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fix: retain crash ids and pointer-capture diagnostics - #239

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Follow-up to merged #235. Two post-merge defects in E2E failure diagnostics, plus the review fixes below. This does not reopen or amend #235. Do not merge until review is clear.

A. Crash-attributed tests stay in last-failed

When a worker dies before writing a report, only the heartbeat's current test_id is added to run-level failed_ids (deduped) before diagnostics finalize and last-failed merge.

A cleared heartbeat (stopTest / pre-report clear_e2e_heartbeat) does not count. The worker log may still name a test that already passed; that line is diagnostic text only and is not stored as a failure. Intentionally cancelled --fail-fast siblings are not recorded as failed tests. The 120s watchdog is unchanged.

B. Pointer-capture failures keep a diagnostics snapshot

Local tests/e2e/run.py still finalizes diagnostics after the selected E2E tests and pointer capture. If tests pass and pointer capture fails, the file is:

{"kind":"pointer-capture","failed_ids":[],"watchdog":false,"pointer_capture_returncode":<actual>}

CI runs tests/browser/pointer_capture.py in e2e-pointer, not through main(). That job now calls the same persist_pointer_capture_failure writer and uploads .tests/e2e-failure-diagnostics.json on failure. No screenshots, traces, or library content.

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  • Focused runner/policy regressions: active-heartbeat crash is retained; heartbeat cleared after the test is not in failed_ids or last-failed; fail-fast siblings stay excluded; watchdog attribution still works; local pointer diagnostics; CI workflow writes and uploads the pointer snapshot
  • Invariants and the new-wait_for_timeout guard
  • Full E2E is the GitHub PRKS Full E2E Gate on this PR. No local full run.
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  • Bug Fixes
    • Failure reports more accurately identify tests associated with worker crashes and exclude tests stopped by fail-fast behavior.
    • Failure diagnostics are preserved when appropriate and cleared after successful runs, including benchmark runs.
    • Pointer-capture failures retain a privacy-safe record with relevant details; successful pointer capture clears stale diagnostics.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for crash attribution, fail-fast behavior, and diagnostics across successful and failed runs.

A worker that dies before writing a report now adds the heartbeat or log
test id to run-level failed_ids, so last-failed can rerun it. Cancelled
fail-fast siblings stay out of that set. Diagnostics finalize after
pointer capture; a pointer-only failure keeps a privacy-safe snapshot.

Co-authored-by: Nikola Perović <Fooftilly@users.noreply.github.com>
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The E2E runner now attributes worker crashes to the active heartbeat test when no failed test ID was reported. It finalizes diagnostics after optional pointer capture. Tests cover crash attribution, fail-fast cancellation, diagnostic retention, pointer-capture failures, and stale-diagnostic clearing.

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E2E failure handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Parallel failure attribution and cancellation
tests/e2e/run.py, tests/e2e/runner_selfcheck_cases.py, tests/test_e2e_sharding.py
The runner uses reported failed IDs or the active heartbeat test ID when recording worker failures. Tests cover crash attribution and verify that fail-fast-cancelled siblings are excluded from failed IDs.
Diagnostics finalization and policy coverage
tests/e2e/run.py, tests/test_e2e_policy.py, .github/workflows/e2e-gate.yml
The runner finalizes diagnostics after pointer capture. Tests cover failure retention, pointer-capture failure records, and clearing stale diagnostics. The workflow persists and uploads diagnostic artifacts on failure.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: cursoragent

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to faa09

The fail-fast regression test can pass without proving that its sibling was active when the failure occurred. This leaves a bounded test-confidence gap; the change is mergeable with follow-up.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to faa09

The new artifact contains a narrowly defined failure record, and the reviewed path does not show a new route for test output or application data into it. Some failure-state behavior and security coverage remain incompletely established.

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No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The newly published pointer-failure data is limited to CI artifact readers and the fixed failure metadata; the reviewed change does not establish a new production-service or tenant-data path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The pointer job has read-only repository permission and checks out without persisted credentials. Its artifact step names the diagnostics JSON rather than uploading the whole test directory.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The direct pointer helper reports persistence failure without raising; the CI upload step separately errors if its expected artifact file is absent. This preserves job failure signaling but does not guarantee a diagnostic snapshot after a write failure.
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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 40.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 35 functions across 4 files. (1 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely summarizes the two main changes: retaining crash IDs and preserving pointer-capture diagnostics.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Prks Engineering Invariants ✅ Passed No changed behavior conflicts with an applicable repository rule. The scoped E2E rules require isolated test state, no blanket retries, one pointer-capture run per gate, and privacy-safe diagnostics. …
Ui Design Contract ✅ Passed The PR changes only E2E runner code, tests, and the CI workflow. It does not change frontend files or introduce a user-visible interaction. The UI design contract is therefore not applicable.
Offline And Sync Coherence ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes E2E runner diagnostics, last-failed JSON, and CI artifact upload only. It does not change frontend offline storage, service-worker behavior, sync transport, or local-first product…
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Retain E2E crash IDs and pointer-capture diagnostics

🐞 Bug fix 🧪 Tests 🕐 20-40 Minutes

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• Retains crash-attributed test IDs for last-failed reruns.
• Finalizes diagnostics after pointer capture and records privacy-safe pointer-only failures.
• Adds regressions for crashes, fail-fast cancellation, watchdog behavior, and diagnostics cleanup.
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graph TD
  T["E2E tests"] --> O{"Tests pass?"}
  O -- "No" --> A["Failure attribution"] --> F["Failed IDs"] --> L["Last failed"]
  O -- "Yes" --> P["Pointer capture"] --> D["Diagnostics finalizer"] --> S["Diagnostics JSON"]
  F --> D
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The targeted approach is appropriate for this follow-up: it reuses existing attribution and persistence mechanisms, centralizes end-of-run diagnostics finalization, and avoids a broader runner-result refactor. A unified structured result object was considered but would increase scope and regression risk without improving these focused fixes.

Files changed (4) +374 / -50

Bug fix (1) +99 / -49
run.pyRetain crash attribution and finalize diagnostics after pointer capture +99/-49

Retain crash attribution and finalize diagnostics after pointer capture

• Adds heartbeat/log-attributed crash IDs to run-level failures so last-failed history can rerun them, while excluding intentionally cancelled fail-fast siblings. Centralizes diagnostics finalization after pointer capture, preserving E2E snapshots, writing a minimal pointer-only failure record, or clearing stale state after success.

tests/e2e/run.py

Tests (3) +275 / -1
runner_selfcheck_cases.pyAdd coordinated fail-fast sibling self-check cases +23/-0

Add coordinated fail-fast sibling self-check cases

• Adds paired self-check tests where one worker remains active until another fails. A sentinel coordinates execution so sharding tests can verify that fail-fast cancellation does not classify the stopped sibling as failed.

tests/e2e/runner_selfcheck_cases.py

test_e2e_policy.pyCover crash retention and pointer diagnostics outcomes +184/-0

Cover crash retention and pointer diagnostics outcomes

• Adds an end-to-end runner regression proving crash-attributed IDs reach last-failed history and diagnostics. Covers pointer success, pointer failure, E2E failure preservation, and disabled pointer capture, including exact privacy-safe payload expectations.

tests/test_e2e_policy.py

test_e2e_sharding.pyVerify parallel crash attribution and fail-fast exclusion +68/-1

Verify parallel crash attribution and fail-fast exclusion

• Strengthens failed-ID assertions and verifies a worker crash without a report contributes exactly one attributed ID. Adds coverage ensuring fail-fast cancellation excludes the active sibling from run-level failures.

tests/test_e2e_sharding.py

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In @tests/e2e/run.py:
- Around line 1138-1139: Use the heartbeat’s current test_id, not the
log-fallback ID from _hang_attribution(), when populating failed_ids and
record_failed in run_worker’s failure handling. Keep the fallback ID for
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deadline = time.time() + 15
while time.time() < deadline and not os.path.exists(sentinel):
time.sleep(0.05)
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Require the sentinel before triggering the failure.

If the sentinel does not appear within 15 seconds, this case still fails deliberately. A sibling that starts just afterward can create the sentinel before the caller checks the file, so the test can pass without proving that the sibling was active at failure time. Assert that the sentinel exists immediately after the wait and before assertEqual. As per path instructions, “For assertions, ... prefer observable state over arbitrary sleeps.”

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In @tests/e2e/runner_selfcheck_cases.py around lines 63 - 66, After the sentinel
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Failure ids now come only from the heartbeat's current test id. The
worker log stays diagnostic text, so a finished test that dies before
its report is not rerun. The CI pointer job writes and uploads the same
privacy-safe snapshot the local finalizer uses.

Co-authored-by: Nikola Perović <Fooftilly@users.noreply.github.com>
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Fooftilly merged commit d923b18 into master Sep 26, 2026
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