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CompilationTestHelper asserts line by line over the sources it was given: a line with a // BUG: Diagnostic contains: comment must carry a matching diagnostic, and a line without one must carry none. Two things fall outside that loop.

A diagnostic that names a line no source has. It is neither matched nor rejected, so no test can assert on it and none fails when it appears. That is not hypothetical here: #1725 and #1733 were both diagnostics attributed to the wrong compilation unit, and GenericInferenceErrorReportingTests pads its first source with twenty comment lines so that a misattributed diagnostic lands on a line that exists — a workaround for exactly this gap, written into a test.

The order the sources were handed to javac. It is not part of the program, so the report must not depend on it. The same two issues were about which compilation unit a diagnostic landed in.

What

AssertableDiagnostics fails a test when a diagnostic names a file outside the compiled sources, or a line past the end of the file it names. A summary note that javac reports against a file at NOPOS is left alone, since no line-based assertion is meant to reach one. It runs in the default test task, and the suite passes it today, so this is a gate against a regression rather than a backlog to work through.

SourceOrder compiles the sources a second time in the reverse order and requires the same diagnostics. Reversing catches this class of defect at one extra compilation per multi-file test, where every permutation would cost n!. It applies to every test that hands the compiler more than one file and needs nothing written per test.

It is on in the default test task. -PpermuteSources=false turns it off, for instance while debugging a multi-file test, where a breakpoint in NullAway is otherwise hit twice.

Both checks need the sources and the diagnostics of a compilation together, and CompilationTestHelper exposes neither and has no extension point for either, so it is vendored into the test source set. The copy is error_prone_test_helpers 2.50.0 with three additions, each marked with a NullAway: comment: two check calls in doTest, and a compile overload that takes the compilation units so doTest can compile them in another order. One upstream line changes because PreferredInterfaceType is an error in this build.

The test source set precedes its dependencies on the runtime classpath, so the copy is what the tests load — except in a task that deliberately prepends an Error Prone jar, testErrorProneOldest and testJdk17, which load the upstream class and run without the checks. VendoredCompilationTestHelperTest guards that: a suite that silently stopped checking something looks exactly like one with nothing to report.

If Error Prone grows an option for either check, the copy goes away. I am happy to send it upstream; this does not wait on that.

How to verify

./gradlew :nullaway:test

1136 tests, green, with both checks on. The 16 new tests are unit tests of the two checks themselves, not per-test permutation cases: a diagnostic on the last line passes, one past it fails, one in a file that was not compiled fails, a NOPOS note passes, and SourceOrder.compare reports what each order had that the other did not.

To confirm the vendored class is the one loaded, and that the assertable check runs on every doTest, make checkEveryDiagnosticIsAssertable throw unconditionally and run one class:

./gradlew :nullaway:test --tests "com.uber.nullaway.CoreTests"

All 46 fail. VendoredCompilationTestHelperTest covers the weaker form of this permanently.

For the permutation, make SourceOrder.compare throw when the two orders agree, then run a class with multi-file tests both ways:

./gradlew :nullaway:test --tests "com.uber.nullaway.jspecify.GenericInferenceErrorReportingTests"
./gradlew :nullaway:test -PpermuteSources=false --tests "com.uber.nullaway.jspecify.GenericInferenceErrorReportingTests"

By default the 3 multi-file tests of that class fail on the injected error. With -PpermuteSources=false none do, and the comparison never runs.

Cost

AssertableDiagnostics adds no measurable time: it counts the lines of each source once per compilation.

SourceOrder adds one compilation per multi-file test, in the default test task and not in the other test tasks. Measured on :nullaway:test, that is 2 to 3 seconds of wall time on a 10-core machine, or 13 to 20% of the CPU time of the suite.

Related

#1781 no longer turns the permutation on through its matrix: the check is on in every build, and the two changes are independent.

#1780 is the same line of work: the strict per-line variant of the first check needs a baseline and is not in this change.

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    • Standard Gradle test runs now check that diagnostics stay consistent when source files are compiled in a different order and that each diagnostic can be matched to a compiled source line.
    • Source-order permutation is enabled by default for the standard test task. Set -PpermuteSources=false to disable it. This setting does not affect other Gradle tasks.

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The change adds utilities and tests that validate diagnostic positions and compare diagnostics across source orders. It adds a vendored Error Prone CompilationTestHelper with NullAway-specific diagnostic validation and reversed-compilation behavior. The default Gradle test task sets nullaway.permute.sources from the permuteSources property, which defaults to true.

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The test harness has narrow gaps that can miss source-order changes or make failures harder to diagnose. These warrant follow-up, but do not change production analysis behavior or prevent merging with owner awareness.

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In `@nullaway/src/test/java/com/google/errorprone/CompilationTestHelper.java`:
- Around line 377-386: Update the SourceOrder validation block in
CompilationTestHelper so it runs after the expectedResult assertion and
validates the reversed compilation result matches the original result. Repeat
the existing crash checks for the reversed compile, while isolating or
preserving the original diagnostic and output state so failure reporting still
refers to the correct run.

In `@nullaway/src/test/java/com/uber/nullaway/tools/AssertableDiagnostics.java`:
- Line 118: Update line counting in AssertableDiagnostics so it counts
standalone carriage-return terminators while treating CRLF as a single line
break, then add coverage for CR-only source content producing a valid line-2
diagnostic.

In `@nullaway/src/test/java/com/uber/nullaway/tools/SourceOrder.java`:
- Around line 93-102: Update the diagnostic comparison failure logic in
SourceOrder to compute multiset differences, preserving duplicate occurrences
between asGiven and reversed rather than using removeAll. Ensure the
AssertionError message lists any excess copies present in either order,
including when only the counts differ.

In `@nullaway/src/test/java/com/uber/nullaway/tools/SourceOrderTest.java`:
- Around line 9-37: Add focused tests for SourceOrder.render using stub
Diagnostic instances, asserting normalized rendered entries for a trailing “see
http...” link, newline-containing messages, NOPOS line numbers, and extraction
of the source file name; also verify two rendered entries are sorted in the
expected order. Keep the existing SourceOrder.compare tests unchanged.

In
`@nullaway/src/test/java/com/uber/nullaway/tools/VendoredCompilationTestHelperTest.java`:
- Around line 22-31: Update VendoredCompilationTestHelperTest to skip the
jar-location check only when the nullaway.errorprone.jar.first system property
is enabled, using Assume.assumeTrue so the skip is reported; configure
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Comment on lines +377 to +386
// NullAway: the order of the compilation units is not part of the program, so the diagnostics
// must not depend on it. See SourceOrder.
if (SourceOrder.isEnabled() && sources.size() > 1) {
List<String> asGiven = SourceOrder.render(diagnosticHelper.getDiagnostics());
diagnosticHelper.clearDiagnostics();
List<JavaFileObject> reversed = new ArrayList<>(sources);
Collections.reverse(reversed);
Result unusedResult = compile(reversed);
SourceOrder.compare(asGiven, SourceOrder.render(diagnosticHelper.getDiagnostics()));
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Check the reversed compilation result, and move this block after the remaining assertions.

The reversed compilation runs before the expectedResult assertion and reuses diagnosticHelper and outputStream. Three gaps follow.

  1. Line 384 discards the result. An order-dependent compilation outcome, for example OK in one order and ERROR in the other, passes this check when the rendered diagnostics happen to match.
  2. The crash checks on lines 337-345 already ran. A crash that only the reversed order triggers is not reported as a crash. SourceOrder.render drops diagnostics with a null source or NOPOS, so a positionless crash diagnostic is dropped as well.
  3. Line 381 clears the first run's diagnostics, and the second compilation appends to outputStream. The failure message on lines 391-395 then reports the reversed run's diagnostics and the concatenated compiler output while asserting on the first run's result.

Assert that the reversed run produces the same result, repeat the crash checks for it, and place the block after the expectedResult assertion.

🛠️ Proposed fix
-    // NullAway: the order of the compilation units is not part of the program, so the diagnostics
-    // must not depend on it. See SourceOrder.
-    if (SourceOrder.isEnabled() && sources.size() > 1) {
-      List<String> asGiven = SourceOrder.render(diagnosticHelper.getDiagnostics());
-      diagnosticHelper.clearDiagnostics();
-      List<JavaFileObject> reversed = new ArrayList<>(sources);
-      Collections.reverse(reversed);
-      Result unusedResult = compile(reversed);
-      SourceOrder.compare(asGiven, SourceOrder.render(diagnosticHelper.getDiagnostics()));
-    }
-
     expectedResult.ifPresent(
         expected ->
             assertWithMessage(
                     "Expected compilation result %s, but was %s\n%s\n%s",
                     expected,
                     result,
                     Joiner.on('\n').join(diagnosticHelper.getDiagnostics()),
                     outputStream)
                 .that(result)
                 .isEqualTo(expected));
+
+    // NullAway: the order of the compilation units is not part of the program, so neither the
+    // diagnostics nor the result may depend on it. See SourceOrder.
+    if (SourceOrder.isEnabled() && sources.size() > 1) {
+      List<String> asGiven = SourceOrder.render(diagnosticHelper.getDiagnostics());
+      diagnosticHelper.clearDiagnostics();
+      List<JavaFileObject> reversed = new ArrayList<>(sources);
+      Collections.reverse(reversed);
+      Result reversedResult = compile(reversed);
+      for (Diagnostic<? extends JavaFileObject> diagnostic : diagnosticHelper.getDiagnostics()) {
+        if (diagnostic.getCode().contains("error.prone.crash")) {
+          fail("Crash with the compilation units reversed: " + diagnostic);
+        }
+      }
+      assertWithMessage("Reversing the order of the compilation units changed the result")
+          .that(reversedResult)
+          .isEqualTo(result);
+      SourceOrder.compare(asGiven, SourceOrder.render(diagnosticHelper.getDiagnostics()));
+    }
   }
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In `@nullaway/src/test/java/com/google/errorprone/CompilationTestHelper.java`
around lines 377 - 386, Update the SourceOrder validation block in
CompilationTestHelper so it runs after the expectedResult assertion and
validates the reversed compilation result matches the original result. Repeat
the existing crash checks for the reversed compile, while isolating or
preserving the original diagnostic and output state so failure reporting still
refers to the correct run.

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for (int i = 0; i < content.length() - 1; i++) {
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Java Language Specification line terminators CR LF CRLF diagnostic line number JavaFileObject

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According to the Java Language Specification (JLS), line terminators are defined to support various host system conventions while maintaining consistent line numbering [1][2]. The JLS defines a line terminator as any of the following ASCII character sequences [1][3]: * The ASCII LF character (Line Feed, '\n') [1][2] * The ASCII CR character (Carriage Return, '\r') [1][2] * The ASCII CR character followed by the ASCII LF character (CR LF, "\r\n") [1][3] When a Java compiler processes source code, it recognizes these sequences as line terminators [1][2]. Specifically, the CR LF sequence is counted as a single line terminator, not two [1][3]. For lexical processing, these terminators are normalized to the ASCII LF character [1][3]. Regarding diagnostic reporting, the javax.tools.Diagnostic interface is used to report issues at specific positions in a source file [4][5]. Line numbers in these diagnostics begin at 1 [4][6]. The getLineNumber method returns the line number associated with a specific character offset [4][7]. A position is defined as a zero-based character offset from the beginning of the file, while line and column numbers are one-based [4][5]. The compiler uses the line terminators defined in the JLS to determine these line numbers accurately across different file formats [1][2].

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Count CR line terminators.

If a source uses CR-only line terminators, the compiler can report a valid diagnostic on line 2, but lineCount counts only '\n', so whyUnassertable rejects it. Count CR terminators without double-counting CRLF, and add a CR-only source test.

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In `@nullaway/src/test/java/com/uber/nullaway/tools/AssertableDiagnostics.java` at
line 118, Update line counting in AssertableDiagnostics so it counts standalone
carriage-return terminators while treating CRLF as a single line break, then add
coverage for CR-only source content producing a valid line-2 diagnostic.

Comment on lines +93 to +102
List<String> onlyAsGiven = new ArrayList<>(asGiven);
onlyAsGiven.removeAll(reversed);
List<String> onlyReversed = new ArrayList<>(reversed);
onlyReversed.removeAll(asGiven);
throw new AssertionError(
"Reversing the order of the compilation units changed the diagnostics.\n"
+ "Only in the order the test gave:\n "
+ String.join("\n ", onlyAsGiven)
+ "\nOnly in the reversed order:\n "
+ String.join("\n ", onlyReversed));

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Report duplicate-count differences in the failure message.

render keeps one entry per diagnostic, so the same rendered string can appear more than once. removeAll removes every matching occurrence, not one per match. If asGiven holds a string twice and reversed holds it once, equals fails, but both diff lists become empty. The AssertionError then prints two empty sections and names no difference.

Use a count-based difference so the message identifies the change.

🛠️ Proposed fix using multiset differences
   public static void compare(List<String> asGiven, List<String> reversed) {
     if (asGiven.equals(reversed)) {
       return;
     }
-    List<String> onlyAsGiven = new ArrayList<>(asGiven);
-    onlyAsGiven.removeAll(reversed);
-    List<String> onlyReversed = new ArrayList<>(reversed);
-    onlyReversed.removeAll(asGiven);
+    List<String> onlyAsGiven = difference(asGiven, reversed);
+    List<String> onlyReversed = difference(reversed, asGiven);
     throw new AssertionError(
         "Reversing the order of the compilation units changed the diagnostics.\n"
             + "Only in the order the test gave:\n  "
             + String.join("\n  ", onlyAsGiven)
             + "\nOnly in the reversed order:\n  "
             + String.join("\n  ", onlyReversed));
   }
+
+  /** Returns the entries of {`@code` from} that {`@code` other} does not hold as many copies of. */
+  private static List<String> difference(List<String> from, List<String> other) {
+    List<String> remaining = new ArrayList<>(other);
+    List<String> result = new ArrayList<>();
+    for (String entry : from) {
+      if (!remaining.remove(entry)) {
+        result.add(entry);
+      }
+    }
+    return result;
+  }
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List<String> onlyAsGiven = new ArrayList<>(asGiven);
onlyAsGiven.removeAll(reversed);
List<String> onlyReversed = new ArrayList<>(reversed);
onlyReversed.removeAll(asGiven);
throw new AssertionError(
"Reversing the order of the compilation units changed the diagnostics.\n"
+ "Only in the order the test gave:\n "
+ String.join("\n ", onlyAsGiven)
+ "\nOnly in the reversed order:\n "
+ String.join("\n ", onlyReversed));
public static void compare(List<String> asGiven, List<String> reversed) {
if (asGiven.equals(reversed)) {
return;
}
List<String> onlyAsGiven = difference(asGiven, reversed);
List<String> onlyReversed = difference(reversed, asGiven);
throw new AssertionError(
"Reversing the order of the compilation units changed the diagnostics.\n"
"Only in the order the test gave:\n "
String.join("\n ", onlyAsGiven)
"\nOnly in the reversed order:\n "
String.join("\n ", onlyReversed));
}
/** Returns the entries of {@code from} that {@code other} does not hold as many copies of. */
private static List<String> difference(List<String> from, List<String> other) {
List<String> remaining = new ArrayList<>(other);
List<String> result = new ArrayList<>();
for (String entry : from) {
if (!remaining.remove(entry)) {
result.add(entry);
}
}
return result;
}
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In `@nullaway/src/test/java/com/uber/nullaway/tools/SourceOrder.java` around lines
93 - 102, Update the diagnostic comparison failure logic in SourceOrder to
compute multiset differences, preserving duplicate occurrences between asGiven
and reversed rather than using removeAll. Ensure the AssertionError message
lists any excess copies present in either order, including when only the counts
differ.

Comment on lines +9 to +37
public class SourceOrderTest {

@Test
public void equalDiagnosticsPass() {
SourceOrder.compare(
List.of("Test.java:3: a", "Other.java:1: b"), List.of("Test.java:3: a", "Other.java:1: b"));
}

@Test
public void aDiagnosticThatMovedToAnotherFileFails() {
List<String> asGiven = List.of("Test.java:3: a");
List<String> reversed = List.of("Other.java:3: a");
AssertionError error =
assertThrows(AssertionError.class, () -> SourceOrder.compare(asGiven, reversed));
assertThat(error)
.hasMessageThat()
.contains("Only in the order the test gave:\n Test.java:3: a");
assertThat(error).hasMessageThat().contains("Only in the reversed order:\n Other.java:3: a");
}

@Test
public void aDiagnosticThatAppearedOnlyInOneOrderFails() {
List<String> asGiven = List.of();
List<String> reversed = List.of("Test.java:3: a");
AssertionError error =
assertThrows(AssertionError.class, () -> SourceOrder.compare(asGiven, reversed));
assertThat(error).hasMessageThat().contains("Reversing the order of the compilation units");
}
}

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add coverage for SourceOrder.render.

The tests cover compare only. All normalization lives in render: the SEE_LINK regex, the whitespace collapse, the NOPOS and null-source filter, and the file-name extraction. testPermutedSources gates check, so a wrong SEE_LINK pattern would produce false failures in every multi-file test, and no test here would catch it.

Add tests that pass stub Diagnostic instances to render and assert the rendered entries. Cover a message with a trailing (see http...) link, a message with newlines, a diagnostic with NOPOS as the line number, and the sorted order of two entries.

I can generate these tests and the Diagnostic stub if you want.

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In `@nullaway/src/test/java/com/uber/nullaway/tools/SourceOrderTest.java` around
lines 9 - 37, Add focused tests for SourceOrder.render using stub Diagnostic
instances, asserting normalized rendered entries for a trailing “see http...”
link, newline-containing messages, NOPOS line numbers, and extraction of the
source file name; also verify two rendered entries are sorted in the expected
order. Keep the existing SourceOrder.compare tests unchanged.

Comment on lines +22 to +31
if (location.getPath().endsWith(".jar")) {
// A task that pins an older Error Prone; see the class comment.
return;
}
assertWithMessage(
"com.google.errorprone.CompilationTestHelper was loaded from %s, which is neither the"
+ " vendored copy in this source set nor an Error Prone jar",
location)
.that(location.getPath())
.contains("classes");

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Make the skip explicit, and tighten the assertion.

Line 22 skips the check for every jar location. The test cannot separate an expected jar, from testErrorProneOldest or testJdk17, from an unexpected jar that shadows the vendored copy in the ordinary test task. The class comment states the problem this test guards against, and this branch reproduces it: if vendoring breaks and a helpers jar wins, the test passes.

Key the skip on a property that only the jar-prepending tasks set, and use Assume.assumeTrue so the skip appears in the test report.

Line 31 also accepts any directory whose path contains classes. Assert the test source set output segment instead.

🛠️ Proposed fix
   `@Test`
   public void theVendoredHelperIsTheOneOnTheClasspath() {
+    // A task that pins an older Error Prone sets this; see the class comment.
+    Assume.assumeFalse(Boolean.getBoolean("nullaway.errorprone.jar.first"));
     URL location = CompilationTestHelper.class.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation();
-    if (location.getPath().endsWith(".jar")) {
-      // A task that pins an older Error Prone; see the class comment.
-      return;
-    }
     assertWithMessage(
             "com.google.errorprone.CompilationTestHelper was loaded from %s, which is not the"
                 + " vendored copy in this source set",
             location)
         .that(location.getPath())
-        .contains("classes");
+        .contains("classes/java/test");
   }

testErrorProneOldest and testJdk17 then need systemProperty 'nullaway.errorprone.jar.first', 'true' in nullaway/build.gradle.

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In
`@nullaway/src/test/java/com/uber/nullaway/tools/VendoredCompilationTestHelperTest.java`
around lines 22 - 31, Update VendoredCompilationTestHelperTest to skip the
jar-location check only when the nullaway.errorprone.jar.first system property
is enabled, using Assume.assumeTrue so the skip is reported; configure
testErrorProneOldest and testJdk17 to set that property. Tighten the directory
assertion to require the exact test source-set output segment rather than any
path containing classes.

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… systems

The `build` job ran one row per operating system, all on Temurin 25, in the
runner's locale, with the JVM's default identity-hash mode. Three axes NullAway
is sensitive to were therefore held constant.

`.github/workflows/matrix.mjs` builds the rows with
@vlsi/github-actions-random-matrix, which picks a pairwise-covering sample of a
fixed size. Seven jobs cover the product of operating system, JDK version, JDK
distribution, locale, identity-hash mode, and compilation-unit order; `require`
pins ubuntu on Temurin 25 (the row that uploads coverage), every operating
system, the oldest and the newest supported JDK, one job with degenerate
identity hash codes, and one job with reversed compilation units.

`-XX:hashCode=2` makes every identity hash the constant 1, so a HashMap keyed on
a javac Symbol degenerates to insertion order. NullAway keys several on one, and
the reported type variable in an inference-failure diagnostic already depends on
that order (uber#1780).

`permuteSources` reverses the compilation units of each multi-file test and
requires the same diagnostics. The check itself arrives with uber#1782; the property
is inert until then.

The locale and the hash mode reach the test JVMs through the
`testExtraJvmArgs` project property rather than the Gradle daemon, because
Gradle does not run in tr_TR (gradle/gradle#17361).

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Hi @vlsi again I'm concerned this is a bit excessive given the rareness of this kind of issue cropping up, and also about the cost of slowing down CI. Will need to think this over.

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… systems

The `build` job ran one row per operating system, all on Temurin 25, in the
runner's locale, with the JVM's default identity-hash mode and assertions off.
Several axes NullAway is sensitive to were therefore held constant.

`.github/workflows/matrix.mjs` builds the rows with
@vlsi/github-actions-random-matrix, which picks a pairwise-covering sample of a
fixed size. Eight jobs cover the product of operating system, the JDK that runs
Gradle, JDK distribution, locale, identity-hash mode, assertions, and
compilation-unit order, which is 85% of the feasible pairs.

`require` pins the row the fixed matrix already ran, every operating system, both
JDKs the build runs on, one job with degenerate identity hash codes, one with
assertions on, and one with reversed compilation units.

The seed comes from the pull request number, so every push to a pull request
draws the same rows and a failure that lands on an exotic one does not vanish on
the next commit. `workflow_dispatch` takes a seed, so a run can be drawn again;
the generator writes the seed it used to the job summary.

The JDK axis starts at 21, because build.gradle refuses to run Gradle on
anything older. Nothing is lost: `check` depends on testJdk17, testJdk21,
testJdk26 and testJdk28, so every row runs the suite on all four through
toolchains. The distribution reaches those toolchains rather than only
`JAVA_HOME`, so the axis varies the JDK the tests run on and not just the one
that launches them.

`-XX:hashCode=2` makes every identity hash the constant 1, so a HashMap keyed on
a javac Symbol degenerates to insertion order. NullAway keys several on one, and
the reported type variable in an inference-failure diagnostic already depends on
that order (uber#1780).

`-ea` turns on the assertions in javac, in the Checker Framework dataflow
library, and in NullAway itself, and costs only the jobs that carry it.

`permuteSources` reverses the compilation units of each multi-file test and
requires the same diagnostics. The check itself arrives with uber#1782; the property
is inert until then.

The locale and the JVM flags reach the test JVMs through the `testExtraJvmArgs`
project property rather than the Gradle daemon, because Gradle does not run in
tr_TR (gradle/gradle#17361).

Windows and macOS rows are weighted down, since GitHub bills them at twice and
ten times the Linux rate and both are slower per job. Only the pinned row writes
the Gradle cache, and only on master: setup-gradle hashes the matrix into its
key, so every other row would write an entry no later run can match. A failing
job uploads its test reports, because the rows it failed on are drawn per run.

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about the cost of slowing down CI

Could you please clarify the exact concern? I don't understand what does bother you.

excessive given the rareness of this kind of issue cropping up,

The issue of "different diagnostics depending on the order of compilation units" does happen (AFAIK there were some recently), and adding "execute the same tests in reverse order of units" seems a cheep way to have extra test coverage.

The beauty of metamorphic testing is that it generates tests automatically: the next time you add a test with multiple compilation units it would automatically execute the test with units reversed to check if the test still succeeds.

If you ever want to revert it (why?), that would be trivial: you revert the logic that reverses compilation units and that is it. You don't have to review all the tests.

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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.

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… does not matter

CompilationTestHelper asserts line by line over the sources it was given, so a
diagnostic that names a line past the end of its file, or a file that was not
compiled as a source, falls outside the loop: no test can assert on it and none
fails when it appears. uber#1725 and uber#1733 were both diagnostics attributed to the
wrong compilation unit, and GenericInferenceErrorReportingTests pads its first
source with twenty comment lines so that a misattributed diagnostic lands on a
line that exists.

AssertableDiagnostics closes that gap for every test. It runs in the default
test task, and the suite passes it today.

SourceOrder covers the other half of the same defect class: every test that
compiles more than one file is compiled a second time with its compilation units
reversed, and the diagnostics must match. Nothing is written per test. It is on
in the default test task, where it cost 2 to 3 seconds of wall time on a 10-core
machine, 13 to 20% of the suite's CPU time. -PpermuteSources=false turns it off,
for instance while debugging, since a breakpoint in NullAway is hit once per
compilation.

Both hook CompilationTestHelper, which has no extension point for either, so the
class is vendored into the test source set with three marked additions.
VendoredCompilationTestHelperTest guards the classpath order the copy relies on.

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Preserve the source path when rendering diagnostics.

If two compilation units have the same filename in different directories, fileName gives both diagnostics the same identity. A diagnostic that moves between those files can then produce the same rendered list in both compilations. compare will miss the source-order change. Render a stable source path that distinguishes the compilation units.

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