Run the test suite in parallel and gate on the combined coverage - #971
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Each of these passes today for a reason that a parallel run takes away. all_examples_spool indexed the example files where pooch downloaded them, so every worker wrote one index file at once. It now links them into a directory of its own, which is also why the stale-index retry can go. test_sourceless_callable relied on eval'd source being unreadable, but an xdist worker's bootstrap leaves "<string>" in the linecache and then it is readable; compile it under a filename nothing will ever hold instead, and assert the source digest is None rather than that a digest exists. test_concurrent_open covered the schema re-check only when a thread lost the creation race. Holding the write lock until every opener has read a schema-less database makes exactly one of them win.
Every CI cell ran the suite in one process with coverage's C tracer. It now runs under xdist with coverage's sys.monitoring core, which together cut the ubuntu cell from around seven minutes to around three. -n logical, not -n auto: xdist's auto asks psutil for physical cores, which is 2 on the SMT-enabled runners, where logical gives all four. Coverage goes to a data file rather than xml, one per cell, for the combine step the next commit adds; [tool.coverage.paths] is what makes three operating systems' files name the same lines. Also drops -s, which nothing captured, and the exit-132 tolerance from #312: under xdist a worker dying of SIGILL surfaces as exit 1, and pytables, which caused it, is no longer a dependency. The generated docs tests and the doctests say the same thing on every cell and cost minutes, so one cell in each workflow runs them.
There is no coverage gate on a pull request today: since #967 cut the PR matrix to five cells, six uploads reach codecov against an after_n_builds of seven, so codecov has posted nothing on a PR since. Nothing enforced the 100% the contributing docs ask for. A new coverage_gate job downloads every cell's data file, combines it, and fails under 100%. It has to be the combined data: a handful of lines are reachable only on a case-insensitive filesystem, and the generated docs tests now run on one cell. codecov keeps its second opinion, from one unittests upload and one network upload, so after_n_builds is 2. get_coverage.yml went with it. It ran the whole suite serially on every master push for a third upload the same run already produces. The conda job installs dascore with --no-deps and runs pip check instead of the full suite. It ran every test to prove environment.yml solves, which the uv matrix already covers, and it could not have caught what it was for: pip filled in the required packages environment.yml is missing (array-api-compat, universal_pathlib, pyyaml, rich), which are added here.
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When the Ubuntu network tests fail—a condition this report-only job explicitly permits—the preceding failed step causes this plain if condition to skip coverage xml. The following Codecov step deliberately runs under !cancelled(), but ./coverage.xml does not exist, so the configured second upload never arrives and codecov.yml cannot reach its new after_n_builds: 2 threshold for that run. Use a failure-tolerant status condition here so partial network coverage is still uploaded.
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Fixed in 4ac5928 — the step is now if: ${{ matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest' && !cancelled() }}, matching the upload step under it.
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In @.github/test_code.sh:
- Around line 21-23: Update the doctest branch in the test script so the args
assigned for dascore --doctest-modules also include the existing cov_args array,
ensuring doctest execution collects coverage for the uploaded combined coverage
report.
- Around line 12-14: Add psutil to the test dependency configuration used by
both Python 3.12 test matrices, either through the pytest-xdist[psutil] extra or
as an explicit dependency, and ensure the workflow install steps include it so
the parallel setting in test_code.sh works.
In `@pyproject.toml`:
- Around line 283-291: Update the [tool.coverage.run] configuration to add
source = ["dascore"], and change the pytest-cov invocation from valued --cov
dascore to bare --cov so pytest-cov uses the configured source.
In `@tests/test_io/test_index/test_schema.py`:
- Around line 112-120: Replace the fixed time.sleep delay in the concurrent
open_index test with deterministic synchronization: instrument _begin or the
equivalent initialization seam, track each worker reaching BEGIN IMMEDIATE, and
release gate only after all four workers have reported readiness. Preserve the
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| with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=4) as pool: | ||
| versions = list(pool.map(open_index, range(4))) | ||
| futures = [pool.submit(open_index, num) for num in range(4)] | ||
| ready.wait(timeout=60) | ||
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| # them that before the lock they are queueing for is released. | ||
| time.sleep(0.05) | ||
| gate.execute("ROLLBACK") | ||
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| versions = [future.result() for future in futures] |
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Replace the timing wait with a deterministic readiness check.
The 50 ms delay does not prove that every worker reached BEGIN IMMEDIATE. A worker can start after gate is rolled back, observe the initialized schema, and bypass the concurrent re-check branch. Instrument _begin or an equivalent initialization seam, and release gate only after all workers report reaching it.
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In `@tests/test_io/test_index/test_schema.py` around lines 112 - 120, Replace the
fixed time.sleep delay in the concurrent open_index test with deterministic
synchronization: instrument _begin or the equivalent initialization seam, track
each worker reaching BEGIN IMMEDIATE, and release gate only after all four
workers have reported readiness. Preserve the existing rollback, gate cleanup,
and future-result assertions.
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The barrier is the readiness check: each opener reads sqlite_master itself and asserts it is empty before it waits, so no worker passes the barrier without having seen a schema-less database while the gate held the write lock. The sleep only covers the microseconds between that read and the backend's own BEGIN IMMEDIATE, and four openers would all have to be descheduled through it for the branch to go uncovered — the moment one is queued on the lock, it loses the race and takes the re-check. Instrumenting _begin would mean patching a private method of the code under test, which is the direction this test suite is moving away from. Covered on 15 of 15 local runs and on every cell of this PR's coverage_gate.
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@d-chambers, the barrier confirms that every worker observed the schema-less database before the gate release.
It does not confirm that a worker reached get_backend(path) or queued at its initialization BEGIN IMMEDIATE before the release. A worker can pass ready.wait() and be descheduled until after another worker initializes the schema. In that case, the worker bypasses the concurrent re-check branch.
The 50 ms sleep makes this outcome unlikely, and the coverage results provide useful empirical evidence. The test still depends on scheduling for the branch guarantee. The finding remains valid.
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The xml step carried only a matrix condition, so GitHub added an implicit success() and skipped it whenever the network tests failed -- which they are allowed to do. codecov then waited forever for the second of the two uploads it counts. Found in review.
Emscripten raises pathlib's UnsupportedOperation, a NotImplementedError rather than an OSError, so the hard-link attempt escaped the fallback and the WASM suite errored on the fixture.
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CI runs the test suite one process at a time, with coverage's C tracer, on every cell — and then does not gate on the result. This is the first PR of the test-suite reformation plan: it changes how the suite is run, not which tests exist, so the timing comparison against run 32477456516 is clean. A follow-up PR does the test-side work (fewer tests, faster ones).
Three things happen here.
The suite runs in parallel.
-n logical --dist loadfilewithCOVERAGE_CORE=sysmon.-n logical, not-n auto: when psutil is importable — it is, in the CI env — xdist'sautoasks for physical cores, which is 2 on the SMT-enabled runners, wherelogicalgives all 4 (3 on macOS). sysmon costs ~1.11× the no-coverage runtime against the C tracer's ~1.67×; it needs Python ≥ 3.12 (#970, merged) and does not support branch coverage, which is off. Each cell logs its logical and physical cpu count once so the next person can check the assumption.Coverage is gated, on the combined data. There is no gate today: since #967 cut the PR matrix to five cells, a PR produces six uploads against codecov's
after_n_builds: 7, so codecov has posted nocodecov/projectorcodecov/patchcheck-run on any PR since (#967, #968, #969 have none). The 100% the contributing docs ask for was not enforced anywhere.Each cell now uploads its
.coverage.<os>-<py>as an artifact, and a newcoverage_gatejob combines them and runscoverage report --fail-under=100. It has to be the combined data rather than any one cell — measured under these exact flags,dascore/core/annotations.py:2284(acontinuefor two spellings of one file, which only a case-insensitive filesystem produces) is covered on macOS and Windows only, and the generated docs examples now run on one cell. A local Linux-only run reports exactly that one line missing and nothing else, which is the note now in the testing docs. codecov keeps its second opinion — oneunittestsupload from the gate, onenetworkupload from ubuntu, soafter_n_buildsis 2 — but the blocking check iscoverage_gate.get_coverage.ymlis deleted: it ran the whole suite serially on every master push for a thirdunittestsupload that the same push's run already produces, and it would have broken the new upload count.The conda job proves what it is for. It ran the full suite to check that
environment.ymlstill solves. The uv matrix already runs every test, and the job could not have caught the thing it exists for: it installed with pip's resolver, so pip quietly filled in the four required packagesenvironment.ymlis missing (array-api-compat,universal_pathlib,pyyaml,rich). It now installs--no-deps, runspip check, and runs a small read-a-file subset; the missing packages are added toenvironment.yml, along with floors that matchpyproject.toml(pydantic>2.1,matplotlib>=3.10,pint>=0.24.4).Three tests needed real changes to survive a parallel run, one commit of its own:
all_examples_spoolcalled.update()on the pooch download cache, so every worker wrote one index file at once — the only cross-worker write in the suite. It now hard-links the files into a directory of its own.test_sourceless_callableasserted throughinspect.getsourcefailing on aneval'd lambda, but an xdist worker's execnet bootstrap leaves a<string>entry in thelinecacheand the source becomes readable, soserialize.py:520-524went uncovered. It now compiles under a filename nothing holds and asserts the source digest isNone.test_concurrent_openreached the index schema re-check (backend.py:303-306) only when a thread happened to lose the creation race. It now holds the write lock until every opener has read a schema-less database, so exactly one wins; covered on 15 of 15 runs.Expected effect
Measured on this PR's run against #970's, same five cells:
Roughly 62-69 test-minutes per PR down to about 30. WASM (5:51, untouched) is now the wall-clock critical path. Locally the full suite is 66 s wall under these flags against 202 s serial.
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devhas no branch protection (gh api .../branches/dev/protection→ 404) andmasterrequires a review and zero status checks, so nothing here is merge-blocking until a ruleset requirescoverage_gate, thetest_codecells,lint_code, andtest_code_min_deps. Worth doing the day this merges.Verified locally
pytest tests -m "not network" -n logical --dist loadfile --cov dascorewith the docs tests generated: 12,311 passed, 121 skipped, 2 xfailed, 66 s; onlyannotations.py:2284missing.-n 4 --dist load: same counts, 84 s.-m network -n logical: 115 passed.coverage combineof a Linux data file with fabricated Windows-path ones (dascore\core\patch.py,D:\a\dascore\dascore\dascore\core\spool.py) merges them onto the Linux paths, so[tool.coverage.paths]does what the gate needs.pre-commit run --fileson every changed file, including actionlint and zizmor.Untested locally: the conda job (no local conda stack) —
pip checkmay turn up an unrelated conda-side conflict, in which case it comes back out. Free-threaded + xdist is also new; if it misbehaves that job goes back to serial.Changelog
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