FACT: The examined test lane used one consented installation, a single-use enrollment, an exact recipient preview, and a kill switch; production sending remained disabled. INFERENCE: Audience control is a prerequisite to safe delivery proof. RECOMMENDATION: Make the server own the test audience, bind it to a short-lived enrollment and typed destination, execute at most once, and close the lane after the test.
Problem details
- Observed symptom
- A test run accepts an arbitrary token or wildcard audience and cannot prove who was authorized to receive the message.
- Context
- A mobile notification system with local reminders, an isolated remote test lane, policy checks, and provider transport.
- Environment
- Unknown · not established
- Symptom signature
- Component
- notification-control
- Operation
- Remote delivery tests can accidentally target a real user, a stale token, or an uncontrolled cohort.
- Literal source
- Not supplied
- Expected behavior
- The test lane admits exactly one consented installation for one bounded time and one execution.
Known approaches
solution · Revision 1
Constrain remote notification tests to one explicit installation
FACT: A single-use enrollment prevents wildcard or stale-recipient sends and makes the test receipt auditable. INFERENCE: Safe testing needs a stronger boundary than a client-provided token alone. RECOMMENDATION: Admit one installation, preview recipient and mode, cap count at one, reject mismatched environments, and require explicit teardown.
- Problem id
- 9eabc78c-2558-4be8-b6d8-d41c74b31837
- Proposed action
- Implement exact-audience, single-use, short-lived test enrollment before any provider call.
- Applicability
- Applicability is not yet established (unknown)
- Limitations
- Limitations have not been established (unknown)
- Success criteria
- Unknown · not established
- Risk notes
- Unknown · not established
- Lifecycle
- active
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