test(uts): Fix flaky tests - transient-DISCONNECTED CI flake — record-and-verify instead of awaitState - #1244
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…awaitState UnitInfraSmokeTest's connection-lifecycle test flaked twice in CI (runs 33174366038, 34841083986), and ObjectsFaultsTest once (33166346294), all with the same signature: TimeoutCancellationException in awaitState(..., DISCONNECTED) right after a disconnect stimulus. Root cause: DISCONNECTED after a drop from CONNECTED is transient at microsecond scale — per RTN15a, Disconnected.enact queues the reconnect BEFORE the DISCONNECTED emit, so the state is emitted and superseded back-to-back on the ActionHandler thread (disconnectedRetryTimeout and the fake clock are bypassed on this path). awaitState is level-triggered from its call point; a transition that fires and is superseded before the listener registers is lost forever, and on a loaded runner the listener-registration dispatch can lose that race. Fix: render the UTS corpus's record-and-verify convention (writing- test-specs.md, "Verifying Transient States") inline at every transient-target wait — register a state-recording listener BEFORE the stimulus, then poll the recorded list (or assert the recorded order after awaiting a sticky state): - UnitInfraSmokeTest: record before simulateDisconnect(); poll the recording; comment now states the real RTN15a mechanism. - ObjectsFaultsTest: both disconnect sites (mid-sync observation via CONTAINS_IN_ORDER-style subsequence assert; trigger_action gate via pollUntil on the recording). - ConnectionRecoveryTest: the transient CLOSING wait. - Utils.kt: KDoc on awaitState documenting it as sticky-targets-only. - uts/README.md: the smoke-test walkthrough now teaches the record-before-stimulus pattern (consistent with the proxy walkthroughs) instead of the racy await. No new infra API: the pattern is the 1:1 rendering of the spec pseudocode, using the existing pollUntil/awaitState helpers. A companion ably/specification PR fixes the same shape at its source in uts/objects/integration/proxy/objects_faults.md. Verified: :uts:runUtsUnitTests 10/10 consecutive stress runs; :java:runUtsUnitTests 6/0; :liveobjects:runLiveObjectsUnitTests 389/0; codenarc + checkstyle green.
WalkthroughTests now record connection-state transitions before disconnect or close stimuli. Transient ChangesConnection State Verification
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- Line 106: Update the test flow around awaitState and the ordered
connection-state assertion to wait until the recorded sequence includes the
disconnect, reconnecting, and subsequent connected states caused by the proxy’s
OBJECT_SYNC fault; do not rely solely on the initial connected state transition,
and preserve the existing ordered assertion once the sequence has been recorded.
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…e final wait First real sandbox run of the migrated RTO5a2/RTO17 test failed its order assert with only [connecting, connected] recorded: the proxy drops the connection only after the sync frame round-trips, so the sticky awaitState(CONNECTED) no-ops on the still-connected client and the assert races ahead of the transient DISCONNECTED. Add the same pollUntil gate on the recorded list that the RTO7/RTO8 site already uses, between attach() and the final wait. Verified against the real sandbox: the previously failing test passes.
…ng lists thread-safe The "sync event sequences" test raced its own setup: DefaultRealtimeObject's incoming-message collector subscribes to a replay-0 shared flow via a coroutine scheduled at construction, and the fresh-channel scenario — the only one that never calls get() — let the mock's synchronous ATTACHED+OBJECT_SYNC beat that subscription. tryEmit with zero subscribers silently drops the frame, SYNCED is never emitted, and the wait times out (the CI failure). The once-seen SYNCING/SYNCED duplication was the second hazard of the same window: the events list was appended on the sequential- scope worker and read from pollUntil's poller thread with no happens-before. Fix: render the spec's process_pending_events() step after channels.get() so the pipeline is provably subscribed before attach, and use CopyOnWriteArrayList for the file's event-recording lists — including six pre-existing sites with the same cross-thread shape (one also iterated while a listener could append: a latent ConcurrentModificationException). The rendering rule is documented once in uts/README.md §8 and the uts-to-kotlin mapping instead of per-site comments. Reproduced deterministically under -XX:ActiveProcessorCount=2 (fails at iteration 1 pre-fix; 2500 stress iterations green post-fix). Verified: RealtimeObjectTest 25/25 consecutive runs under 2 CPUs; full liveobjects unit suite 389/0; codenarc + checkstyle green.
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🟡 Minor · Keep A's publish inside B's disconnected window. · liveobjects/src/test/kotlin/io/ably/lib/liveobjects/uts/proxy/ObjectsFaultsTest.kt:157-180
157-180: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winKeep A's publish inside B's disconnected window.
pollUntilchecks only the historicalstateChangeslist. B can reconnect beforerootA.set(...)runs. The laterawaitStatecan return immediately becauseawaitStatechecks the current state. The final value assertion checks only eventual convergence, so this path can pass without exercising RTO7/RTO8 buffering. Add a barrier that keeps B disconnected until A issues the publish, or record and assert that the publish starts before B recordsCONNECTED.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 157-180: The test currently may publish after clientB has already
reconnected, so it does not reliably exercise the disconnected-window behavior.
Update the flow around stateChanges, the disconnect trigger, and rootA.set so
the publish is guaranteed to start while B remains disconnected, using a
synchronization barrier or recording/asserting that publish initiation precedes
B’s CONNECTED event; retain the existing reconnection and eventual-value
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Pull request overview
This PR hardens UTS tests against transient connection-state races and ensures fresh LiveObjects channels initialize their message pipeline before attachment.
Changes:
- Replaces post-stimulus transient-state waits with record-and-verify polling.
- Uses thread-safe event recording lists.
- Documents transient-state and pipeline-readiness conventions.
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| uts/src/test/kotlin/io/ably/lib/uts/unit/UnitInfraSmokeTest.kt | Updated as part of this pull request. |
| uts/src/main/kotlin/io/ably/lib/uts/infra/Utils.kt | Updated as part of this pull request. |
| uts/README.md | Updated as part of this pull request. |
| liveobjects/src/test/kotlin/io/ably/lib/liveobjects/uts/unit/RealtimeObjectTest.kt | Updated as part of this pull request. |
| liveobjects/src/test/kotlin/io/ably/lib/liveobjects/uts/proxy/ObjectsFaultsTest.kt | Updated as part of this pull request. |
| lib/src/test/kotlin/io/ably/lib/uts/unit/realtime/ConnectionRecoveryTest.kt | Updated as part of this pull request. |
| .claude/skills/uts-to-kotlin/references/objects-mapping.md | Updated as part of this pull request. |
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liveobjects/src/test/kotlin/io/ably/lib/liveobjects/uts/proxy/ObjectsFaultsTest.kt:173
- After this poll succeeds,
stateChangesonly proves that DISCONNECTED happened in the past; it does not hold B in that phase. With the 100 ms polling interval and RTN15a's immediate reconnect, B can already be CONNECTED/re-synced beforerootA.set(...), so this test can pass via ordinary delivery and never exercise RTO7/RTO8 buffering (the comment explicitly permits that outcome). Keep B in a controlled re-sync window, or gate the publish on an observable in-flight re-sync, and assert the mutation is buffered until re-sync completes.
// A publishes while B is down. Best-effort: RTN15a may reconnect/re-sync B before this
// round-trips (then it tests plain delivery, not RTO7/RTO8); the final poll tolerates both.
rootA.set("key1", LiveMapValue.of("updated_during_disconnect")).await()
uts/README.md:606
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always CopyOnWriteArrayListrequirement is stronger than the thread-safety invariant and conflicts with the existing proxy walkthroughs inProxyInfraSmokeTest, which useCollections.synchronizedList. Please describe this as requiring a thread-safe collection so the guide does not label that valid rendering as wrong.
lists are appended on SDK callback threads and read from `pollUntil`'s poller thread, so they must be
thread-safe — always `CopyOnWriteArrayList`, never a plain `mutableListOf` (see the walkthrough in
§9 and the recording-lists row in the UTS docs' `writing-derived-tests.md`).
uts/src/main/kotlin/io/ably/lib/uts/infra/Utils.kt:28
CLOSINGdoes not follow RTN15a's reconnect path: an explicit close transitions it toCLOSED, whereas onlyDISCONNECTEDafterCONNECTEDqueuesCONNECTING. This KDoc currently teaches an incorrect transition for callers deciding which state events must be recorded.
* **transient** target — DISCONNECTED/CLOSING after a drop, which RTN15a supersedes with CONNECTING
* within microseconds — can be missed entirely. For those, use the inline record-before-stimulus
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Problem
Three CI failures across two suites shared one signature —
TimeoutCancellationExceptioninawaitState(..., DISCONNECTED)immediately after a disconnect stimulus:UnitInfraSmokeTest > unit infra drives the full mock-WebSocket connection lifecycle— run 33174366038 and again onmainat run 34841083986ObjectsFaultsTest > RTO7, RTO8 - mutations during re-sync are buffered and applied— run 33166346294All three passed on rerun; none was a code regression (the commits on those SHAs were exonerated by diff analysis).
Root cause
DISCONNECTEDafter a drop fromCONNECTEDis transient at microsecond scale. Per RTN15a,Disconnected.enactqueues the reconnect before the DISCONNECTED emit (ConnectionManager.enactStaterunsenact()beforeconnection.onConnectionStateChange— the RTL3d1 ordering), so the ActionHandler emitsDISCONNECTED→CONNECTINGback-to-back.disconnectedRetryTimeoutand the fake clock are bypassed on this path.awaitStateis level-triggered from its call point: it registers a listener and checks the current state. A transition that fires and is superseded before the listener registers is lost forever — there is no JMM bug, purely a temporal window. On a loaded CI runner, the coroutine dispatch hop to register the listener can lose to that microsecond cascade; in the unit test the transition even completes synchronously insidesimulateDisconnect(), beforeawaitStateis called. One missed window is unrecoverable (the state never recurs in these scenarios), so the wait consumes its full timeout.This is exactly the failure mode the UTS corpus already warns about:
writing-test-specs.md§ Verifying Transient States (Record-and-Verify Pattern) forbids awaiting transient states post-stimulus, citing RTN15a.Fix
Render the corpus's record-and-verify convention inline at every transient-target wait — register a state-recording listener before the stimulus, then poll the recorded list (or assert the recorded order after awaiting a sticky state). No new infra API: the pattern is the 1:1 rendering of the spec pseudocode using the existing
pollUntil/awaitStatehelpers.UnitInfraSmokeTest— recording registered beforesimulateDisconnect();pollUntil { disconnected in stateChanges }; the step comment now states the real mechanism (the previous comment attributed the race to the 300 ms retry timer, which this path bypasses).ObjectsFaultsTest— both disconnect sites: the mid-sync observation asserts the recordedDISCONNECTED → CONNECTING → CONNECTEDorder (subsequence check) after awaiting the stickyCONNECTED; thetrigger_actionsite gates client A's publish onpollUntilover the recording (that wait is load-bearing for sequencing).ConnectionRecoveryTest— same pattern for the transientCLOSINGwait.Utils.kt— KDoc onawaitStatedocumenting it as sticky-targets-only (transient targets must record before the stimulus).uts/README.md— the smoke-test walkthrough now teaches the record-before-stimulus pattern (consistent with the proxy walkthroughs, which already used it) instead of the racy await.Companion spec PR: ably/specification#521 fixes the same shapes at their source — the two
AWAIT_STATE … DISCONNECTEDsites inobjects_faults.md, the missingprocess_pending_events()in the RTO17-RTO18 fresh-channel scenario, and the derivation-docs rules — so future derivations in any SDK render the safe pattern. Seven further realtime proxy spec sites share the shape and are tracked as a follow-up there.Second race fixed on this branch: RTO17/RTO18 sync-events (fresh-channel pipeline readiness)
The CI re-roll surfaced one more deterministic race in
RealtimeObjectTest > "RTO17 RTO18 - sync event sequences": the fresh-channel scenario is the only one that never callsget(), so nothing flushed the objects sequential scope beforeattach()— the mock's synchronous ATTACHED+OBJECT_SYNC could beat the internal message collector's subscription to its replay-0 shared flow, silently dropping the OBJECT_SYNC (tryEmitto zero subscribers) so SYNCED never fires. Reproduced deterministically under-XX:ActiveProcessorCount=2(fails at iteration 1); fixed by rendering the spec'sprocess_pending_events()step afterchannels.get(), and by making the file's event-recording listsCopyOnWriteArrayList(appended on SDK threads, read frompollUntil's poller thread — one pre-existing site iterated while appending, a latentConcurrentModificationException). Post-fix: 2500 stress iterations + 25/25 runs green under the 2-core constraint. The rendering rules are documented once inuts/README.md§8 and the uts-to-kotlin mapping, not per call site.Verification
:uts:runUtsUnitTests— 10/10 consecutive stress runs green (previously the flaking suite).:java:runUtsUnitTests6/0 ·:liveobjects:runLiveObjectsUnitTests389/0.checkWithCodenarc checkstyleMain checkstyleTest— green.ObjectsFaultsTest) could not run locally due to a network timeout fetching the sandbox test-app fixture; it compiles cleanly and will run in this PR's CI.