fix(ci): re-measure a line-only coverage shortfall before failing - #1890
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Line coverage is nondeterministic on CI. Two runs over byte-identical sources reported 81.82% and 76.47%, with 114 of 444 files differing on lines and zero differing on branches or functions, the same 5935 tests passing in both. The low run failed a floor the identical tree had cleared minutes earlier, which is how a release PR touching only version strings and docs came to fail CI. It does not reproduce locally. Eleven runs across Node 26 and CI's exact Node 22.23.2, at 24 cores and pinned to 4 with taskset, and at both default and serial test concurrency, all landed within 0.05 points. Serial execution produced identical numbers to parallel at 2.3x the wall time, so pinning concurrency buys nothing measurable. Since the trigger is unknown but the signature is specific, mitigate it narrowly instead of lowering the floor. `test:frontend:coverage` now runs through `scripts/coverage-check.mjs`, following the `audit-check.mjs` precedent of wrapping a tool that cannot express the policy we want. Node still enforces all three floors; the wrapper re-measures once when lines alone come up short with every test passing, and fails if the second run is short too. Branch and function shortfalls, and any test failure, fail immediately with no retry, so a real regression still fails fast and a line regression fails on the second run rather than being retried away. `classify()` is exported and covered by tests/coverage-check.test.ts: a retry that swallowed a genuine regression would be worse than the flake it works around, so which failures earn a second run is pinned by tests rather than trusted. Verified end to end with impossible floors: a line-only shortfall runs the suite twice and fails; a function shortfall runs it once and fails. CLAUDE.md documents the wrapper, and separately the denominator trap that caused the real regression in #1784, since "first test for a big module looks like a regression" will recur.
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participant FrontendScript
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participant NodeTestSuite
FrontendScript->>CoverageCheck: invoke coverage-check.mjs
CoverageCheck->>NodeTestSuite: run tests with coverage thresholds
NodeTestSuite-->>CoverageCheck: return status and coverage output
CoverageCheck->>CoverageCheck: classify the result
alt line coverage only is below threshold
CoverageCheck->>NodeTestSuite: run one retry
NodeTestSuite-->>CoverageCheck: return retry result
else other failure
CoverageCheck-->>FrontendScript: return failure status
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CoverageCheck-->>FrontendScript: return final status
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In `@scripts/coverage-check.mjs`:
- Around line 144-150: Update the second-run failure reporting around the
coverage-check message to classify second before constructing the error output.
Report whether the actual failure was line coverage, branch/function coverage,
test failure, or process error, and preserve the existing coverage details when
applicable without retrying.
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CLAUDE.mdpackage.jsonscripts/coverage-check.mjstests/coverage-check.test.ts
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| /** | ||
| * Run the suite once, echoing output as it is captured so the CI log reads | ||
| * exactly as it did before this wrapper existed. | ||
| */ | ||
| function runSuite() { | ||
| const result = spawnSync(process.execPath, args, { | ||
| encoding: "utf8", | ||
| maxBuffer: 256 * 1024 * 1024, | ||
| stdio: ["inherit", "pipe", "pipe"], | ||
| }); | ||
| const stdout = result.stdout ?? ""; | ||
| const stderr = result.stderr ?? ""; | ||
| process.stdout.write(stdout); | ||
| process.stderr.write(stderr); | ||
| return { status: result.status ?? 1, output: `${stdout}\n${stderr}` }; | ||
| } |
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The docstring says output is echoed "as it is captured so the CI log reads exactly as it did before this wrapper existed," but spawnSync is fully synchronous — it only returns once the child process has exited, and result.stdout/result.stderr are the complete buffers at that point. process.stdout.write(stdout) here happens after the whole ~20-100s suite run finishes, not incrementally. So the CI/terminal log will go silent for the full run and then dump everything at once (twice, in the retry case), rather than streaming live as before. That's a real UX regression from directly invoking node --test, and it contradicts the comment.
If live streaming matters, child_process.spawn (async) with a data listener that both re-emits to process.stdout/stderr and accumulates into a buffer for classify() would preserve both properties.
Confidence: medium-high (the streaming-behavior claim is correct for spawnSync; how much the loss of live output actually matters depends on the CI provider's tolerance for quiet steps).
| const secondLine = second.thresholds.find((entry) => entry.metric === "line"); | ||
| console.error( | ||
| `\ncoverage-check: line coverage was short twice in a row (${firstLine.actual}% then ` + | ||
| `${secondLine ? `${secondLine.actual}%` : "short again"}, floor ${firstLine.floor}%). ` + | ||
| "A real regression reproduces; this is one. Add tests or, if the drop is a module newly " + | ||
| "pulled into the report rather than code getting less tested, see the coverage notes in CLAUDE.md.", | ||
| ); |
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This final message unconditionally says "line coverage was short twice in a row," but nothing here checks that the second run's failure was actually a line-only shortfall. If the retry instead fails because a test flaked, a branch/function threshold now comes up short, or the process crashes, second.thresholds won't contain a "line" entry, secondLine is undefined, and the message still asserts "short again" and blames line coverage — even quoting firstLine.floor as if it applies. The exit code stays 1 either way (fail-safe), but the diagnostic actively misattributes the cause, which could send someone chasing the known #1889 flake when the real second-run failure is unrelated (e.g. an actual flaky test).
Consider checking second.failedTests > 0 / !second.lineOnly here and emitting the same test-failure / other-metric messages used for first above, rather than assuming the second failure mirrors the first.
Confidence: medium.
| export function classify({ status, output }) { | ||
| const failedTests = Number(/(?:^|[#ℹ]\s*)fail\s+(\d+)/m.exec(output)?.[1] ?? 0); | ||
| const thresholds = [ | ||
| ...output.matchAll( | ||
| /([\d.]+)% (line|branch|function) coverage does not meet threshold of ([\d.]+)%/g, | ||
| ), | ||
| ].map((match) => ({ actual: Number(match[1]), metric: match[2], floor: Number(match[3]) })); | ||
| return { | ||
| ok: status === 0, | ||
| failedTests, | ||
| thresholds, | ||
| // The one case worth a second measurement: the suite passed, and lines are | ||
| // the only floor that came up short. | ||
| lineOnly: | ||
| status !== 0 && | ||
| failedTests === 0 && | ||
| thresholds.length > 0 && | ||
| thresholds.every((entry) => entry.metric === "line"), | ||
| }; |
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classify() parses Node's --experimental-test-coverage failure text ("X% line coverage does not meet threshold of Y%") and TAP/spec fail N summary lines via regex against undocumented, internal test-runner output — not a stable, versioned API. tests/coverage-check.test.ts only exercises classify() against hand-written synthetic strings, never against real node --test output, so a future Node bump that reformats this message would go undetected: the regexes would stop matching, thresholds would stay [], lineOnly would always be false, and the whole point of this PR — retrying a line-only shortfall — would silently stop happening (the gate would still fail correctly on any real shortfall via Node's own exit code, so this wouldn't cause a false pass, just a silent regression back to pre-PR behavior).
This is the same category of risk CLAUDE.md already calls out for other unexported/internal shape mirrors (e.g. propertySpecFor, MAX_VECTOR_BYTES, MAP_PANEL_SELECTOR — "re-check whenever X is bumped"). Might be worth a similar note here (and/or a test that runs a tiny real node --test --experimental-test-coverage invocation and asserts classify() parses it) so a Node upgrade that changes this wording doesn't quietly disable the retry with no signal.
Confidence: low-medium (speculative about future Node changes, but the coupling and the test gap are real today).
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The first version of the wrapper captured the run with spawnSync and wrote it out afterwards, then called process.exit. `process.stdout` is asynchronous when it is a pipe, which is what CI gives it, so the exit discarded everything still queued: the CI run for this branch lost about 42,000 lines of test output and the entire coverage summary, cut off mid-line, while still reporting success. Redirecting to a file locally made stdout synchronous, which is why it passed here first. Stream the child's stdout and stderr through as they arrive, and return an exit code for the caller to assign to process.exitCode rather than calling process.exit anywhere, so Node exits only once the output has drained. Classification is unchanged; it reads the accumulated string either way. Verified with stdout on a pipe, the CI shape rather than the one that hid it: 45,384 lines through the wrapper ending in "end of coverage report" with the summary intact, against 2,044 truncated lines before. The retry paths still behave, checked with impossible floors: line-only short runs the suite twice and exits 1, function short runs it once and exits 1. Pins the regression at the source, since a truncated log looks green and no assertion downstream would notice.
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Pushed a follow-up commit fixing a bug in the wrapper that the first CI run exposed. The first version lost most of the CI log. It captured the run with About 42,000 lines of test output and the entire coverage summary were gone, and the step still exited 0. It passed locally first because redirecting to a file makes Fix: stream the child's stdout and stderr through as they arrive, and return an exit code the caller assigns to Verified with stdout on a pipe rather than the file redirect that hid it:
Retry paths re-checked against the rewritten async code with impossible floors: Also added a ninth test asserting the script never calls |
| /** | ||
| * Classify a run. The reporter prefixes summary lines with `#` (tap) or `ℹ` | ||
| * (spec) depending on whether stdout is a TTY, so both are accepted. |
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This comment (and the mirroring claim in tests/coverage-check.test.ts — "a developer running it locally sees ℹ") doesn't match what actually happens: runSuite spawns the test runner with stdio: ["inherit", "pipe", "pipe"] (line 70), so the child's own stdout/stderr are always pipes, never a TTY — regardless of whether the outer npm run test:frontend:coverage is invoked interactively. Node's default reporter selection checks process.stdout.isTTY in the child, so this wrapper will always get the #-prefixed tap reporter, never the ℹ-prefixed spec reporter, in CI or locally.
Functionally this is harmless — the regex accepts both prefixes, and TAP is arguably the better choice for machine parsing — but the ℹ branch is effectively dead code in real usage, and the comment/test both assert a code path that can't occur through this entrypoint. Worth updating the comment (and maybe simplifying the regex/tests) to reflect that the tap format is what this wrapper always sees, rather than implying it depends on the caller's terminal.
Confidence: medium-high (based on Node's documented default-reporter TTY check and standard child_process pipe semantics).
| } else if (first.thresholds.length > 0) { | ||
| const stable = first.thresholds | ||
| .filter((entry) => entry.metric !== "line") | ||
| .map((entry) => `${entry.metric} ${entry.actual}% < ${entry.floor}%`) | ||
| .join(", "); | ||
| console.error( | ||
| `\ncoverage-check: ${stable || "coverage"} below floor. Branch and function coverage are ` + | ||
| "reproducible run to run, so this is a real regression and is not retried.", | ||
| ); |
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When a run has a mix of a line shortfall plus a branch/function shortfall (the "does not retry when lines are short alongside another metric" case pinned in the test file), lineOnly is correctly false so this branch runs — but the stable message filters out every metric === "line" entry before printing. The synthesized coverage-check: summary line then only reports the branch/function shortfall and silently omits that line coverage also missed its floor, even though that's exactly the situation being reported as "not retried."
The raw Node output above still shows the real error text, so nothing is hidden from someone reading the full log, but this wrapper-level summary line becomes misleading on its own. Suggest dropping the line-only filter so the message reflects every metric that actually failed:
| } else if (first.thresholds.length > 0) { | |
| const stable = first.thresholds | |
| .filter((entry) => entry.metric !== "line") | |
| .map((entry) => `${entry.metric} ${entry.actual}% < ${entry.floor}%`) | |
| .join(", "); | |
| console.error( | |
| `\ncoverage-check: ${stable || "coverage"} below floor. Branch and function coverage are ` + | |
| "reproducible run to run, so this is a real regression and is not retried.", | |
| ); | |
| } else if (first.thresholds.length > 0) { | |
| const failing = first.thresholds | |
| .map((entry) => `${entry.metric} ${entry.actual}% < ${entry.floor}%`) | |
| .join(", "); | |
| console.error( | |
| `\ncoverage-check: ${failing} below floor. This combination is not retried.`, | |
| ); | |
| } |
Confidence: medium — it's a diagnostic-message accuracy issue, not a pass/fail correctness bug (exit code is still 1 either way).
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Fixes #1889.
The problem
Line coverage is nondeterministic on CI. Two runs over byte-identical sources:
mainpushSame 5935 tests, 1297 suites, 5934 pass, 0 fail, 1 skipped in both. Comparing the per-file tables by full path: 114 of 444 files differ on lines, zero differ on branches or functions, and no file entered or left the report. Swings are large, not rounding:
storymap-sample.ts99.21% to 34.65%,qml-import.ts97.53% to 48.48%.The practical result is that PR #1887, a release bump touching only version strings, docs, and lockfiles, failed a floor that the identical sources had cleared minutes earlier.
What I ruled out
Not reproducible locally, across 11 runs:
tasksetto match the runner: 82.84% twice--test-concurrencyvs--test-concurrency=1: identical numbers (82.80 / 84.46 / 72.94), at 107s serial vs 47s parallelSo pinning concurrency costs 2.3x wall time and buys nothing measurable, and I could not manufacture the collapse to verify a deterministic fix against it. Branch and function coverage have never varied in any observation, CI or local.
The fix
Mitigate narrowly rather than lower the floor.
test:frontend:coveragenow runs throughscripts/coverage-check.mjs, following thescripts/audit-check.mjsprecedent of wrapping a tool that cannot express the policy we need.Node still enforces all three floors. The wrapper only decides whether a failure deserves a second opinion:
A real line regression reproduces and so fails on the second run. Nothing is retried away, and the deterministic metrics keep failing fast.
Why the retry logic is tested
A retry that quietly swallowed a genuine regression would be worse than the flake it works around, so
classify()is exported and pinned bytests/coverage-check.test.ts(8 cases, including the exact output shape that reddened #1887 and the exact one from the #1784 function regression). It also covers theℹvs#reporter prefixes, since Node switches on whether stdout is a TTY.Verified end to end with impossible floors:
LINES=99: suite runs twice (34s), logs both readings, exits 1FUNCTIONS=99: suite runs once (18s), exits 1, no retryThe one path not exercised end to end is "retry recovers, exit 0", because I cannot reproduce the flake on demand. Its two components are covered separately: the retry executes (shown above) and
classify().okon a clean run is unit-tested.Also in CLAUDE.md
Documented the wrapper, and separately the denominator trap behind the #1784 regression: writing the first test for a large untested module reads as a coverage drop, because the module and everything it imports enter the denominator at once. The fix is to test against a leaf module (as #1888 did), not to lower a floor. That one will recur, so it is worth writing down.
If the retry starts firing regularly
It logs both numbers precisely so #1889 can accumulate evidence. Frequent retries are the signal to fix the measurement rather than widen the mitigation, and I have left #1889 open for that.
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