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Problem

  • bun test --reporter=junit can write one describe block as two <testsuite> elements with the same name and line. On main, afterEach(done => done(err)) in d {a, b} gives d {a} and d {b}. 1.4.4 gives one d. bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833 (unreleased) made that error a <testcase> of the file.
  • Concurrent tests of two blocks that end interleaved do the same since 1.2.23.
  • Cause: JunitReporter::record_test_case (src/runtime/cli/test_command.rs) ends a block's <testsuite> when the next <testcase> belongs elsewhere.

Fix

  • The writer keeps the open file's blocks as a tree and writes their <testsuite> elements when the file ends.
  • It finds a block's suite by a key (run of the file, address of the scope). --parallel workers send the key on the TestDone frame.
  • No report of Bun's 3,545 test files changes.
  • Verified: test/js/junit-reporter/junit.test.js (4 new tests, all fail on main). Also parallel.test.ts, runner-junit.test.ts. Self-reviewed: 24 concerns raised, 22 addressed.

Background

  • Tests and errors outside of a test reach the writer through record_test_case. A --parallel coordinator replays its workers' records through it.
  • Two blocks with one name share a <testsuite> when nothing is between them in the report. Every release does that, and it stays.
  • Considered: hold only the (unhandled error) case. The concurrent split stays.

Downsides

  • With the reporter on, the cases of a file's blocks wait for the file to end: 2.3 MB for 20,000 tests, max RSS +5.6 MB. --rerun-each=N holds N runs.
  • Release binary: .text +4,352 bytes. A TestDone frame grows 12 bytes per enclosing block.
Notes

Where this comes from

  • An automated fuzz note found it. No issue exists, and no user reported the concurrent split since 1.2.23 (checked here on 1.2.23, 1.3.13, 1.4.2 and 1.4.4).
  • docs/test/reporters.mdx says that each describe block becomes a <testsuite>. The note asked for one <testsuite> per block, or for a docs line that a block can come in parts.
  • The hook-error split is a regression against 1.4.4: git merge-base --is-ancestor 9e76acc6fb bun-v1.4.4 fails.

Repro

// bun test --reporter=junit --reporter-outfile=./r.xml ./a.test.ts
import { describe, test, expect, afterEach } from "bun:test";
describe("d", () => {
  afterEach(done => { done(new Error("zz hook")); });
  test("a", () => { expect(1).toBe(1); });
  test("b", () => { expect(1).toBe(1); });
});
Build Elements of the report, in order
1.3.13, 1.4.2, 1.4.4 file tests=2 failures=0: d {a, b}
main b1305dd file tests=4 failures=2: (unhandled error), d {a}, (unhandled error), d {b}
this PR file tests=4 failures=2: (unhandled error), d {a, b}, (unhandled error)

Two blocks a {a1, a2} and b {b1} of test.concurrent that end in the order a1, b1, a2: a {a1}, b {b1}, a {a2} on 1.2.23, 1.3.13, 1.4.2, 1.4.4 and main. a {a1, a2}, b {b1} with this PR.

What the code does

  • test_case_report gives each enclosing block a BlockKey: BunTestRoot::file_generation and the address of the DescribeScope. The writer only compares keys. --rerun-each builds the blocks again for each run and can get the same addresses, so the run is part of the key.
  • DescribeBlocks holds one suite per block, the rendered <testcase> elements in one buffer that is reused for every file, and for each suite the list of its children in the order reported.
  • A case of the file itself is streamed as before until the file's first block has a suite. After that it is held at its place among the blocks. That is where (unhandled error) goes.
  • end_test_suite (end of file, switch of file, --bail through write_to_file) writes the tree depth first. Each opening tag is written once with its final counts, so the splice per describe suite is gone.
  • The file's own <testsuite> and the flat form keep the streaming code. The flat form writes the same bytes.
  • A describe suite has the timestamp of the run in which its block first reported. That matters for --rerun-each, where each run has its own start.
  • The headroom that Frame::str leaves for the fixed part of a frame goes from 4096 to 8192 bytes. The keys add up to 768 bytes to that part.
  • Deleted: SuiteInfo (now FileSuite), JunitReporter::suite_stack, current_depth, begin_test_suite_with_line with its is_file_suite flag, and the loop in record_test_case that ended and started suites. write_test_case and write_failure take the buffer to write to.

Not in this PR: one <testsuite> per describe() call

  • Main joins two blocks with one name when nothing else is reported between them. This PR keeps that in DescribeBlocks::suite_of: a block joins the suite before it in its parent when that suite has its name. So no report of a file without the bug changes.
  • Without the rule, each describe() call has its own <testsuite>, as in the junit reporter of Node v26.3.0. Then 18 of Bun's 3,545 test files change (rows of describe.each with one title, a function that calls describe, one name at two call sites), and under --rerun-each=N a block around the whole file becomes N suites.
  • That is a change of released output that needs a maintainer's yes. It is a small follow-up on this branch: remove the rule, change the expectations of two tests.
  • Known limit of the rule: with concurrent tests, two blocks with one name join or not by the order in which the blocks first report.

Other designs

  • A docs line that a block can come in parts. It contradicts the sentence that bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833 added in three places.
  • Hold only the file-level case. It fixes the bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833 half and leaves the released concurrent split.
  • Replay a file's records in schedule order through the streaming writer. An (unhandled error) has no place in the schedule, a serial run would hold every record, and the cases of a concurrent block would move from the order reported to source order.
  • A tree keyed by (parent, name, line). It joins blocks that main writes apart: test/js/web/fetch/body-stream.test.ts goes from 3,539 describe suites to 65.
  • An ordinal per block set by the runner. Every bun test run pays for it, with or without the reporter.

Tests

  • "whatever the order of the tests and of the errors outside of a test": seven fixtures, serial, --parallel=2 and flat. The flat report pins the order in which the cases were reported. The nested report pins one suite per block, (unhandled error) as a case of the file, and which blocks with one name join. The --parallel document equals the serial one, and the test files load in worker processes.
  • "in every order in which the tests of three blocks can end": all 24 orders of four gated concurrent tests in a, a > inner and b. It checks each suite once and the suite of each case.
  • "with --rerun-each, ...": runs with ASAN's quarantine off, so that a block of the second run gets an address of the first run. It also pins that a block has the timestamp of its own run.
  • Every report of these tests is parsed as XML.
  • "when --bail ends the run inside it": the run ends while the cases of two blocks are held.
  • Two clauses were removed in turn on a debug build to see a test fail: a shared key that is not recorded fails the first test, and a key without the run fails the --rerun-each test. An earlier build of this branch had no rule for two blocks with one name. It wrote the each and twice blocks of the first test as two suites each.
  • The four tests fail on a debug build of main and on the 1.4.3 canary.
  • parallel.test.ts has one failure here, "each worker has a unique JEST_WORKER_ID and BUN_TEST_WORKER_ID". It does not use the reporter. It fails in 3 of 4 runs on this machine, with this branch and with a debug build of main.
  • Also run: 26851.test.ts, retry-flag.test.ts, vitest-apis.test.ts, vitest-flavor.test.ts, expect-deferred.test.ts, and with release builds the junit test of test/aot/test-run-in-parts.test.ts.

Measurements

Main b1305dd against this branch at 835bc52. The commit after it changes comments only. Release builds for instructions, bytes and RSS. Debug builds for allocator calls (ASAN print_stats, reporter run minus plain run, reallocs included).

What main this PR
allocator calls per 1,000 tests in 10 blocks 3,113 2,075
allocator calls per describe block 8.0 (4.0 reallocs) 2.0
allocator calls of a run without the reporter, 1,000 tests 9,378 9,378
coordinator instructions per record, blocks in order 4,737 4,628
the same, 10,000 blocks of 4 tests in one block 7,459 6,674
the same, two blocks whose tests end in turn 13,488 4,647
instructions for doubled input, the three shapes (2.0 is linear) 2.01, 1.94, 2.11 2.02, 1.94, 2.12
TestDone payload per record, one and two enclosing blocks 90.9, 117.6 bytes 102.9, 141.6 bytes
.text 110,627,497 110,631,849
file size 140,478,752 140,482,848
max RSS, 20,000 tests in 200 blocks 76,996 KB 82,604 KB
max RSS, 40,000 tests in 400 blocks 111,664 KB 122,128 KB
max RSS, 1,000 tests with --rerun-each=100 79,316 KB 99,852 KB
  • Instructions are those of the first thread of bun test --parallel=2, which reads the workers' records, replays them and writes the report. Medians of 5 runs, the two builds in turn. A build differs from itself by up to 2.6 M on 194 M, and by up to 6.2 M on 116 M for the tests that end in turn.
  • RSS is the median of 20 runs per build (5 for --rerun-each). A build differs from itself by up to 0.9 MB. The two builds also differ where this PR holds nothing: by +1.5 MB for the 20,000 tests in the flat form, by +2.9 MB for 20,000 tests in no block, and by +1.2 MB with no reporter. Two earlier builds of this branch, with the same writer, differed from main by +3.7 MB and +5.9 MB on the first RSS row, and by -2.7 to +2.6 MB where nothing is held. Read the RSS rows with that error.
  • Held until the file ends: 2,316,103 bytes for the 20,000-test file, 116 per case. Nothing is held in the flat form or for a file with no block.
  • llvm-nm -S on the two builds: 26 functions change size, net +5,804 bytes.
  • The 12 bytes per enclosing block are on the frame in the flat form too. A worker is not told the form.
  • The entry of TestCaseReport::scopes grows from 24 to 40 bytes. TestCaseReport keeps its size. Both exist only with the reporter on.
  • Reports that do not change: 16 of 16 documents of block-ordered files equal main's (nested and flat, serial and --parallel=2, time, hostname and timestamp masked). Each of Bun's 3,545 test files was also run with -t and a name that no test has, so that every test is reported as skipped: 3,535 reports equal main's, and 10 differ where two runs of main differ.
  • No file under src/runtime/test_runner changes.

Left as it is

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After review

  • A describe suite had the timestamp of the last --rerun-each run. It now has that of its own run (both reviews).
  • The frame headroom is raised, so that the keys do not lower the number of failed attempts that fit after a string that fills the frame. A frame can still pass the limit with some hundreds of failed attempts there. That is so on main, and it is not changed here.
  • The docs say when two blocks with one name share a <testsuite>.
  • Each comment that this PR adds in src/ is one line.
  • Not changed: a block joins the suite before it in its parent, not the suite of the case before. With the other rule, the repeat of a concurrent file under --rerun-each joined block a of both runs and wrote block b twice.
  • Not changed: the time of a describe suite (whole milliseconds of its own cases). Main writes the same, and bun test --reporter=junit: sum nested suites and sub-millisecond tests into a describe's time #39321 is open for it.
  • Not added: a unit test of the writer with a made-up key. scripts/rust-test.ts does not run the tests of bun_runtime. The --rerun-each test fails on a debug build when the run is taken out of the key.

Self-review

  • It split the change: this PR keeps the released shapes, and one <testsuite> per describe() call waits for a decision.
  • Not done: a separate PR that only holds the file-level case (this PR changes no released shape either, and that patch leaves the concurrent split), and an issue for the regression.

…in any order of results

The nested report ended the <testsuite> of a describe block when the
next test case belonged somewhere else, and started a second one when
the block reported again. Concurrent tests of two blocks did that, and
since #44833 so does an error outside of a test, which is a case of
the file.

The writer now keeps the describe blocks of the open file as a tree and
writes their suites when the file ends. It finds the suite of a block by
a key of the block: the run of the file and the address of the scope. A
--parallel worker sends the key on its TestDone frame.

Two blocks with one name still share a suite when one reports just
after the other, as in every release.
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Updated 8:47 AM PT - Nov 7th, 2026

❌ @robobun, your commit ea1128c has 38 failures in Build #138304 (All Failures):


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 48104

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-48104 executable, so you can run:

bun-48104 --bun

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Status: ready for review.

CI: no test of this PR fails in build 138304. The red tests are 27 files under test/aot/ and test/bundler/compile-aot-size.test.ts. They also fail in the final builds of the PRs merged most recently.

How I reproduced it: this test file, with bun test --reporter=junit --reporter-outfile=./r.xml ./a.test.ts.

import { describe, test, expect, afterEach } from "bun:test";
describe("d", () => {
  afterEach(done => { done(new Error("zz hook")); });
  test("a", () => { expect(1).toBe(1); });
  test("b", () => { expect(1).toBe(1); });
});
  • main b1305dd: the report has two <testsuite name="d" line="2"> elements with one test each, around an (unhandled error) case. 1.4.4 writes one d.
  • This PR: one <testsuite name="d"> with both tests. The two (unhandled error) cases stay cases of the file.

The second shape needs no error: two describe blocks of test.concurrent whose tests end in the order a1, b1, a2. Every release since 1.2.23 writes block a twice. This PR writes it once.

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The JUnit reporter now uses test scope block identities to group cases into nested <testsuite> elements. Parallel test-case IPC carries those identities. Tests and documentation cover suite ordering, metrics, and report contents across several execution modes.

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JUnit describe-suite reporting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Scope identity and IPC
src/runtime/cli/test_command.rs, src/runtime/cli/test/parallel/Frame.rs, src/runtime/cli/test/parallel/runner.rs
Test scope records now include a block key derived from run generation and scope address. Parallel test-case encoding and decoding carry the key as run and address wire values.
Nested suite reporting
src/runtime/cli/test_command.rs
The reporter groups cases by block identity, writes nested describe suites, and accumulates case metrics into describe and file suites.
Report tests and documentation
test/js/junit-reporter/junit.test.js, docs/test/reporters.mdx
Tests cover suite contents and ordering in serial, parallel, flat, rerun, and bail modes. Documentation describes nested suites and unhandled errors in file suites.

Possibly related PRs

  • oven-sh/bun#39112: Tests done(err) in hooks as file-level unhandled errors and changes their JUnit attribution.
  • oven-sh/bun#48075: Decodes TestDone scope data to print parallel console headers.
  • oven-sh/bun#48076: Uses structured TestCaseReport scope data to buffer parallel console results.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

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- Line 88: Update the wording describing `describe` block grouping so it
clarifies that distinct blocks with the same title, including `describe.each`
rows, can share a `<testsuite>`. Preserve the existing notes about test ordering
and blocks with empty titles or no reported tests.

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- Line 3041: Update the suite elapsed-time accumulation in the metrics code
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receive the second repeat’s timestamp, while keeping the file duration anchored
to the first repeat.
- Around line 2350-2355: Update the suite-coalescing logic around children_of
and the before/inside matches to track the most recently reported suite rather
than the last inserted child. Reuse that suite when the immediately preceding
report belongs to the same named scope, so intervening child insertions do not
split adjacent reports into separate suites.

Review comments at @test/js/junit-reporter/junit.test.js:
- Line 1270: Update the bail-report test to parse the generated XML with the
existing XML parser in strict mode before asserting with outline, so malformed
reports with missing closing suite tags fail the test.
- Line 1571: Update the nested completion-order test around the suites assertion
to verify each testcase’s XML parent for all 24 orders, not only suite counts;
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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the two inline findings, I also checked: the widened --parallel TestDone payload has matching encode/decode in runner.rs and every TestCaseReport constructor (runner.rs, aggregate.rs, test_command.rs) builds the new ScopeReport shape; SuiteInfo, suite_stack, current_depth and begin_test_suite_with_line have no remaining references under src/; and DescribeBlocks state (by_key, last, cases, top_level) is only populated once suites is non-empty, so the early return in write when suites is empty leaves nothing stale between files.

Extended reasoning...

The change reworks the nested-suites mode of the JUnit reporter in src/runtime/cli/test_command.rs to buffer describe blocks per file and write them at file end, keyed by (file_generation, DescribeScope address), and widens the --parallel wire frame to carry that key; it touches no security-sensitive surface. Two confirmed findings (per-repeat timestamp under --rerun-each and unchecked frame growth in encode_test_case) are posted inline; the items above are what else was examined and ruled out.

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A describe <testsuite> gets the start of the run in which its block
first reported. Written at the end of the file, every suite had the
start of the last --rerun-each run.

The headroom of a --parallel frame covers the key that each enclosing
block adds to the fixed part of a TestDone frame.

The docs say when two blocks with one name share a <testsuite>.

Tests: every report is parsed as XML, the test of all orders checks
the suite of each case, and two fixtures pin which blocks with one
name join and which timestamp a block of an earlier run gets.
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Nothing new to post: everything this review found is already covered by existing comments on this pull request or didn't merit a separate one.

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Follow-up to the reviews, in 835bc52 and ea1128c.

Changed:

  • A describe suite has the timestamp of the run in which its block first reported. Before, every suite had that of the last --rerun-each run.
  • Frame::str leaves 8192 bytes for the fixed part of a frame (was 4096). The block keys add up to 768 bytes to that part.
  • The docs say when two blocks with one name share a <testsuite>.
  • Tests: each report is parsed as XML, the test of the 24 orders checks the suite of each case, and the --rerun-each test pins the timestamp of each run.
  • Each comment that this PR adds in src/ is one line.

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