core/conftest.py
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test: fast/slow/full lanes via central slow registry in conftest (#786)
A handful of soak / bench / replay / proof / eval-matrix tests dominate the
suite wall-clock (~50 tests ≈ the entire 73-min serial runtime; the other ~10k
are near-instant). Classify them so developers can run a fast lane locally.

Mechanism — central registry in conftest.py beside QUARANTINE (cost is empirical
test-infra metadata, not test semantics, so it lives in one auditable place, not
as decorators across ~24 files). Marker-only: it stamps `slow`, it NEVER skips,
so `-m slow` SELECTS the slow tests.

- SLOW_FILES (10): whole-file, where a module/session fixture carries the cost
  (marking one test would just shift the fixture cost to the next requester).
- SLOW_TESTS (26 nodeids): mixed files, so the file's fast predicate/unit tests
  stay in the fast lane.
- pytest_collection_modifyitems stamps `slow`; marker registered in pyproject.
  912 of 10,596 tests classified (801 = test_cognition_eval_register_matrix
  eval-matrix; called out in docs — honest accounting).

Lanes (Makefile + docs/testing-lanes.md):
  fast: pytest -m "not quarantine and not slow"
  slow: pytest -m "slow and not quarantine"
  full: pytest -m "not quarantine"        (unchanged — what CI runs)

CI is unaffected: smoke.yml and full-pytest.yml run `-m "not quarantine"`, which
still includes the slow tests. No CI behavior change; no test logic touched (the
change cannot alter pass/fail in the full lane — it only adds a marker).

Timings (10-core, numpy): full 73min serial / 25min -n auto; fast ~26min serial
/ 9.5min -n auto (7.7x combined). The 975s test_inner_loop_phase2 outlier was
probed (expected proof-scale work, not a bug; finding in docs). Deferred to
follow-up PRs: -n auto by default (needs xdist hermeticity — fresh-env-dict
subprocess + report.json/proposals writers race under parallel workers) and a
warm-runtime fixture for the remaining 1-15s ChatRuntime tail.
2026-06-15 17:30:50 -07:00

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"""Project-root conftest — quarantine registry for known-failing tests.
The QUARANTINE set lists test IDs that are pre-existing failures
predating the substrate-liveness audit work (verified via bisect
against c1a1b7a, the commit immediately before the first W-* PR
of 2026-05-24). The CI gate at .github/workflows/full-pytest.yml
runs ``pytest -m "not quarantine"`` so these failures do not block
PRs, but the suite is a ratchet: a quarantined test removed from
this set must pass on its own merits.
See docs/test-debt-quarantine.md for cluster diagnoses, removal
policy, and the per-test rationale.
To remove a test from quarantine:
1. Land a PR that makes the test pass.
2. Delete its entry from QUARANTINE in the same PR.
3. The full-pytest CI gate will now require it to keep passing.
Adding a test to QUARANTINE is strongly discouraged. If a new
failure surfaces, the right default is to fix it in the PR that
caused it — not to quarantine. The set should only shrink.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import pytest
import engine_state
_USES_DEFAULT_ENGINE_STATE_MARKER = "uses_default_engine_state"
@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
def _isolate_engine_state_default(request, tmp_path_factory, monkeypatch):
"""Isolate the default engine-state checkpoint dir per test.
A bare ``ChatRuntime()`` (no ``engine_state_path``) falls back to
``engine_state._DEFAULT_DIR`` — the shared repo ``engine_state/`` directory.
Tests must not share that mutable dir: one test's checkpoint (recognizers,
candidates, the stamped engine-identity, and — under resume mode — the lived
session_state) leaks into another test's fresh-state assumptions (and, since
L11, raises spurious identity-continuity-break warnings when a later test
boots under a different identity over the same dir). Point the default at a
fresh per-test temp dir. Tests passing an explicit ``engine_state_path`` are
unaffected; within one test, repeated ``ChatRuntime()`` share this dir.
Two redirections, both pointed at the same per-test dir:
1. ``engine_state._DEFAULT_DIR`` is monkeypatched directly. It is bound at
import (``engine_state/__init__.py``), so an env var alone would NOT
redirect an already-imported in-process runtime.
2. ``CORE_ENGINE_STATE_DIR`` is set in the environment so subprocess / CLI
tests that re-import ``engine_state`` in a child process inherit the same
isolation. A child that sets its own ``CORE_ENGINE_STATE_DIR`` (e.g.
``tests/test_l10_always_on_daemon.py::test_real_sigterm_stops_the_daemon_cleanly``)
still overrides this and wins.
A test that intentionally exercises the real process-default dir (default-dir
semantics, CLI fallback, legacy-flat migration) can opt out with
``@pytest.mark.uses_default_engine_state``; it then sees neither redirection.
"""
if request.node.get_closest_marker(_USES_DEFAULT_ENGINE_STATE_MARKER):
return
isolated = tmp_path_factory.mktemp("engine_state_default")
monkeypatch.setattr(engine_state, "_DEFAULT_DIR", isolated)
monkeypatch.setenv("CORE_ENGINE_STATE_DIR", str(isolated))
QUARANTINE: frozenset[str] = frozenset()
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Slow-test registry — empirical test-infrastructure metadata, NOT test
# semantics, so it lives here beside QUARANTINE in one auditable place rather
# than as @pytest.mark.slow decorators spread across ~24 files.
#
# A handful of soak / bench / replay / proof / eval-matrix tests dominate the
# suite wall-clock: ~50 tests account for essentially the entire serial runtime
# (~73 min), while the other ~10k tests are near-instant. Classifying them lets
# a developer run a fast lane locally. Classification adds the ``slow`` marker
# ONLY — it never skips — so ``-m slow`` SELECTS these tests. Choose a lane:
#
# fast lane: pytest -m "not quarantine and not slow" (make test-fast)
# slow lane: pytest -m "slow and not quarantine" (make test-slow)
# full lane: pytest -m "not quarantine" (make test-full; CI)
#
# CI is unchanged: smoke.yml and full-pytest.yml run ``-m "not quarantine"``,
# which still includes slow tests. See docs/testing-lanes.md.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Whole-file: the cost is carried by a module/session-scoped fixture, so marking
# individual tests is insufficient — skipping one just shifts the fixture cost to
# the next test that requests it. The whole file is classified slow.
SLOW_FILES: frozenset[str] = frozenset({
"tests/test_inner_loop_phase2.py", # module fixture run_lane(): 9 cases x 4 conditions x 5-rerun determinism (~975s)
"tests/test_cognition_eval_register_matrix.py", # module fixtures: full register x invariant eval matrix
"tests/test_articulation_bench.py", # module fixture: articulation bench corpus
"tests/test_register_invariant_grounding.py", # module fixtures: per-register runtime grounding
"tests/test_public_showcase.py", # module fixture: full showcase execution
"tests/test_conversation_demo.py", # module fixture: multi-turn demo run
"tests/test_edge_budget_gate.py", # module fixture: per-turn checkpoint cost soak
"tests/test_phase5_corpus.py", # module fixtures: replay-determinism corpus
"tests/test_realizer_guard_holdout.py", # module fixture: holdout-cluster run
"tests/test_teaching_loop_bench.py", # module fixture: teaching-loop determinism bench
})
# Exact nodeids: mixed files where only specific tests are soak/bench scale.
# Listed individually so the file's fast (predicate / unit) coverage stays in the
# fast lane. No scoped fixture carries the cost in these files, so per-test
# classification does not shift cost to a sibling.
SLOW_TESTS: frozenset[str] = frozenset({
# test_l10_continuity.py — real-soak predicates among 28 mostly-fast tests
"tests/test_l10_continuity.py::test_p1_closure_holds_on_real_soak",
"tests/test_l10_continuity.py::test_p2a_determinism_holds_across_independent_runtimes",
"tests/test_l10_continuity.py::test_p2b_pre_reboot_invariant_holds_on_real_soak",
"tests/test_l10_continuity.py::test_p2b_reboot_is_transparent",
"tests/test_l10_continuity.py::test_p4_recovery_is_deterministic_across_orphan_crash",
"tests/test_l10_continuity.py::test_p5c_coherence_holds_over_multiple_corpus_cycles",
"tests/test_l10_continuity.py::test_report_panel_passes_and_records_not_covered",
# test_l10_arbitrary_interruption.py — partial/full generation interruption soak
"tests/test_l10_arbitrary_interruption.py::test_p4_arbitrary_interruption_full_gen_before_swap_holds",
"tests/test_l10_arbitrary_interruption.py::test_p4_arbitrary_interruption_partial_gen_holds",
# test_register_tour_demo.py — per-register tour runs (5 fast structural tests remain)
"tests/test_register_tour_demo.py::test_tour_grounding_sources_identical_across_registers",
"tests/test_register_tour_demo.py::test_tour_returns_structured_report",
"tests/test_register_tour_demo.py::test_tour_terse_substantively_differs_from_neutral",
"tests/test_register_tour_demo.py::test_tour_trace_hashes_identical_across_registers",
# test_register_firing_diagnostic.py — multi-register marker-engagement report
"tests/test_register_firing_diagnostic.py::test_build_report_records_marker_engagement_for_register_subset",
# test_operator_calibration_replay.py — replay/calibration proof tests
"tests/test_operator_calibration_replay.py::TestCalibrationRejectsInvariantRegression::test_versor_closure_must_not_regress",
"tests/test_operator_calibration_replay.py::TestCalibrationReportHasBeforeAfterMetrics::test_calibrate_returns_result",
# test_pack_measurements_phase2.py — falsifiability lane (ALSO run by CI smoke via
# -m "not quarantine", which does not exclude slow; classifying it is safe)
"tests/test_pack_measurements_phase2.py::TestRefusalCalibrationPackRunner::test_grounding_gate_is_pack_invariant",
"tests/test_pack_measurements_phase2.py::TestRefusalCalibrationPackRunner::test_no_fabrication_under_any_pack",
"tests/test_pack_measurements_phase2.py::TestRefusalCalibrationPackRunner::test_report_schema_is_stable",
# test_thread_context.py — eviction-over-capacity soak (19 fast tests remain)
"tests/test_thread_context.py::test_runtime_default_capacity_evicts_old_turns",
# test_correction_telemetry.py — cross-run determinism (6 fast tests remain)
"tests/test_correction_telemetry.py::test_correction_event_is_deterministic_across_runs",
# test_cold_start_grounding_lane.py — distribution lane (15 fast tests remain)
"tests/test_cold_start_grounding_lane.py::TestPassThresholds::test_distributions_match_expected",
# test_engine_state_session_persistence.py — reboot/restore soak (4 fast tests remain)
"tests/test_engine_state_session_persistence.py::test_chat_runtime_restores_lived_state_across_reboot",
"tests/test_engine_state_session_persistence.py::test_no_load_state_runtime_starts_fresh",
# test_cli_demo.py — combined-run demo subprocess (16 lighter demo tests remain)
"tests/test_cli_demo.py::TestDemoPreambles::test_all_preamble_explains_combined_run",
# test_identity_continuity_proof.py — byte-identical resumed-life proof
"tests/test_identity_continuity_proof.py::test_resumed_life_is_byte_identical_and_same_identity",
# test_warmed_session_lane.py — pipeline-override gate invariant
"tests/test_warmed_session_lane.py::TestPipelineOverrideGateInvariants::test_no_placeholder_rate_is_one",
})
def _is_slow(nodeid: str) -> bool:
"""True if ``nodeid`` is classified slow by the SLOW_FILES / SLOW_TESTS registry.
``nodeid`` is expected pre-normalized to forward slashes (the caller does this
once). Splitting on ``"::"`` yields exactly the file path, so the whole-file
check is an O(1) set lookup with no substring-prefix edge cases (e.g.
``..._phase2.py`` can never match ``..._phase2_extra.py``). Exact-nodeid
match handles mixed files.
"""
if nodeid in SLOW_TESTS:
return True
file_path = nodeid.split("::", 1)[0]
return file_path in SLOW_FILES
def pytest_collection_modifyitems(config, items):
"""Stamp the ``quarantine`` and ``slow`` markers from the conftest registries.
- QUARANTINE nodeids get ``quarantine`` (CI runs ``-m "not quarantine"``).
- SLOW_FILES / SLOW_TESTS get ``slow`` — classification ONLY, never skipped
here, so ``-m slow`` SELECTS them. Lanes are chosen explicitly:
fast: pytest -m "not quarantine and not slow"
slow: pytest -m "slow and not quarantine"
full: pytest -m "not quarantine"
"""
_ = config # pluggy hook signature requires the name `config`; not used here
quarantine_marker = pytest.mark.quarantine
slow_marker = pytest.mark.slow
for item in items:
# Normalize once: pytest nodeids are forward-slash, but normalize
# defensively so both registries match on Windows backslash nodeids too.
nodeid = item.nodeid.replace("\\", "/")
if nodeid in QUARANTINE:
item.add_marker(quarantine_marker)
if _is_slow(nodeid):
item.add_marker(slow_marker)