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Test Improvement

Files: __tests__/utils/duration.test.ts (new), __tests__/utils/labelCatalog.test.ts. No src/, dist/, docs/ or config change — disjoint from every open held PR (#510–#541): the existing parseDuration table lives in __tests__/plugins/requireMatchingLabel.test.ts, which #520 occupies, so the new cases get their own file under __tests__/utils/.

A single-operator mutation probe over src/utils/{duration,labelCatalog,labeling,comments}.ts on main @ 88241f4 (details in the folded record on #523) left three non-equivalent survivors against their npx vitest related sets. One case per survivor:

• duration.ts:12 .trim() removed — parseDuration accepts ' 5s', '5s ', '\t2m\n', ' 0 ' and ' ' (yaml-folded values), returning 5000 / 5000 / 120000 / 0 / 0 rather than throwing.
• duration.ts:29 Math.round removed — 1.5ms, 2.25ms and 0.0015s all yield the integer 2.
• labelCatalog.ts:86 toLowerCase() before startsWith('needs-') removed — desiredLabels gives Needs-Kind and NEEDS-SIG missing labels the ededed color.

Also pins the field parameter of parseDuration's error (invalid delay 'soon'), which only the default was asserted for.

Verification (this branch, local)

• npx vitest run __tests__/utils/duration.test.ts __tests__/utils/labelCatalog.test.ts: 24 passed
• same, with each mutant applied in turn: 5 / 3 / 1 failed (mutants reverted, not committed)
• npx eslint on both files: clean

Related Issue

Refs #523 — hive-open-issue consolidated this finding onto that tracker (its newest comment carries the full table); the tracker's own trigger.ts items and the other folded findings remain open and are owned by other PRs (#524, #528, #537, #541).

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Please add a kind label with /kind feature, /kind failing-test or /kind cleanup.

[mrbobbytables]

Copilot review performed under the maintainer's explicit authorization to update, review, release reviewed holds, and merge eligible PRs in this cleanup.

The duration cases assert whitespace handling, fractional millisecond rounding and field-specific errors. Label-catalog cases pin case-insensitive needs- color selection.

Verified successful build-test, e2e-coverage and DCO results on head 1aeb239. Any folded issue findings remain assigned to the canonical destinations in the updated scope tables.