ci: restore unit test coverage and report it on PRs - #16783
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The switch to gotestsum (argoproj#14623) stopped the test target using $(GOTEST), so the coverage flags CI passed via GOTEST became a no-op: no coverage.out was produced, and the codecov upload step (fail_ci_if_error: true) has failed every main Unit Tests run since, keeping main red. Pass the coverage flags through a new GOTEST_FLAGS variable instead, point the codecov action at the file explicitly, and upload from PR runs as well as main - as argo-cd does - so codecov comments a coverage report on pull requests. Flags are carried forward so a run that skips a job does not reset the project status. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018XsqqvLSrJ5sH8gN8tLbr9 Signed-off-by: Alan Clucas <alan@clucas.org>
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## main #16783 +/- ##
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+ Coverage 29.14% 40.00% +10.86%
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Files 454 567 +113
Lines 31977 44616 +12639
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+ Hits 9319 17849 +8530
- Misses 21825 24972 +3147
- Partials 833 1795 +962
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe CI workflow now uploads unit and Windows coverage for pull requests and all repository refs. The Makefile supports configurable Go test coverage flags. Codecov carryforward is enabled for both coverage flags. ChangesCoverage CI flow
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The CI changes restore coverage generation and enable pull-request reporting, but retries can produce incomplete coverage reports, and fork pull requests may fail when uploading without an available Codecov token. These bounded CI risks should be resolved or explicitly accepted before merge. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@Makefile`:
- Line 689: Update the coverage test target using gotest so --rerun-fails cannot
overwrite the complete coverage.out profile; disable retries for this run or
generate separate retry profiles and merge them into coverage.out before upload.
Preserve the existing package selection and coverage workflow.
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| env KUBECONFIG=/dev/null $(call gotest,./...,unit,-p 20) | ||
| env KUBECONFIG=/dev/null $(call gotest,./...,unit,-p 20 $(GOTEST_FLAGS)) |
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gotest.tools/gotestsum v1.12.3 --rerun-fails-run-root-test coverage profile rerun same -coverprofile behavior
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When using the --rerun-fails flag in gotestsum, coverage profiles are generally not automatically merged or aggregated across multiple runs [1]. When coverage is enabled during a test run that triggers a re-run of failed tests, the coverage output file generated by the final execution typically only reflects the coverage data from that specific re-run, rather than a cumulative profile of the entire test suite execution [1]. This behavior occurs because gotestsum executes go test multiple times when --rerun-fails is active, and each standard go test command overwrites or generates its own coverage profile if the -coverprofile flag is provided [1][2]. To address this issue and generate a complete, merged coverage report, consider the following approaches: 1. Use --raw-command: You can use the --raw-command flag to provide a custom script that handles the execution of go test and manages the coverage profiles manually [1]. Your script can capture the output of each run into a temporary file and append it to a primary coverage profile file [1]. Example logic for a shell script: #!/usr/bin/env bash set -eu # Run the test, outputting to a temp file go test -json -coverprofile=tmp-coverage.out -coverpkg=. "$@" # Append the temp coverage to the main file cat tmp-coverage.out >> coverage.out Then execute it with: gotestsum --rerun-fails --packages=. --raw-command --./your-script.sh 2. Post-processing: If you prefer not to use --raw-command, you may need to use a tool capable of merging Go coverage profiles (such as gocovmerge) after the test run, though this is often more complex when dealing with overlapping tests from multiple runs [1]. 3. Awareness of Limitations: The --rerun-fails feature is primarily designed to isolate and retry failed tests to help diagnose flakiness [2][3]. Because it relies on running go test multiple times, it does not natively integrate with the standard go test coverage workflow to produce a unified, merged profile across those separate invocations [1].
Citations:
- 1: Rerun fails with coverage and "dependent" subtests gotestyourself/gotestsum#274
- 2: https://github.com/gotestyourself/gotestsum
- 3: https://docsearch.algolia.com/mcp/docs/repo/gotestyourself/gotestsum
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Using the --rerun-fails option in gotestsum with --coverprofile does not natively support merging coverage data from multiple test runs [1]. When these options are used together, the resulting coverage profile file typically only contains data from the final re-execution of failed tests rather than a complete merge of all runs [1]. To correctly capture coverage across all runs, you must manage the concatenation of coverage files manually [1]. A recommended approach is to use the --raw-command option to execute a custom script that handles individual test runs and appends the output to a persistent coverage file [1]. Example implementation using a shell script: #!/usr/bin/env bash set -eu # Execute go test and save to a temporary file go test -json -coverprofile=tmp-coverage.out -coverpkg=. "$@" # Append the temporary coverage data to the main coverage file cat tmp-coverage.out >> coverage.out You can then run gotestsum with this script: gotestsum --rerun-fails --packages=. --raw-command --./test-with-coverage.sh This ensures that coverage data from the initial run and any subsequent re-runs are combined into a single file [1]. Tools like gocovmerge are often required to correctly process and merge these coverage outputs, as simple concatenation may not be sufficient for complex scenarios [1].
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When running go test on multiple packages (e.g., go test./...), using the -coverprofile flag will result in the coverage profile being overwritten by each package in succession [1]. This happens because each package execution resets the output file [1]. To correctly aggregate coverage data across multiple packages, you should use the following approaches: 1. Recommended Approach (Go 1.20+): Use the newer, more robust coverage infrastructure [2][3]. Instead of relying on -coverprofile, you can specify a directory for coverage data using -args -test.gocoverdir [3]. go test -cover -args -test.gocoverdir="$PWD/coverage/unit"./... You can then merge and process these binary files using the go tool covdata command [3]: # Merge and convert binary data to a text coverage profile go tool covdata textfmt -i=./coverage/unit -o coverage.out [3] 2. Legacy/Simple Approach (Package Aggregation): If you must use the standard -coverprofile, you can avoid overwriting by running tests individually and appending the results, as the profile file format supports concatenation (skipping the first line of subsequent files) [1]: # Initialize the coverage file echo 'mode: set' > coverage.out # Loop through packages and append their coverage for pkg in $(go list./...); do go test -covermode=set -coverprofile=profile.tmp $pkg if [ -f profile.tmp ]; then cat profile.tmp | tail -n +2 >> coverage.out rm profile.tmp fi done # The resulting coverage.out now contains aggregated data [1].
Citations:
- 1: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33444968/how-to-get-all-packages-code-coverage-together-in-go
- 2: https://go.dev/doc/build-cover
- 3: https://dustinspecker.com/posts/go-combined-unit-integration-code-coverage/
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Preserve the complete coverage profile when --rerun-fails retries tests.
gotestsum@v1.12.3 reruns the failed package with the same -coverprofile=coverage.out, so a passing retry overwrites the suite profile with coverage from that package and test. Disable retries for this coverage run, or write separate profiles and merge them before uploading coverage.out.
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In `@Makefile` at line 689, Update the coverage test target using gotest so
--rerun-fails cannot overwrite the complete coverage.out profile; disable
retries for this run or generate separate retry profiles and merge them into
coverage.out before upload. Preserve the existing package selection and coverage
workflow.
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Not at the moment, lets not complicate this further
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@Joibel, understood. This pull request can keep the current coverage flow unchanged.
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make pre-commit -B(scoped: YAML validated, the exact gotestsum invocation verified to producecoverage.out; no Go code changes)make feature-new) — not a featureMotivation
Every main Unit Tests run since the switch to gotestsum (#14623, 2025-07-23) has failed at "Upload coverage report" with
Found 0 coverage files to report, keeping main red. Thetestmake target no longer uses$(GOTEST), so the coverage flags CI passes viaGOTEST='go test -p 20 -covermode=atomic -coverprofile=coverage.out'became a no-op and nocoverage.outis produced. (Older green main runs simply skipped Unit Tests via changed-files gating.)Additionally, the upload step was gated to main only, so PRs get no coverage feedback at all. argo-cd uploads coverage from PR runs, which is what makes codecov comment a coverage report on each PR.
Modifications
Makefile: newGOTEST_FLAGSvariable appended to the unittesttarget'sgo testargs, so CI can request coverage without affecting local runs..github/workflows/ci-build.yaml: the Unit Tests job passesGOTEST_FLAGS='-covermode=atomic -coverprofile=coverage.out'; both codecov upload steps (linux + windows) now run on PR runs as well as main (gated ongithub.repositoryinstead of the main ref), point atcoverage.outexplicitly withdisable_search, and are tagged with per-job flags..codecov.yml:carryforward: truefor both flags, as argo-cd does, so a run that skips one of the jobs does not reset the project status.With uploads happening on PRs and no
comment:override in.codecov.yml, codecov's default PR comment (coverage summary + diff) will appear on PRs, matching argo-cd's setup.Verification
GOTEST_FLAGSset and confirmedcoverage.outis created at the repo root (where the action'sfiles:points).Documentation
Not needed: CI-internal change.
GOTEST_FLAGSis documented inline in the Makefile.AI
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