Engineering Council Test Reliability Report

Scope aligned with Slack channel #dezvoltare, covering 2026-09-26 07:00 to 2026-10-03 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
17m 49s
Avg Daily Runtime
25
Smoke Attempts
25/25
Smoke Green
4m 17s
Avg Smoke Runtime
4m 21s
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 (173550) 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 25 of 25 attempts (100.0%) across 18 production pipelines.
  • Failure concentration is not random: Billing has the highest strict failure ratio at 0.10%, while Billing has the broadest non-pass footprint at 0.10%.
  • Frontend is the weakest smoke surface in this window at 18/18 green (100.0%).
  • Daily-suite runtime averaged 17m 49s.

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 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 Status0000109-2609-2809-3010-02
Daily Smoke Attempts0135709-2609-2809-3010-02
Daily Average Daily Suite Runtime16m 07s16m 57s17m 47s18m 37s19m 27s09-2609-2809-3010-02
Daily Average Smoke Runtime0m 00s1m 12s2m 25s3m 37s4m 49s09-2609-2809-3010-02
Daily Suite Total Test Growth (Recent 7 Runs)23223223223223309-2609-2809-3010-02
Smoke Suite Total Test Growth (Latest Run Per Day)
FrontendUniversity
60728597110Frontend 09-27: 110Frontend 09-28: 110Frontend 09-29: 110Frontend 09-30: 110Frontend 10-01: 110Frontend 10-02: 110University 09-27: 60University 09-29: 60University 10-02: 6009-2709-2809-2909-3010-0110-02

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
Billing10221000.10%0.10%1
Web00000.00%0.00%7
Frontend00000.00%0.00%7
Library6020000.00%0.00%0
CatFailF%NP%Tot
Billing
Pend 0Skip 0Runs 1
1
0.10%
0.10%
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 0Runs 0
0
0.00%
0.00%
602

Recent Runs

Recent Daily Suite Runs

DatePipelineSuitesStatusSummary
2026-09-26 18:19172454BillingWebFrontendLibraryFAILEDTotal 232 | Passed 232 | Failed 0 | Incomplete suite counts
2026-09-27 18:22172483BillingWebFrontendLibraryFAILEDTotal 232 | Passed 232 | Failed 0 | Incomplete suite counts
2026-09-28 18:21172732BillingWebFrontendLibraryFAILEDTotal 232 | Passed 231 | Failed 1 | Incomplete suite counts
2026-09-29 18:21172966BillingWebFrontendLibraryFAILEDTotal 232 | Passed 232 | Failed 0 | Incomplete suite counts
2026-09-30 18:20173129BillingWebFrontendLibraryFAILEDTotal 232 | Passed 232 | Failed 0 | Incomplete suite counts
2026-10-01 18:21173352BillingWebFrontendLibraryFAILEDTotal 232 | Passed 232 | Failed 0 | Incomplete suite counts
2026-10-02 18:21173550BillingWebFrontendLibraryFAILEDTotal 232 | Passed 232 | Failed 0 | Incomplete suite counts
2026-09-26 18:19Pipeline 172454BillingWebFrontendLibrary
FAILED
T 232 | P 232 | F 0 | Pend 0 | Incomplete
2026-09-27 18:22Pipeline 172483BillingWebFrontendLibrary
FAILED
T 232 | P 232 | F 0 | Pend 0 | Incomplete
2026-09-28 18:21Pipeline 172732BillingWebFrontendLibrary
FAILED
T 232 | P 231 | F 1 | Pend 0 | Incomplete
2026-09-29 18:21Pipeline 172966BillingWebFrontendLibrary
FAILED
T 232 | P 232 | F 0 | Pend 0 | Incomplete
2026-09-30 18:20Pipeline 173129BillingWebFrontendLibrary
FAILED
T 232 | P 232 | F 0 | Pend 0 | Incomplete
2026-10-01 18:21Pipeline 173352BillingWebFrontendLibrary
FAILED
T 232 | P 232 | F 0 | Pend 0 | Incomplete
2026-10-02 18:21Pipeline 173550BillingWebFrontendLibrary
FAILED
T 232 | P 232 | F 0 | Pend 0 | Incomplete

Recent Smoke Attempts

DateSuitePipelineJobStatusPassedFailedDuration
2026-09-27 13:26University172476University smokePASSED6003m 47s
2026-09-27 13:27Frontend172476Frontend smokePASSED11004m 13s
2026-09-27 13:37University172477University smokePASSED6003m 38s
2026-09-27 13:41Frontend172477Frontend smokePASSED11004m 21s
2026-09-27 14:03University172479University smokePASSED6003m 51s
2026-09-27 14:06Frontend172479Frontend smokePASSED11004m 34s
2026-09-28 15:06Frontend172660Frontend smokePASSED11004m 49s
2026-09-28 15:23Frontend172662Frontend smokePASSED11004m 34s
2026-09-29 13:52University172842University smokePASSED6004m 31s
2026-09-29 13:53Frontend172842Frontend smokePASSED11004m 25s
2026-09-29 14:08Frontend172866Frontend smokePASSED11004m 27s
2026-09-29 14:26Frontend172879Frontend smokePASSED11004m 17s
2026-09-29 14:44Frontend172881Frontend smokePASSED11004m 23s
2026-09-29 17:09University172962University smokePASSED6003m 41s
2026-09-29 17:10Frontend172962Frontend smokePASSED11004m 37s
2026-09-30 18:05Frontend173128Frontend smokePASSED11004m 39s
2026-10-01 11:58Frontend173235Frontend smokePASSED11004m 28s
2026-10-01 21:26Frontend173375Frontend smokePASSED11005m 11s
2026-10-01 22:41Frontend173380Frontend smokePASSED11004m 49s
2026-10-02 12:18University173469University smokePASSED6003m 31s
2026-10-02 13:29Frontend173469Frontend smokePASSED11004m 19s
2026-10-02 14:38Frontend173500Frontend smokePASSED11003m 58s
2026-10-02 16:00University173523University smokePASSED6003m 25s
2026-10-02 16:04Frontend173523Frontend smokePASSED11004m 16s
2026-10-02 18:55Frontend173551Frontend smokePASSED11004m 19s

Smoke Suite Breakdown

Frontend
18 attempts across 18 pipelines
100% green
Passed18
Failed0
Incomplete0
Avg runtime4m 29s
Median passing runtime4m 26s
Pipelines18
University
7 attempts across 7 pipelines
100% green
Passed7
Failed0
Incomplete0
Avg runtime3m 46s
Median passing runtime3m 41s
Pipelines7
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.