Engineering Council Test Reliability Report

Scope aligned with Slack channel #dezvoltare, covering 2026-08-15 07:00 to 2026-08-22 07:00. 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

7
Daily Runs
0/7
Daily Green
16m 59s
Avg Daily Runtime
7
Smoke Attempts
6/7
Smoke Green
5m 43s
Avg Smoke Runtime
4m 19s
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 7 runs (0.0%), with a current green streak of 0 and a best streak of 0 in this window. The latest daily run (167452) failed, so the system is ending the week under tension rather than in a clean state. 7 failed run(s) never reached complete daily-suite counts, which points to some infrastructure or setup noise mixed into the product signal.
  • Smoke passed 6 of 7 attempts (85.7%) across 4 production pipelines. 1 pipeline(s) recovered on rerun, which is useful for continuity but also a sign that first-pass deploy signal is noisier than it should be.
  • Failure concentration is not random: Billing has the highest strict failure ratio at 3.03%, while Billing has the broadest non-pass footprint at 8.90%.
  • University is the weakest smoke surface in this window at 2/3 green (66.7%).
  • Daily-suite runtime averaged 16m 59s.

Engineering Analysis

  • A release gate should fail loudly for product regressions and quietly for infrastructure noise. Rerun recoveries plus incomplete daily or smoke attempts suggest those two failure modes are still partially mixed together.
  • 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

  • Split incomplete execution failures from real assertion failures in the report narrative. Setup breakage should stay visible, but it should not look identical to a product regression in the executive readout.
  • 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 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 Status0000108-1508-1708-1908-21
Daily Smoke Attempts0012308-1508-1708-1908-21
Daily Average Daily Suite Runtime14m 50s16m 10s17m 30s18m 50s20m 10s08-1508-1708-1908-21
Daily Average Smoke Runtime0m 00s1m 56s3m 53s5m 49s7m 45s08-1508-1708-1908-21
Daily Suite Total Test Growth (Recent 7 Runs)23223223223223308-1508-1708-1908-21
Smoke Suite Total Test Growth (Latest Run Per Day)
FrontendUniversity
60728597110Frontend 08-17: 110Frontend 08-20: 110Frontend 08-21: 110University 08-17: 60University 08-20: 60University 08-21: 6008-1708-2008-21

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
Billing1022310603.03%8.90%6
Web00000.00%0.00%7
Frontend00000.00%0.00%7
Library6023070.50%1.66%2
CatFailF%NP%Tot
Billing
Pend 0Skip 60Runs 6
31
3.03%
8.90%
1022
Web
Pend 0Skip 0Runs 7
0
0.00%
0.00%
0
Frontend
Pend 0Skip 0Runs 7
0
0.00%
0.00%
0
Library
Pend 0Skip 7Runs 2
3
0.50%
1.66%
602

Recent Runs

Recent Daily Suite Runs

DatePipelineSuitesStatusSummary
2026-08-15 18:20166804BillingWebFrontendLibraryFAILEDTotal 232 | Passed 227 | Failed 5 | Incomplete suite counts
2026-08-16 18:18166806BillingWebFrontendLibraryFAILEDTotal 232 | Passed 228 | Failed 4 | Incomplete suite counts
2026-08-17 18:18166913BillingWebFrontendLibraryFAILEDTotal 232 | Passed 160 | Failed 11 | Incomplete suite counts
2026-08-18 18:20167033BillingWebFrontendLibraryFAILEDTotal 232 | Passed 227 | Failed 5 | Incomplete suite counts
2026-08-19 18:23167166BillingWebFrontendLibraryFAILEDTotal 232 | Passed 219 | Failed 7 | Incomplete suite counts
2026-08-20 18:21167326BillingWebFrontendLibraryFAILEDTotal 232 | Passed 230 | Failed 2 | Incomplete suite counts
2026-08-21 18:19167452BillingWebFrontendLibraryFAILEDTotal 232 | Passed 232 | Failed 0 | Incomplete suite counts
2026-08-15 18:20Pipeline 166804BillingWebFrontendLibrary
FAILED
T 232 | P 227 | F 5 | Pend 0 | Incomplete
2026-08-16 18:18Pipeline 166806BillingWebFrontendLibrary
FAILED
T 232 | P 228 | F 4 | Pend 0 | Incomplete
2026-08-17 18:18Pipeline 166913BillingWebFrontendLibrary
FAILED
T 232 | P 160 | F 11 | Pend 0 | Incomplete
2026-08-18 18:20Pipeline 167033BillingWebFrontendLibrary
FAILED
T 232 | P 227 | F 5 | Pend 0 | Incomplete
2026-08-19 18:23Pipeline 167166BillingWebFrontendLibrary
FAILED
T 232 | P 219 | F 7 | Pend 0 | Incomplete
2026-08-20 18:21Pipeline 167326BillingWebFrontendLibrary
FAILED
T 232 | P 230 | F 2 | Pend 0 | Incomplete
2026-08-21 18:19Pipeline 167452BillingWebFrontendLibrary
FAILED
T 232 | P 232 | F 0 | Pend 0 | Incomplete

Recent Smoke Attempts

DateSuitePipelineJobStatusPassedFailedDuration
2026-08-17 13:46Frontend166821Frontend smokePASSED11004m 18s
2026-08-17 15:53Frontend166889Frontend smokePASSED11004m 25s
2026-08-17 16:02University166889University smokeFAILED263414m 32s
2026-08-20 17:23Frontend167319Frontend smokePASSED11004m 19s
2026-08-20 17:34University167319University smokePASSED6003m 40s
2026-08-21 15:33University167442University smokePASSED6003m 56s
2026-08-21 15:59Frontend167442Frontend smokePASSED11004m 49s

Smoke Suite Breakdown

Frontend
4 attempts across 4 pipelines
100% green
Passed4
Failed0
Incomplete0
Avg runtime4m 28s
Median passing runtime4m 22s
Pipelines4
University
3 attempts across 3 pipelines
67% green
Passed2
Failed1
Incomplete0
Avg runtime7m 23s
Median passing runtime3m 48s
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.