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The bug

EduIDE/EduIDE-deployment/.github/workflows/deploy-e2e.yml ends its pipeline with:

e2e:
  needs: deploy
  uses: EduIDE/theia-scale-tests/.github/workflows/functional-tests.yml@main
  with:
    environment: e2e.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de
  secrets:
    KEYCLOAK_USER: ${{ secrets.E2E_KEYCLOAK_USER }}
    KEYCLOAK_PWD: ${{ secrets.E2E_KEYCLOAK_PWD }}

functional-tests.yml on main declared only:

on:
  push:
    branches: [main, master]
  pull_request:
    branches: [main, master]

No workflow_call trigger, no inputs, no secret declarations. A uses: job pointing at a workflow that cannot be called fails while the run is being parsed, before any job is created.

That matches what Deploy e2e has been doing: it failed on every push run - 22:04, 22:54, 23:50 and 03:10 on 2026-08-27 - each time with no jobs listed. A failing test suite produces a failed job; an unparseable workflow produces no jobs at all.

What changed

.github/workflows/functional-tests.yml

  1. Added a workflow_call trigger declaring exactly what the caller sends: a required environment string input and required KEYCLOAK_USER / KEYCLOAK_PWD secrets. push and pull_request are untouched, so this repository's own CI keeps running as before.

  2. LANDINGPAGE_URL now comes from the input when called and from vars.LANDINGPAGE_URL otherwise:

    LANDINGPAGE_URL: ${{ inputs.environment && format('https://{0}', inputs.environment) || vars.LANDINGPAGE_URL }}

    The inputs context is empty for push / pull_request, so direct runs take the old path unchanged. vars in a called workflow resolves against the caller's repository, which is why the fallback alone would not have worked - EduIDE-deployment has no LANDINGPAGE_URL variable.

  3. ARTEMIS_USER / ARTEMIS_PWD are declared as optional secrets. A called workflow can only read secrets it declares, and the caller has no Artemis credentials. The functional project matches *.functional.spec.ts and *.ide.spec.ts only, so it never reaches the Artemis fixtures or tests/artemis/*.integration.spec.ts; leaving them empty for a called run is fine, and declaring them keeps direct runs identical.

  4. Checkout now names the repository explicitly. Inside a called workflow the github context describes the caller, so actions/checkout with no repository: would have cloned EduIDE-deployment and npm ci would have found no package.json. It uses GitHub's documented recipe for a reusable workflow checking out its own source, gated on the input so direct runs are byte-for-byte the old behaviour:

    repository: ${{ inputs.environment && job.workflow_repository || github.repository }}
    ref: ${{ inputs.environment && job.workflow_sha || github.sha }}

README.md documents the reusable entry point, the meaning of environment, and the optional Artemis secrets.

Why https://<environment> is the right URL

The Playwright suite consumes LANDINGPAGE_URL as a full base URL - playwright.config.ts feeds it to baseURL, fixtures/utils/global-setup.ts throws when it is unset, and fixtures/theia.fixture.ts navigates to it directly. So the hostname input has to be turned into a URL.

In EduIDE-deployment the landing page hostname is values.yaml's hosts.configuration.landing + "." + baseHost, and that equals the directory name under environments/ for all eight environments (e2e + eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de = e2e.eduide.student.k8s.aet.cit.tum.de, and so on). deploy.yml builds its own deployment URL the same way: echo "url=https://${{ steps.env.outputs.landing }}".

Caller / callee contract, checked field by field

caller sends callee declares
inputs environment environment (string, required)
secrets KEYCLOAK_USER, KEYCLOAK_PWD KEYCLOAK_USER (required), KEYCLOAK_PWD (required), ARTEMIS_USER (optional), ARTEMIS_PWD (optional)

Every required input and secret is supplied, and the caller sends nothing the callee does not declare. Verified by reading both files with yq rather than by eye.

Validation

actionlint 1.7.12 reports three things, all reviewed:

  • label "e2e-test" is unknown - pre-existing, and the self-hosted runner label is deliberately unchanged. actionlint cannot know custom labels without an actionlint.yaml.
  • property "workflow_repository" / "workflow_sha" is not defined in object type for the job context - actionlint's context model has not caught up. Both are documented job context properties and GitHub's docs use exactly this pair as the example of a reusable workflow checking out its own code.

No other findings. The secret-related errors actionlint raised on an earlier draft (undeclared ARTEMIS_* in a workflow with an explicit secrets: block) are what led to declaring them as optional.

Not verified here

runs-on: [self-hosted, e2e-test] means this PR's own functional run needs the self-hosted runner. The cross-repo call itself can only be proven by a Deploy e2e run in EduIDE-deployment after this merges.

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  • New Features

    • Functional tests can now be triggered as a reusable workflow from another repository.
    • Supports configuring the target environment and required authentication secrets, with optional Artemis credentials and URL settings.
    • Test runs now use hosted runners for improved consistency.
    • Existing push and pull-request test runs continue to use their current configuration.
  • Documentation

    • Added setup instructions and an example for calling the reusable workflow from another repository.

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The functional test workflow now supports reusable calls from another repository. Called runs accept deployment and credential inputs, derive target URLs, and check out the workflow repository and commit. Direct runs retain their existing behavior. The README documents this interface.

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Reusable functional workflow

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Reusable workflow contract and URL selection
.github/workflows/functional-tests.yml
The workflow accepts the required environment input and Keycloak secrets, plus optional Artemis inputs and secrets. Called runs derive LANDINGPAGE_URL and can override ARTEMIS_URL. The job uses ubuntu-latest.
Repository checkout and caller documentation
.github/workflows/functional-tests.yml, README.md
Called runs check out job.workflow_repository at job.workflow_sha. Direct runs retain the existing checkout. The README documents invocation, URL fallback behavior, secrets, runner usage, and trigger behavior.

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This change enables cross-repository functional-test execution and explicitly checks out the workflow source. If the calling repository cannot grant the required read access, the test job may fail before tests run; the PR is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner awareness of this bounded permission risk.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant DeploymentWorkflow
  participant FunctionalTestsWorkflow
  participant GitHubRepository
  participant FunctionalSuite

  DeploymentWorkflow->>FunctionalTestsWorkflow: Pass environment and credentials
  FunctionalTestsWorkflow->>FunctionalTestsWorkflow: Resolve LANDINGPAGE_URL and ARTEMIS_URL
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147-150: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Pin the reusable workflow to an immutable revision.

The caller uses functional-tests.yml@main and passes Keycloak credentials to the reusable workflow. Changes to main can therefore alter the workflow executed with those credentials without a caller-repository review. Replace @main with a reviewed full commit SHA when reproducibility and supply-chain control are required.

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In `@README.md` around lines 147 - 150, Update the e2e reusable workflow reference
to replace the mutable `@main` revision with a reviewed full commit SHA, while
preserving the existing functional-tests.yml workflow and credential wiring.

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In @.github/workflows/functional-tests.yml:
- Around line 55-58: Update the actions/checkout@v4 step to accept a
reusable-workflow secret containing a read-only PAT or GitHub App token and pass
that secret via the checkout token input when checking out
job.workflow_repository, while preserving the existing repository and ref
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In `@README.md`:
- Around line 147-150: Update the e2e reusable workflow reference to replace the
mutable `@main` revision with a reviewed full commit SHA, while preserving the
existing functional-tests.yml workflow and credential wiring.
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Comment thread .github/workflows/functional-tests.yml
EduIDE-deployment's deploy-e2e.yml calls this workflow with an
`environment` input and KEYCLOAK_USER / KEYCLOAK_PWD secrets, but the
workflow declared only push and pull_request triggers. A call into a
workflow with no workflow_call trigger fails while the run is being
parsed, so every Deploy e2e run went red with no jobs listed at all.

Add the workflow_call trigger with the input and secrets the caller
actually sends, and derive LANDINGPAGE_URL from the input when called,
falling back to vars.LANDINGPAGE_URL for this repository's own runs.
In EduIDE-deployment the environment name under environments/ is the
landing page hostname for every environment, so https://<environment>
is the URL the Playwright suite expects.

Checkout has to name the repository as well: inside a called workflow
the github context describes the caller, so a bare checkout would clone
EduIDE-deployment and there would be no test suite on disk.

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@coderabbitai Both findings assessed.

1. "Provide a token for private called-repository checkout" (Major, inline) - declined. EduIDE/theia-scale-tests is public (gh repo view --json visibility returns PUBLIC), so the caller's GITHUB_TOKEN reads it fine and no PAT is needed. Details on the thread.

2. "Pin the reusable workflow to an immutable revision" (Nitpick, README 147-150) - valid point, wrong repository. The @main reference lives in EduIDE/EduIDE-deployment/.github/workflows/deploy-e2e.yml. The README block is a verbatim quote of that caller so readers can see the contract; pinning the quote here would only make the documentation disagree with the code it describes, and would not change what actually runs. The supply-chain concern is real and belongs in EduIDE-deployment, where pinning also has a cost worth weighing: a SHA pin means every fix to this suite needs a matching PR in the deployment repo before the e2e gate picks it up.

Also worth recording for anyone reading the checks: the artillery failure on the first push was /home/node/artillery/bin/run: not found from the artilleryio/action-cli@v1 image, unrelated to this PR - it failed the same way on main at ed9a4ed and 029fba7. #39 landed on main a minute after this PR opened and fixes it, so the branch is now rebased onto e5193a8.

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@Mtze, thanks for the detailed assessment.

The token finding does not apply while EduIDE/theia-scale-tests is public. The caller GITHUB_TOKEN has the required read access.

The immutable-reference finding belongs in EduIDE/EduIDE-deployment/.github/workflows/deploy-e2e.yml. The README example must match that caller workflow. Changing only the README would not improve the supply-chain control.

The reported Artillery failure is a pre-existing failure. It is unrelated to this PR and is addressed by #39.

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Learnt from: Mtze
URL: https://github.com/EduIDE/theia-scale-tests/pull/41

Timestamp: 2026-08-28T12:19:41.837Z
Learning: `EduIDE/theia-scale-tests` is public. A reusable workflow called from another repository can check out this repository with the caller-provided `GITHUB_TOKEN`; it does not require a separate PAT for read access while the repository remains public.

Learnt from: Mtze
URL: https://github.com/EduIDE/theia-scale-tests/pull/41

Timestamp: 2026-08-28T12:19:41.837Z
Learning: In `EduIDE/theia-scale-tests`, the reusable-workflow example in `README.md` intentionally reproduces the caller configuration in `EduIDE/EduIDE-deployment/.github/workflows/deploy-e2e.yml`. Any decision to replace that caller's `main` reference with an immutable revision must be made and implemented in `EduIDE-deployment`, not by changing this documentation alone.

Learnt from: Mtze
URL: https://github.com/EduIDE/theia-scale-tests/pull/41

Timestamp: 2026-08-28T12:19:41.837Z
Learning: The `/home/node/artillery/bin/run: not found` failure from `artilleryio/action-cliv1` occurred on `EduIDE/theia-scale-tests` `main` before PR `#41`. It was unrelated to PR `#41` and was fixed by PR `#39`.

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CI status after the rebase onto e5193a8:

Check Result
Analyze (actions) pass
Analyze (javascript-typescript) pass
CodeQL pass
artillery pass
dependency-review pass
auto-assign pass
CodeRabbit pass
test (Functional Theia Tests) queued
test (Artemis Integration Tests) queued

The two test jobs cannot run: they need runs-on: [self-hosted, e2e-test] and no runner has picked one up. This is not caused by this PR - every Functional Theia Tests run since 2026-08-27 15:19 is still queued, including plain pushes to main (029fba7, ed9a4ed, e5193a8) and PRs that touch no workflow file at all. I do not have permission to list the org's runners (403), so I cannot confirm from here whether the runner is offline or just unregistered, only that it has taken no job for over a day.

That also means this PR's own functional run cannot demonstrate the fix. What it does demonstrate is the parse: the workflow now has a workflow_call trigger, so a run gets created at all. Proving the cross-repo call end to end needs a Deploy e2e run in EduIDE-deployment after this merges - and that run needs the same runner.

`runs-on: [self-hosted, e2e-test]` matched no registered runner, so every run
since 2026-08-27 15:13 sat queued - nine of them, including plain pushes to main
on workflows nobody had touched. The repository has no self-hosted runners of
its own, and the only ones in the organisation are two ARC scale sets on the
student cluster (`arc-buildkit-*-stud-amd64`). An ARC scale-set runner is
addressed by its scale set name and never carries the `self-hosted` label, so
that label combination cannot ever match.

`ubuntu-latest` is enough: the environments under test are reachable from the
public internet, which Let's Encrypt proves every time it validates their
certificates over HTTP-01, so the suite needs no cluster access.

`ARTEMIS_URL` is now an optional `artemis_url` input, because different
environments front different Artemis instances and the caller is the only thing
that knows which. It falls back to the repository variable when the workflow is
triggered directly, so existing behaviour is unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019qeiQRFu8xAMRYWPdZewjG
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