Engineering Council Test Reliability Report

Scope aligned with Slack channel #dezvoltare, covering 2026-05-02 07:00 to 2026-05-09 10:00. Metrics and timings are sourced from GitLab pipelines, jobs, and test-report artifacts for the daily 6 PM regression suite and the production smoke suite. Trend charts use daily buckets across this window.

Executive Snapshot

3
Daily Runs
2/3
Daily Green
22m 50s
Avg Daily Runtime
8
Smoke Attempts
3/8
Smoke Green
3m 38s
Avg Smoke Runtime
3m 39s
Median Smoke Time
1
Current Green Streak

Executive Analysis

Bottom line: release confidence is unstable in both the broad regression path and the deploy smoke path. The immediate job is to separate real product regressions from execution noise, then burn down the concentrated failure clusters.

What Matters

  • Daily regression passed 2 of 3 runs (66.7%), with a current green streak of 1 and a best streak of 1 in this window.
  • Smoke passed 3 of 8 attempts (37.5%) across 5 production pipelines.
  • Failure concentration is not random: Frontend has the highest strict failure ratio at 0.12%, while Frontend has the broadest non-pass footprint at 0.12%.
  • University is the weakest smoke surface in this window at 1/3 green (33.3%).
  • Daily-suite runtime averaged 22m 50s.

Engineering Analysis

  • The failure profile is concentrated enough to act on. Frontend and Frontend are carrying the strongest signal, which means reliability work should be assigned by category ownership instead of treating the suite as one undifferentiated problem.
  • Smoke is lagging the broader regression suite, so deploy readiness is probably being constrained more by environment/setup stability and narrow critical-path checks than by overall test volume.

Recommended Actions

  • Assign one owner to Frontend for the next cycle and expect a short written burn-down: top failing tests, suspected root causes, flake versus regression breakdown, and what gets fixed or quarantined first.
  • Treat the daily regression suite like an operations queue until it is calm again: triage failures after each red run, close known-noise items fast, and avoid letting multiple unrelated red signals pile up between runs.
  • Put University smoke under closer guardrails for the next release cycle. It is the best place to improve first-pass deploy confidence quickly.

Improvement Ideas

  • Introduce a small reliability budget for tests: every flaky or quarantined case needs an owner and an expiry, and the team should review that budget weekly the same way it reviews bugs or incidents.
  • Track first-fail to root-cause time as a core metric. Fast diagnosis is as important as raw pass rate because the practical value of a test gate depends on how quickly it helps the team recover.
  • Define a runtime budget per suite and require justification when test count or duration grows. Reliable feedback systems stay trusted when they remain both stable and proportionate.

Category Execution Ratios

How computed

Category total executions means the sum of that category's observed test executions across every daily-suite run in the selected window.

Strict Failure Ratio = failed executions for that category divided by total executions for that category across the window.

Non-pass Ratio = (failed + pending + skipped) executions for that category divided by total executions for that category across the window.

Example: if Billing executed 800 times across the week and 2 of those executions failed, Billing strict failure ratio is 0.25%. That does not mean 0.25% of pipelines failed; it means 0.25% of observed Billing executions ended in failed.

How computed

Category total executions means the sum of that category's observed test executions across every daily-suite run in the selected window.

Strict Failure Ratio = failed executions for that category divided by total executions for that category across the window.

Non-pass Ratio = (failed + pending + skipped) executions for that category divided by total executions for that category across the window.

Example: if Billing executed 800 times across the week and 2 of those executions failed, Billing strict failure ratio is 0.25%. That does not mean 0.25% of pipelines failed; it means 0.25% of observed Billing executions ended in failed.

Daily Daily Suite Status0000105-0205-0305-04
Daily Smoke Attempts0000005-0205-0305-04
Daily Average Daily Suite Runtime22m 23s22m 38s22m 54s23m 10s23m 26s05-0205-0305-04
Daily Average Smoke Runtime0m 00s0m 00s0m 00s0m 01s0m 01s05-0205-0305-04
Daily Suite Total Test Growth (Recent 3 Runs)1244124412441244124505-0205-0305-04
Smoke Suite Total Test Growth (Latest Run Per Day)
FrontendUniversity
60728597110Frontend 05-05: 110Frontend 05-07: 110University 05-05: 60University 05-07: 6005-0505-07

Category Aggregate Table

How computed

Category total executions means the sum of that category's observed test executions across every daily-suite run in the selected window.

Strict Failure Ratio = failed executions for that category divided by total executions for that category across the window.

Non-pass Ratio = (failed + pending + skipped) executions for that category divided by total executions for that category across the window.

Example: if Billing executed 800 times across the week and 2 of those executions failed, Billing strict failure ratio is 0.25%. That does not mean 0.25% of pipelines failed; it means 0.25% of observed Billing executions ended in failed.

How computed

Category total executions means the sum of that category's observed test executions across every daily-suite run in the selected window.

Strict Failure Ratio = failed executions for that category divided by total executions for that category across the window.

Non-pass Ratio = (failed + pending + skipped) executions for that category divided by total executions for that category across the window.

Example: if Billing executed 800 times across the week and 2 of those executions failed, Billing strict failure ratio is 0.25%. That does not mean 0.25% of pipelines failed; it means 0.25% of observed Billing executions ended in failed.

CategoryTotalFailedPendingSkippedFailure RatioNon-pass RatioRuns With Failures
Billing3240000.00%0.00%0
Web23400000.00%0.00%0
Frontend8101000.12%0.12%1
Library2580000.00%0.00%0
CatFailF%NP%Tot
Billing
Pend 0Skip 0Runs 0
0
0.00%
0.00%
324
Web
Pend 0Skip 0Runs 0
0
0.00%
0.00%
2340
Frontend
Pend 0Skip 0Runs 1
1
0.12%
0.12%
810
Library
Pend 0Skip 0Runs 0
0
0.00%
0.00%
258

Recent Runs

Recent Daily Suite Runs

DatePipelineSuitesStatusSummary
2026-05-02 18:25154322BillingWebFrontendLibraryPASSEDTotal 1244 | Passed 1244 | Failed 0
2026-05-03 18:25154324BillingWebFrontendLibraryFAILEDTotal 1244 | Passed 1243 | Failed 1
2026-05-04 18:26154462BillingWebFrontendLibraryPASSEDTotal 1244 | Passed 1244 | Failed 0
2026-05-02 18:25Pipeline 154322BillingWebFrontendLibrary
PASSED
T 1244 | P 1244 | F 0 | Pend 0
2026-05-03 18:25Pipeline 154324BillingWebFrontendLibrary
FAILED
T 1244 | P 1243 | F 1 | Pend 0
2026-05-04 18:26Pipeline 154462BillingWebFrontendLibrary
PASSED
T 1244 | P 1244 | F 0 | Pend 0

Recent Smoke Attempts

DateSuitePipelineJobStatusPassedFailedDuration
2026-05-05 16:13University154657University smokeFAILED5733m 54s
2026-05-05 16:16Frontend154657Frontend smokeFAILED10913m 32s
2026-05-05 17:09University154676University smokeFAILED5733m 43s
2026-05-05 17:12Frontend154676Frontend smokeFAILED10913m 51s
2026-05-05 18:29Frontend154686Frontend smokeFAILED10913m 29s
2026-05-05 19:34Frontend154691Frontend smokePASSED11003m 06s
2026-05-07 15:31University155030University smokePASSED6003m 39s
2026-05-07 15:34Frontend155030Frontend smokePASSED11003m 47s

Smoke Suite Breakdown

Frontend
5 attempts across 5 pipelines
40% green
Passed2
Failed3
Incomplete0
Avg runtime3m 33s
Median passing runtime3m 26s
Pipelines5
University
3 attempts across 3 pipelines
33% green
Passed1
Failed2
Incomplete0
Avg runtime3m 45s
Median passing runtime3m 39s
Pipelines3
Generated from GitLab project adservio/helm2. Times are shown in Europe/Bucharest. Daily-suite runtime is measured from GitLab pipeline and job timestamps. Category counts come from GitLab test-report JSON artifacts, with job-trace fallback when older artifacts have expired.