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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. WalkthroughCI generates up to four randomized matrix jobs across operating systems, Gradle Java versions, test JDKs, JDK distributions, hash modes, assertion modes, and locales. GitHub Actions uses the generated rows to configure builds, JDKs, cache writes, and coverage tasks. Failed builds upload test reports. Gradle applies configured JVM arguments and filters JDK-specific test tasks based on the selected test JDKs. Suggested reviewers: Priority: ➖ Normal Change: Other Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Some CI tests may not exercise the JDK vendor reported for their row. This bounded coverage risk should be addressed or accepted before merging. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change is limited to CI and test execution. Existing credential restrictions and publication gates remain, while Gradle cache writes become more restricted. No introduced security defect was demonstrated, but the new generator dependency and external cache behavior leave some guarantees unverified. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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In @.github/workflows/continuous-integration.yml:
- Line 19: Set MATRIX_JOBS to 6 in .github/workflows/continuous-integration.yml
at lines 19-19, and update the fallback value to 6 in
.github/workflows/matrix.mjs at lines 92-92 so both CI and local runs generate
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Set the matrix size to six.
The PR objective specifies six rows. These values generate seven rows in CI and in local runs without MATRIX_JOBS.
.github/workflows/continuous-integration.yml#L19-L19: setMATRIX_JOBSto6..github/workflows/matrix.mjs#L92-L92: change the fallback value to6.
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In @.github/workflows/continuous-integration.yml at line 19, Set MATRIX_JOBS to
6 in .github/workflows/continuous-integration.yml at lines 19-19, and update the
fallback value to 6 in .github/workflows/matrix.mjs at lines 92-92 so both CI
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The @vlsi/github-actions-random-matrix package provides a tool for generating randomized GitHub Actions test matrices with pairwise coverage [1][2]. The createGitHubMatrixBuilder function is used to initialize the builder, which automatically employs a seeded random number generator (RNG) to ensure that the generated matrix remains reproducible across CI runs [3][4][5]. Regarding RNG_SEED and GITHUB_PR_NUMBER: 1. RNG_SEED: The createGitHubMatrixBuilder function typically uses the environment to determine the seed for the RNG [3]. While you can manage seeding, the package is designed to provide reproducible results, often by outputting the seed in the GitHub Actions step summary [5]. If you want to force a specific seed, you can typically control it via environment variables or by passing options to the builder if supported by the version you are using [3][5]. 2. GITHUB_PR_NUMBER: This is often used in matrix generation scripts to determine if a build is occurring within a pull request [6]. For example, developers frequently use GITHUB_PR_NUMBER to implement logic that conditionally skips certain tests or alters the matrix composition (e.g., opting out of running "HEAD" tests) when building pull requests to optimize CI resources [6]. In practice, users set up a.github/workflows/matrix.mjs file to define their axes, constraints, and requirements [1][5]. They then invoke generateRows to construct the matrix [1][6][5]. The integration allows for complex constraints (using exclude, imply, or constrain) and ensures a fixed number of jobs by filling the remaining budget with pairwise coverage combinations [1][2][7]. [1][3][5]
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There is no default environment variable named GITHUB_PR_NUMBER in GitHub Actions [1][2]. To access the pull request number within a workflow, you should use the GitHub context, which provides this information when the workflow is triggered by a pull request event [3]. The recommended way to retrieve the pull request number is via the following expression: ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }} Key details regarding pull request information in GitHub Actions: - Context Access: While GitHub provides default environment variables (e.g., GITHUB_REF), pull request-specific data like the PR number is primarily accessed through the github context [1][3]. - GITHUB_REF: When a workflow is triggered by a pull_request event, the GITHUB_REF environment variable is set to refs/pull/<pr_number>/merge [1][4]. While you could theoretically parse the pull request number from this string, using the github.event.pull_request.number context property is the standard and more reliable method [3]. - Trigger Events: Ensure your workflow is configured to run on the pull_request or pull_request_target event to guarantee that the github.event.pull_request object is populated [3][4].
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Set a stable seed before generating the matrix.
The workflow sets only MATRIX_JOBS, and GitHub does not populate GITHUB_PR_NUMBER. The pinned @vlsi/github-actions-random-matrix v2.4.0 therefore uses its time-and-crypto-random fallback. A pull request re-run can generate a different matrix. Set RNG_SEED from the pull request number, with a stable fallback for non-PR runs.
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Hi @vlsi thanks for this, but I worry it's a bit of overkill for the issue. Also I'm concerned about impacts on the Gradle caches for GitHub Actions, which might slow down all our CI jobs. At this point, given we've had these issues relatively rarely, I would lean against adding this, though I'm open to discussion on it.
Reviewing a fresh integration of this generator (uber/NullAway#1781) turned up seven misses, six of which the README could have prevented. They are the ones every integration rediscovers, so document them where they are looked up: - Reproducibility. `RNG_SEED` and `GITHUB_PR_NUMBER` were documented only in a JSDoc comment, so a workflow copied from the README drew a fresh matrix on every push and could not replay a failing row. The example workflow wires both and takes a seed through `workflow_dispatch`. - Choosing axes. What makes an axis worth having, four groups to draw from, the rule that an axis has to reach the code under test rather than the process that launches it, and the rule that the configuration a project ships belongs on axes as much as the environment does. - Ruling out combinations that do not exist. `imply()` states the rule the way you know it and `exclude()` states it inside out; a filter matches the axis value as declared, so an object-valued axis needs `{scram: {value: 'yes'}}`; nothing reports a rule that never fires, and a misshaped `imply()` consequent rejects every row its antecedent admits rather than doing nothing; and a rule kept to two axes also drops those pairs from the pairwise targets. - Job count and cost. The budget bounds the rows `generateRows` creates, and rows pinned through `generateRow()` are returned whether or not they fit. `weight` is the importance of an uncovered pair, so it leans the fill and saturates: the section gives the command that measures it on the shipped example and the counts it prints. - Caching. A randomized matrix changes the cache key of any action that hashes the matrix into it; `gradle/actions` is the worked example. - An integration checklist. `examples/matrix.mjs` gains an `assertions` axis, since `-ea` costs only the jobs that carry it, and weights on the `os` axis, which the cost section calls for. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reviewing a fresh integration of this generator (uber/NullAway#1781) turned up seven misses, six of which the README could have prevented. They are the ones every integration rediscovers, so document them where they are looked up: - Reproducibility. `RNG_SEED` and `GITHUB_PR_NUMBER` were documented only in a JSDoc comment, so a workflow copied from the README drew a fresh matrix on every push and could not replay a failing row. The example workflow wires both and takes a seed through `workflow_dispatch`. - Choosing axes. What makes an axis worth having, four groups to draw from, the rule that an axis has to reach the code under test rather than the process that launches it, and the rule that the configuration a project ships belongs on axes as much as the environment does. - Ruling out combinations that do not exist. `imply()` states the rule the way you know it and `exclude()` states it inside out; a filter matches the axis value as declared, so an object-valued axis needs `{scram: {value: 'yes'}}`; nothing reports a rule that never fires, and a misshaped `imply()` consequent rejects every row its antecedent admits rather than doing nothing; and a rule kept to two axes also drops those pairs from the pairwise targets. - Job count and cost. The budget bounds the rows `generateRows` creates, and rows pinned through `generateRow()` are returned whether or not they fit. `weight` is the importance of an uncovered pair, so it leans the fill and saturates: the section gives the command that measures it on the shipped example and the counts it prints. - Caching. A randomized matrix changes the cache key of any action that hashes the matrix into it; `gradle/actions` is the worked example. - An integration checklist. `examples/matrix.mjs` gains an `assertions` axis, since `-ea` costs only the jobs that carry it, and weights on the `os` axis, which the cost section calls for. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Around line 41-43: Reconcile the matrix schema with the declared coverage
target: update the java_version axis to include Java 17 and remove the
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Reconcile the matrix schema with the declared coverage target.
java_version contains only Java 21 and Java 25. assertions adds a seventh axis. This schema has 152 feasible pairs, not the stated 133 pairs for the six declared axes with Java 17, Java 21, and Java 25.
If testJdk17 intentionally supplies Java 17 coverage outside the matrix axis, update the PR objective and coverage metric. Otherwise, add Java 17 to java_version and remove the assertions axis. Until then, the reported pair-coverage rate does not represent the stated CI contract.
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In @.github/workflows/matrix.mjs around lines 41 - 43, Reconcile the matrix
schema with the declared coverage target: update the java_version axis to
include Java 17 and remove the assertions axis so the matrix represents the six
declared axes and expected pair count. If testJdk17 is intentionally external to
the matrix, instead revise the stated objective and coverage metric to reflect
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The key question is how do you detect the issues like #1780? Frankly, my view is as follows:
The matrix library I suggest enables you to put values you want to test and configure the number of jobs (e.g. 5-7 jobs). The library would explore the test space automatically. I've been using the matrix in multiple projects already (e.g. 5+years in pgjdbc/pgjdbc), and it does work as intended.
Could you please clarify what exactly is overkill in your opinion? For instance, #1780 is a case which reproduces only when identity hashcode (Object.hashCode) collides. It does not happen often, however, it can happen in practice. What exactly bothers you? I won't always be around to review the changes, so I would rather automate checks that are easy to automate. |
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Thanks for this. I read through it and have a better idea of what is going on. I have a question about caching. I see how the cache is only written from the master branch for a particular pinned config. What I'm wondering is what about cache reads on CI jobs. It seems that many of the matrix configs would end up running all tests even on a change just to a README, since there is no cached state for that config (with that combination of JVM, flags, etc.). Is this correct? |
Your understanding is correct. It is not an issue though, is it? |
Fixes #1780 We don't have tests to really check the determinism yet (I'm still reviewing #1781 / #1782) but in the meantime this addresses the root cause identified in #1780. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Bug Fixes** * Made constraint-related error messages deterministic by preserving a consistent ordering of reported items. * Improved reproducibility across runs without changing public APIs. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
Hey, chiming in here. As far as I understood, the problem was surrounding keying of HashMaps and HashSets on javac Symbol objects, which made iteration order dependent on the hashcodes, which (correct me if wrong) was solved in #1796. So the hash axis here thus makes sense in the sense of being preventative, but I think (and I assume what @msridhar also believes) is that most of the other axes mentioned in the PR desc are speculative and not exactly backed. I ran this through my LLM as well, and it seems to agree:
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… systems Each of the three jobs in the build matrix ran every test suite on all five test JVMs (test, testJdk17, testJdk21, testJdk27, testJdk28), so a pull request ran each suite 15 times, all in the runner's locale, with assertions on and the JVM's default identity-hash mode. Configurations NullAway is sensitive to never ran: uber#1780 was a diagnostic whose text depended on identity hash codes, and under de_DE four tests in ErrorProneCLIFlagsConfigTest fail because CompilationTestHelper recognizes a compiler crash only by its English banner. .github/workflows/matrix.mjs draws a pairwise-covering sample of four jobs with @vlsi/github-actions-random-matrix. One job is pinned to the configuration the Linux job ran before: it runs every test JVM, uploads coverage, and writes the Gradle cache. Every other job runs `test` and one JDK-specific test task, chosen through -PtestJdks, so a pull request runs each suite fewer times than before. The jobs also vary the JDK that runs Gradle (21 or 25) and its vendor, Semeru on OpenJ9 included; the identity-hash mode (-XX:hashCode=2); assertions (-da, since Gradle runs tests with -ea and javac does not); and the locale (tr_TR, ru_RU). de_DE, ja_JP and zh_CN wait for CompilationTestHelper to stop matching the English crash banner. The seed is the pull request number, so every push draws the same rows, and workflow_dispatch replays a given seed. Only the pinned job writes the Gradle cache, because setup-gradle keys its cache by the matrix row. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The point of the matrix is less to catch the problems NullAway has today than to keep new ones from landing. #1796 fixed the identity-hash dependencies that exist now, but nothing in CI would notice the next Today every PR runs each test suite 5 × 3 = 15 times: five test JVMs ( On the other axes:
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Each of the three jobs in the build matrix runs every test suite on all five test JVMs (
test,testJdk17,testJdk21,testJdk27,testJdk28), so a pull request runs each suite 15 times, and all of those runs share one locale, assertions on, and the JVM's default identity-hash mode. The configurations NullAway is sensitive to never run. #1780 was a diagnostic whose text depended on identity hash codes, and nothing in CI could have caught it. Underde_DE, four tests inErrorProneCLIFlagsConfigTestfail today: javac 21 prints its crash banner in German,CompilationTestHelperlooks for the EnglishAn exception has occurred in the compiler, and so a compilation in which NullAway fails to start passesdoTest.The point of the matrix is to keep such problems from landing, more than to find the ones that exist.
What
.github/workflows/matrix.mjsdraws a pairwise-covering sample of four jobs with @vlsi/github-actions-random-matrix. The job count is one number,MATRIX_JOBS; an axis changes what a job runs, not how many jobs there are.One job is pinned to the configuration the Linux job ran before (ubuntu, Temurin 25, default JVM flags): it runs every test JVM, uploads coverage, and writes the Gradle cache, so the coverage number stays comparable. Every other job runs
testand one JDK-specific test task, chosen through the new-PtestJdksproperty. With four jobs a pull request runs each suite 11 times instead of 15, and every job except the coverage job runs two suites instead of five.osjava_versiontesttest_jdktestErrorProneOldestjava_distributionhash-XX:hashCode=2, which makes aHashMapkeyed on a javacSymboliterate in insertion orderassertions-da): Gradle runs tests with-ea, while javac, and so a build that runs NullAway, does not, anddataflow-nullawayhasassertstatements in 106 classeslocalede_DE,ja_JPandzh_CNare left out untilCompilationTestHelperstops matching the English crash banner. Semeru is not combined with-XX:hashCode, which OpenJ9 accepts and ignores, and runs Gradle on 21 only, the combination checked with the compiler on Temurin 25.The seed is the pull request number, so every push draws the same rows;
workflow_dispatchreplays a given seed. Only the pinned job writes the Gradle cache, because setup-gradle keys its cache by the matrix row: on a pull request that changes nothing compiled, the windows and macos jobs no longer find cache entries of their own.How to verify
That prints the four rows a seed draws;
--coverageprints the pair coverage instead, 79 of 182 feasible pairs with four jobs and 91 with five. Forty seeds all satisfy the requirements.Locally,
:nullaway:testpasses with-XX:hashCode=2andru_RU, and with-daandtr_TR. The Semeru row passes as CI runs it: Gradle andteston Semeru 21.0.12,testJdk17andtestErrorProneOldeston Semeru 17.0.20, the compiler on Temurin 25.-PtestJdks=17skipstestJdk21,testJdk27andtestJdk28with the reason in--info.Scope
#1782 adds the compilation-unit-order check; it is on in every build, so this matrix does not carry it.
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