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Problem

  • bun test --reporter=junit drops every failure that is not a finished test. A file that fails to load exits 1, but the report says failures="0". When every file fails, no report exists.
  • The counting sites record nothing: on_uncaught_exception (src/runtime/test_runner/bun_test.rs:1317), the load path (src/runtime/cli/test_command.rs:2938), the --parallel coordinator (Coordinator.rs:737).
  • A build or resolve error never reaches the capture hook (src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs:6036), so its <failure> is empty.

Fix

  • Each site now also records a failed <testcase>: (load error), (describe callback), (unhandled error), (aborted). The error is captured while it prints, now also for build and resolve errors.
  • A --parallel worker sends the record as a TestDone frame with no console line. A file no worker took gets no record, so a report reader runs it again (ci: run the fast, non-flaky test files as one bun test --parallel batch per shard #36175).
  • Verified: test/js/junit-reporter/junit.test.js (8 new tests), parallel-non-test-failures.test.ts, runner-junit.test.ts. Console output equals main on 8 fixtures.
  • Self-reviewed: 7 concerns raised, 7 addressed.

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Downsides

  • A CI that reads the report turns red for these runs. The exit code was 1 before.
  • Per finished test: 0 more instructions, 1 more with --reporter=junit in nested describe blocks. Per printed build or resolve error: 7 more.
  • Release text: +7,936 bytes (size).
Notes
  • This was a stack of three PRs. It is one PR now: bun test --reporter=junit: fill <failure> for a test that fails with a build or resolve error #44434 (the capture hook for build and resolve errors) is its first commit. The refactor that makes the two failure counters private (bun test: count a failure that is not a finished test only through fail_file #44436) is closed. It changes no output, and its branch robobun/3eab222d/test-fail-file stays if a maintainer wants it.
  • It replaces bun test: record load errors and unhandled errors in the JUnit report #36218, which the stale sweep closed. That PR wrote <error> elements and an errors= attribute. bun's CI parser (parseJunitFileSuites in scripts/buildkite.ts) reads only failures=, so it would read a file that failed to load as passed.
  • Repro: three test files. One is throw new Error("top-level-throw"), one is const x = ;, one has a describe() whose callback throws beside one passing test. main prints 1 pass, 2 fail, 3 errors, exits 1, and writes tests="1" failures="0". This PR prints the same and writes tests="4" failures="3".
  • Where each record goes:
    • (load error): in the suite of the file. The load path sets a marker before it reports the rejection, so the unhandled-error path gives the record this name.
    • (describe callback): in the suite of the describe block whose callback threw or rejected, with its line.
    • (unhandled error): beside the test of the sequence that runs. In the suite of the file when tests run concurrently, when only hooks run, and for a rejection that nothing handles while a describe callback waits.
    • (aborted): in the suite of the file, after the tests the file finished.
    • (worker crashed): as before. The coordinator's record moves from crashed_files to a slot on FileTestRecords.
  • Build and resolve errors: before, <failure type="Error" />. After, <failure type="BuildMessage" message="Unexpected ;">BuildMessage: Unexpected ; and at broken.js:1:11. print_error_instance_body reports to the inspector, calls the capture hook and prints a GitHub annotation. This PR adds only the hook call for the two classes (bun test: emit one anchored GitHub Actions annotation per failed test #41876 is open for the annotations). <failure> has one frame and not the notes of the message. An error that require() or Bun.resolveSync() throws already had its type, message and frames on main.
  • Console output does not change. On 8 fixtures stdout, stderr and the exit code equal main. The XML differs in the 6 fixtures that have such a failure. The 5-file repro under --parallel=2: the sorted stderr lines equal main's in 10 of 10 runs.
  • The seven concerns of the self-review and what changed:
    1. An earlier draft also changed the exit for a file the loader cannot resolve. That is gone. bun test: report a test file or preload the loader cannot resolve instead of exiting; keep the JUnit report valid UTF-8 #38273 owns that path.
    2. An earlier draft placed (unhandled error) with a walk over every running test, also with no reporter. Now the place is the one running test or the file, and it is computed only when the reporter is on. Probe: 12,000 concurrent tests that each leak a rejection use 0.15 to 0.19 s of user CPU with no reporter, on main and here. With the reporter: 0.18 to 0.20 s.
    3. The docs said each failure has a testcase. They now say that a file no worker started has no suite.
    4. The refactor that makes the two counters private was first in the stack. It is out of this PR.
    5. The name (describe callback) came from the phase of the runner. It is now only for the throw or the rejection of the callback itself.
    6. bun:test: remove unsafe from the test runner #40235 removes unsafe from the test runner. This PR adds one NonNull::as_ref there (the test entry of the running sequence). The parent walk in describe_chain is the one test_case_report had.
    7. The capture hook is one of three observers of a printed error. See the note on build and resolve errors.
  • worker_emit_test_done, encode_test_case and describe_chain are #[inline(always)]. With a second caller LLVM moved them out of Execution::advance_sequence: +84 instructions per finished test in a worker and +26 with the reporter on.
  • The numbers below are from release builds of the merge base f4d755a9cf and of commit 1f51c493c3. The commit after it changes only the path of an error outside a test.
  • Instructions per finished test in the test runner, main and this PR. Tests at file level: 1,607 and 1,607 with no reporter, 2,412 and 2,412 with --reporter=junit, 1,923 and 1,922 in a --parallel worker. Tests in two nested describe blocks: 1,749 and 1,749, 3,000 and 3,001, 2,292 and 2,292. The count is the number of guest instructions qemu-user executes inside the functions of the test runner (-one-insn-per-tb -d exec,nochain -dfilter <ranges>), for 1,100 empty tests minus 100, divided by 1,000. perf, valgrind, strace and bloaty are not installed on the machine I used.
  • print_error_from_maybe_private_data with no hook installed: 89 instructions for one printed BuildMessage on main, 96 here (90 and 97 for a missing import). The two functions add 1,125 bytes (nm -S).
  • mimalloc entry calls, main and this PR: 50,901 and 50,901 for 1,100 passing tests with the reporter on. With no reporter: 6,996 and 6,996 for 200 throwing describe blocks, 8,786 and 8,786 for 200 unhandled errors. With the reporter on, a record costs 15 calls (describe callback) or 8 (unhandled error).
  • fd 3 of a --parallel worker. Error-free fixture: the same frames and 778 bytes without the console lines on both builds. 5-file repro: 4 more TestDone frames, 703 bytes.
  • Error-free XML, main against this PR, time and hostname masked: 0 differing lines over 7 documents (213 lines). No pinned snapshot changes.
  • Release text (size): main 80,705,363, this PR 80,713,299. FileTestRecords grows from 32 to 40 bytes, one per test file of a --parallel run. FileFailureRecord is 88 bytes, boxed, for a crashed or aborted file only.
  • What scripts/runner.node.ts concludes from the report. 5-file repro under --parallel=2: the four failing files are failed (main: all four have no suite and run again as incomplete). A worker panic with three files in flight under --parallel=4: the two files with no failure of their own run again alone (main reads the one with a finished test as passed), the file with a failed test stays failed, and the file no worker took has no suite.
  • Not changed: a run with no record writes no file and leaves an old report in place (bun test --parallel: send coverage and test results to the coordinator as data, not rendered LCOV/XML #40678). process.exit() inside a test file writes no report.
  • Open PRs that touch the same functions: bun test: report a test file or preload the loader cannot resolve instead of exiting; keep the JUnit report valid UTF-8 #38273, bun:test: remove unsafe from the test runner #40235, bun test: fail the test or hook whose done() received an error #39112, bun test: write coverage reports when --bail stops the run #38265, bun test --parallel: keep line= attributes in the merged JUnit report #39329, bun test: exit 1 when the JUnit report cannot be written, create its parent directory #41466, bun test: apply every --reporter flag, reject --reporter-outfile without junit #41881, bun test: keep collecting a file's tests when an unhandled error lands during collection #42056, bun test: identify failed hooks and their files #43843.

…a build or resolve error

BuildMessage and ResolveMessage print from their Msg, so
print_error_instance_body never ran for them and the hook that captures
an error for the JUnit report never fired. A test that rejected with a
syntax error or a missing module got <failure type="Error" /> with no
message.

print_error_from_maybe_private_data now calls the hook, when one is
installed, with the class name, the message text and one frame made from
the message's location.
A file that fails to load, a describe callback that throws, an error
that no running test owns and a file aborted by a worker panic are
counted on the console and make the run exit 1, but the JUnit report had
no testcase for them. A run where every file fails to load wrote no
report.

Each site that counts such a failure now also records a failed testcase:
- (load error): the module of the file rejected. The load path marks the
  rejection it reports, so the unhandled-error path gives the record
  this name.
- (describe callback): in the suite of the describe whose callback
  threw, at its line.
- (unhandled error): beside the test that runs when one test runs, so
  the suite of its describe stays in one piece. Under no describe when
  tests run concurrently.
- (aborted): a file that was running when another worker panicked.
A file that no worker took still has no suite.

The error is captured while it is printed, as for a failing test. A
serial run records the testcase directly and a --parallel worker sends
it as a TestDone frame with no console line. The coordinator keeps its
own record for a file in a slot on FileTestRecords, which replaces
crashed_files. Console output and the counts do not change.

worker_emit_test_done, encode_test_case and the describe walk that
test_case_report now shares are inline(always): with a second caller
they would otherwise leave the per-test path.

scripts/runner.node.ts keeps a file whose only failure is (aborted) in
the set it runs again alone.
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Status: ready for review. One PR against main. It holds what #44434 had (now closed). The optional refactor #44436 is closed.

How I reproduced it: three test files. One is throw new Error("top-level-throw"). One is const x = ;. One has a describe() whose callback throws, beside one test that passes. Run bun test --reporter=junit --reporter-outfile=junit.xml.

  • main: the console says 1 pass, 2 fail, 3 errors and the exit code is 1. The report root says tests="1" failures="0".
  • this PR: the same console and exit code. The report root says tests="4" failures="3", with two (load error) testcases and one (describe callback) testcase.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):

  • 🟡 src/runtime/cli/test_command.rs — nit: the SAFETY comment on record_cb is now inaccurate for maintainers reading the unsafe deref. It says ctx is always &mut CommandLineReporter.test_failure, but on_uncaught_exception now also passes a pointer to its stack local unhandled_detail (src/runtime/test_runner/bun_test.rs:1308). Fix: state both targets and the invariant that keeps the stack pointer valid, namely that the hook is cleared at bun_test.rs:1336-1337 before on_uncaught_exception returns. [also at: src/runtime/test_runner/bun_test.rs:1308 - nit: maintainers reading the SAFETY comment on TestFailure::record_cb now get a false ownership claim. The comment at src/runtime/cli/test_command.rs:416-418 says ctx "was set to &mut CommandLineReporter.test_failure", but bun_test.rs:1308 now points it at the stack local unhandled_detail for unhandled errors.]

    Why this was flagged

    An unhandled error with --reporter=junit on reaches on_uncaught_exception (src/runtime/test_runner/bun_test.rs:1290-1312). With unhandled true the code sets failure_ctx to core::ptr::from_mut(&mut unhandled_detail), a stack local, and installs TestFailure::record_cb as vm.on_print_error_zig_exception (bun_test.rs:1330-1332). record_cb dereferences ctx under a SAFETY comment at src/runtime/cli/test_command.rs:416-418 that claims the pointer was set to &mut CommandLineReporter.test_failure. On the base branch that claim was true because the unhandled statuses got a null ctx. After the change the comment names the wrong object for the new path and does not mention the condition that makes a stack pointer sound (the hook is nulled at bun_test.rs:1335-1338 before the local dies). The code itself is sound; only the comment is stale, which the repository's review rules call out for SAFETY comments.

    Verification: The comment at /home/claude/bun/src/runtime/cli/test_command.rs:416-418 still reads "SAFETY: ctx was set to &mut CommandLineReporter.test_failure", but failure_ctx is now a pointer to the stack local unhandled_detail (bun_test.rs:1308) whenever unhandled is true. The deref is still sound: the hook and ctx are cleared at bun_test.rs:1336-1337 before the frame returns.

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The test runner records load errors, describe-callback errors, unhandled errors, worker crashes, and aborted files in JUnit reports. Parallel recovery classifies aborted suites as incomplete, and build and resolve messages can reach the configured exception hook.

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JUnit failure reporting and parallel recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Build and resolve exception hook
src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs, src/jsc/ZigException.rs
Build and resolve messages are converted to ZigException values with optional source locations. The configured hook receives them when side effects are allowed.
Capture failures outside completed tests
src/runtime/cli/test_command.rs, src/runtime/test_runner/bun_test.rs, src/runtime/test_runner/jest.rs, test/js/junit-reporter/junit.test.js, docs/test/reporters.mdx
The reporter records load, describe-callback, and unhandled failures as named JUnit cases. Tests and documentation cover their attribution, counts, and report behavior.
Record and replay parallel file failures
src/runtime/cli/test/parallel/Coordinator.rs, src/runtime/cli/test/parallel/aggregate.rs, src/runtime/cli/test/parallel/runner.rs, test/cli/test/parallel-non-test-failures.test.ts
The coordinator stores worker-crash and aborted failures with file records. Replay emits each recorded failure as a JUnit case. Tests cover worker panics and coordinator termination.
Classify aborted suites for bucket recovery
scripts/buildkite.ts, scripts/runner.node.ts, test/internal/runner-junit.test.ts
Buildkite recovery treats missing or aborted JUnit suites as incomplete. Tests distinguish aborted-only suites from suites with independent failures or worker-crash cases.

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The test’s timed wait should be replaced with condition-based synchronization. This is a bounded test-quality issue, not an established production blocker.

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…not (describe callback)

A rejection that nothing handles arrives through on_unhandled_rejection.
While a describe callback waited, its record got the name
(describe callback) and the line of that describe, although the callback
did not throw. BunTest::on_stray_rejection now tells the record path
that the error is not the result of the callback in flight.

(unhandled error) goes beside the test entry of the running sequence
only. A sequence with no test gets it under no describe.

FailureSite is Copy, and the comparison with the root scope borrows it
first: clippy::needless_pass_by_value and clippy::borrow_as_ptr.

The SAFETY comment of TestFailure::record_cb names both targets of the
hook.

Tests: the build-error test keeps stderr and asserts the counts first.
runJunit asserts the summary line before it reads the report. The
--parallel parity test starts its two runs at the same time.
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Updated 11:07 PM PT - Oct 2nd, 2026

✅ @robobun, your commit bd6b6bb531b7ec90a724937eadc7dbee255ac378 passed in Build #123154! 🎉


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 44435

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-44435 executable, so you can run:

bun-44435 --bun

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

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The SAFETY comment of TestFailure::record_cb now names both targets of the hook (CommandLineReporter.test_failure and the local of on_uncaught_exception) and says that on_uncaught_exception clears the hook before it returns (a0351d9).

Two lines: why the file is separate from parallel.test.ts, and why its
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import { describe, test } from "bun:test";
describe("waits", async () => {
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Replace the timed wait with condition-based synchronization.

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@Jarred-Sumner looking forward to seeing this shipped so we can improve our agent autofixing PRs at Tines

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I'll close out my related PR once this is merged

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Superseded by #44833.

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