Group CI logs and surface failures on the default (non-bucketed) test run#14715
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Plans GitHub Actions log grouping for the default (non-bucketed) full test run, plus ::error annotations and GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY failure tables. Documents runner constraints (no nested groups, annotation caps, summary size limits), spike-verified marker placement in Deno's test output framing, phased implementation, invariants, and a verification plan. No behavior change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WFvZcK71eJ3gmmDT6RcFDd
…ping design The gate itself is applied on the built-version testing branch; this only retains the design doc's pointer to the follow-up plan that documents how the gate is eventually removed.
Review findings addressed: - Annotation cap was defined per process but GitHub's limit is per step; in bucket mode many run-tests.sh processes share one step. The harness now emits annotations only when it owns the step (default path), gated by QUARTO_TESTS_GHA_ORCHESTRATED (replacing QUARTO_TESTS_NO_LOG_GROUP, which also covers grouping); bucket mode keeps the YAML per-file errors, and the step summary is documented as the complete record in all modes. - Step-summary size budget is now stat-based on the shared summary file so it holds across processes within a step. - The lazy-vs-eager group closure choice is now explicit (lazy chosen), invariant 3 is scoped to harness-registered tests, and the eager fallback is defined next to the policy instead of as an aside. - The julia-engine env-strip-list sync gains a mechanical drift check: a quarto-cli unit test comparing kStripEnvVars with the subtree helper after the pull, added to the follow-up procedure and acceptance. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WFvZcK71eJ3gmmDT6RcFDd
The workflow-command toolkit in github.ts (error/escapeData/escapeProperty, group markers) was dead code for the test harness. Phase 1 of the CI test-log design (dev-docs/ci-test-log-grouping-design.md) needs a few more primitives so the harness can surface test failures as annotations and a step-summary table: - stripAnsi: annotation and step-summary text do not render ANSI, so color codes from captured output must be removed first. - harnessOwnsStep: the harness emits per-test annotations only when no outer orchestrator (the bucket-loop YAML) has claimed the step; parameterized so unit tests need not mutate process-global env. - AnnotationBudget: GitHub silently drops past 10 errors per step, so cap at 9 per-test annotations plus one aggregate. - stepSummary/stepSummarySize + a 512 KiB budget: content near the 1 MiB per-step limit can be silently dropped, and bucket mode has many processes appending to one file, so the file size is the cross-process coordinator. - summary table/detail formatters: <pre> with HTML-escaped bodies so hostile test output cannot break out of the markdown table or a code fence. All gate on GITHUB_ACTIONS or take an injectable path, so nothing changes off CI. Unit tests cover the cap/aggregate counter, the ownership gate, ANSI stripping, the stat-based budget including the degrade path, and escaping of hostile test names.
Phase 1 of dev-docs/ci-test-log-grouping-design.md. On the default (non-bucketed) full run, one deno test process produces thousands of flat log lines with no ::error annotations and no step summary, so a failure is only findable by scrolling. The harness now, in its existing failure path and only when GITHUB_ACTIONS=true: - emits one ::error annotation per failed test (file + title + repro command and a 20-line ANSI-stripped excerpt), pointing at the smoke-all document when the failure is a doc test (the file a developer opens) rather than the harness .test.ts file; - appends a step-summary table row per failure — the complete failure record, emitted in every mode — with an expandable output block flushed after the rows (GFM ends a table at the first non-row line, so details cannot sit between rows) and degrading to name-only once the shared summary file crosses the size budget. Since one process is the whole step on this path, the module-level annotation budget is exactly a per-step budget. Annotations are gated on harness step ownership: the two bucket-loop steps in test-smokes.yml already emit their own per-file ::group and ::error, so they set QUARTO_TESTS_GHA_ORCHESTRATED and the harness suppresses annotations there (summary rows still emit). No ::group/::endgroup is emitted by the harness — that is Phase 2. Local output is byte-identical.
GFM ends a table at the first non-row line, so per-failure detail blocks cannot interleave with table rows; the implementation streams rows into one contiguous table and flushes buffered detail blocks plus the aggregate ::error at an unload listener. Update Phase 1 to describe the implemented shape and its accepted hard-crash caveat (rows are written at failure time, so the table stays the complete record). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WFvZcK71eJ3gmmDT6RcFDd
The bucketed CI runs got navigable logs by wrapping each file in a ::group:: at the workflow level (#13787/#13807), but the default non-bucketed run is one giant deno test whose thousands of flat lines have no structure. Have the harness itself open a group per test file so that path collapses the same per-test noise the bucket loop does. Grouping lives in a small state machine (gha-grouping.ts) so the single-open-group invariant — the GitHub runner cannot nest groups — is enforced and unit-testable in isolation. The harness opens/transitions the group at the start of each test's fn, closes it on the failure path before fail() throws (so the FAILED line and ::error land outside the collapsed group), and closes any open group at unload before the Phase 1 aggregate error and Deno's terminal ERRORS/FAILURES sections. Every emission is gated on harnessOwnsStep() (on CI, no outer orchestrator), the same ownership switch Phase 1 uses: local runs and orchestrated bucket runs stay byte-identical, so the #13807 bucket log format is untouched. Closure is lazy per file; direct Deno.test files are a documented exemption. Design and invariants: dev-docs/ci-test-log-grouping-design.md.
The per-file grouping depends on how Deno's test reporter frames output (markers replayed at column 0, unload flushing before the terminal sections) — behavior that can shift across Deno upgrades. This dev-only script reads a captured run log and mechanically asserts the invariants: no nested groups, markers at column 0, and no harness FAILED line or ERRORS/FAILURES header trapped inside a collapsed group. Run it after any Deno bump to catch reporter drift before it ships a broken log.
Status header now reflects the implemented state (Phase 3 optional, fork trial matrix still pending). The checker section documents that run-tests.ps1 must be invoked via pwsh -File with shell-level redirection: pwsh -Command with *> feeds the redirect into the script's arg parsing, blanking the file arguments and silently running the full suite. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WFvZcK71eJ3gmmDT6RcFDd
… annotation budget Review #1991: initDenoDom/prereq/chdir/setup ran after the per-file group opened but outside the guarded failure path, and teardown could throw after it — any of those failures left the FAILED result line inside a collapsed group. The whole test body is now wrapped in an outer catch that closes the group (idempotently) before rethrowing. Review #1986 (confirmed empirically on the pinned Deno 2.7.14): Deno instantiates each test file's module graph separately — module state resets per file and unload fires once per file — so the module-level annotation counter was a per-FILE budget, not per-step, and failures spanning >10 files would silently lose annotations. The budget now coordinates through a sidecar counter file derived from GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY (unique per step; no locking needed as files run sequentially without --parallel), and the aggregate ::error is emitted inline by the failure that crosses the cap (a per-file unload cannot know it is last). The same finding corrects the spike interpretation: the inter-file ::endgroup:: was the previous file's own unload, not a cross-file transition — grouping output is unchanged, and foreign (non-harness) test files now provably run with no group open. Design doc updated throughout; unit tests cover the new decision API and cross-instance coordination through a shared counter file. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WFvZcK71eJ3gmmDT6RcFDd
…tinel) The trial run (cderv/quarto-cli run 29767179626) failed 3 reporting unit tests that had passed locally: passing an explicit undefined for the injectable counter/summary/orchestrated parameters triggers the JS default parameter, which on CI resolves to the REAL per-step sidecar counter (already exhausted by earlier failures), the REAL GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY file (the test appended to the run's summary), and the REAL QUARTO_TESTS_GHA_ORCHESTRATED variable (set in bucket steps, so the gate tests would flip once these files run inside a CI bucket). AnnotationBudget, stepSummary, stepSummarySize, and harnessOwnsStep now take an explicit null sentinel meaning 'no file / treat as unset', resolved with === undefined checks so null survives; unit tests pass null. Everything else the trial exercised behaved as designed: 9+1 annotations from the step-wide budget across 12 failing files, zero harness annotations in orchestrated bucket runs, grouping invariants checker green on real CI logs from both OSes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WFvZcK71eJ3gmmDT6RcFDd
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The doc claimed every test-smokes-built.yml leg reaches the flat default path; only the smoke leg does (empty buckets). The playwright and ff-matrix legs pass non-empty buckets and take the already-grouped orchestrated loop, where the harness stays silent by design. Also flip the stale trial-has-not-run status, correct the file-origin mechanism to context.origin (not a captured stack), and fix two line/step-name citations (run-tests.sh deno test invocation, the Restore R packages grouping step).
The failure-detail blocks rendered as N indistinguishable <details><summary>output</summary> entries — with 36 real failures on run 29841891595 the summary page could not answer which block belongs to which test without expanding each one. The <summary> label now carries the test file and test name (both HTML-escaped; test names contain ">"). Verified: 9/9 unit tests in unit/github-actions-reporting.test.ts pass and test.ts + the unit file typecheck clean on the pinned Deno 2.7.14. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WFvZcK71eJ3gmmDT6RcFDd
Phase 2 opened each file's ::group:: inside the first test's body, so Deno's "running N tests from" header and the first test's announcement printed above the group -- several ungrouped lines per file. Open the group at module-eval (registration) time instead, from a stack walk that finds the registering .test.ts frame, so those reporter lines land inside the group. The body-time enterTestFileGroup(origin) stays as a self-correcting fallback: a missed or wrong stack guess is corrected when the first test runs, and a stack-parse failure behaves exactly as before. Opening is once-per-file via a module-level flag (per-file module instances), gated on harnessOwnsStep() so local and orchestrated (bucket) runs are unchanged.
The design doc described opening each file's group inside its first test's body (with Deno's "running N tests from" header shown above the group). Record the Phase 2.1 refinement: the group now opens at registration (module-eval) time via a stack walk, pulling that header and the first-test announcement inside the group. Notes the body-time open kept as a self-correcting fallback and the serial-registration (no --parallel) assumption it shares with Phase 2.
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A real 36-failures-per-job run exposed three weaknesses in the Phase 1-2 failure surfacing: the summary table had no way to reach its detail blocks; 28 of those 36 failures shared one identical error yet produced 28 duplicate blocks, burning the step-summary byte budget and the reader's attention; and each per-test annotation repeated the full repro+excerpt already shown in the summary on the same page. This adds a step-wide failure ordinal (reusing the existing sidecar counter) rendered as an OS-prefixed label (L-F7 / W-F7 / M-F7) in a new leading table column and as a label-only heading before each detail block, so a reader can jump row-to-block. Identical errors now cluster into one block keyed by the first three non-empty excerpt lines, with a member list and a single shared excerpt. Annotations are trimmed to the repro plus a five-line excerpt and a pointer back to the summary entry. Labels are plain text rather than in-page links: a verification run confirmed GitHub's step-summary renderer emits headings without slug anchors, so fragment links do not resolve there. The OS prefix keeps the label an unambiguous Ctrl+F target across the run page's concatenated per-job summaries. The ordinal is assigned to every CI failure (bucket-orchestrated rows need labels too); only the annotation emit/aggregate decisions stay gated on the harness owning the step, and the counter is a file write, so orchestrated-leg stdout is unchanged. Everything remains a no-op off CI.
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Phase 2.2 is on the branch now: the failure step summary is navigable and clustered, and the per-test annotations are trimmed. Each failure gets a step-wide OS-prefixed label ( Labels are plain text rather than in-page links: I checked on a real run and GitHub's step-summary renderer emits headings without slug anchors, so Verified on a fork run (https://github.com/cderv/quarto-cli/actions/runs/29934718951): three seeded failures (two sharing an error, one distinct) produced exactly one 2-member cluster plus one single block, strictly-increasing |
The built-version smoke leg stamps a build-metadata version (e.g. 1.10.15+test.<date>) that pandoc's Version type cannot parse, so init.lua's version() falls back to exposing quarto.version as a plain string. The version shortcode concatenated it as a table, which raises on a string argument and aborts the render: issue-12006.qmd and 13913.qmd (both using the version shortcode) produced no output on CI run https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/actions/runs/29995036875. tostring() yields the dotted form for the Version userdata and is the identity on the string fallback, so both build kinds render.
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Problem
The default (non-bucketed) test path runs one giant
deno testover every discovered file and emits no workflow commands, so the CI log is thousands of flat lines — finding a failure means scrolling or text search. This is the path the smoke leg oftest-smokes-built.ymlruns by default (emptybuckets); the playwright and ff-matrix legs pass a non-emptybuckets, so they already go through the per-file::group::bucket loop added by #13787 and #13807. Those PRs grouped only the bucket loops (one file perrun-tests.shinvocation) — the default path was left flat, and no per-test::errorannotation or step-summary table existed on either path.What it does
Per-test-file
::group::markers plus per-test::errorannotations on the default path, andGITHUB_STEP_SUMMARYfailure tables in every mode:QUARTO_TESTS_GHA_ORCHESTRATEDenv contract (set by the bucket loops) keeps the GHA TESTS - Improve logging to group in the right place #13807 bucket-log format byte-identical and doubles as a no-revert kill switch. Everything else gates onGITHUB_ACTIONS, so local output is byte-identical.tests/tools/check-gha-log.ts, a mechanical invariant checker to re-run on Deno version bumps (reporter framing is version-sensitive).Design of record (constraints, spike results, invariants, verification plan) lives in the branch at
dev-docs/ci-test-log-grouping-design.md.Evidence
Fork trial matrix with seeded failures, Linux + Windows:
Two real bugs the trial caught and fixed before this PR: Deno's per-file module instances invalidating a per-process budget, and explicit
undefinedargs triggering default parameters so unit tests touched the real CI counter/summary/env (null-sentinel fix).Notes
Note
Stacked on #14706; GitHub retargets this to
mainwhen it merges.Related but independent finding from the trial: #14711 (cold-cache renv deadlock).
A built-mode (source=build) confirmation run on this branch is linked in a follow-up comment.
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At-scale evidence (2026-07-22/23)
Run: full-serial dispatch of
test-smokes.ymlontest/gha-log-grouping@ 0476b33 (https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/actions/runs/29952972915), Linux + Windows, dev quarto. RED by design: 36 pre-existing order-dependent failures per OS (they pass in isolation; tracked separately) — used here as at-scale evidence for the failure-surfacing machinery.Grouping (Phases 2/2.1): full-log survey found zero invariant violations — groups balanced, never nested, one group per registering harness file, failures and the terminal ERRORS/FAILURES sections always outside groups. Registration-time open captures even heavy module-eval output (smoke-all's ~65 s of registration-phase project renders land inside its group). Expected in this log and out of scope for this PR: ~17 min of ungrouped output around
integration/playwright-tests.test.ts(rawDeno.test, bypasses the harness wrapper; no invariant violated; absent from the built workflow's per-leg structure, where playwright runs as its own leg), plus four other raw-Deno.testfiles (smoke/create/create.test.ts,smoke/logging/log-level-and-formats.test.ts, and the two CI-merged julia-engine subtree files) — a documented follow-up covers these.Failure surfacing (Phases 1/2.2) at scale, verified on both OS jobs:
L-F1..L-F36/W-F1..W-F36: ordinals strictly increasing, plain-text labels, every row carrying its own label and doc-path repro.L-Fn · <test>; bodies = doc-path repro + trimmed excerpt + "Full output: step summary → L-Fn" pointer; the aggregate points at the step summary for the complete list.Built-version run:
test-smokes-built.ymldispatch on the same head (https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/actions/runs/29995036875). Playwright leg GREEN as its own job (the structural fix for the serial run's ungrouped playwright stretch, visible in practice); ff-matrix leg red on a known pre-existing issue; smoke leg red with 8 failures — the summary machinery behaves identically to the dev run (strictly increasingL-F1..L-F8, per-signature clusters with member lists, doc-path repros), now demonstrated in binary mode. Notably, the dev run's 30-failure book-crossref family is entirely absent here: dev mode renders in-process (one Deno process for the whole suite) while binary mode spawns a fresh built quarto per render, so that family is a dev-serial-environment artifact users never see — the daily built structure is inherently free of it. Five listings failures reproduce from the dev run (a filesystem-level sibling-output dependency, separate triage); three failures are new in built mode (two missing-output, one pdf compile) and are being investigated as part of built-version testing, independent of this PR.