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package ranking
import (
"strings"
"testing"
"time"
)
func newCandidate(id string) *Candidate {
return &Candidate{ItemID: id, CreatedAt: time.Now()}
}
func TestHigherRankedHitsContributeMore(t *testing.T) {
first := newCandidate("a")
first.Add(SourceLexical, 1, "ranked first")
tenth := newCandidate("b")
tenth.Add(SourceLexical, 10, "ranked tenth")
ranked := Rank([]*Candidate{tenth, first}, time.Now(), 0)
if ranked[0].ItemID != "a" {
t.Fatalf("the better-ranked hit did not come first: %v", ids(ranked))
}
}
// Fusion must be by rank, not raw score: MongoDB text scores and cosine
// similarities are not on comparable scales, so adding them directly would let
// whichever has the larger range dominate.
func TestAgreementBetweenPathsOutranksASinglePath(t *testing.T) {
both := newCandidate("both")
both.Add(SourceLexical, 3, "keyword match")
both.Add(SourceVector, 3, "meaning match")
one := newCandidate("one")
one.Add(SourceVector, 1, "meaning match only")
ranked := Rank([]*Candidate{one, both}, time.Now(), 0)
if ranked[0].ItemID != "both" {
t.Fatalf("a result found by two paths did not outrank one found by a single path: %v", ids(ranked))
}
}
func TestRelevanceIsNormalisedAgainstTheBestResult(t *testing.T) {
a := newCandidate("a")
a.Add(SourceLexical, 1, "x")
b := newCandidate("b")
b.Add(SourceLexical, 50, "y")
ranked := Rank([]*Candidate{a, b}, time.Now(), 0)
if ranked[0].Relevance != 1.0 {
t.Fatalf("top result relevance = %v, want 1.00", ranked[0].Relevance)
}
for _, c := range ranked {
if c.Relevance < 0 || c.Relevance > 1 {
t.Fatalf("relevance %v is outside 0..1", c.Relevance)
}
}
if ranked[1].Relevance >= ranked[0].Relevance {
t.Fatal("normalisation flattened the ordering")
}
}
// Recency is a tie-breaker, not a ranking principle: a highly relevant old
// document must still beat a barely-relevant new one.
func TestRecencyDoesNotOverwhelmRelevance(t *testing.T) {
old := newCandidate("old-but-relevant")
old.Add(SourceLexical, 1, "strong match")
old.Add(SourceVector, 1, "strong match")
old.CreatedAt = time.Now().AddDate(-3, 0, 0)
fresh := newCandidate("new-but-weak")
fresh.Add(SourceLexical, 45, "weak match")
fresh.CreatedAt = time.Now()
ranked := Rank([]*Candidate{fresh, old}, time.Now(), 180*24*time.Hour)
if ranked[0].ItemID != "old-but-relevant" {
t.Fatalf("recency outranked relevance: %v", ids(ranked))
}
}
func TestRecencyBreaksTiesBetweenEqualMatches(t *testing.T) {
older := newCandidate("older")
older.Add(SourceLexical, 5, "match")
older.CreatedAt = time.Now().AddDate(0, -6, 0)
newer := newCandidate("newer")
newer.Add(SourceLexical, 5, "match")
newer.CreatedAt = time.Now()
ranked := Rank([]*Candidate{older, newer}, time.Now(), 180*24*time.Hour)
if ranked[0].ItemID != "newer" {
t.Fatalf("recency did not break the tie: %v", ids(ranked))
}
}
// Relationship expansion is weaker evidence than a direct match: being related
// to a hit is not the same as being one.
func TestExpansionRanksBelowADirectMatch(t *testing.T) {
direct := newCandidate("direct")
direct.Add(SourceLexical, 20, "direct keyword match")
expanded := newCandidate("expanded")
expanded.AddScaled(SourceExpansion, 1.0, "reached through a relationship")
ranked := Rank([]*Candidate{expanded, direct}, time.Now(), 0)
if ranked[0].ItemID != "direct" {
t.Fatalf("an expanded result outranked a direct match: %v", ids(ranked))
}
}
func TestConfirmedRelationshipsAddWeight(t *testing.T) {
plain := newCandidate("plain")
plain.AddScaled(SourceExpansion, 0.6, "inferred link")
confirmed := newCandidate("confirmed")
confirmed.AddScaled(SourceExpansion, 0.6, "inferred link")
confirmed.AddScaled(SourceConfirmedRel, 1.0, "a person confirmed this link")
ranked := Rank([]*Candidate{plain, confirmed}, time.Now(), 0)
if ranked[0].ItemID != "confirmed" {
t.Fatalf("a human-confirmed link did not outrank an unreviewed one: %v", ids(ranked))
}
}
func TestOrderingIsStableAndReproducible(t *testing.T) {
build := func() []*Candidate {
var out []*Candidate
for _, id := range []string{"c", "a", "b"} {
c := newCandidate(id)
c.Add(SourceLexical, 5, "identical match") // deliberately tied
c.CreatedAt = time.Time{} // no recency contribution
out = append(out, c)
}
return out
}
first := ids(Rank(build(), time.Now(), 0))
for i := 0; i < 5; i++ {
if got := ids(Rank(build(), time.Now(), 0)); got != first {
t.Fatalf("ordering is not reproducible: %q then %q", first, got)
}
}
// Ties break on item ID, so the order is meaningful rather than arbitrary.
if first != "a,b,c" {
t.Fatalf("tied results are not ordered deterministically: %q", first)
}
}
func TestSimilarityIsNeverFoldedIntoRelevance(t *testing.T) {
// The two numbers answer different questions and must stay separate.
c := newCandidate("x")
c.Add(SourceLexical, 1, "keyword match")
c.BestSimilarity = 0.97
ranked := Rank([]*Candidate{c}, time.Now(), 0)
if ranked[0].BestSimilarity != 0.97 {
t.Fatal("similarity was modified by ranking")
}
if ranked[0].Relevance == ranked[0].BestSimilarity {
t.Fatal("relevance and similarity are the same number; they must be reported separately")
}
}
func TestExplainListsEveryContributionStrongestFirst(t *testing.T) {
c := newCandidate("x")
c.AddScaled(SourceEntity, 0.2, "weak entity match")
c.Add(SourceVector, 1, "strong meaning match")
c.Add(SourceLexical, 2, "keyword match")
lines := Explain(c)
if len(lines) != 3 {
t.Fatalf("expected 3 explanations, got %d", len(lines))
}
if !strings.Contains(lines[0], "strong meaning match") {
t.Fatalf("explanations are not ordered by contribution:\n%s", strings.Join(lines, "\n"))
}
}
func TestExplainOnNilCandidate(t *testing.T) {
if got := Explain(nil); got != nil {
t.Fatalf("Explain(nil) = %v, want nil", got)
}
}
func TestScaledContributionsAreClamped(t *testing.T) {
c := newCandidate("x")
c.AddScaled(SourceEntity, 99, "out of range")
c.AddScaled(SourceEntity, -5, "negative")
if c.Contributions[0].Score <= 0 {
t.Fatal("an over-range strength produced no contribution")
}
if c.Contributions[1].Score != 0 {
t.Fatalf("a negative strength contributed %v, want 0", c.Contributions[1].Score)
}
}
func TestEmptyInputIsHandled(t *testing.T) {
if got := Rank(nil, time.Now(), time.Hour); len(got) != 0 {
t.Fatalf("Rank(nil) returned %d candidates", len(got))
}
if got := Rank([]*Candidate{}, time.Now(), time.Hour); len(got) != 0 {
t.Fatal("Rank on an empty slice returned candidates")
}
}
func TestEveryWeightedSourceHasAWeight(t *testing.T) {
for _, s := range []Source{
SourceLexical, SourceVector, SourceEntity, SourceExpansion,
SourceRecency, SourceConfirmedRel, SourceTitle,
} {
if _, ok := Weights[s]; !ok {
t.Errorf("source %q has no configured weight", s)
}
}
}
func ids(cands []*Candidate) string {
out := make([]string, 0, len(cands))
for _, c := range cands {
out = append(out, c.ItemID)
}
return strings.Join(out, ",")
}