Two test classes justified using Robolectric by asserting that the alternative does not
exist:
AppRootRestorationTest "The instrumented tests cannot run on the development
host at all (see CLAUDE.md)"
OutputPublisherStagingTest "The instrumented suite cannot run on the development
host, so this is the only place [it] can be caught"
Both were true when written and stopped being true on 2026-08-22, when the segfault was
traced to SwiftShader's Reactor JIT against SELinux execheap rather than to the machine.
tools/local-emulator/run-e2e.sh has run API 33-36 here since.
The first one cites CLAUDE.md as its authority, and PR #73 corrected CLAUDE.md to say the
opposite. So it was no longer merely stale: a reader who followed the reference found the
contradiction, with the citation making the wrong half look verified. That is the worst
version of this -- R14, R15, R20 and R25 were all the same defect, and this is the fifth.
The choice itself was never wrong, which is why the fix is not to move these tests. Both
belong on the JVM, and the honest reason is cost rather than impossibility: neither needs
anything a device supplies, and both run inside the same ./gradlew invocation as every
other unit test instead of booting an emulator. That argument survives the correction; the
premise did not.
The old line also has a second failure mode worth naming. "Nobody can execute this" invites
a reader to skip the local run and let CI decide, which is the opposite of what the
definition-of-done in #51 asks for.
Verified: the string appears nowhere in app/src now, and testDebugUnitTest, ktlintCheck and
detekt are green.
Closes#46.
JMR-dev