Engineering Council Test Reliability Report

Scope aligned with Slack channel #dezvoltare, covering 2026-07-18 07:00 to 2026-07-26 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

8
Daily Runs
0/8
Daily Green
13m 54s
Avg Daily Runtime
12
Smoke Attempts
12/12
Smoke Green
4m 17s
Avg Smoke Runtime
4m 26s
Median Smoke Time
0
Current Green Streak

Executive Analysis

Bottom line: the regression system is informative but not calm. The data suggest repeatable problem areas rather than random breakage, which means focused ownership should move the needle quickly.

What Matters

  • Daily regression passed 0 of 8 runs (0.0%), with a current green streak of 0 and a best streak of 0 in this window. The latest daily run (164723) failed, so the system is ending the week under tension rather than in a clean state.
  • Smoke passed 12 of 12 attempts (100.0%) across 9 production pipelines.
  • Failure concentration is not random: Billing has the highest strict failure ratio at 4.85%, while Billing has the broadest non-pass footprint at 35.92%.
  • Frontend is the weakest smoke surface in this window at 9/9 green (100.0%).
  • Daily-suite runtime averaged 13m 54s, while observed daily test volume moved from 1,500 to 1,503.

Engineering Analysis

  • The failure profile is concentrated enough to act on. Billing and Billing are carrying the strongest signal, which means reliability work should be assigned by category ownership instead of treating the suite as one undifferentiated problem.
  • The broader daily suite is carrying more instability than smoke, which usually means product regressions are escaping into wider coverage areas even when the narrow deploy gate looks acceptable.

Recommended Actions

  • Assign one owner to Billing 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 Frontend 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 Status0000107-1807-2007-2207-2407-25
Daily Smoke Attempts0123407-1807-2007-2207-2407-25
Daily Average Daily Suite Runtime13m 21s13m 39s13m 58s14m 16s14m 34s07-1807-2007-2207-2407-25
Daily Average Smoke Runtime0m 00s1m 09s2m 19s3m 28s4m 38s07-1807-2007-2207-2407-25
Daily Suite Total Test Growth (Recent 8 Runs)1500150015011502150307-1807-2007-2207-2407-25
Smoke Suite Total Test Growth (Latest Run Per Day)
FrontendUniversity
60728597110Frontend 07-20: 110Frontend 07-21: 110Frontend 07-23: 110Frontend 07-24: 110University 07-21: 60University 07-23: 6007-2007-2107-2307-24

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
Billing10305032004.85%35.92%4
Web62246000.10%0.10%3
Frontend253617000.67%0.67%6
Library6880000.00%0.00%0
University240000.00%0.00%0
Subscriptions80000.00%0.00%0
Admission13520000.00%0.00%0
Social1440000.00%0.00%0
CatFailF%NP%Tot
Billing
Pend 320Skip 0Runs 4
50
4.85%
35.92%
1030
Web
Pend 0Skip 0Runs 3
6
0.10%
0.10%
6224
Frontend
Pend 0Skip 0Runs 6
17
0.67%
0.67%
2536
Library
Pend 0Skip 0Runs 0
0
0.00%
0.00%
688
University
Pend 0Skip 0Runs 0
0
0.00%
0.00%
24
Subscriptions
Pend 0Skip 0Runs 0
0
0.00%
0.00%
8
Admission
Pend 0Skip 0Runs 0
0
0.00%
0.00%
1352
Social
Pend 0Skip 0Runs 0
0
0.00%
0.00%
144

Recent Runs

Recent Daily Suite Runs

DatePipelineSuitesStatusSummary
2026-07-18 18:16164205BillingWebFrontendLibraryUniversitySubscriptionsAdmissionSocialFAILEDTotal 1500 | Passed 1457 | Failed 3 | Pending 40
2026-07-19 18:17164207BillingWebFrontendLibraryUniversitySubscriptionsAdmissionSocialFAILEDTotal 1500 | Passed 1457 | Failed 3 | Pending 40
2026-07-20 18:17164282BillingWebFrontendLibraryUniversitySubscriptionsAdmissionSocialFAILEDTotal 1500 | Passed 1458 | Failed 2 | Pending 40
2026-07-21 18:17164356BillingWebFrontendLibraryUniversitySubscriptionsAdmissionSocialFAILEDTotal 1500 | Passed 1452 | Failed 8 | Pending 40
2026-07-22 18:16164489BillingWebFrontendLibraryUniversitySubscriptionsAdmissionSocialFAILEDTotal 1500 | Passed 1433 | Failed 27 | Pending 40
2026-07-23 18:17164569BillingWebFrontendLibraryUniversitySubscriptionsAdmissionSocialFAILEDTotal 1500 | Passed 1433 | Failed 27 | Pending 40
2026-07-24 18:17164721BillingWebFrontendLibraryUniversitySubscriptionsAdmissionSocialFAILEDTotal 1503 | Passed 1462 | Failed 1 | Pending 40
2026-07-25 18:17164723BillingWebFrontendLibraryUniversitySubscriptionsAdmissionSocialFAILEDTotal 1503 | Passed 1461 | Failed 2 | Pending 40
2026-07-18 18:16Pipeline 164205BillingWebFrontendLibraryUniversitySubscriptionsAdmissionSocial
FAILED
T 1500 | P 1457 | F 3 | Pend 40
2026-07-19 18:17Pipeline 164207BillingWebFrontendLibraryUniversitySubscriptionsAdmissionSocial
FAILED
T 1500 | P 1457 | F 3 | Pend 40
2026-07-20 18:17Pipeline 164282BillingWebFrontendLibraryUniversitySubscriptionsAdmissionSocial
FAILED
T 1500 | P 1458 | F 2 | Pend 40
2026-07-21 18:17Pipeline 164356BillingWebFrontendLibraryUniversitySubscriptionsAdmissionSocial
FAILED
T 1500 | P 1452 | F 8 | Pend 40
2026-07-22 18:16Pipeline 164489BillingWebFrontendLibraryUniversitySubscriptionsAdmissionSocial
FAILED
T 1500 | P 1433 | F 27 | Pend 40
2026-07-23 18:17Pipeline 164569BillingWebFrontendLibraryUniversitySubscriptionsAdmissionSocial
FAILED
T 1500 | P 1433 | F 27 | Pend 40
2026-07-24 18:17Pipeline 164721BillingWebFrontendLibraryUniversitySubscriptionsAdmissionSocial
FAILED
T 1503 | P 1462 | F 1 | Pend 40
2026-07-25 18:17Pipeline 164723BillingWebFrontendLibraryUniversitySubscriptionsAdmissionSocial
FAILED
T 1503 | P 1461 | F 2 | Pend 40

Recent Smoke Attempts

DateSuitePipelineJobStatusPassedFailedDuration
2026-07-20 11:59Frontend164260Frontend smokePASSED11004m 36s
2026-07-20 14:48Frontend164274Frontend smokePASSED11004m 28s
2026-07-20 15:39Frontend164278Frontend smokePASSED11004m 49s
2026-07-21 15:13University164339University smokePASSED6003m 45s
2026-07-21 15:16Frontend164339Frontend smokePASSED11004m 24s
2026-07-21 18:35Frontend164360Frontend smokePASSED11004m 41s
2026-07-21 18:43University164360University smokePASSED6003m 31s
2026-07-23 22:05Frontend164591Frontend smokePASSED11004m 12s
2026-07-23 22:19University164591University smokePASSED6003m 34s
2026-07-24 10:08Frontend164607Frontend smokePASSED11004m 30s
2026-07-24 14:59Frontend164681Frontend smokePASSED11004m 17s
2026-07-24 16:26Frontend164710Frontend smokePASSED11004m 33s

Smoke Suite Breakdown

Frontend
9 attempts across 9 pipelines
100% green
Passed9
Failed0
Incomplete0
Avg runtime4m 30s
Median passing runtime4m 30s
Pipelines9
University
3 attempts across 3 pipelines
100% green
Passed3
Failed0
Incomplete0
Avg runtime3m 37s
Median passing runtime3m 34s
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.