Engineering Council Test Reliability Report

Scope aligned with Slack channel #dezvoltare, covering 2026-09-05 07:00 to 2026-09-12 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
18m 08s
Avg Daily Runtime
15
Smoke Attempts
9/15
Smoke Green
4m 19s
Avg Smoke Runtime
5m 07s
Median Smoke Time
0
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 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 (170434) 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 9 of 15 attempts (60.0%) across 11 production pipelines. 2 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. 3 failed attempt(s) never reached test execution counts at all.
  • Failure concentration is not random: Library has the highest strict failure ratio at 3.65%, while Library has the broadest non-pass footprint at 4.65%.
  • Frontend is the weakest smoke surface in this window at 8/14 green (57.1%).
  • Daily-suite runtime averaged 18m 08s.

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. Library and Library 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 Library 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 Status0000109-0509-0709-0909-11
Daily Smoke Attempts0123509-0509-0709-0909-11
Daily Average Daily Suite Runtime13m 38s15m 46s17m 54s20m 02s22m 11s09-0509-0709-0909-11
Daily Average Smoke Runtime0m 00s1m 22s2m 45s4m 07s5m 29s09-0509-0709-0909-11
Daily Suite Total Test Growth (Recent 7 Runs)23223223223223309-0509-0709-0909-11
Smoke Suite Total Test Growth (Latest Run Per Day)
FrontendUniversity
0275582110Frontend 09-07: 110Frontend 09-08: 0Frontend 09-10: 110Frontend 09-11: 110University 09-08: 6009-0709-0809-1009-11

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
Library60222063.65%4.65%2
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 6Runs 2
22
3.65%
4.65%
602

Recent Runs

Recent Daily Suite Runs

DatePipelineSuitesStatusSummary
2026-09-05 18:19169338BillingWebFrontendLibraryFAILEDTotal 232 | Passed 232 | Failed 0 | Incomplete suite counts
2026-09-06 18:20169342BillingWebFrontendLibraryFAILEDTotal 232 | Passed 232 | Failed 0 | Incomplete suite counts
2026-09-07 18:22169566BillingWebFrontendLibraryFAILEDTotal 232 | Passed 232 | Failed 0 | Incomplete suite counts
2026-09-08 18:21169873BillingWebFrontendLibraryFAILEDTotal 232 | Passed 232 | Failed 0 | Incomplete suite counts
2026-09-09 18:16170005BillingWebFrontendLibraryFAILEDTotal 232 | Passed 232 | Failed 0 | Incomplete suite counts
2026-09-10 18:23170237BillingWebFrontendLibraryFAILEDTotal 232 | Passed 213 | Failed 13 | Incomplete suite counts
2026-09-11 18:25170434BillingWebFrontendLibraryFAILEDTotal 232 | Passed 222 | Failed 10 | Incomplete suite counts
2026-09-05 18:19Pipeline 169338BillingWebFrontendLibrary
FAILED
T 232 | P 232 | F 0 | Pend 0 | Incomplete
2026-09-06 18:20Pipeline 169342BillingWebFrontendLibrary
FAILED
T 232 | P 232 | F 0 | Pend 0 | Incomplete
2026-09-07 18:22Pipeline 169566BillingWebFrontendLibrary
FAILED
T 232 | P 232 | F 0 | Pend 0 | Incomplete
2026-09-08 18:21Pipeline 169873BillingWebFrontendLibrary
FAILED
T 232 | P 232 | F 0 | Pend 0 | Incomplete
2026-09-09 18:16Pipeline 170005BillingWebFrontendLibrary
FAILED
T 232 | P 232 | F 0 | Pend 0 | Incomplete
2026-09-10 18:23Pipeline 170237BillingWebFrontendLibrary
FAILED
T 232 | P 213 | F 13 | Pend 0 | Incomplete
2026-09-11 18:25Pipeline 170434BillingWebFrontendLibrary
FAILED
T 232 | P 222 | F 10 | Pend 0 | Incomplete

Recent Smoke Attempts

DateSuitePipelineJobStatusPassedFailedDuration
2026-09-07 12:36Frontend169410Frontend smokeFAILED10825m 08s
2026-09-07 13:26Frontend169410Frontend smokeFAILED10825m 24s
2026-09-07 13:58Frontend169410Frontend smokeFAILED10825m 32s
2026-09-07 14:54Frontend169410Frontend smokePASSED11004m 39s
2026-09-07 17:12Frontend169551Frontend smokePASSED11004m 47s
2026-09-08 16:05Frontend169863Frontend smokeFAILEDn/an/a0m 07s
2026-09-08 16:42University169863University smokePASSED6004m 52s
2026-09-10 10:54Frontend170064Frontend smokeFAILEDn/an/a0m 07s
2026-09-10 11:08Frontend170073Frontend smokeFAILEDn/an/a0m 13s
2026-09-10 15:21Frontend170204Frontend smokePASSED11007m 18s
2026-09-10 15:46Frontend170214Frontend smokePASSED11004m 41s
2026-09-11 12:36Frontend170313Frontend smokePASSED11005m 24s
2026-09-11 15:32Frontend170391Frontend smokePASSED11005m 58s
2026-09-11 17:03Frontend170425Frontend smokePASSED11005m 28s
2026-09-11 17:51Frontend170432Frontend smokePASSED11005m 07s

Smoke Suite Breakdown

Frontend
14 attempts across 11 pipelines
57% green
Passed8
Failed6
Incomplete3
Avg runtime4m 17s
Median passing runtime5m 16s
Pipelines11
University
1 attempts across 1 pipeline
100% green
Passed1
Failed0
Incomplete0
Avg runtime4m 52s
Median passing runtime4m 52s
Pipelines1
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.