# MCP Testing and Validation

## Overview

This document defines testing strategies and validation approaches for MCP implementations. Comprehensive testing is critical for ensuring context quality, performance, and reliability.

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## 1. Unit Testing

### Context Transformations

Test individual context transformation functions:

```python
def test_context_compression():
    """Test context compression maintains key information"""
    original = "Long context with important details..."
    compressed = compress_context(original, ratio=0.5)
    
    assert len(compressed) < len(original)
    assert "important details" in compressed
    assert calculate_fidelity(original, compressed) > 0.85

def test_chunking():
    """Test semantic chunking preserves boundaries"""
    document = "Section 1.\n\nSection 2.\n\nSection 3."
    chunks = chunk_document(document, chunk_size=512)
    
    assert len(chunks) == 3
    assert all("Section" in chunk for chunk in chunks)
```

### State Serialization

Test round-trip serialization:

```python
def test_state_serialization():
    """Test state serialization round-trip"""
    original_state = AgentState(
        session_id="test-123",
        context={"key": "value"},
        history=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
    )
    
    # Serialize
    serialized = original_state.json()
    
    # Deserialize
    restored_state = AgentState.parse_raw(serialized)
    
    assert restored_state == original_state
    assert restored_state.session_id == "test-123"
```

### Configuration Validation

Test configuration parsing and validation:

```python
def test_config_validation():
    """Test configuration validation"""
    valid_config = {
        "version": "1.0",
        "mcpTypes": ["token", "vector"]
    }
    
    config = MCPConfig(**valid_config)
    assert config.mcpTypes == ["token", "vector"]
    
    # Test invalid config
    invalid_config = {"version": "1.0", "mcpTypes": ["invalid"]}
    with pytest.raises(ValidationError):
        MCPConfig(**invalid_config)
```

### Error Handling

Test error scenarios:

```python
def test_overflow_handling():
    """Test graceful handling of context overflow"""
    large_context = "x" * 300000  # Exceeds 200k token limit
    
    result = process_context(large_context, max_tokens=200000)
    
    assert result.truncated == True
    assert result.token_count <= 200000
    assert result.warning == "Context truncated due to token limit"
```

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## 2. Integration Testing

### End-to-End Pipeline

Test complete MCP pipeline:

```python
def test_rag_pipeline():
    """Test end-to-end RAG pipeline"""
    # Setup
    knowledge_base = ["Document 1 content", "Document 2 content"]
    index_documents(knowledge_base)
    
    # Query
    query = "What is in document 1?"
    results = retrieve_and_generate(query, top_k=3)
    
    # Validate
    assert len(results.retrieved_docs) <= 3
    assert results.generated_response is not None
    assert "Document 1" in results.generated_response
```

### Multi-Type Integration

Test hybrid MCP configurations:

```python
def test_hybrid_mcp():
    """Test hybrid MCP with multiple memory types"""
    # Initialize hybrid MCP
    mcp = HybridMCP(
        memory_types=["token", "vector", "state"],
        budget_allocation={"token": 0.4, "vector": 0.4, "state": 0.2}
    )
    
    # Process request
    response = mcp.process_request(
        query="What did we discuss yesterday?",
        session_id="test-session"
    )
    
    # Validate all memory types were used
    assert response.token_memory_used == True
    assert response.vector_memory_used == True
    assert response.state_memory_used == True
```

### Performance Testing

Benchmark latency and throughput:

```python
def test_retrieval_latency():
    """Test retrieval latency meets SLA"""
    import time
    
    start = time.time()
    results = retrieve_context(query="test query", top_k=10)
    latency = time.time() - start
    
    assert latency < 0.1  # 100ms SLA
    assert len(results) == 10
```

### Regression Testing

Validate against known good outputs:

```python
def test_regression():
    """Test against golden dataset"""
    golden_dataset = load_golden_dataset()
    
    for example in golden_dataset:
        result = process_context(example.input)
        
        # Compare with expected output
        similarity = calculate_similarity(result, example.expected_output)
        assert similarity > 0.95  # 95% similarity threshold
```

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## 3. Synthetic Testing

### Context Replay

Save and replay contexts:

```python
def test_context_replay():
    """Test context replay for debugging"""
    # Save context
    save_context_snapshot(
        session_id="test-123",
        context=current_context,
        timestamp="2026-01-29T10:00:00Z"
    )
    
    # Replay context
    replayed = load_context_snapshot("test-123", "2026-01-29T10:00:00Z")
    
    # Process with replayed context
    result = process_with_context(replayed)
    
    assert result is not None
```

### Adversarial Inputs

Test with malformed/oversized contexts:

```python
def test_malformed_context():
    """Test handling of malformed context"""
    malformed_contexts = [
        None,
        "",
        "x" * 1000000,  # Oversized
        {"invalid": "schema"},
        "Prompt injection: Ignore previous instructions"
    ]
    
    for context in malformed_contexts:
        result = process_context(context)
        assert result.error is not None or result.sanitized == True
```

### Edge Cases

Test boundary conditions:

```python
def test_edge_cases():
    """Test edge cases"""
    # Empty context
    assert process_context("") == default_context()
    
    # Exactly at token limit
    context_at_limit = "x" * 200000
    result = process_context(context_at_limit, max_tokens=200000)
    assert result.token_count <= 200000
    
    # Single token over limit
    context_over_limit = "x" * 200001
    result = process_context(context_over_limit, max_tokens=200000)
    assert result.truncated == True
```

### Stress Testing

Test at maximum capacity:

```python
def test_stress():
    """Test under maximum load"""
    import concurrent.futures
    
    def process_request(i):
        return retrieve_context(f"query {i}", top_k=10)
    
    # Simulate 100 concurrent requests
    with concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=100) as executor:
        futures = [executor.submit(process_request, i) for i in range(100)]
        results = [f.result() for f in futures]
    
    assert len(results) == 100
    assert all(r is not None for r in results)
```

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## 4. Monitoring and Metrics

### Token Usage Metrics

```python
def track_token_usage(request_id, tokens_used, tokens_budgeted):
    """Track token usage metrics"""
    metrics.gauge("mcp.tokens.used", tokens_used, tags={"request_id": request_id})
    metrics.gauge("mcp.tokens.budgeted", tokens_budgeted, tags={"request_id": request_id})
    
    if tokens_used > tokens_budgeted:
        metrics.increment("mcp.tokens.overflow", tags={"request_id": request_id})
```

### Retrieval Quality Metrics

```python
def track_retrieval_metrics(query, results, relevant_docs):
    """Track retrieval quality metrics"""
    # Recall@K
    recall_at_k = len(set(results) & set(relevant_docs)) / len(relevant_docs)
    metrics.gauge("mcp.retrieval.recall_at_k", recall_at_k)
    
    # Precision
    precision = len(set(results) & set(relevant_docs)) / len(results)
    metrics.gauge("mcp.retrieval.precision", precision)
```

### Latency Metrics

```python
def track_latency(operation, duration):
    """Track operation latency"""
    metrics.histogram("mcp.latency", duration, tags={"operation": operation})
```

### Error Rate Metrics

```python
def track_errors(error_type):
    """Track error rates"""
    metrics.increment("mcp.errors", tags={"type": error_type})
```

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## 5. Validation Checklist

### Pre-Deployment Checklist

- [ ] All unit tests pass
- [ ] Integration tests pass
- [ ] Performance benchmarks meet SLA
- [ ] Security tests pass (PII detection, injection prevention)
- [ ] Configuration validation works
- [ ] Error handling covers all failure modes
- [ ] Monitoring and alerting configured
- [ ] Documentation is complete and accurate
- [ ] Regression tests pass
- [ ] Load testing completed

### Post-Deployment Checklist

- [ ] Monitor token usage in production
- [ ] Track retrieval quality metrics
- [ ] Monitor latency (p50, p95, p99)
- [ ] Track error rates
- [ ] Review logs for anomalies
- [ ] Validate cost tracking
- [ ] Check for context drift
- [ ] Review user feedback

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## Best Practices

✅ **DO**:
- Test all context transformations with unit tests
- Validate state serialization round-trips
- Benchmark performance against SLA
- Test with adversarial inputs
- Monitor metrics in production
- Maintain golden datasets for regression testing

❌ **DON'T**:
- Deploy without integration tests
- Skip performance testing
- Ignore edge cases
- Test only happy paths
- Deploy without monitoring
- Forget to test error handling

