> ConversionState.Converting(input, 0)
-                }
+                val next = conversionStateFrom(
+                    ConversionUpdate(
+                        state = info.state,
+                        progressPercent = info.progress.getInt(ConversionWorker.KEY_PROGRESS, 0),
+                        runAttemptCount = info.runAttemptCount,
+                        outputData = info.outputData,
+                    ),
+                    input = input,
+                    cancelled = cancelled,
+                    fallbackSpec = _settings.value.spec,
+                )
+                // Take responsibility for the file at the same moment the state starts referring
+                // to it, so the two cannot disagree. Read off the result rather than assigned
+                // inside the mapping: `Converted` is the only state that carries a staged file, so
+                // "the state and `pendingStaged` refer to the same file or to no file" is now the
+                // shape of the code rather than a rule two branches have to keep.
+                if (next is ConversionState.Converted) pendingStaged = next.staged
+                _state.value = next
             }
         }
     }
@@ -565,7 +628,7 @@ class ConversionViewModel @JvmOverloads constructor(
                 // than a fresh handle for the second failure's sake: a retry that fails again
                 // lands back here still carrying the file, not on a bare Failed that would take
                 // the offer away.
-                _state.value = ConversionState.Failed(e.message ?: "Could not save the file.", pending)
+                _state.value = ConversionState.Failed(e.message ?: SAVE_FAILED_MESSAGE, pending)
             }
         }
     }

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

@@ -24,6 +24,20 @@ const val STAGED_FILE_GONE_MESSAGE: String =
     "The finished file is no longer in the cache, so there is nothing left to save. " +
         "Start over to make it again."
 
+/**
+ * What to tell the user when the copy into their chosen destination did not finish.
+ *
+ * A fallback, not the usual message: `publish` throws with a real reason most of the time — the
+ * volume filled, the provider revoked the grant — and that reason is better than this. This is for
+ * the exception that arrives with nothing to say, which would otherwise reach the screen as an
+ * empty failure.
+ *
+ * Kept next to [STAGED_FILE_GONE_MESSAGE] for exactly the reason that one names: **both ViewModels
+ * need it**, and saving is what it is about. It was written out twice before — `ConversionViewModel`
+ * and `JoinViewModel` each carried their own copy of the literal, agreeing by coincidence.
+ */
+const val SAVE_FAILED_MESSAGE: String = "Could not save the file."
+
 /**
  * A staged file that is still there to be saved, and everything the save dialog needs to offer it.
  *

app/src/main/java/org/libremediaconverter/join/JoinViewModel.kt

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import android.net.Uri
 import androidx.lifecycle.AndroidViewModel
 import androidx.lifecycle.viewModelScope
 import androidx.media3.common.util.UnstableApi
+import androidx.work.Data
 import androidx.work.WorkInfo
 import androidx.work.WorkManager
 import kotlinx.coroutines.CoroutineDispatcher
@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@ import org.libremediaconverter.convert.ConversionDependencies
 import org.libremediaconverter.convert.InputFile
 import org.libremediaconverter.convert.InputQuery
 import org.libremediaconverter.convert.PendingSave
+import org.libremediaconverter.convert.SAVE_FAILED_MESSAGE
 import org.libremediaconverter.convert.STAGED_FILE_GONE_MESSAGE
 import org.libremediaconverter.convert.ScreenOwnership
 import org.libremediaconverter.model.ConcatStrategy
@@ -29,6 +31,108 @@ import org.libremediaconverter.work.jobSnapshots
 import java.io.File
 import java.util.UUID
 
+/**
+ * One update about a running join, as WorkManager last reported it.
+ *
+ * The join-side twin of `ConversionUpdate`, and deliberately the same shape: this pair of seams is
+ * one refactor done twice, and letting them diverge would make the two flows harder to compare than
+ * the duplication costs. There is no `progressPercent` here because `ConcatWorker` publishes none —
+ * a join is indeterminate.
+ */
+internal data class JoinUpdate(val state: WorkInfo.State, val runAttemptCount: Int, val outputData: Data)
+
+/**
+ * What the join screen should show, given what WorkManager last said about the job.
+ *
+ * The join-side twin of `conversionStateFrom`, extracted for the same reason and with the same two
+ * exclusions: the ownership check stays at the call site, and this takes no responsibility for the
+ * staged file. See that function's KDoc for the argument in full.
+ *
+ * Five arms had never been chosen by any test before this was cut out, because a real `ConcatWorker`
+ * only ever produces a terminal state with well-formed output.
+ *
+ * @param cancelled where a cancellation lands, which differs for a reattached job — see [observe].
+ */
+@UnstableApi
+internal fun joinStateFrom(update: JoinUpdate, inputs: List<InputFile>, cancelled: JoinState): JoinState =
+    when (update.state) {
+        // BLOCKED is a job waiting on a prerequisite, which the user has nothing to do about and
+        // nothing useful to be told about. It reads as "starting", like a fresh ENQUEUED.
+        WorkInfo.State.RUNNING, WorkInfo.State.BLOCKED -> JoinState.Joining(inputs)
+
+        // ENQUEUED after a run means a retry is pending -- the same rule, and the same reasoning, as
+        // the convert side. See `conversionStateFrom`.
+        WorkInfo.State.ENQUEUED ->
+            if (update.runAttemptCount > 0) {
+                JoinState.Waiting(inputs)
+            } else {
+                JoinState.Joining(inputs)
+            }
+
+        WorkInfo.State.SUCCEEDED -> joinedFrom(update.outputData)
+
+        // A worker that dies before it can report anything leaves no output data at all, and an
+        // exception's message can be an empty string. Both would read as a failure with nothing said,
+        // so blank falls back like missing does.
+        WorkInfo.State.FAILED -> JoinState.Failed(
+            update.outputData.getString(ConcatWorker.KEY_ERROR)
+                ?.takeIf { it.isNotBlank() }
+                ?: ConcatWorker.GENERIC_FAILURE_MESSAGE,
+        )
+
+        WorkInfo.State.CANCELLED -> cancelled
+    }
+
+/**
+ * The `SUCCEEDED` arm. A join that reported success and named no file has nothing to offer.
+ */
+@UnstableApi
+private fun joinedFrom(outputData: Data): JoinState {
+    val path = outputData.getString(ConcatWorker.KEY_OUTPUT_PATH)
+        ?: return JoinState.Failed(JOINED_WITHOUT_A_FILE_MESSAGE)
+    return JoinState.Joined(
+        staged = File(path),
+        strategy = strategyFrom(outputData.getString(ConcatWorker.KEY_STRATEGY)),
+        // A join enqueued before the worker reported these carries neither, and the fallback is
+        // the format such a job really used -- ConcatWorker.request has always defaulted to it,
+        // and the join screen has never offered a choice.
+        suggestedName = outputData.getString(ConcatWorker.KEY_SUGGESTED_NAME)
+            ?.takeIf { it.isNotBlank() }
+            ?: ConcatWorker.outputNameFor(ConcatWorker.DEFAULT_FORMAT),
+        mimeType = outputData.getString(ConcatWorker.KEY_MIME_TYPE)
+            ?.takeIf { it.isNotBlank() }
+            ?: ConcatWorker.DEFAULT_FORMAT.mimeType,
+    )
+}
+
+/**
+ * The strategy a finished join reported, or [ConcatStrategy.REENCODE] when it named none.
+ *
+ * **Looked up rather than `valueOf`, and that is a fix rather than a style choice.** `valueOf`
+ * throws `IllegalArgumentException` on a name this build does not define, and this runs inside a
+ * `viewModelScope` collect with no handler -- so the throw does not become a `Failed` state, it
+ * takes the process down.
+ *
+ * Reachable for the reason `WorkerEnumFallbackTest` and `JobTags` are both written on: WorkManager
+ * keeps finished work for about a week, so a downgrade or a rollback hands this build a job
+ * enqueued by another one. `ConcatWorker` writes `result.strategy.name` into the output `Data`, so
+ * a build that added a third strategy would leave this one crashing on its own completed joins.
+ *
+ * `ConcatWorker.kt` already made exactly this change for `KEY_FORMAT`, and says why in as many
+ * words: *"Looked up rather than `valueOf` … a format name this build does not define used to throw
+ * past the catch."* The same read on this side had not been changed with it.
+ *
+ * REENCODE is the safe default rather than an arbitrary one: it is the answer for inputs that do
+ * not match, so a job whose strategy cannot be read is described as the more conservative of the
+ * two rather than being claimed as a lossless stream copy.
+ */
+private fun strategyFrom(name: String?): ConcatStrategy =
+    ConcatStrategy.entries.firstOrNull { it.name == name } ?: ConcatStrategy.REENCODE
+
+/** A join that reported success and named no file. There is nothing to offer the user to save. */
+internal const val JOINED_WITHOUT_A_FILE_MESSAGE: String =
+    "Joining reported success but produced no file."
+
 sealed interface JoinState {
     data object Idle : JoinState
     data class Ready(val inputs: List<InputFile>) : JoinState
@@ -194,7 +298,7 @@ class JoinViewModel @JvmOverloads constructor(
     fun onInputsPicked(uris: List<Uri>) {
         val token = ownership.claim()
         if (uris.size < 2) {
-            _state.value = JoinState.Failed("Pick at least two files to join.")
+            _state.value = JoinState.Failed(ConcatWorker.TOO_FEW_INPUTS_MESSAGE)
             return
         }
         viewModelScope.launch {
@@ -250,56 +354,19 @@ class JoinViewModel @JvmOverloads constructor(
                 // takes ownership of the staged file, and a superseded observation must not do
                 // that either.
                 if (!ownership.stillHeldBy(token)) return@collect
-                _state.value = when (info.state) {
-                    WorkInfo.State.RUNNING, WorkInfo.State.BLOCKED -> JoinState.Joining(inputs)
-                    WorkInfo.State.ENQUEUED ->
-                        if (info.runAttemptCount > 0) {
-                            JoinState.Waiting(inputs)
-                        } else {
-                            JoinState.Joining(inputs)
-                        }
-
-                    WorkInfo.State.SUCCEEDED -> {
-                        val path = info.outputData.getString(ConcatWorker.KEY_OUTPUT_PATH)
-                        val strategy = info.outputData.getString(ConcatWorker.KEY_STRATEGY)
-                            ?.let(ConcatStrategy::valueOf) ?: ConcatStrategy.REENCODE
-                        if (path == null) {
-                            JoinState.Failed("Joining reported success but produced no file.")
-                        } else {
-                            val staged = File(path)
-                            // Take responsibility for the file at the same moment the state
-                            // starts referring to it, so the two cannot disagree.
-                            pendingStaged = staged
-                            JoinState.Joined(
-                                staged = staged,
-                                strategy = strategy,
-                                // A join enqueued before the worker reported these carries
-                                // neither, and the fallback is the format such a job really
-                                // used -- ConcatWorker.request has always defaulted to it, and
-                                // the join screen has never offered a choice.
-                                suggestedName = info.outputData
-                                    .getString(ConcatWorker.KEY_SUGGESTED_NAME)
-                                    ?.takeIf { it.isNotBlank() }
-                                    ?: ConcatWorker.outputNameFor(ConcatWorker.DEFAULT_FORMAT),
-                                mimeType = info.outputData
-                                    .getString(ConcatWorker.KEY_MIME_TYPE)
-                                    ?.takeIf { it.isNotBlank() }
-                                    ?: ConcatWorker.DEFAULT_FORMAT.mimeType,
-                            )
-                        }
-                    }
-
-                    // A worker that dies before it can report anything leaves no output data at
-                    // all, and an exception's message can be an empty string. Both would read as
-                    // a failure with nothing said, so blank falls back like missing does.
-                    WorkInfo.State.FAILED -> JoinState.Failed(
-                        info.outputData.getString(ConcatWorker.KEY_ERROR)
-                            ?.takeIf { it.isNotBlank() }
-                            ?: "Joining failed.",
-                    )
-
-                    WorkInfo.State.CANCELLED -> cancelled
-                }
+                val next = joinStateFrom(
+                    JoinUpdate(
+                        state = info.state,
+                        runAttemptCount = info.runAttemptCount,
+                        outputData = info.outputData,
+                    ),
+                    inputs = inputs,
+                    cancelled = cancelled,
+                )
+                // Read off the result rather than assigned inside the mapping -- see the same
+                // three lines in ConversionViewModel for why that is the better half of the swap.
+                if (next is JoinState.Joined) pendingStaged = next.staged
+                _state.value = next
             }
         }
     }
@@ -346,7 +413,7 @@ class JoinViewModel @JvmOverloads constructor(
                 // than leaving "Start over" -- which deletes it -- as the only thing on offer.
                 // Passing `pending` rather than rebuilding it is what keeps a retry that fails
                 // again on a carrying Failed instead of a bare one.
-                _state.value = JoinState.Failed(e.message ?: "Could not save the file.", pending)
+                _state.value = JoinState.Failed(e.message ?: SAVE_FAILED_MESSAGE, pending)
             }
         }
     }

app/src/main/java/org/libremediaconverter/work/ConcatWorker.kt

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ class ConcatWorker(context: Context, params: WorkerParameters) : CoroutineWorker
         val uris = inputData.getStringArray(KEY_INPUT_URIS)?.map(Uri::parse)
             ?: return Result.failure(workDataOf(KEY_ERROR to "No input files."))
         if (uris.size < 2) {
-            return Result.failure(workDataOf(KEY_ERROR to "Pick at least two files to join."))
+            return Result.failure(workDataOf(KEY_ERROR to TOO_FEW_INPUTS_MESSAGE))
         }
         // Absent, not zero, when the picker could not size every input -- see the same read in
         // ConversionWorker and InputQuery for why the two are no longer one number.
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ class ConcatWorker(context: Context, params: WorkerParameters) : CoroutineWorker
                 }
                 FailureOutcome.FAIL -> {
                     Log.e(TAG, "Joining failed.", e)
-                    Result.failure(workDataOf(KEY_ERROR to (e.message ?: "Joining failed.")))
+                    Result.failure(workDataOf(KEY_ERROR to (e.message ?: GENERIC_FAILURE_MESSAGE)))
                 }
             }
         }
@@ -137,6 +137,34 @@ class ConcatWorker(context: Context, params: WorkerParameters) : CoroutineWorker
     )
 
     companion object {
+        /**
+         * What the user is told when a join arrives with fewer than two inputs.
+         *
+         * Shared with `JoinViewModel`, which refuses the same condition one layer up so the picker
+         * can answer without enqueueing anything. Two copies of this sentence existed before, and
+         * only the one here was pinned by a test (#139) — so the wording could drift on the screen
+         * without a single test noticing, for one message the user sees from one condition.
+         *
+         * Here rather than in the ViewModel because the rule is the worker's: `request(...)` takes
+         * a `List<Uri>` and checks nothing about its length, so this is the guard that always runs.
+         */
+        const val TOO_FEW_INPUTS_MESSAGE: String = "Pick at least two files to join."
+
+        /**
+         * The last resort when a join fails and the exception says nothing.
+         *
+         * Shared with `JoinViewModel`, whose `FAILED` arm falls back to the same sentence when the
+         * output `Data` carries no error at all — a worker killed before it could write one. The two
+         * are a chain rather than a coincidence: this is what the worker puts *in* `KEY_ERROR`, and
+         * that is what the ViewModel says when `KEY_ERROR` never arrived. The user cannot tell the
+         * two apart and should not have to, so they are one sentence.
+         *
+         * The `Log.e` above deliberately keeps its own literal. A log line has a different audience
+         * and carries the exception with it; coupling it to the user-facing wording would mean
+         * rewording the screen to change a log.
+         */
+        const val GENERIC_FAILURE_MESSAGE: String = "Joining failed."
+
         const val KEY_INPUT_URIS = "input_uris"
         const val KEY_TOTAL_BYTES = "total_bytes"
         const val KEY_FORMAT = "format"

app/src/main/java/org/libremediaconverter/work/ConversionWorker.kt

@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ class ConversionWorker(context: Context, params: WorkerParameters) : CoroutineWo
             }
             FailureOutcome.FAIL -> {
                 Log.e(TAG, "Conversion failed.", cause)
-                Result.failure(workDataOf(KEY_ERROR to (cause.message ?: "Conversion failed.")))
+                Result.failure(workDataOf(KEY_ERROR to (cause.message ?: GENERIC_FAILURE_MESSAGE)))
             }
         }
 
@@ -352,6 +352,20 @@ class ConversionWorker(context: Context, params: WorkerParameters) : CoroutineWo
     )
 
     companion object {
+        /**
+         * The last resort when a conversion fails and the exception says nothing.
+         *
+         * Shared with `ConversionViewModel`, whose `FAILED` arm falls back to the same sentence when
+         * the output `Data` carries no error — a worker killed before it could write one, which a
+         * refused foreground start after a process restart produces. The two are a chain rather than
+         * a coincidence: this is what goes *into* `KEY_ERROR`, and that is what is said when
+         * `KEY_ERROR` never arrived. The user cannot tell those apart and should not have to.
+         *
+         * See [ConcatWorker.GENERIC_FAILURE_MESSAGE] for the join-side twin, and the note there
+         * about why the neighbouring `Log.e` keeps its own literal.
+         */
+        const val GENERIC_FAILURE_MESSAGE: String = "Conversion failed."
+
         const val KEY_INPUT_URI = "input_uri"
         const val KEY_DISPLAY_NAME = "display_name"
         const val KEY_SIZE_BYTES = "size_bytes"

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

@@ -0,0 +1,238 @@
+package org.libremediaconverter.convert
+
+import android.net.Uri
+import androidx.media3.common.util.UnstableApi
+import androidx.work.Data
+import androidx.work.WorkInfo
+import androidx.work.workDataOf
+import org.junit.Assert.assertEquals
+import org.junit.Test
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith
+import org.libremediaconverter.model.OutputFormat
+import org.libremediaconverter.work.ConversionWorker
+import org.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner
+
+/**
+ * Every answer [conversionStateFrom] can give, chosen rather than stumbled into.
+ *
+ * ## What this revises
+ *
+ * The mapping is not cold code and never was: `ConversionViewModel$observe$1$1` reported 28 covered
+ * lines before this file existed, because every test that drives a real worker runs it. What no
+ * test did was **choose which arm it took**. A real worker reaches a terminal state with
+ * well-formed output, so `SUCCEEDED`-with-a-path and `FAILED`-with-a-message were the only arms any
+ * test had ever produced — the other six ran never.
+ *
+ * A `grep` for `WorkInfo.State.` across the JVM suite makes that look untrue: all six constants are
+ * there. They are in `ReattachmentTest`, driven into **`Reattachment.choose`** — a different
+ * function that encodes the same enqueued-means-retry rule. So that rule had a test in one of its
+ * two homes, and the copy the user's screen reads had none.
+ *
+ * ## Why the seam, and why these assertions
+ *
+ * `WorkManager.getInstance` is called in the ViewModel's constructor and `observe` is private, so
+ * nothing could hand this a chosen `WorkInfo`. Cutting the `when` out as a pure function over
+ * [ConversionUpdate] is the answer #141 took for `MediaProbe`, and `JobSnapshot` beside
+ * `Reattachment.choose` is the same shape again.
+ *
+ * The assertions are on the whole state, not on its type. `Converting(input, 40)` and
+ * `Converting(input, 0)` are both `Converting`, and a mapping that dropped the progress read would
+ * pass any test that only asked which class came back.
+ */
+@UnstableApi
+@RunWith(RobolectricTestRunner::class)
+class ConversionStateMappingTest {
+
+    // --- running ------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a running job reports the progress it published`() {
+        // The percent is read from `progress`, not from `outputData`, and not from the settings.
+        // A mapping that returned Converting(input, 0) for every RUNNING would leave the bar
+        // pinned at zero for the whole conversion.
+        val state = map(WorkInfo.State.RUNNING, progress = 40)
+
+        assertEquals(ConversionState.Converting(INPUT, 40), state)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a running job with no published progress reports zero rather than failing`() {
+        // getInt's default. A worker that has started but not yet called setProgress is ordinary,
+        // and must not read as an error.
+        val state = map(WorkInfo.State.RUNNING, progress = null)
+
+        assertEquals(ConversionState.Converting(INPUT, 0), state)
+    }
+
+    // --- enqueued: the rule that had a test only in its other home ----------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `an enqueued job that has already run is waiting to retry`() {
+        val state = map(WorkInfo.State.ENQUEUED, runAttemptCount = 1)
+
+        assertEquals(
+            "an ENQUEUED after a run is a pending retry, which the user is told about",
+            ConversionState.Waiting(INPUT),
+            state,
+        )
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `an enqueued job that has never run is simply starting`() {
+        // The other side, and the reason the test above is not enough on its own: a mapping that
+        // ignored runAttemptCount and always answered Waiting would pass that one and fail this.
+        val state = map(WorkInfo.State.ENQUEUED, runAttemptCount = 0)
+
+        assertEquals(ConversionState.Converting(INPUT, 0), state)
+    }
+
+    // --- succeeded ----------------------------------------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a success that named no file is a failure, not an empty success`() {
+        // The job said it finished and named nothing. There is no file to offer, so `Converted`
+        // would put a Save button over a path that does not exist.
+        val state = map(WorkInfo.State.SUCCEEDED, data = Data.EMPTY)
+
+        assertEquals(ConversionState.Failed(SUCCEEDED_WITHOUT_A_FILE_MESSAGE), state)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a success carries the worker's own name and type, not the current settings`() {
+        val state = map(
+            WorkInfo.State.SUCCEEDED,
+            data = workDataOf(
+                ConversionWorker.KEY_OUTPUT_PATH to "/cache/conversions/out.mkv",
+                ConversionWorker.KEY_SUGGESTED_NAME to "holiday.mkv",
+                ConversionWorker.KEY_MIME_TYPE to "video/x-matroska",
+                ConversionWorker.KEY_ENGINE_USED to "FFMPEG",
+                ConversionWorker.KEY_ROUTE_REASON to "container needs FFmpeg",
+            ),
+        )
+
+        val converted = state as ConversionState.Converted
+        assertEquals("holiday.mkv", converted.suggestedName)
+        assertEquals("video/x-matroska", converted.mimeType)
+        assertEquals("FFMPEG", converted.engineUsed)
+        assertEquals("container needs FFmpeg", converted.routeReason)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a success from older work falls back to the current settings for name and type`() {
+        // WorkManager keeps finished work about a week, so a job enqueued before the worker
+        // reported these is ordinary for a few days rather than a corner case.
+        val state = map(
+            WorkInfo.State.SUCCEEDED,
+            data = workDataOf(ConversionWorker.KEY_OUTPUT_PATH to "/cache/conversions/out.mp4"),
+        )
+
+        val converted = state as ConversionState.Converted
+        assertEquals(FALLBACK_SPEC.mimeType, converted.mimeType)
+        assertEquals(
+            ConversionWorker.outputNameFor(INPUT.displayName, FALLBACK_SPEC),
+            converted.suggestedName,
+        )
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a blank name or type falls back the same way a missing one does`() {
+        // A blank string is not an answer. Without takeIf, the save dialog opens named "" and
+        // registered for a MIME type of "", which no provider will accept.
+        val state = map(
+            WorkInfo.State.SUCCEEDED,
+            data = workDataOf(
+                ConversionWorker.KEY_OUTPUT_PATH to "/cache/conversions/out.mp4",
+                ConversionWorker.KEY_SUGGESTED_NAME to "",
+                ConversionWorker.KEY_MIME_TYPE to "   ",
+            ),
+        )
+
+        val converted = state as ConversionState.Converted
+        assertEquals(FALLBACK_SPEC.mimeType, converted.mimeType)
+        assertEquals(
+            ConversionWorker.outputNameFor(INPUT.displayName, FALLBACK_SPEC),
+            converted.suggestedName,
+        )
+    }
+
+    // --- failed -------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a failure carries the reason the worker gave`() {
+        val state = map(
+            WorkInfo.State.FAILED,
+            data = workDataOf(ConversionWorker.KEY_ERROR to "Not enough free space to convert."),
+        )
+
+        assertEquals(ConversionState.Failed("Not enough free space to convert."), state)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a failure with nothing said still says something`() {
+        // A worker killed before it could write output data leaves none at all -- a refused
+        // foreground start after a process restart is one way. Failed("") would render as a blank
+        // error card.
+        val state = map(WorkInfo.State.FAILED, data = Data.EMPTY)
+
+        assertEquals(ConversionState.Failed(ConversionWorker.GENERIC_FAILURE_MESSAGE), state)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a failure whose message is blank falls back like a missing one`() {
+        val state = map(
+            WorkInfo.State.FAILED,
+            data = workDataOf(ConversionWorker.KEY_ERROR to "   "),
+        )
+
+        assertEquals(ConversionState.Failed(ConversionWorker.GENERIC_FAILURE_MESSAGE), state)
+    }
+
+    // --- cancelled and blocked ---------------------------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a cancellation lands wherever the caller said it should`() {
+        // Not a fixed state: a conversion started here goes back to Ready with the picked file,
+        // while one picked up by reattach goes to Idle, because the URI that job holds belongs to
+        // a process that no longer exists. `observe`'s KDoc is where that distinction is set.
+        val toReady = map(WorkInfo.State.CANCELLED, cancelled = ConversionState.Ready(INPUT))
+        val toIdle = map(WorkInfo.State.CANCELLED, cancelled = ConversionState.Idle)
+
+        assertEquals(ConversionState.Ready(INPUT), toReady)
+        assertEquals(ConversionState.Idle, toIdle)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a blocked job looks like one that is starting`() {
+        // BLOCKED is a job waiting on a prerequisite. There is nothing useful to say about it that
+        // differs from "starting", and inventing a state for it would put a word on screen the
+        // user cannot act on.
+        val state = map(WorkInfo.State.BLOCKED)
+
+        assertEquals(ConversionState.Converting(INPUT, 0), state)
+    }
+
+    private fun map(
+        state: WorkInfo.State,
+        progress: Int? = null,
+        runAttemptCount: Int = 0,
+        data: Data = Data.EMPTY,
+        cancelled: ConversionState = ConversionState.Ready(INPUT),
+    ): ConversionState = conversionStateFrom(
+        ConversionUpdate(
+            state = state,
+            // Modelled on the call site, which reads `getInt(KEY_PROGRESS, 0)` -- so "no progress
+            // published" is the default reaching the mapping, not a null it has to handle.
+            progressPercent = progress ?: 0,
+            runAttemptCount = runAttemptCount,
+            outputData = data,
+        ),
+        input = INPUT,
+        cancelled = cancelled,
+        fallbackSpec = FALLBACK_SPEC,
+    )
+
+    private companion object {
+        val INPUT = InputFile(Uri.parse("content://test/holiday.mov"), "holiday.mov", 4096L)
+        val FALLBACK_SPEC = OutputFormat.MP4_H265.spec
+    }
+}

app/src/test/java/org/libremediaconverter/join/JoinStateMappingTest.kt

@@ -0,0 +1,200 @@
+package org.libremediaconverter.join
+
+import android.net.Uri
+import androidx.media3.common.util.UnstableApi
+import androidx.work.Data
+import androidx.work.WorkInfo
+import androidx.work.workDataOf
+import org.junit.Assert.assertEquals
+import org.junit.Test
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith
+import org.libremediaconverter.convert.InputFile
+import org.libremediaconverter.model.ConcatStrategy
+import org.libremediaconverter.work.ConcatWorker
+import org.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner
+
+/**
+ * Every answer [joinStateFrom] can give, chosen rather than stumbled into.
+ *
+ * The join-side twin of `ConversionStateMappingTest`, and the argument is the same one: the mapping
+ * ran on every test that drove a real `ConcatWorker`, but a real worker only ever reaches a terminal
+ * state with well-formed output, so five arms had never been *chosen* by anything.
+ *
+ * ## The one that is not just coverage
+ *
+ * `an unknown strategy name is read as a re-encode rather than thrown` covers a real defect this
+ * seam exposed. The line it replaces was:
+ *
+ * ```kotlin
+ * .getString(ConcatWorker.KEY_STRATEGY)?.let(ConcatStrategy::valueOf) ?: ConcatStrategy.REENCODE
+ * ```
+ *
+ * `valueOf` throws on a name this build does not define, and this runs inside a `viewModelScope`
+ * collect with no handler — so it does not become a `Failed` state, it takes the process down.
+ * `ConcatWorker.kt` had already made this exact change for `KEY_FORMAT` and written down why; the
+ * matching read on this side had not been changed with it.
+ */
+@UnstableApi
+@RunWith(RobolectricTestRunner::class)
+class JoinStateMappingTest {
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a running join is joining`() {
+        assertEquals(JoinState.Joining(INPUTS), map(WorkInfo.State.RUNNING))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a blocked join looks like one that is starting`() {
+        // Folded into the RUNNING arm deliberately: a job waiting on a prerequisite is nothing the
+        // user can act on, and a separate word for it would be noise.
+        assertEquals(JoinState.Joining(INPUTS), map(WorkInfo.State.BLOCKED))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `an enqueued join that has already run is waiting to retry`() {
+        assertEquals(JoinState.Waiting(INPUTS), map(WorkInfo.State.ENQUEUED, runAttemptCount = 1))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `an enqueued join that has never run is simply starting`() {
+        // The other side. Without it, a mapping that ignored runAttemptCount passes the test above.
+        assertEquals(JoinState.Joining(INPUTS), map(WorkInfo.State.ENQUEUED, runAttemptCount = 0))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a success that named no file is a failure, not an empty success`() {
+        assertEquals(
+            JoinState.Failed(JOINED_WITHOUT_A_FILE_MESSAGE),
+            map(WorkInfo.State.SUCCEEDED, data = Data.EMPTY),
+        )
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a success carries the strategy the worker actually used`() {
+        // Not cosmetic: the join screen tells the user whether their files were stream-copied or
+        // re-encoded, which is the difference between lossless and lossy.
+        val joined = map(
+            WorkInfo.State.SUCCEEDED,
+            data = workDataOf(
+                ConcatWorker.KEY_OUTPUT_PATH to "/cache/conversions/joined.mp4",
+                ConcatWorker.KEY_STRATEGY to ConcatStrategy.STREAM_COPY.name,
+            ),
+        ) as JoinState.Joined
+
+        assertEquals(ConcatStrategy.STREAM_COPY, joined.strategy)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `an unknown strategy name is read as a re-encode rather than thrown`() {
+        // The defect. A build that added a third strategy leaves finished joins in the queue naming
+        // it, and WorkManager keeps those about a week -- the premise WorkerEnumFallbackTest and
+        // JobTags are both written on. With `valueOf` this throws IllegalArgumentException inside a
+        // viewModelScope collect that has no handler, so it is not a Failed state, it is a crash.
+        //
+        // REENCODE rather than STREAM_COPY because it is the conservative answer: describing an
+        // unknown join as lossless would be a claim the app cannot support.
+        val joined = map(
+            WorkInfo.State.SUCCEEDED,
+            data = workDataOf(
+                ConcatWorker.KEY_OUTPUT_PATH to "/cache/conversions/joined.mp4",
+                ConcatWorker.KEY_STRATEGY to "SMART_CONCAT_V2",
+            ),
+        ) as JoinState.Joined
+
+        assertEquals(ConcatStrategy.REENCODE, joined.strategy)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a success with no strategy at all falls back the same way`() {
+        val joined = map(
+            WorkInfo.State.SUCCEEDED,
+            data = workDataOf(ConcatWorker.KEY_OUTPUT_PATH to "/cache/conversions/joined.mp4"),
+        ) as JoinState.Joined
+
+        assertEquals(ConcatStrategy.REENCODE, joined.strategy)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a success from older work falls back to the format such a job really used`() {
+        val joined = map(
+            WorkInfo.State.SUCCEEDED,
+            data = workDataOf(ConcatWorker.KEY_OUTPUT_PATH to "/cache/conversions/joined.mp4"),
+        ) as JoinState.Joined
+
+        assertEquals(ConcatWorker.outputNameFor(ConcatWorker.DEFAULT_FORMAT), joined.suggestedName)
+        assertEquals(ConcatWorker.DEFAULT_FORMAT.mimeType, joined.mimeType)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a blank name or type falls back the same way a missing one does`() {
+        val joined = map(
+            WorkInfo.State.SUCCEEDED,
+            data = workDataOf(
+                ConcatWorker.KEY_OUTPUT_PATH to "/cache/conversions/joined.mp4",
+                ConcatWorker.KEY_SUGGESTED_NAME to "",
+                ConcatWorker.KEY_MIME_TYPE to "  ",
+            ),
+        ) as JoinState.Joined
+
+        assertEquals(ConcatWorker.outputNameFor(ConcatWorker.DEFAULT_FORMAT), joined.suggestedName)
+        assertEquals(ConcatWorker.DEFAULT_FORMAT.mimeType, joined.mimeType)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a failure carries the reason the worker gave`() {
+        assertEquals(
+            JoinState.Failed("Not enough free space to join these files."),
+            map(
+                WorkInfo.State.FAILED,
+                data = workDataOf(
+                    ConcatWorker.KEY_ERROR to "Not enough free space to join these files.",
+                ),
+            ),
+        )
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a failure with nothing said still says something`() {
+        assertEquals(
+            JoinState.Failed(ConcatWorker.GENERIC_FAILURE_MESSAGE),
+            map(WorkInfo.State.FAILED, data = Data.EMPTY),
+        )
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a failure whose message is blank falls back like a missing one`() {
+        assertEquals(
+            JoinState.Failed(ConcatWorker.GENERIC_FAILURE_MESSAGE),
+            map(WorkInfo.State.FAILED, data = workDataOf(ConcatWorker.KEY_ERROR to " ")),
+        )
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a cancellation lands wherever the caller said it should`() {
+        // A join started here goes back to Ready with the picked files; one picked up by reattach
+        // goes to Idle, because those URIs belong to a process that no longer exists.
+        assertEquals(
+            JoinState.Ready(INPUTS),
+            map(WorkInfo.State.CANCELLED, cancelled = JoinState.Ready(INPUTS)),
+        )
+        assertEquals(JoinState.Idle, map(WorkInfo.State.CANCELLED, cancelled = JoinState.Idle))
+    }
+
+    private fun map(
+        state: WorkInfo.State,
+        runAttemptCount: Int = 0,
+        data: Data = Data.EMPTY,
+        cancelled: JoinState = JoinState.Ready(INPUTS),
+    ): JoinState = joinStateFrom(
+        JoinUpdate(state = state, runAttemptCount = runAttemptCount, outputData = data),
+        inputs = INPUTS,
+        cancelled = cancelled,
+    )
+
+    private companion object {
+        val INPUTS = listOf(
+            InputFile(Uri.parse("content://test/a.mp4"), "a.mp4", 1024L),
+            InputFile(Uri.parse("content://test/b.mp4"), "b.mp4", 2048L),
+        )
+    }
+}

app/src/test/java/org/libremediaconverter/join/SharedFailureMessagesTest.kt

@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+package org.libremediaconverter.join
+
+import android.app.Application
+import android.net.Uri
+import androidx.media3.common.util.UnstableApi
+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.Before
+import org.junit.Test
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith
+import org.libremediaconverter.convert.ConversionDependencies
+import org.libremediaconverter.convert.RecordingPublisher
+import org.libremediaconverter.convert.installTestWorkManager
+import org.libremediaconverter.work.ConcatWorker
+import org.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner
+import org.robolectric.RuntimeEnvironment
+
+/**
+ * The two layers that refuse a short join, refusing it with one sentence.
+ *
+ * ## Why this is not "assert a constant equals itself"
+ *
+ * `ConcatWorker` and `JoinViewModel` both reject a join of fewer than two files, and before #158
+ * each carried **its own copy of the literal**. Only the worker's was pinned — by `RefusedJobTest`,
+ * added in #139 — so the wording on the screen could drift away from the wording in the job with no
+ * test saying anything, for one message the user sees from one condition.
+ *
+ * Sharing a constant makes them agree by construction. What it does *not* do is prove that both
+ * layers still reach it: a refactor that stops `JoinViewModel` refusing at all, or that gives it a
+ * different message, passes any test that only reads `TOO_FEW_INPUTS_MESSAGE`. So each layer is
+ * driven for real here — the ViewModel through `onInputsPicked`, the worker through `doWork` — and
+ * the assertion is that the two answers are **the same string**, taken from two running layers
+ * rather than from one declaration.
+ *
+ * That is the shape `CLAUDE.md` asks for: revert the sharing and this goes red, because the two
+ * sites drift the moment they are allowed to.
+ *
+ * ## Scope
+ *
+ * The arity guard's own behaviour on the ViewModel side — that it refuses one file, that it accepts
+ * two, that it claims ownership first — is #155's, and this deliberately does not duplicate it.
+ * This file is about the *agreement between layers*, which is what #158 changed.
+ */
+@UnstableApi
+@RunWith(RobolectricTestRunner::class)
+class SharedFailureMessagesTest {
+
+    private lateinit var app: Application
+    private lateinit var viewModel: JoinViewModel
+
+    @Before
+    fun setUp() {
+        app = RuntimeEnvironment.getApplication()
+        ConversionDependencies.publisher = { RecordingPublisher(app) }
+        installTestWorkManager(app, workDataOf(ConcatWorker.KEY_OUTPUT_PATH to "/dev/null"))
+        viewModel = JoinViewModel(app)
+    }
+
+    @After
+    fun tearDown() {
+        ConversionDependencies.reset()
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `both layers refuse a one-file join with the same sentence`() {
+        // The ViewModel, refusing before anything is enqueued.
+        viewModel.onInputsPicked(listOf(ONE_FILE))
+        val fromScreen = (viewModel.state.value as JoinState.Failed).message
+
+        // The worker, refusing a job that reached the queue anyway -- which it can, because
+        // ConcatWorker.request(...) takes a List<Uri> and checks nothing about its length.
+        val result = runBlocking { worker(ONE_FILE).doWork() }
+        val fromJob = (result as ListenableWorker.Result.Failure)
+            .outputData.getString(ConcatWorker.KEY_ERROR)
+
+        assertEquals(
+            "the screen and the job must say the same thing about the same refusal",
+            fromScreen,
+            fromJob,
+        )
+        // And that the shared sentence is the one either layer would have written on its own,
+        // rather than both having drifted together to something else.
+        assertEquals(ConcatWorker.TOO_FEW_INPUTS_MESSAGE, fromScreen)
+    }
+
+    private fun worker(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 1024L,
+        ),
+        runAttemptCount = 0,
+    ).build()
+
+    private companion object {
+        val ONE_FILE: Uri = Uri.parse("content://test/holiday.mp4")
+    }
+}

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

@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ class RefusedJobTest {
 
         assertEquals(
             ListenableWorker.Result.failure(
-                workDataOf(ConcatWorker.KEY_ERROR to "Pick at least two files to join."),
+                workDataOf(ConcatWorker.KEY_ERROR to ConcatWorker.TOO_FEW_INPUTS_MESSAGE),
             ),
             result,
         )