test: load the popup's libraries once per test file, not on every boot (closes #428)

Every popup boot in the tests resets jest's module registry so that src/
loads fresh, and that also reloaded ethers, libsodium-wrappers-sumo, qrcode
and ethereum-blockies-base64 each time. tests/support/popupBoot.js now loads
those four once per test file and registers them once with jest.doMock(),
which jest.resetModules() keeps, so every boot gets the same copies. No test
or assertion changed. make test takes 8-13s on the shared build host, down
from 17-25s, measured in alternating runs before and after the change.

Model: opus-5-5

Dockerfile

@@ -8,12 +8,11 @@ WORKDIR /app
 # image sets it.
 ENV AUTISTMASK_LINT_NATIVE=1
 
-# script/test's default 30s bound is the host figure, against a suite that
+# script/test's default 30s bound is the host figure. In here the same suite
-# takes 23-29s there with three jest workers. In here the same suite starts on
+# starts on a cold jest cache and shares the runner with the rest of the build,
-# a cold jest cache and shares the runner with the rest of the build, so 30s
+# so 30s is too tight — it killed a healthy suite at 30.6s on a cold CI cache.
-# is too tight — it killed a healthy suite at 30.6s on a cold CI cache. 180s
+# 180s still catches a hang in three minutes and cannot be tripped by a suite
-# still catches a hang in three minutes and cannot be tripped by a suite that
+# that is merely running on contended hardware.
-# is merely running on contended hardware.
 ENV AUTISTMASK_TEST_TIMEOUT=180
 
 # script/bootstrap installs all prerequisites (make via apt here; node

TODO.md

@@ -45,6 +45,15 @@ but the review is broader than any of them.
 
 # Completed Steps
 
+- 2026-10-04: `make test` takes 8-13s on the shared build host, down from
+  17-25s, measured in alternating runs before and after the change
+  ([#428](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/428)). Each popup boot in
+  the tests (`tests/support/popupBoot.js`) resets jest's module registry so that
+  everything under `src/` loads fresh, and that also reloaded `ethers`,
+  `libsodium-wrappers-sumo`, `qrcode` and `ethereum-blockies-base64` every time.
+  Those four libraries are now loaded once per test file and handed to every
+  boot. No test or assertion changed.
+
 - 2026-10-04: A token whose scale is unknown reads the same on the Send screen
   as on the confirmation screen
   ([#377](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/377)). When two addresses'

script/test

@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@
 # many-core shared host one per core took gigabytes of RAM per run.
 #
 # The timeout bounds a hung suite; it is not a performance budget. On the busy
-# shared build host the suite takes 23-29s with three workers, so
+# shared build host the suite takes 8-13s with three workers, inside
-# REPO_POLICIES' 30s cap is tight there, not comfortable. Inside the image the
+# REPO_POLICIES' 20s budget. Inside the image the same suite also pays a cold
-# same suite also pays a cold jest cache and shares the runner with the rest of
+# jest cache and shares the runner with the rest of the build, which is not what
-# the build, which is not what that budget describes, so the Dockerfile raises
+# that budget describes, so the Dockerfile raises the bound through
-# the bound through AUTISTMASK_TEST_TIMEOUT. A cap a healthy suite can trip on a
+# AUTISTMASK_TEST_TIMEOUT. A cap a healthy suite can trip on a cold cache
-# cold cache produces a red that means nothing, and teaches "just run it again".
+# produces a red that means nothing, and teaches "just run it again".
 set -eu
 
 ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd -P)"

tests/support/popupBoot.js

@@ -20,6 +20,26 @@ const path = require("path");
 
 const { makeStorageStub } = require("./storageStub");
 
+// The four libraries the popup loads from node_modules, loaded once per test
+// file and handed to every boot. jest.resetModules() in bootPopup() empties the
+// module cache but keeps what jest.doMock() registered, so these registrations
+// hold for every boot in the file and the libraries are not loaded again. None
+// of them holds popup state; everything under src/ is still loaded fresh on
+// each boot.
+//
+// A test's own mock of one of them: a jest.doMock() made inside the test
+// replaces the registration here, as it would for any module. A top-of-file
+// jest.mock() is what the require() below gets, so it is kept, but its factory
+// runs once per file and every boot shares the same mock object.
+const ethers = require("ethers");
+const sodium = require("libsodium-wrappers-sumo");
+const QRCode = require("qrcode");
+const makeBlockie = require("ethereum-blockies-base64");
+jest.doMock("ethers", () => ethers);
+jest.doMock("libsodium-wrappers-sumo", () => sodium);
+jest.doMock("qrcode", () => QRCode);
+jest.doMock("ethereum-blockies-base64", () => makeBlockie);
+
 const POPUP_HTML = fs.readFileSync(
     path.join(__dirname, "..", "..", "src", "popup", "index.html"),
     "utf8",