Engineering Council Test Reliability Report

Scope aligned with Slack channel #dezvoltare, covering 2026-07-11 07:00 to 2026-07-18 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
13m 42s
Avg Daily Runtime
8
Smoke Attempts
8/8
Smoke Green
4m 12s
Avg Smoke Runtime
4m 15s
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 (164192) 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 8 of 8 attempts (100.0%) across 5 production pipelines.
  • Failure concentration is not random: Billing has the highest strict failure ratio at 2.46%, while Billing has the broadest non-pass footprint at 12.50%.
  • Frontend is the weakest smoke surface in this window at 5/5 green (100.0%).
  • Daily-suite runtime averaged 13m 42s.

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 Status0000107-1107-1307-1507-17
Daily Smoke Attempts0012307-1107-1307-1507-17
Daily Average Daily Suite Runtime12m 23s13m 00s13m 37s14m 14s14m 51s07-1107-1307-1507-17
Daily Average Smoke Runtime0m 00s1m 04s2m 09s3m 13s4m 18s07-1107-1307-1507-17
Daily Suite Total Test Growth (Recent 7 Runs)21421421421421507-1107-1307-1507-17
Smoke Suite Total Test Growth (Latest Run Per Day)
FrontendUniversity
60728597110Frontend 07-13: 110Frontend 07-15: 110Frontend 07-16: 110University 07-13: 60University 07-15: 6007-1307-1507-16

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
Billing8962280102.46%12.50%2
Web00000.00%0.00%7
Frontend00000.00%0.00%7
Library6020000.00%0.00%0
CatFailF%NP%Tot
Billing
Pend 80Skip 10Runs 2
22
2.46%
12.50%
896
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
2026-07-11 18:16163695BillingWebFrontendLibraryFAILEDTotal 214 | Passed 214 | Failed 0 | Incomplete suite counts
2026-07-12 18:15163706BillingWebFrontendLibraryFAILEDTotal 214 | Passed 214 | Failed 0 | Incomplete suite counts
2026-07-13 18:17163832BillingWebFrontendLibraryFAILEDTotal 214 | Passed 214 | Failed 0 | Incomplete suite counts
2026-07-14 18:18163886BillingWebFrontendLibraryFAILEDTotal 214 | Passed 198 | Failed 11 | Incomplete suite counts
2026-07-15 18:16163951BillingWebFrontendLibraryFAILEDTotal 214 | Passed 198 | Failed 11 | Incomplete suite counts
2026-07-16 18:18164079BillingWebFrontendLibraryFAILEDTotal 214 | Passed 174 | Failed 0 | Pending 40 | Incomplete suite counts
2026-07-17 18:18164192BillingWebFrontendLibraryFAILEDTotal 214 | Passed 174 | Failed 0 | Pending 40 | Incomplete suite counts
2026-07-11 18:16Pipeline 163695BillingWebFrontendLibrary
FAILED
T 214 | P 214 | F 0 | Pend 0 | Incomplete
2026-07-12 18:15Pipeline 163706BillingWebFrontendLibrary
FAILED
T 214 | P 214 | F 0 | Pend 0 | Incomplete
2026-07-13 18:17Pipeline 163832BillingWebFrontendLibrary
FAILED
T 214 | P 214 | F 0 | Pend 0 | Incomplete
2026-07-14 18:18Pipeline 163886BillingWebFrontendLibrary
FAILED
T 214 | P 198 | F 11 | Pend 0 | Incomplete
2026-07-15 18:16Pipeline 163951BillingWebFrontendLibrary
FAILED
T 214 | P 198 | F 11 | Pend 0 | Incomplete
2026-07-16 18:18Pipeline 164079BillingWebFrontendLibrary
FAILED
T 214 | P 174 | F 0 | Pend 40 | Incomplete
2026-07-17 18:18Pipeline 164192BillingWebFrontendLibrary
FAILED
T 214 | P 174 | F 0 | Pend 40 | Incomplete

Recent Smoke Attempts

DateSuitePipelineJobStatusPassedFailedDuration
2026-07-13 12:56Frontend163799Frontend smokePASSED11004m 29s
2026-07-13 13:37University163808University smokePASSED6003m 35s
2026-07-13 13:41Frontend163808Frontend smokePASSED11004m 49s
2026-07-15 11:05University163900University smokePASSED6004m 07s
2026-07-15 11:09Frontend163900Frontend smokePASSED11004m 48s
2026-07-15 18:22University163950University smokePASSED6003m 22s
2026-07-16 09:58Frontend163950Frontend smokePASSED11004m 05s
2026-07-16 13:20Frontend164028Frontend smokePASSED11004m 23s

Smoke Suite Breakdown

Frontend
5 attempts across 5 pipelines
100% green
Passed5
Failed0
Incomplete0
Avg runtime4m 31s
Median passing runtime4m 29s
Pipelines5
University
3 attempts across 3 pipelines
100% green
Passed3
Failed0
Incomplete0
Avg runtime3m 41s
Median passing runtime3m 35s
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.