E2E failure reliability: hidden .tests/ artifacts + 120s watchdog - #235
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Upload hidden `.tests/` CI artifacts, persist privacy-safe hang/failure diagnostics (stuck id, stage, worker/report, last-failed), and lower the per-test watchdog default from 300s to 120s with override/disable intact. Co-authored-by: Nikola Perović <Fooftilly@users.noreply.github.com>
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe E2E runner now saves machine-readable diagnostics for timeouts and worker failures, including test and stage attribution. It clears stale diagnostics before runs and clears diagnostics after successful runs. The per-test watchdog default is 120 seconds. The gate workflow uploads two named diagnostic files. ChangesE2E Failure Diagnostics
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant E2ERunner
participant FailureDiagnosticsPolicy
participant DiagnosticsFile
participant E2EGateWorkflow
E2ERunner->>FailureDiagnosticsPolicy: save or clear failure diagnostics
FailureDiagnosticsPolicy->>DiagnosticsFile: write or remove diagnostics JSON
E2EGateWorkflow->>DiagnosticsFile: collect named hidden diagnostic files
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to A crashed test may be missing from individual rerun history, and a pointer-capture failure can leave no diagnostic artifact. Fix these failure-reporting gaps before merging. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The upload is limited to two named diagnostic files on failed CI jobs, and the runner excludes raw failure traces from its diagnostic snapshot. The privacy and lifecycle guarantees still depend partly on how those files are populated and cleaned up. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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Full details: Docstring CoverageExplanation Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 28 functions across 5 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.) Full details: Prks Engineering InvariantsExplanation The pull request violates the applicable E2E isolation invariant in Resolution Keep diagnostics worker-local during parallel execution. Write each worker's watchdog snapshot to its existing
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PR Summary by QodoHarden E2E failure diagnostics and shorten watchdog timeout
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| if report is None or report.get("watchdog"): | ||
| tid, stage = _hang_attribution(worker) | ||
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When a --jobs > 1 worker trips the watchdog with default diagnostics settings, it writes the correct stage and then clears its heartbeat before exiting. The parent subsequently calls _hang_attribution, which can recover the test ID from the log but not the stage, and overwrites e2e-failure-diagnostics.json with last_stage: ""; the watchdog self-check reproduces this with detail reporting stage=START while the JSON field is empty. Include the stage in the worker report or retain the earlier non-empty diagnostic stage before saving the parent snapshot.
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2. Benchmark failures keep stale diagnostics 🐞 Bug ≡ Correctness
_persist_failure_diagnostics returns whenever benchmark_modes() is active, and the final write-or-clear block is also nested under persist_history. A benchmark failure consequently writes no current snapshot, while a benchmark success can leave an earlier failure’s watchdog attribution in place for later inspection or reuse.
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## Issue description
Benchmark modes suppress both failure-diagnostics writes and successful-run cleanup even though diagnostics are not timing or last-failed training history.
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- tests/e2e/run.py[477-495]
- tests/e2e/run.py[1891-1899]
- tests/e2e/run.py[1949-1979]
- tests/test_e2e_sharding.py[1055-1104]
## Recommended Fix
Remove the benchmark-mode return from `_persist_failure_diagnostics` and move the final diagnostics write-or-clear logic outside the `persist_history` condition. Keep timing and last-failed mutations gated, and add tests proving benchmark failures replace stale diagnostics and benchmark successes clear them.
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In @.github/workflows/e2e-gate.yml:
- Line 230: Update the failure-artifact upload step that sets
include-hidden-files and targets .tests/: replace the directory-wide upload with
explicit paths for the privacy-reviewed diagnostics and last-failed files, so
other hidden files under .tests/ are excluded.
In @tests/e2e/run.py:
- Around line 1050-1054: Update the worker failure handling around
`_persist_failure_diagnostics` to retain diagnostic records from every failed
worker instead of overwriting one shared snapshot. Aggregate the worker records
before persisting the final diagnostics, preserving timeout attribution
alongside assertion failures.
- Around line 1960-1963: Update the failure-diagnostics flow around
load_failure_diagnostics so the existing snapshot is used only when it belongs
to the current run; otherwise clear or ignore it before deriving stage and kind.
Ensure a later assertion failure cannot inherit a previous run’s watchdog
classification or details.
- Line 1034: Update the diagnostics artifact construction for the worker-crash
path so it does not copy report["detail"], which may contain raw exception
messages. Store a bounded error category instead and preserve the existing
worker metadata.
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Allowlist privacy-reviewed `.tests/` artifact files, keep stage on watchdog reports, aggregate parallel worker failures, drop exception detail from snapshots, clear stale diagnostics at run start, and record full-gate hard timeouts for CI upload. Co-authored-by: Nikola Perović <Fooftilly@users.noreply.github.com>
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In @tests/e2e/run.py:
- Around line 1998-2000: Update the diagnostics finalization flow in the test
runner so it runs after _run_pointer_capture(), preserving the failure snapshot
when pointer capture fails. Include its nonzero result when determining
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- Line 1150: Add the actively attributed test ID from _hang_attribution to
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| "kind": primary.get("kind") or "failure", | ||
| "failed_ids": list(failed_ids), |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Retain the test ID when a worker dies without a report.
If a worker dies during an active test before writing its report, _hang_attribution supplies the test ID to worker_failure_records, but failed_ids remains empty. This snapshot then reports no failed IDs, and the last-failed merge cannot retain the interrupted test for an individual rerun. Add an actively attributed crash ID to the run's failed IDs before persisting the snapshot and merging last-failed history. As per path instructions, “failures must remain visible.”
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In @tests/e2e/run.py at line 1150, Add the actively attributed test ID from
_hang_attribution to failed_ids before persisting the run snapshot and merging
last-failed history, so worker crashes without a report remain eligible for
individual reruns.
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| # Machine-readable hang/failure snapshot for CI artifacts. | ||
| # Watchdog / parallel paths already wrote; refresh last-failed attach | ||
| # and fill serial assertion gaps without inventing a prior-run kind. |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Finalize diagnostics after pointer capture.
If the E2E tests pass but _run_pointer_capture() fails, this block has already cleared the failure snapshot. run_exit_code correctly fails the run, but the run leaves no failure-diagnostics artifact. Finalize the snapshot after pointer capture and record its nonzero result.
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In @tests/e2e/run.py around lines 1998 - 2000, Update the diagnostics
finalization flow in the test runner so it runs after _run_pointer_capture(),
preserving the failure snapshot when pointer capture fails. Include its nonzero
result when determining run_exit_code.
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Summary
PR A from the post-#231 E2E/CI trio (artifacts + hang watchdog only — not B/C).
Baseline:
master@0240d8b(ahead of cited427df86). Tip:70cb3bd..tests/CI upload —include-hidden-files: trueon pinnedactions/upload-artifact@ea165f8…(v4.6.2). Uploads only allowlisted privacy-reviewed files (.tests/e2e-failure-diagnostics.json,.tests/e2e-last-failed.json)..tests/e2e-failure-diagnostics.json: stuck/failed id, last lifecycle stage (retained on watchdog reports), aggregated parallel worker records, last-failed snapshot, full-gate hard-timeout snapshot. No exception/str(exc)detail; no Playwright traces/screenshots; clears stale diagnostics at run start and on success (including benchmark success).TEST_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT_S = 120. Override/0disable, stage attribution, process-tree cleanup unchanged; no automatic retry.Validation
python run_tests.py) — PASS (2721 tests) on1d87e041d87e041d87e04(python tests/e2e/run.py --jobs 4; 741 tests, 0 failures, ~12.3 min; pointer capture PASS)70cb3bd: unit + hang selfcheck PASS; CI re-runningTip-clear (review)
Addressed CodeRabbit/Qodo/Codex: artifact allowlist, stage on watchdog report, parallel worker aggregation, no exception detail in snapshots, clear stale at start / benchmark success, full-gate timeout diagnostics write.
Non-goals
No retries/sleeps/timeout inflation elsewhere; no assertion-timeout changes; no mega-combine with PR B (#189) or PR C (#69).
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