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Derives all 54 specifications under uts/realtime/unit in ably/specification into 481 native tests, and adds the two test seams they need. Stacked on #703.

Library changes

Three commits touch ably/, all inert unless a test opts in. They extend the pattern #695 established for the HTTP transport:

  • TestOptions(websocket_connect=…) — WebSocketTransport selects its connect callable once in __init__, defaulting to websockets.connect. Injecting the callable rather than a whole replacement transport keeps the read loop, frame decoding, idle timer and connection state machine inside the code under test.
  • TestOptions(timer=…) — all six Timer(...) sites in ably/transport and ably/realtime now resolve through one select_timer(options) helper, so a test can collapse a 120-second connectionStateTtl into a few milliseconds of wall clock.
  • Both are client-scoped, never global, for the reason test/uts/deviations.md already records for the HTTP mock.

No behaviour changes. test/ably/realtime/ against the live sandbox is unchanged at 308 passed, 2 skipped.

Tests

Specifications derived 54 of 54
Tests 481, matching the specifications' own Test ID count exactly
pytest test/uts 933 passed, 206 skipped
RUN_DEVIATIONS=1 191 failed, 933 passed, 15 skipped

191 gated + 15 mock-limited stubs = 206 skips exactly, so every gated test is confirmed to fail when enabled. None passes under both the specification's behaviour and the SDK's.

The harness adds a MockWebSocket matching uts/realtime/unit/helpers/mock_websocket.md, a FakeClock driving the injected timer, and realtime client helpers. next_connection_state and poll_until exist because await_connection_state no-ops when the state is already held, which silently turns several tests into no-ops.

Deviations

test/uts/deviations.md records every one under the four standing headings. The 181 gated tests recording SDK non-compliance reduce to 65 distinct root causes, ranked in a Candidate issues section. The sharpest:

  1. RTN15h3 — a 5xx DISCONNECTED with no fallback hosts strands the client: no state change, no retry, still believing it is connected to a closed socket.
  2. on_error calls enact_state_change instead of notify_state (connectionmanager.py), skipping cancel_transition_timer, fail_queued_messages and _propagate_connection_interruption. One line behind both RTL3a and RTN7e.
  3. detach() never returns when the connection is not CONNECTED.
  4. set_options() never returns on an attached channel, for want of one _request_state(ATTACHING).
  5. EventEmitter keys its wrapper registry on the listener alone, so removal raises KeyError and then silently no-ops. Reproducible in six lines with no Ably connection.

Two caveats worth reading before merge, both recorded in the docs: RTP18a's fixture cannot discriminate compliant from non-compliant behaviour, so its test passes against an SDK that does not implement the point — the finding is recorded as a deviation with no test; and four further tests pass for the wrong reason and are annotated at the site.

Upstream

The UTS Spec Errors section of test/uts/deviations.md gains the realtime faults: 25 claims, 14 confirmed as written, 11 confirmed with the scope or diagnosis corrected, none withdrawn, plus 7 found while checking. All are filed upstream: #542, #543, #544, #545 and #546, plus comments on #527, #532 and #466. Highest value to upstream is the mock contract gap — active_connection is used 193 times across 28 of the 56 spec files and declared nowhere, which costs this harness nothing and would cost the next SDK eight unimplementable tests.

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WebSocketTransport reads TestOptions.websocket_connect and calls it in place of
the websockets library's connect, leaving URL construction, the host fallback
loop, frame decoding and the connection state machine in the path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…backs

The transport, the channel and the connection manager schedule every delayed
callback through TestOptions.timer when one is supplied, so a test can drive
time-dependent behaviour without waiting for it. test/uts/helpers/clock.py is
the fake the derived realtime tests advance.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The mock serves the connect callable a client is given through test options,
leaving the read loop, frame decoding, the idle timer and the connection state
machine in the path. Frames are encoded to match the protocol the connection
negotiated, so a derived test only handles msgpack where it is the subject.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
RTC5, RTC6 and RTC9 proxy to their REST counterparts, so each is covered by one
test driving a realtime client through the HTTP mock rather than by repeating the
REST suite against a second client type.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Connection#id and Connection#key have no counterpart here, so the tests read
the values through the connection manager and the missing accessors are recorded
as a deviation rather than skipping the lifecycle coverage they carry.

The mock gains a status code for the 8xxxx connection errors, whose status the
specification's formula puts outside the HTTP range, and a wait for the next
entry into a connection state rather than the one it already holds.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Retry backoff, jitter and the retry interval a state change reports have no
counterpart here, so RTB1 is carried as gated tests measuring the interval
through the fake clock, whose notional time makes the delay exact.

The mock gains a wait for a channel state and a poll for a condition no state
captures, since a connection reports CONNECTING before the attempt behind it
has been scheduled.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A detach requested while the connection is not CONNECTED never returns, as does
set_options on an attached channel, so the tests covering those bound their wait
and fail rather than hanging the suite.

The mock gains the channel protocol messages, the ordered-subsequence check the
specifications use for state histories, and a CONNECTED which leaves the idle
timer unscheduled for tests driving time.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A publish is resolved by the server's acknowledgement, so the tests answer each
message the client sends; the specifications elide that await, and the two which
ask for no acknowledgement drive the publish as a task instead.

Split across two files along the seam between publishing and the fate of a
message already on the wire.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Registering one listener for two events and then removing it raises, so each
test which subscribes to several names uses a separate function per name.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The channel properties the specifications read have no public accessor, so the
tests reach the serials directly and the missing accessors are recorded as a
deviation, keeping the serial behaviour itself covered.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A connection-level ERROR reaches FAILED without going through the notification
which propagates to channels, so the tests covering RTL3a keep the specified
assertion and are gated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Presence messages carry an explicit member id, because an entry which arrives
without one is given a fabricated id that reads as synthesized and sends the
newness comparison down its timestamp branch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The delta tests carry a vcdiff decoder which validates the base payload it is
given, so a message only arrives when the base the channel stored was the right
one and none of them can pass without exercising the decode.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every presence message carries an explicit member id, since one without is given
a fabricated id which reads as synthesized and sends the newness comparison down
its timestamp branch rather than the serial branch under test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reaching a suspended channel means suspending the connection carrying it, so
these tests drive the fake clock past the connection state ttl rather than
dropping the transport, which leaves the channel attached.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The idle timer measures against the wall clock while scheduling through the
timer seam, so the heartbeat tests run on real time with a small idle interval
from the connection details rather than driving the fake clock.

The connectivity check the fallback path performs is a synchronous request the
client's HTTP layer never sees, so those tests answer it in process.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The per-area files each batch wrote are merged into deviations.md, grouped by
root cause so that the tests failing for one reason read as one entry, and a
claim which was investigated and found not to be a defect is kept alongside
them so it is not raised again.

The UTS Spec Errors section gains the realtime faults, among them a specification
whose own test cannot detect the behaviour it targets.

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The pull request adds test-only websocket and timer injection, shared realtime test helpers, and extensive specification-derived tests for realtime clients, connections, channels, and presence. It also expands UTS guidance and records inconsistencies in the realtime specifications.

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Realtime UTS expansion

Layer / File(s) Summary
Test hooks and shared helpers
ably/types/testoptions.py, ably/util/helper.py, ably/realtime/*, ably/transport/websockettransport.py, test/uts/helpers/*, .claude/skills/uts-to-python/SKILL.md, test/uts/README.md, test/uts/decisions.md
TestOptions accepts websocket and timer hooks. Realtime components use the selected hooks. Shared helpers add a websocket mock, a fake clock, realtime client utilities, and presence fixtures. UTS documentation describes their setup and use.
Client, connection, and authentication tests
test/uts/realtime/unit/auth/*, test/uts/realtime/unit/client/*, test/uts/realtime/unit/connection/*
New tests cover client options and REST proxies, connection states and recovery, retry and fallback behavior, heartbeats, ping, authentication, and reauthorization.
Channel tests
test/uts/realtime/unit/channels/*
New tests cover channel state, attach and detach, publish and subscriptions, message operations, annotations, delta decoding, recovery, and HTTP-backed channel methods.
Presence tests
test/uts/realtime/unit/presence/*
New tests cover presence storage, synchronization, operations, subscriptions, retrieval, history, channel-state behavior, and re-entry.
Realtime specification audit
test/uts/spec-inconsistencies.md
The document adds an audit of realtime UTS claims, including contradictions, test and fixture limitations, mock-contract gaps, and corrections identified during review.

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In `@test/uts/realtime/unit/auth/connection_auth_test.py`:
- Line 62: Replace the monotonic timestamp comparison in the connection-auth
test with an event sequence: declare an order list, append callback and
connection-attempt markers at their respective points, and assert the callback
marker precedes the attempt marker. Remove the timestamp variables and their
nonlocal declarations.

In `@test/uts/realtime/unit/channels/channel_attach_test.py`:
- Around line 316-319: Assign the `on_message_from_client` recorder to
`mock_ws.on_message_from_client` before creating the client, so the RTL4i test
records any ATTACH sent while the connection is CONNECTING and its empty-list
assertion can detect it.

In `@test/uts/realtime/unit/channels/channel_server_initiated_detach_test.py`:
- Around line 258-267: Update the test containing the channel_state_changes and
attach_future assertions to mark it with `@deviation` and assert the RTL13b
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pending attach raises AblyException. Remove the assertions that lock in a
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In `@test/uts/realtime/unit/connection/heartbeat_test.py`:
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exceed it; adjust the accompanying comment to reflect this behavior.

In `@test/uts/realtime/unit/presence/realtime_presence_enter_test.py`:
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In `@test/uts/spec-inconsistencies.md`:
- Line 724: Update the TTL fixture count in the “5000 ms connectionStateTtl”
heading in spec-inconsistencies.md from three to four, matching the four listed
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async def auth_callback(params):
nonlocal callback_invoked, callback_invoked_time
callback_invoked = True
callback_invoked_time = time.monotonic()

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Record the call order with a sequence, not with time.monotonic() readings.

Line 78 compares two time.monotonic() readings with a strict <. The auth callback and the connection attempt run within microseconds of each other. On a platform with a coarse monotonic clock, for example Windows at about 15 ms, the two readings can be equal. The assertion then fails even though the order is correct. An event list records the order exactly.

Proposed fix
-        callback_invoked_time = time.monotonic()
+        order.append('callback')
 ...
-        connection_attempt_time = time.monotonic()
+        order.append('attempt')
 ...
-    assert callback_invoked_time < connection_attempt_time
+    assert order.index('callback') < order.index('attempt')

Declare order = [] at the top of the test, and remove the two *_time variables and their nonlocal declarations.

Also applies to: 67-67, 78-78

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In `@test/uts/realtime/unit/auth/connection_auth_test.py` at line 62, Replace the
monotonic timestamp comparison in the connection-auth test with an event
sequence: declare an order list, append callback and connection-attempt markers
at their respective points, and assert the callback marker precedes the attempt
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def on_message_from_client(msg):
if msg.get('action') == ProtocolMessageAction.ATTACH:
attach_messages.append(msg)
client = realtime_client(mock_ws)

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Attach the ATTACH recorder to the mock. The RTL4i assertion cannot fail as written.

on_message_from_client is defined but never assigned to mock_ws.on_message_from_client. As a result, attach_messages is never populated. The assertion attach_messages == [] at Line 329 always passes. If the library sends ATTACH while the connection is CONNECTING, this test does not detect it. The sibling test test_rtl4i_completes_on_connected assigns its handler at Line 345.

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     def on_message_from_client(msg):
         if msg.get('action') == ProtocolMessageAction.ATTACH:
             attach_messages.append(msg)
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+    mock_ws.on_message_from_client = on_message_from_client
     client = realtime_client(mock_ws)
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def on_message_from_client(msg):
if msg.get('action') == ProtocolMessageAction.ATTACH:
attach_messages.append(msg)
client = realtime_client(mock_ws)
def on_message_from_client(msg):
if msg.get('action') == ProtocolMessageAction.ATTACH:
attach_messages.append(msg)
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In `@test/uts/realtime/unit/channels/channel_attach_test.py` around lines 316 -
319, Assign the `on_message_from_client` recorder to
`mock_ws.on_message_from_client` before creating the client, so the RTL4i test
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assert channel_state_changes[0].current == ChannelState.SUSPENDED
assert channel_state_changes[0].previous == ChannelState.ATTACHING
# RTL13b carries the DETACHED message's error onto the SUSPENDED state
# change; ably-python notifies SUSPENDED with no reason, so it arrives null
assert channel_state_changes[0].reason is None

# A pending attach reads the reason off that state change and re-raises it,
# so a null reason surfaces as a TypeError rather than an AblyException
with pytest.raises(TypeError):
await asyncio.wait_for(attach_future, OPERATION_TIMEOUT)

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Test the RTL13b outcome under @deviation. Do not assert the TypeError crash.

Two assertions here lock in the library defect:

  • reason is None at Line 262.
  • pytest.raises(TypeError) at Lines 266-267.

The same defect has different handling elsewhere in this PR. In test/uts/realtime/unit/channels/channel_attributes_test.py, test_rtl24_error_reason_attach_failure covers the dropped DETACHED error and the resulting TypeError. That test is marked @deviation and asserts the behaviour the specification requires.

This test passes today only because of the bug. When the library carries the DETACHED error onto the SUSPENDED change, the test will fail. It will not report the fix as a resolved deviation.

Choose one of these fixes:

  • Mark the test @deviation and assert the specification's outcome: reason.code == 90198, and the pending attach raises AblyException.
  • Move the crash assertions into a separate @deviation test.
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-    # RTL13b carries the DETACHED message's error onto the SUSPENDED state
-    # change; ably-python notifies SUSPENDED with no reason, so it arrives null
-    assert channel_state_changes[0].reason is None
-
-    # A pending attach reads the reason off that state change and re-raises it,
-    # so a null reason surfaces as a TypeError rather than an AblyException
-    with pytest.raises(TypeError):
-        await asyncio.wait_for(attach_future, OPERATION_TIMEOUT)
+    # RTL13b carries the DETACHED message's error onto the SUSPENDED state change
+    assert channel_state_changes[0].reason is not None
+    assert channel_state_changes[0].reason.code == 90198
+
+    with pytest.raises(AblyException):
+        await asyncio.wait_for(attach_future, OPERATION_TIMEOUT)

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around lines 258 - 267, Update the test containing the channel_state_changes and
attach_future assertions to mark it with `@deviation` and assert the RTL13b
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Comment on lines +123 to +129
# The specification samples a jitter generator 1000 times. ably-python has no
# such generator, so the jitter is read back from the delay of each retry, which
# costs a reconnection cycle apiece; 40 samples still separate a uniform
# distribution from a degenerate one, and fit inside the connection state ttl
sample_count = 40
retry_timeout = 2000
delays = await measure_disconnected_retry_delays(sample_count, retry_timeout)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Lower sample_count. 40 retry delays cannot fit inside CONNECTION_STATE_TTL.

The comment on lines 125-126 says 40 samples fit inside the connection state ttl. The arithmetic says they do not:

  • From the fourth retry on, each cycle is retry_timeout * 2 * jitter + REQUEST_TIMEOUT.
  • With retry_timeout = 2000, that is at least 3250 ms per cycle.
  • The first three retries take about 6.5 s. Another 37 retries need at least 120 s.
  • The total is more than 120000 ms, even with the minimum jitter on every retry.

After the TTL, the connection moves to SUSPENDED. retry_delays then stops recording new DISCONNECTED→CONNECTING delays.

As a result, measure_disconnected_retry_delays always raises AssertionError('Only N retry delays were observed ...'). The jitter assertions never run. With RUN_DEVIATIONS=1, the test fails whether or not the SDK is compliant. The failure therefore does not record the deviation.

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-    # costs a reconnection cycle apiece; 40 samples still separate a uniform
-    # distribution from a degenerate one, and fit inside the connection state ttl
-    sample_count = 40
+    # costs a reconnection cycle apiece; 25 samples still separate a uniform
+    # distribution from a degenerate one, and fit inside the connection state ttl
+    sample_count = 25
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# The specification samples a jitter generator 1000 times. ably-python has no
# such generator, so the jitter is read back from the delay of each retry, which
# costs a reconnection cycle apiece; 40 samples still separate a uniform
# distribution from a degenerate one, and fit inside the connection state ttl
sample_count = 40
retry_timeout = 2000
delays = await measure_disconnected_retry_delays(sample_count, retry_timeout)
# The specification samples a jitter generator 1000 times. ably-python has no
# such generator, so the jitter is read back from the delay of each retry, which
# costs a reconnection cycle apiece; 25 samples still separate a uniform
# distribution from a degenerate one, and fit inside the connection state ttl
sample_count = 25
retry_timeout = 2000
delays = await measure_disconnected_retry_delays(sample_count, retry_timeout)
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In `@test/uts/realtime/unit/connection/backoff_jitter_test.py` around lines 123 -
129, Reduce sample_count in the retry-delay sampling test from 40 to a value
that allows all samples to be collected before CONNECTION_STATE_TTL expires;
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Comment on lines +44 to +46
# A wait short enough to leave the idle timer running, standing in for the
# specification's `ADVANCE_TIME` between one server message and the next
WITHIN_IDLE_TIMEOUT = IDLE_TIMEOUT * 0.4

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Make WITHIN_IDLE_TIMEOUT long enough that two waits exceed IDLE_TIMEOUT.

IDLE_TIMEOUT is 0.5 s and WITHIN_IDLE_TIMEOUT is 0.2 s. Two tests assert CONNECTED after only 0.4 s from the CONNECTED message:

  • test_rtn23a_heartbeat_resets_timer (lines 159-166)
  • test_rtn23a_ping_resets_timer (lines 257-265)

At 0.4 s the idle timer has not expired, even if nothing reset it. Both tests would pass if HEARTBEAT or PING did not reset the idle timer. The comment on lines 163-164 says longer than the idle timeout has passed, which is not true.

Set the wait to 0.6 × IDLE_TIMEOUT, which is 0.3 s:

  • Each single gap stays below the timeout (0.3 s < 0.5 s).
  • Two waits exceed the timeout (0.6 s > 0.5 s).
  • test_rtn23a_any_message_resets_timer still holds, because each gap in that test is also 0.3 s.
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-# A wait short enough to leave the idle timer running, standing in for the
-# specification's `ADVANCE_TIME` between one server message and the next
-WITHIN_IDLE_TIMEOUT = IDLE_TIMEOUT * 0.4
+# A wait short enough to leave the idle timer running, but long enough that two
+# of them exceed the idle timeout, so a test proves the message reset the timer
+WITHIN_IDLE_TIMEOUT = IDLE_TIMEOUT * 0.6
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# A wait short enough to leave the idle timer running, standing in for the
# specification's `ADVANCE_TIME` between one server message and the next
WITHIN_IDLE_TIMEOUT = IDLE_TIMEOUT * 0.4
# A wait short enough to leave the idle timer running, but long enough that two
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Update WITHIN_IDLE_TIMEOUT in the heartbeat tests from 0.4 to 0.6 times
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Comment on lines +506 to +507
with pytest.raises(TypeError):
await channel.attach()

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Do not require TypeError as the RTP16c attach outcome.

The test requires channel.attach() to raise TypeError. That error comes from the library executing raise None, which is a defect. If the library is fixed to raise an AblyException with a reason, this test fails, even though the new behavior is correct. RTP16c is about the later presence.enter() error, not about the attach error type. Accept both error types so that the test survives the fix. The deviation stays recorded in test/uts/deviations.md.

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-    with pytest.raises(TypeError):
+    with pytest.raises((TypeError, AblyException)):
         await channel.attach()
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await channel.attach()
with pytest.raises((TypeError, AblyException)):
await channel.attach()
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### 7.3 Ten fixtures that cannot produce their own premise

**A 5000 ms `connectionStateTtl`, invented three times.** `features.md:2085` (DF1a) makes the

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Correct the TTL fixture count.

This says the 5000 ms connectionStateTtl is used three times, but the table lists four test cases: RTN25, RTN14e, RTL6c4, and RTN7e. Change the count to four so it matches the examples.

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-**A 5000 ms `connectionStateTtl`, invented three times.**
+**A 5000 ms `connectionStateTtl`, invented four times.**
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**A 5000 ms `connectionStateTtl`, invented four times.** `features.md:2085` (DF1a) makes the
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In `@test/uts/spec-inconsistencies.md` at line 724, Update the TTL fixture count
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