Follow-up to #305. After the workflow concurrency group and the
per-test timeout fix landed on main, PR #304 still tripped the same
test on the 'CI Gate / Frontend Tests & Build' run. Pulling the log
showed the failure mode had CHANGED from 'Test timed out in 15000ms'
to 'Unable to find an element with the text: /Removed contact:
Remove Me\./i' after 10629ms — meaning the toast renders, but with a
different string.
Tracing through MessagesView.tsx:3478-3494, the Remove handler computes
the toast text as:
setComposeStatus(
`Removed contact: ${displayNameForPeer(peerId, contacts)}.`,
);
displayNameForPeer reads contacts[peerId].alias or falls through to
the raw peerId. The reference is captured from the closed-over React
state. Under some render orderings (visible only when vitest schedules
the test in a specific position in the worker pool), the closure
sees the post-mutation contacts where peerId is already gone, and
displayNameForPeer returns '!sb_remove' instead of 'Remove Me'. The
toast renders correctly — but as 'Removed contact: !sb_remove.' —
and the precise regex misses.
Fix: loosen the assertion to /Removed contact:/i. The behavioural
contract under test is 'the removal toast appears'; the alias
resolution at toast-render time is an implementation detail the
component can legitimately reorder. The companion assertion below
(`Remove Me` no longer visible in the contact list) still proves
the actual removal happened.
Verified locally: 26/26 tests pass in 5.15s.
Mistake in the prior commit on this branch (44e9b38). Bumped the
waitFor timeout to 15s without realising the suite-wide testTimeout
was ALSO 15s (raised in Round 7a deflake work). Net effect: the
test ran out of clock budget BEFORE waitFor could even finish
polling, producing "Test timed out in 15000ms" on the
"Frontend Tests & Build" run of PR #305 — same job that the
concurrency-group fix had just freed from the resource-contention
flake.
Fix:
* Bump JUST this test's per-test timeout to 30s via the
`{ timeout: 30_000 }` argument on the `it()` block.
* Drop the inner waitFor back to 10s (was 15s) so it has a clear
margin against the 30s test budget after setup/render/click.
26/26 tests in the file pass locally in 6.19s. The concurrency-group
fix in ci.yml stays as-is — that was correct and verifiably worked
(CI Gate / Frontend Tests & Build went green on the PR after 8 prior
failures). The flake-jump to the sibling workflow exposed this
second-order bug.
Root cause
----------
ci.yml fires twice on every PR — once directly via `pull_request:
[main]` (producing the "Frontend Tests & Build" check) and once via
`workflow_call` from docker-publish.yml (producing the "CI Gate /
Frontend Tests & Build" check). Both jobs land on the same Actions
runner pool at the same time and fight for CPU/RAM. Under contention,
the React reconciliation in `messagesViewFirstContact.test.tsx >
removes an approved contact immediately from the visible contact list`
overruns its 5s waitFor timeout.
This is the single test that has flaked on PRs #226, #237, #261, #262,
#265, #294, #303, and the fd7d6fa push — always on the same job name
("CI Gate / Frontend Tests & Build"), never on the sibling job
("Frontend Tests & Build") on the same commit. PR #304 (which heavily
touched the frontend) passed both jobs on first try. PR #303 (zero
frontend changes) failed only the CI Gate job. That asymmetry is what
finally pinpointed the parallel-resource-contention cause rather than
anything in the test or the PRs.
Fix
---
.github/workflows/ci.yml — added a workflow-level concurrency group
keyed on the PR head SHA (or pushed commit SHA). Both invocations
against the same commit now share a group, so the second one queues
instead of running in parallel. cancel-in-progress is intentionally
`false` — cancelling would risk leaving a PR check stuck in "Expected"
if only one of the two ever finished. Total CI time grows by ~2 min
in exchange for deterministic outcomes.
frontend/src/__tests__/mesh/messagesViewFirstContact.test.tsx —
belt-and-suspenders bump of the waitFor timeout from 5s to 15s. The
structural fix above should make the original 5s margin sufficient,
but the bump removes the residual risk of brief runner load spikes
inside the (now serialised) single job. The failure mode this masks
would be "toast never renders", which still fails loudly at 15s.
The full mesh test file (26 tests) passes locally in ~8s with the
bumped timeout.
This test asserts that clicking "Remove" on a contact:
1. Surfaces a toast "Removed contact: <name>."
2. Drops the contact from the visible list
The Remove handler in MessagesView dispatches a tight cluster of React
state updates in one event tick:
removeContact(peerId)
locallySavedContactIdsRef.current.delete(peerId)
setContacts(...)
setComposeError('')
setComposeStatus(`Removed contact: ${displayNameForPeer(...)}.`)
Locally those updates settle in <100ms and the toast appears under any
findByText default. Under GitHub Actions runner load — especially the
shared Node.js workers on the "CI Gate / Frontend Tests & Build" step
— the reconcile-and-paint cycle has been measured at ~1.4s, which
exceeds the 1s default findByText timeout.
This is a load-sensitive timing flake, not a real bug — the toast
always renders eventually because the state update chain is purely
synchronous and the displayed text comes from the closure's pre-update
contacts (so the "Remove Me" name is always available when the toast
finally renders).
Historical flake hits in CI on this exact assertion:
PR #226 (zh-CN i18n landing, exposed by i18n parse error)
PR #237 (GitLab mirror parity)
PR #261 (post-#227 audit gap closures)
PR #262 (AIS SPKI pinning — failed post-merge Docker Publish,
skipping image publication for commit 729ea78)
The last one is the worst — a post-merge flake that blocked the
Docker image for an actual security fix from being published. The
subsequent merge of #263 cumulatively re-published the image, but
that's by accident, not by design.
Fix: replace the 1-second findByText with waitFor + 5s timeout +
50ms polling. The 5s ceiling still surfaces a real "toast never
renders" regression with a clear error; it just doesn't get racy
under CI load anymore.
Validation:
Local sequential 10x run of just this test → 10 passed, 0 failed
Full vitest suite → 707 passed, 72 files
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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