diff --git a/tests/group-link-status.test.mjs b/tests/group-link-status.test.mjs
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+// GroupLinkStatus renders the freshness + drift note above the End User Group
+// cards on docs/community/index.md. Nothing imported the module before this
+// file, so none of its branches had unit coverage: the checkedAt line, the
+// drift warning that names archived or unreachable upstream repositories, and
+// the singular/plural wording that warning switches on.
+//
+// The live data file currently reports every group as healthy, so the drift
+// branch is unreachable from the real module; it is driven through a fixture
+// copy instead. The live-data assertions are invariants that hold for any
+// shape of data/community-groups.json rather than snapshots of today's groups.
+
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import test from 'node:test';
+
+import { importWithData } from './helpers-component-data.mjs';
+import { importSource } from './helpers-jsx.mjs';
+import { textOf } from './tools/react-element-tree.mjs';
+
+const DATA_SPECIFIER = '@site/data/community-groups.json';
+
+const { default: GroupLinkStatus } = await importSource(
+  'src/components/GroupLinkStatus/index.js',
+);
+const { default: groupsData } = await importSource(
+  'data/community-groups.json',
+);
+
+const group = (overrides = {}) => ({
+  slug: 'research',
+  name: 'Research User Group',
+  repository: 'https://github.com/cncf/research-user-group',
+  archived: false,
+  reachable: true,
+  ...overrides,
+});
+
+async function renderWith(data) {
+  const module = await importWithData(
+    'src/components/GroupLinkStatus/index.js',
+    { [DATA_SPECIFIER]: data },
+  );
+  try {
+    return module.default();
+  } finally {
+    module.cleanup();
+  }
+}
+
+test('the live data file renders the checkedAt verification line', () => {
+  const expected = new Date(groupsData.checkedAt).toLocaleDateString('en-US', {
+    year: 'numeric',
+    month: 'long',
+    day: 'numeric',
+  });
+  const text = textOf(GroupLinkStatus());
+  assert.match(text, /Upstream group links last verified on/);
+  assert.ok(
+    text.includes(expected),
+    `expected the rendered text to include ${expected}`,
+  );
+});
+
+test('healthy live data raises no drift warning', () => {
+  const drifted = groupsData.groups.filter(
+    (entry) => entry.archived || entry.reachable === false,
+  );
+  const text = textOf(GroupLinkStatus());
+  if (drifted.length === 0) {
+    assert.doesNotMatch(text, /archived or unreachable/);
+  } else {
+    assert.match(text, /archived or unreachable/);
+  }
+});
+
+test('an unparseable checkedAt drops the verification line rather than rendering "Invalid Date"', async () => {
+  const text = textOf(
+    await renderWith({ checkedAt: 'not a timestamp', groups: [group()] }),
+  );
+  assert.doesNotMatch(text, /last verified/);
+  assert.doesNotMatch(text, /Invalid Date/);
+});
+
+test('missing groups data renders without throwing', async () => {
+  const tree = await renderWith({ checkedAt: '2026-03-04T05:06:07.000Z' });
+  assert.match(textOf(tree), /March 4, 2026/);
+  assert.doesNotMatch(textOf(tree), /archived or unreachable/);
+});
+
+test('an archived upstream repository is named in the warning', async () => {
+  const text = textOf(
+    await renderWith({
+      checkedAt: '2026-03-04T05:06:07.000Z',
+      groups: [
+        group(),
+        group({ slug: 'telecom', name: 'Telecom User Group', archived: true }),
+      ],
+    }),
+  );
+  assert.match(text, /Telecom User Group has an archived or unreachable/);
+  assert.doesNotMatch(text, /Research User Group/);
+  assert.match(text, /upstream repository/);
+});
+
+test('an unreachable upstream repository is named in the warning', async () => {
+  const text = textOf(
+    await renderWith({
+      checkedAt: '2026-03-04T05:06:07.000Z',
+      groups: [group({ reachable: false })],
+    }),
+  );
+  assert.match(text, /Research User Group has an archived or unreachable/);
+});
+
+test('two drifted groups are listed together with plural wording', async () => {
+  const text = textOf(
+    await renderWith({
+      checkedAt: '2026-03-04T05:06:07.000Z',
+      groups: [
+        group({ archived: true }),
+        group({
+          slug: 'telecom',
+          name: 'Telecom User Group',
+          reachable: false,
+        }),
+      ],
+    }),
+  );
+  assert.match(
+    text,
+    /Research User Group, Telecom User Group have archived or unreachable upstream repositories/,
+  );
+});
diff --git a/tests/helpers-component-data.mjs b/tests/helpers-component-data.mjs
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+// Helper for unit tests that need to render a component whose input is a
+// checked-in data file rather than props.
+//
+// Components such as src/components/PeopleFreshness/index.js read
+// `@site/data/<file>.json` at module scope and take no props, so the branches
+// the live data does not happen to reach (a malformed timestamp, an archived
+// upstream repo) are unreachable from a test that imports the real module.
+//
+// This helper copies the component source into a temp directory, rewrites its
+// `@site/...` JSON imports to point at fixture files written alongside the
+// copy, and imports the copy through tests/helpers-jsx.mjs so the JSX and CSS
+// Modules hooks still apply. The component source itself stays unchanged.
+//
+// Usage:
+//
+//   const { default: Component, cleanup } = await importWithData(
+//     'src/components/PeopleFreshness/index.js',
+//     { '@site/data/community-people.json': { fetchedAt: 'nonsense' } },
+//   );
+
+import {
+  mkdirSync,
+  mkdtempSync,
+  readFileSync,
+  rmSync,
+  symlinkSync,
+  writeFileSync,
+} from 'node:fs';
+import { tmpdir } from 'node:os';
+import { basename, join } from 'node:path';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
+
+import { importSource } from './helpers-jsx.mjs';
+
+const REPO_ROOT = new URL('../', import.meta.url);
+
+/**
+ * Imports a copy of a component with its `@site/...` data imports replaced by
+ * fixtures.
+ *
+ * @param {string} repoRelativePath e.g. 'src/components/Foo/index.js'
+ * @param {Record<string, unknown>} fixtures data keyed by the exact `@site/...`
+ *   specifier the source imports; every key must appear in the source.
+ * @returns {Promise<Record<string, unknown> & {cleanup: () => void}>} the
+ *   module namespace of the copy, plus a `cleanup` that removes the temp copy.
+ */
+export async function importWithData(repoRelativePath, fixtures) {
+  const source = readFileSync(
+    fileURLToPath(new URL(repoRelativePath, REPO_ROOT)),
+    'utf8',
+  );
+
+  const work = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'endusers-component-'));
+  let rewritten = source;
+  for (const [specifier, data] of Object.entries(fixtures)) {
+    if (!rewritten.includes(specifier)) {
+      rmSync(work, { recursive: true, force: true });
+      throw new Error(
+        `${repoRelativePath} does not import ${specifier}; the fixture would be ignored`,
+      );
+    }
+    const fixtureName = basename(specifier);
+    writeFileSync(join(work, fixtureName), JSON.stringify(data));
+    rewritten = rewritten.split(specifier).join(`./${fixtureName}`);
+  }
+
+  // Each import gets its own directory so Node's module cache does not hand
+  // back a copy built from a previous fixture.
+  const copy = join(work, 'index.js');
+  mkdirSync(work, { recursive: true });
+  writeFileSync(copy, rewritten);
+  // The copy still imports `react`, which Node resolves from the directory the
+  // module lives in; link the repository install so the temp copy sees it.
+  symlinkSync(
+    fileURLToPath(new URL('node_modules', REPO_ROOT)),
+    join(work, 'node_modules'),
+  );
+
+  // importSource resolves its argument against the repository root; an
+  // absolute path resolves to itself, which is what a temp copy needs.
+  const namespace = await importSource(copy);
+  return {
+    ...namespace,
+    cleanup: () => rmSync(work, { recursive: true, force: true }),
+  };
+}
diff --git a/tests/people-freshness.test.mjs b/tests/people-freshness.test.mjs
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+// PeopleFreshness renders the "last refreshed" line under the TAB/staff
+// profile grids on docs/community/*. Nothing imported the module before this
+// file, so its two behaviours — formatting data/community-people.json's
+// fetchedAt, and rendering nothing at all when that timestamp is unusable —
+// had no unit coverage and a regression in either would ship silently.
+//
+// The component takes no props and reads its data at module scope, so the
+// live-data assertions below are invariants that hold for any shape of
+// data/community-people.json; the branches the live file does not reach are
+// driven through a fixture copy of the module.
+
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import test from 'node:test';
+
+import { importWithData } from './helpers-component-data.mjs';
+import { importSource } from './helpers-jsx.mjs';
+import { textOf } from './tools/react-element-tree.mjs';
+
+const DATA_SPECIFIER = '@site/data/community-people.json';
+
+const { default: PeopleFreshness } = await importSource(
+  'src/components/PeopleFreshness/index.js',
+);
+const { default: peopleData } = await importSource(
+  'data/community-people.json',
+);
+
+async function renderWith(fetchedAt) {
+  const module = await importWithData(
+    'src/components/PeopleFreshness/index.js',
+    { [DATA_SPECIFIER]: { fetchedAt } },
+  );
+  try {
+    return module.default();
+  } finally {
+    module.cleanup();
+  }
+}
+
+test('the live data file renders a single freshness paragraph', () => {
+  const tree = PeopleFreshness();
+  assert.notEqual(
+    tree,
+    null,
+    'data/community-people.json has an unusable fetchedAt',
+  );
+  assert.equal(tree.type, 'p');
+});
+
+test('the rendered date is the fetchedAt of the live data file', () => {
+  const expected = new Date(peopleData.fetchedAt).toLocaleDateString('en-US', {
+    year: 'numeric',
+    month: 'long',
+    day: 'numeric',
+  });
+  assert.match(textOf(PeopleFreshness()), /last refreshed from public GitHub/);
+  assert.ok(
+    textOf(PeopleFreshness()).includes(expected),
+    `expected the rendered text to include ${expected}`,
+  );
+});
+
+test('a known timestamp is rendered as a long-form US date', async () => {
+  const tree = await renderWith('2026-03-04T05:06:07.000Z');
+  assert.match(textOf(tree), /March 4, 2026/);
+});
+
+test('an unparseable fetchedAt renders nothing rather than "Invalid Date"', async () => {
+  assert.equal(await renderWith('not a timestamp'), null);
+});
+
+test('a missing fetchedAt renders nothing', async () => {
+  assert.equal(await renderWith(undefined), null);
+});