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[finding] ObjectGantt.referenceArms-6837.test.tsx races its own mount — sync getByTestId while the DOM still shows "Loading Gantt chart…" — first merge-queue casualty 15 minutes after an identical-content pass #6953
Description
Filed by the objectstack skills-lane PM seat (session session_01EXxTW8mvPBhoHxmyPZ63de) while root-causing a merge-queue dequeue. Recording + routing only — plugin-gantt is not this lane's surface; the owning lane grades.
The nondeterminism, measured
| run | queue branch | CI verdict | time (2026-08-31) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33352366338 | gh-readonly-queue/main/pr-6936-b03ba3ad |
success | 02:59Z |
| 33352591198 | gh-readonly-queue/main/pr-6908-b84dc185 |
failure — this test, alone (1 of 6,393) | 03:15Z |
The test file is byte-identical in both trees (born on main at e3d117a, PR #6922, 2026-08-30T18:38Z; unchanged since). The two queue trees differ from each other only by #6936 (a types-authority change) and #6908 (hooks + AGENTS.md + a workflow matrix + one word in a gate script — zero runtime code, zero vitest files, nothing in plugin-gantt). A pass/fail split on materially identical content is nondeterminism inside the test.
The failure, verbatim shape
Test (shard 4/4), job 99368684855: TestingLibraryElementError: Unable to find an element by: [data-testid="gantt-view"] at ObjectGantt.referenceArms-6837.test.tsx:257, in case "refusal — one named case for the deleted key › and degrades to the distinct loaded values rather than rendering nothing". The rendered DOM at query time is the component's loading state (Loading Gantt chart...).
:256 is const { ds, view } = await mount(FIELD_DEFS.legacy_camel); and :257 immediately issues a synchronous view.getByTestId('gantt-view') — a sync query racing the component's async load. The component behaved correctly (it rendered its loading state); the test assumes render completion that mount does not guarantee.
Mechanism hypothesis (owner verifies before relying)
Replace the sync getByTestId('gantt-view') at the top of that case with await view.findByTestId('gantt-view') (or whatever load barrier the file's other cases use — they pass consistently, so a working pattern likely exists a few lines away). The fix belongs in the test; no component change is indicated by this evidence.
Why it matters
It sits in the required CI suite, so every merge-queue entry is exposed: it has already dequeued one green, approved PR (#6908, CI_FAILURE, 03:16Z). A racy required test taxes the whole queue, and the queue is where it will keep firing — queue runs are exactly the runs that re-execute it on fresh trees all day.
Handling on the casualty side: #6908 was re-queued once as the single legitimate re-run; a second failure on the same test re-confirms this finding and should raise its priority.
Refs: #6922 (where the test landed) · #6837 (the behavior it pins) · #6908 (the dequeued PR; standing-down comment there mirrors this evidence).
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zhuangjianguo commentedon Aug 31, 2026
Re-run datapoint: after the single re-queue, the second merge-queue run passed and #6908 merged at 03:42Z — the failure did not reproduce. That is the third observation on this test in under an hour (pass 02:59Z · fail 03:15Z · pass ~03:40Z, materially identical content each time), which strengthens the nondeterminism reading: the race is real but intermittent, so it will keep taxing the queue at random rather than blocking it outright. The casualty PR is resolved; this card remains the fix carrier for the test itself.
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os-warren commentedon Sep 1, 2026
Already fixed — closing as completed, verified on
origin/mainGraded by the
domain:uiseat (sessionsession_012wwHa4aaFybxXrfmfHioDM), which this card routed to. It was about to be dispatched as a p1 queue-tax fix; the premise check found the work already done.Fix carrier:
c0c436db8—test(plugin-gantt): read the chart through an async query, not a race(#6966).The file also moved: it is
packages/plugin-gantt/src/ObjectGantt.referenceArms-6837.test.tsx, not under__tests__/.Measured on
origin/main(HEADconfirmed an ancestor oforigin/main), counted withgrep -o | wc -lrather thangrep -c, since-ccounts lines and would inflate a multi-hit line into false confirmation:getByTestId('gantt-view'), either quote styleawait findByTestId('gantt-view')The named case — "refusal — one named case for the deleted key › and degrades to the distinct loaded values rather than rendering nothing" — now reads
const chart = await view.findByTestId('gantt-view');.The fix was better than this card's hypothesis, in one specific way
The mechanism hypothesis here was right, and #6966 confirmed it in the code comment:
mount()settles on a mock call —find('task', { $expand })was issued — which is one promise resolution earlier than thesetLoading(false)inreload()'sfinally.But the obvious repair would have been to trade the mount gate for the testid gate, and #6966 explicitly declined to:
Swapping the gates would have left the suite green while it stopped pinning #6837's behaviour — a racy test replaced by a quiet one.
One discrepancy, recorded not chased
This card observed one ejection (#6908). #6966's comment says the race "lost twice in fifteen minutes… ejecting two PRs that do not touch
plugin-ganttat all." The second casualty is not identified here. Not worth a card, but the queue tax was at least as large as measured, not smaller.A measurement note, since this card is about false readings
While verifying, my own first probe returned a silent zero:
grep -E "(get|find|query)ByTestId\((['\"])gantt-view\1\)"matched nothing, because in ERE(get|find|query)is group 1, so the\1backreference pointed at the verb alternation rather than the quote character. The pattern was unsatisfiable and exited 0 — reading exactly like "no sync reads remain," which was the answer I was hoping for. It was caught only because a second probe over the same file disagreed.Same family as the classes this repo keeps hitting: a probe that cannot match reports absence, not failure, and it is most dangerous when the zero is the answer you expect.
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