[robobun]

Problem

• Leftover code of an ended test calls .resolves, expect.poll() or expect.soft() while a test.failing or test.fails test runs. That test takes the failure as expected: all (pass), exit 0, nothing printed. Bun 1.4.4 exits 1 if the matcher settles after that test (regression from bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833, unreleased).
• RunningEntry::of (src/runtime/test_runner/expect_deferred.rs:121) lets the running test hold the matcher: wait for it, take its failure.

Fix

• RunningEntry::of gives such a test only the matchers that its own code calls. The file holds the rest and reports failures between tests.
• Own code has the test's callback on the stack, or the frame that only these tests get in the async context (Execution.rs:1349).
• Verified: test/js/bun/test/test-failing.test.ts (14 new tests, 12 fail on main). Also expect-deferred.test.ts, vi-utils.test.ts, test/js/node/async_hooks/.
• Self-reviewed: 29 concerns raised, 21 addressed, 3 in part, 5 stay (Notes).

Background

• An async context is what AsyncLocalStorage restores in timers and promise callbacks. No store reads the frame.
• Considered a guard where the failure is booked: a never-settling matcher still passes test.fails by timeout.

Downsides

• Such a test fails if its only failure is an un-awaited matcher in a callback like a MessageChannel event: 30 of 76 probed shapes.
• The first such test turns on async context tracking for its process: each later await costs 467 instructions, not 442 (question in Notes). .text grows by 3,072 bytes.
• A leftover expect.poll() still pending when that test ends is an error, even one that would pass later (Notes). With --timeout=0, a file can wait forever for a leftover matcher.

Notes

Reproduction

import { test, expect } from "bun:test";
const sleep = (ms, v) => new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, ms, v));
test("t", () => {
  setTimeout(() => {
    expect(sleep(70, 1)).resolves.toBe(101);
  }, 25);
});
test.failing("next", async () => {
  await sleep(60);
});
test("after", () => {});

Build	Result
Bun 1.4.4	(pass) t, (fail) next, (pass) after, # Unhandled error between tests with the error of the matcher, exit 1
main	(pass) t, (pass) next, (pass) after, exit 0, nothing printed
this PR	the same output as Bun 1.4.4
Jest 30.5.2	✕ t with the error of the matcher, ✕ next (Failing test passed), ✓ after
Vitest 5.1.0, with test.fails	all three pass, exit 0

On main, next also passes on the failure, and the error is not printed, in these cases:

• The matcher is .rejects, an async custom matcher, toThrow() on a function that returns a promise, expect.poll() or expect.soft().
• The leftover code is an immediate, a promise callback, the body of a test that timed out, an earlier attempt of a retried test, or code of an earlier file.
• next is a test.fails.

A plain failing expect() in the same timer gives the 1.4.4 output on main too.

Bun 1.4.4 and 1.3.14 exit 1 only when the matcher settles after next has ended, as in the file above. When it settles while next still runs, they print three (pass) and exit 0. They do the same for expect.soft(). expect.poll() is not in 1.4.4. Checked with .resolves, .rejects, an async custom matcher and toThrow() on a function that returns a promise, each in both timings, and with expect.soft(): 9 files. This PR reports all 9: (fail) next, the error between tests, exit 1.

The rule

A test.failing or test.fails test holds a matcher if one of these is true when the matcher is called:

• A callback of the test is on the stack: the test function, or a beforeEach, afterEach or aroundEach hook of that test.
• The async context names this attempt of the test. That covers code after an await, and the timers, immediates, process.nextTick() and queueMicrotask() callbacks, promise callbacks, fs callbacks and servers that the test started. It also covers then() of a thenable that a callback of the test returns for the runner to wait on.

The file holds every other matcher. The test does not wait for it. A failure is an unhandled error between tests, and the run exits 1.

More changes for a matcher that the file holds in place of a test:

• expect.soft() reports its failure to the file and does not throw.
• expect.poll() stops, with its last error, when the test that ran beside it has ended, hooks included. It finds that out at its next attempt. This also holds while other tests of a concurrent group run on. If the tests of the file are over before that, the file ends it then. The cause of the error is Matcher did not succeed before the end of the test that was running when expect.poll() was called. The section "A leftover poll that would pass later" shows what this costs.
• The call counts for expect.assertions() of the running test if its matcher runs before that test ends, as any expect() call does. The test no longer waits for the matcher, so a matcher that ends later counts for no test. On main the test waited, and a late leftover matcher changed its count.
• If the matcher never settles, the file gives up after the test timeout (5 s by default). An un-awaited matcher gets the error An un-awaited matcher that the running test didn't call timed out. On main that matcher times a test.fails out, and the timeout makes the test pass.

A replay of expect.soft() now fails the entry that has held the call since it was made. This also applies to plain tests in a concurrent group. There, a waiting expect.soft() that a test calls before its first await now fails that test softly. On main the error stayed thrown.

Plain tests do not change otherwise. A plain test, or a hook of one, still holds a matcher that leftover code calls while it runs, and takes the failure. That run exits 1 on main and here.

A leftover poll that would pass later

import { test, expect } from "bun:test";
const sleep = (ms, v) => new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, ms, v));
let flag = false;
setTimeout(() => {
  flag = true;
}, 190);
test("t", () => {
  setTimeout(() => {
    expect.poll(() => flag, { timeout: 400, interval: 10 }).toBe(true);
  }, 25);
});
test.failing("next", async () => {
  await sleep(100);
  throw new Error("meant");
});
test("after", () => {});

Build	Result
main	three (pass), exit 0. next throws at 100 ms, and main drops the poll then, with no report. The poll never sees flag change.
main, next does not throw	next waits for the poll, which passes at 190 ms. Then (fail) next, because it did not fail.
main, next is a plain test	next waits for the poll, which passes at 190 ms. Three (pass).
this PR	three (pass), the error of the poll between tests at 100 ms, exit 1
this PR, next is a plain test	the same as main
Bun 1.4.4	expect.poll is not a function. next takes that TypeError as its expected failure: three (pass), exit 0.

At 100 ms the file cannot tell this poll from one that never passes. With flag never set, main prints the same three (pass) and exits 0, and this PR prints the same error. If next runs for 300 ms, the poll passes inside it, and main and this PR print three (pass).

Two other rules were possible, and a maintainer can ask for either:

• The poll runs on until its own timeout. Its callback then runs beside later tests, and each attempt advances the fake clock of a test that uses fake timers. Main never lets a poll outlive the test that holds it.
• The file waits for the poll before the next test starts, as a plain test waits on main. This gives the poll its time and keeps it away from later tests. It needs a new wait between two tests in the runner.

AsyncLocalStorage

The frame is not a frame of an AsyncLocalStorage. A differential fuzz of random AsyncLocalStorage programs found two differences to main inside these tests:

• disable() masked only the frame of the test. It now also masks the frame below, which the callbacks of the file share, as on main.
• An enterWith() store no longer outlives a callback that throws synchronously. On main afterEach still sees it. The same leak in plain tests is handed off as separate work.

One difference stays. A disable() that other code calls later does not reach a timer or a promise callback that captured the frame of the test. It still sees the store. To look through the frame in getStore() adds a check for every user of AsyncLocalStorage.

Rows

The three scripts from the report ran on debug and release builds of main and of this PR.

• Leftover matcher, 12 rows: 7 change. The 6 silent rows are reported: (fail) next, the error between tests, exit 1. In one more row the leftover code awaits the matcher. Its failure moves from the test after to an error between tests.
• Siblings, 38 rows: 14 change. In each, leftover code calls a matcher while a test.failing or test.fails runs. next goes from (pass) to (fail), and the error is printed between tests. The 14 rows where the test's own code calls the matcher do not change (sync, after an await, in a helper, in its timer, with expect.soft()).
• Matcher after the last test and assertion counts, 14 rows: 0 change.

Own code that no longer counts

76 shapes of a test.failing or test.fails test whose own code calls an un-awaited matcher ran on release builds of main and of this PR. 30 change from (pass) to (fail) with the error between tests. None becomes a silent pass. In a concurrent group 0 of 76 change. The 30 are 15 kinds for each modifier:

• A handler of a Bun.serve or node:http server that a beforeAll hook or the top of the file started.
• A setInterval that the top of the file started.
• Callbacks into which Bun does not carry the async context: PerformanceObserver, MessageChannel, BroadcastChannel, Worker and worker_threads events, FinalizationRegistry, AbortSignal.timeout() listeners and process signal handlers.

With test.failing, 12 of the 15 kinds pass with exit 0 on Bun 1.4.4. test.fails is not in 1.4.4.

A wider probe has 164 shapes. It adds expect.soft() in the same callbacks, matchers in hooks, and servers, tickers and file-scoped fixtures that an earlier test made. 94 change. All 94 exit 1 with the error printed. 85 are (fail) with an error between tests. 9 keep the (pass) line and add an error between tests.

More code of the same kind, from probes of about 100 kinds of callback:

• Bun.build() plugin callbacks (onResolve, onLoad, onEnd), the abort listener of a server Request.signal when the client disconnects, Bun.RedisClient onclose, and listeners on AbortSignal.any().
• Abort listeners on the signal of the test's own Vitest context. The runner dispatches that event when the test times out.
• The top level of a module that the test loads with import(), and a mock factory that takes importOriginal. Node keeps the async context there, Bun does not. docs/runtime/nodejs-compat.mdx now says so.
• Code after the first await inside AsyncLocalStorage.snapshot(), AsyncLocalStorage.bind() or AsyncResource.runInAsyncScope() when the context was captured outside the test. The captured context replaces the whole chain.

To make the failure of such a matcher count, await the matcher in the test function, or return its promise. That does not work for expect.soft(): the file takes its failure and the matcher does not reject. docs/test/writing-tests.mdx now states the rule and this remedy.

Measurements

Release builds of the merge base at that time (b1305dd) and of this PR at 85a5cb5, Linux x64. Both are from before the merge of main at 2596ac5 (#47942). The merge changes one line of the diff: the flag is now set through Bun::beginTrackingAsyncContexts, the entry point of the other native callers. The commits after 85a5cb5 change about 20 lines of src/, and the sizes below do not include them. None of these lines runs for a plain test, an await, or a matcher that a test holds: they run when the file ends a leftover expect.poll(). Instruction counts are instructions:u, the minimum of 5 interleaved runs, with BUN_JSC_useConcurrentJIT=0 BUN_JSC_useConcurrentGC=0 BUN_JSC_numberOfGCMarkers=1. The numbers for one operation are two-point slopes.

What	main	PR
await in a plain test, no test.failing or test.fails in the process	442.0	442.0
await in a plain test after the first test.fails (same file or a later file)	442.0	467.0
await inside a test.fails body	444.0	486.0
first .then() on a pending promise plus await, inside a test.fails body	1,085.5	1,384.5
setImmediate round trip inside a test.fails body	2,772.2	2,842.4
awaited .resolves on a pending promise, plain test	7,377.3	7,502.2
awaited .resolves on a pending promise, inside test.fails	7,762.0	8,308.0
empty plain test (15 runs)	46,730	46,776
test.fails with a body that throws (15 runs)	73,568	73,950
plain expect(), 150,000 calls in total	538,373,837	538,350,611

• The number for the empty plain test moves by about 100 between two runs of the same build (main against main: 46,843 and 46,832, then 46,730). What the change adds for a plain test is one check of the mode of the test for each callback.
• Expect::call_matcher disassembles the same in both builds. Expect::call_in has the same 238 instructions. 8 of them differ in a constant: field offsets of BunTest and the size of ExecutionSequence.
• GC cells, counted with heapStats() after Bun.gc(true) inside the callback: a test.fails callback has 1 more AsyncContextFrame and 1 more Object than on main. Inside a test.fails body, 1,000 pending .then() hold 1,000 more FullPromiseReaction cells, and 1,000 timers hold 1,000 more AsyncContextFrame cells. A plain test has 0 more AsyncContextFrame cells.
• In this build the frame of the last such test (one 48-byte Object, not one for each test) stays alive in later tests. A heap snapshot shows it with no incoming edge and no root. gdb finds its address in one stack word, in the frame of BunTest::run_test_callback. ExpectDeferred__bindToAttempt used that stack memory before, and the later call does not write that slot.
• FFI calls, counted with gdb breakpoints: ExpectDeferred__bindToAttempt runs once for each callback of a test.fails test (1,000 for 1,000 tests, and twice for the set-up of an aroundEach hook). ExpectDeferred__callingAttempt runs once for each waiting matcher that such a test calls off the stack of its callback (100 for 100). Both run 0 times for 1,000 plain tests, and 0 times for 200 waiting matchers in plain tests.
• Sizes: .text 110,627,497 to 110,630,569 bytes (+3,072), file +4,096 bytes. RunningEntry::of 487 to 835 bytes, ExpectDeferred::defer 1,875 to 2,000, ViWait::begin 983 to 1,108, ViWait::finish 395 to 998, Bun::createAsyncContextFrame 635 to 694. The three new C++ functions are 391, 356 and 392 bytes. RunningEntry is 64 to 104 bytes, ExecutionSequence 208 to 216 bytes, and the state of a test file grows by 24 bytes.
• bun build --compile --aot of a hello world, local build: +4,096 bytes (141,138,552 to 141,142,648). CI, which trims, on the first commit of this PR against the build of main's head: 68,117,555 to 68,129,766 mapped bytes (+12,211), and with --trim 25,982,003 to 25,990,118 (+8,115). Since AOT: front end, test runs and tests for the rewritten compiler #47942 main measures 25,427,277 with --trim, and the bound of test/bundler/compile-aot-size.test.ts is 25,880,000.
• Syscalls for a file of 100 plain tests with awaited .resolves, 3 runs for each build: 38 of the 42 kinds of syscall have the same count in all runs. The other 4 (futex, madvise, mmap, prctl) vary between runs of one build too. One matcher that the file takes adds 3 write calls, for the printed error.

Question for a maintainer

The first test.failing or test.fails callback in a process turns async context tracking on in JSC for good. It is the same one-way flag that new AsyncLocalStorage() sets, and that main sets when a module mock factory runs. Every later await in that process then costs 25 more instructions (442 to 467). Is that acceptable for suites that use these modifiers?

If not, the same change works without the frame, at no cost. Then only the stack proves the caller, and a test.failing or test.fails test stops holding its own un-awaited matchers after its first await.

Not changed

Each of these gives the same result on main and on this PR.

• A matcher that leftover code calls after the last test of the file has ended is never reported. Handed off as separate work.
• A test that called skip() from Vitest still hides a failure of a matcher that leftover code calls. Handed off as separate work.
• Leftover code that the failing test runs itself still counts as its own: a fake timer that the test advances, a listener for an event that it emits. A test pins the fake timer case.
• A leftover callback that runs inside a nested event loop, such as Bun.build() with an async plugin setup(), gets the async context of the code that spins the loop. See Suspend the caller's AsyncLocalStorage context while a blocking wait runs the event loop #37932, event loop: never re-enter from inside a dispatch callback (de-block expect().resolves and HTMLRewriter.transform, then assert) #33261 and Stop running the event loop inside JavaScript calls #46545.
• Leftover code that calls expect.assertions() or expect.hasAssertions(), or registers onTestFinished(), while a test.fails test runs still makes that test pass with nothing printed. These go by the running test, as in Vitest 5.1.0. A test.failing test does not pass on them.
• A late plain expect() of a timed-out attempt counts for the expect.assertions() of the next test. Bun 1.4.3 and Jest 30.5.2 count it too.
• test.todo with --todo still takes a failure of leftover code (bun test: do not let test.failing absorb an unhandled error as its expected failure #41865). So does a later attempt of a retried plain test (bun test: attribute late expect() calls of an abandoned test to that test instead of the next one #38880).
• An error from the own code of a hook of a test.failing test is printed. If the body of the test already failed as expected, the test stays (pass) and the run exits 0. Bun 1.4.3 does the same.
• The guard for stray rejections in jest::on_unhandled_rejection behaves as before.
• In a concurrent group only the stack names the caller. The frame is not read there, because the async context of a running test also reaches code of its siblings. Two cases made a test.fails that did nothing wrong pass in a version that read the frame. A timer of a plain sibling fires while the test is inside Bun.build() with an async plugin setup(), and runs in the async context of the test (Suspend the caller's AsyncLocalStorage context while a blocking wait runs the event loop #37932). A file-scoped fixture that the runner sets up inside the test keeps the frame, and its callbacks then serve a sibling. A test pins the fixture case.
• A file-scoped or worker-scoped fixture that the runner sets up inside such a test is an entry of that test, for a throw and for a matcher. While the test runs, it takes a matcher that the code of the fixture calls. Main does the same.
• With a DOM environment and --isolate, requestAnimationFrame and MutationObserver callbacks lose the async context. A matcher that a test calls there belongs to the file. Handed off as separate work.
• The AsyncLocalStorage gaps behind the 15 kinds above: async_hooks: preserve AsyncLocalStorage context in PerformanceObserver callbacks and process signal handlers #33069, fix(worker_threads): preserve async context for worker events #42593, fix(worker_threads): preserve MessagePort creation context #45024.
• The wait of the file uses the timeout of the command line, not vi.setConfig({ testTimeout }). Main has the same for a matcher that is called outside a test. Handed off as separate work.

One case is new with this PR. With the test timeout disabled (--timeout=0), the file waits without limit for a matcher that never settles while a timer or a server is open. Main waits the same way for a matcher that is called outside a test, and a plain test waits the same way for a matcher that it holds. A run that left such a matcher behind a test.failing test that failed on its own ended on main and does not end here. Without an open timer or server, the run ends with the error An un-awaited matcher's promise never settled.

One result differs from Vitest 5.1.0 on purpose. Vitest lets a test.fails pass on a leftover .resolves, expect.soft() or expect.poll(), as main does. This PR reports them, also in a file that imports from "vitest". Main already makes this choice for a stray rejection: jest::on_unhandled_rejection says that an expected failure has to come from the callback of the test. Jest 30.5.2 books the failure on the test that started the code. jest-circus runs each test in an AsyncLocalStorage and reads the test from it when an error arrives.

Self-review

Three rounds raised 29 concerns. 21 are addressed in the code, the tests or the docs. 3 are addressed in part, and 5 stay.

The second round was a set of probes of the finished diff. It found these, and all are fixed: a count that stayed when a matcher threw before it counted, a leftover expect.poll() with a long interval that stalled the file or was dropped, disable(), and then() of a returned thenable.

These parts are not done:

• One classifier that handle_uncaught_exception itself matches on. RunningEntry::of and the stray-rejection guard in jest.rs now share is_expected_to_fail(). The error sink is not edited. Three open PRs change it (bun test: do not let test.failing absorb an unhandled error as its expected failure #41865, bun test: keep the result of a callback that throws after its timeout #47867, bun test: report a failed matcher's error once for each attempt of a test #48107).
• Proofs in the other order: the frame first, and the stack only for a sequence that has no frame. The stack stays first, because code that the test runs itself is its own. The other order gives synchronous code to the file when it runs under an AsyncLocalStorage.snapshot() that was captured outside the test.
• A test for each DOM environment with --isolate. The cause is a lost async context, and that work is handed off.

Review comments after the first push led to four more changes: the count rule above, the end of a poll with the whole attempt of the test, the release of a poll that has ended, and the end of a poll beside a test that ends before its concurrent group. Each comment that the change adds in src/ is now one line.

A test report on 6f525b2 found that a leftover poll which the file stops early said Matcher did not succeed in time. long before its timeout. The error now says why the poll stopped. The same report led to the third bullet of Downsides and to the scope of the 1.4.4 sentence in Problem.

A review comment asked to read the frame in a concurrent group too. A third round probed that change with 93 fixture files. Own code after an await then passed in a concurrent group as in a sequential run, but the round found the two silent passes that "Not changed" lists. That change is not in the PR.

These 5 stay, and the sections above describe them: the other callbacks without async context, import(), a context that was captured outside the test, the disabled timeout, and vi.setConfig({ testTimeout }).

Designs weighed

• Guard the two places that book the failure. It is the smallest change. The test still holds the matcher, so two silent cases stay: the matcher that never settles, and the matcher that is dropped when the test fails first.
• Decide in RunningEntry::of by the stack only. No cost. A test stops holding its own matchers after its first await. This is the fallback in the question above.
• Bind every test callback to a frame. It also ends the blame of plain tests. Every bun test process then pays for the frame and for the tracking flag.
• The owner of an invocation in an async context is the mechanism of bun test: attribute late expect() calls of an abandoned test to that test instead of the next one #38880. That PR is open, has conflicts with main, and is about a test that the runner abandoned. It does not cover a test that ended normally.

Suites

Debug build of this PR after the merge of main at 2596ac5, 60 s for each test. All pass unless noted. The commits f9a95ba and bb41713 change two lines of expect_deferred.rs and the test file. The commit after them changes the text of one error in vi_wait.rs. test-failing (22 tests), expect-deferred, vi-utils, vitest-flavor, concurrent and expect-assertions ran on that last commit. The rest ran on ed7c397.

• test/js/bun/test/: test-failing, expect-deferred, vi-utils, vitest-apis, vitest-flavor, expect-assertions, concurrent, jest-hooks, done-async, test-on-test-finished, test-timers, test-retry-repeats-basic, bun-jest-arguments, mock/mock-module.
• test/js/node/async_hooks/: all 5 files. test/js/bun/plugin/plugins.test.ts.
• test/cli/test/: bun-test, expectations, retry-flag, rerun-each, test-timeout-behavior, isolation-first-ticks-of-each-file, isolation.
• isolation.test.ts "no other builtin module patches a global class when it loads" needs more than 5 s for its inner test in a debug build. A debug build of main fails it in the same way.
• test/js/bun/module-graph/: all 8 files in one run of 24 minutes, 2,203 pass and 4 fail. The 4 are a hook of a bun build --compile test that ran into the 60 s, and 3 worker tests. The 3 worker tests pass when they run alone (2 runs).
• bun test --aot: the 13 new tests also pass when their fixtures run with --aot (2 runs). In the first run one fixture exited 1 with no output. 9 more runs of that fixture passed.
• test/cli/test/test-aot.test.ts: 22 of 24 pass. "a matcher after .resolves or .rejects waits for a pending promise" fails in a debug build: plain bun test prints one more stack frame there than a release build, and a debug build of 7ca0042 does the same. "a build error" got an ASAN report from the AOT compiler in place of the build error. With assertions on, LinkFlow::findWhatSomeLaneWasGiven destroys its HashMap iterator after it releases its lock. That is probably also the fixture with no output above.
• test-failing.test.ts also passes with BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1.
• vitest-flavor: one of four full runs on the last commit failed "the timeout is for the time before runTest() and for the time after it, not for the time inside". A hook timeout of 10 ms was printed twice. That test has no test.fails and no expect.poll(). It passed in the other three full runs and in 3 runs alone.
• Before the merge, on 85a5cb5, these passed too: expect-extend, concurrent_immediate, test-test, bun_test, bun-test, failure-skip, only-failures, describe, nested-describes, test-only, stack, test-error-code-done-callback, fake-timers/fake-timers and test/cli/test/parallel (one test there, "each worker has a unique JEST_WORKER_ID", gets two files on one worker in some runs, on main too).

Related

• bun test: keep a test context's expect bound to its test after the test has finished #48097: keep the expect of a test context bound to its test after the test has finished.
• bun test: report a failed matcher's error once for each attempt of a test #48107: report the error of a failed matcher once for each attempt of a test.
• bun test: report a failed matcher at once when its promise only passes the rejection on #47780: report a failed matcher at once when its promise only passes the rejection on.
• bun test: count expect() calls, not matcher calls, in tests from vitest #48083: count expect() calls, not matcher calls, in tests from vitest.
• bun test: do not let test.failing absorb an unhandled error as its expected failure #41865: do not let test.failing take an unhandled error as its expected failure.
• bun test: attribute late expect() calls of an abandoned test to that test instead of the next one #38880: attribute late expect() calls of an abandoned test to that test.
• bun test: do not charge a test or hook for a promise rejected before it started #47731, bun test: keep the result of a callback that throws after its timeout #47867, bun test: run the end-of-run checks before the retry/repeat decision #48002, bun test: check the assertion count of a bun:test test before its deferred callbacks #48032: other open changes to Execution.rs.
• bun test: a timed-out async test keeps running after the next test starts, contrary to the docs #46538 (issue): a timed-out async test keeps running after the next test starts.

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fails on main (without fix)

ASAN without fix: 12 FAILED
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/js/bun/test/test-failing.test.ts
bun test v1.4.4 (367d939d9)

test/js/bun/test/test-failing.test.ts:
(pass) test.failing > is a function [1.31ms]
(pass) test.failing > is an alias for it.failing [0.98ms]
(pass) test.failing > requires a test function (unlike test.todo) [7.91ms]
(pass) test.failing > passes if an error is thrown or a promise rejects  [397.59ms]
(pass) test.failing > fails if no error is thrown or promise resolves [295.88ms]
(pass) test.failing > timeouts still count as failures [1494.97ms]
(pass) test.failing > when using a done() callback > when a test throws, rejects, or passes an error to done(), the test passes [386.48ms]
(pass) test.failing > when using a done() callback > when the test doesn't throw, or otherwise fail, the test does not pass [313.69ms]
604 |             test("runs on until the polls have ended", () => ended.promise);
605 |           });
606 |         });
607 |       `,
608 |     });
609 |     expect(failures(result)).toEqual({
                                   ^
error: expect(received).toEqua
... (truncated)

release without fix: 14 FAILED
bun test v1.4.3-canary.1 (367d939d9)

test/js/bun/test/test-failing.test.ts:
(pass) test.failing > is a function [0.03ms]
(pass) test.failing > is an alias for it.failing [0.03ms]
(pass) test.failing > requires a test function (unlike test.todo) [0.20ms]
(pass) test.failing > passes if an error is thrown or a promise rejects  [18.70ms]
(pass) test.failing > fails if no error is thrown or promise resolves [11.31ms]
(pass) test.failing > timeouts still count as failures [61.22ms]
(pass) test.failing > when using a done() callback > when a test throws, rejects, or passes an error to done(), the test passes [24.57ms]
(pass) test.failing > when using a done() callback > when the test doesn't throw, or otherwise fail, the test does not pass [21.53ms]
604 |             test("runs on until the polls have ended", () => ended.promise);
605 |           });
606 |         });
607 |       `,
608 |     });
609 |     expect(failures(result)).toEqual({
                                   ^
error: expect(received).toEqual(expected)

  {
    "betweenTests": 2,
-   "errors": [
-     "Expected: "of a test that ends before its group"",
-     "Expected: "of an ended test"",
-     "error: M
... (truncated)

passes on PR (with fix)

ASAN with fix: all passed
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/js/bun/test/test-failing.test.ts
bun test v1.4.4 (367d939d9)

test/js/bun/test/test-failing.test.ts:
(pass) test.failing > is a function [16.17ms]
(pass) test.failing > is an alias for it.failing [1.75ms]
(pass) test.failing > requires a test function (unlike test.todo) [4.01ms]
(pass) test.failing > passes if an error is thrown or a promise rejects  [425.36ms]
(pass) test.failing > fails if no error is thrown or promise resolves [320.42ms]
(pass) test.failing > timeouts still count as failures [1466.65ms]
(pass) test.failing > when using a done() callback > when a test throws, rejects, or passes an error to done(), the test passes [392.72ms]
(pass) test.failing > when using a done() callback > when the test doesn't throw, or otherwise fail, the test does not pass [514.95ms]
(pass) test.failing and test.fails > in a "vitest" file, don't take a matcher from the expect of a test that has ended [645.94ms]
(pass) test.failing and test.fails > bun test --isolate: both hold [827.75ms]
(pass) test.failing and test.fails > take a matcher t
... (truncated)

release with fix: all passed
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped) in 1748ms (unchanged)
ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[1/359] gen generated_host_exports.rs
generated_host_exports.rs: 119 exports (lazy=4, generic=115, rust=0); 295 extern-C blocks audited
[2/358] gen cpp.rs (cppbind)
[3/358] rustc bun_router 
[4/358] gen the table of built-ins
builtins table: operands without uses: none
builtins table: 1811 host entries have a result that is not described; 88 properties that native code fills hold a value that is not described; a program in which a value may be anything holds what any host class needs: 0 modules, 15 functions
[5/336] rustc bun_resolver 
[6/336] rustc bun_react_compiler 
[7/336] gen JS modules (bundle-modules)
Preprocess modules (2170ms)
Bundle modules (526ms)
Postprocesss modules (615ms)
Bundle Functions (1089ms)
Generate Code (1288ms)

[5.75s] Bundled "src/js" for production
  2782 kb
  210 internal modules
  13 native modules
  56 internal functions across 19 files
[8/326] rustc bun_js_parser 
[9/326] rustc bun_css 
[10/326] gen builtin_sources.bin
[11/325] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings_
... (truncated)

diff hotspot

docs/runtime/nodejs-compat.mdx             |    2 +-
 docs/test/writing-tests.mdx                |    6 +-
 src/js/node/async_hooks.ts                 |    9 +-
 src/jsc/bindings/ExpectDeferred.cpp        |   50 ++
 src/jsc/bindings/ModuleGraph.cpp           |    4 +-
 src/jsc/bindings/ModuleGraph.h             |    2 +-
 src/runtime/test_runner/Execution.rs       |   38 ++
 src/runtime/test_runner/bun_test.rs        |   26 +-
 src/runtime/test_runner/expect_deferred.rs |  198 +++++-
 src/runtime/test_runner/jest.rs            |    4 +-
 src/runtime/test_runner/vi_wait.rs         |   39 +-
 test/js/bun/test/test-failing.test.ts      | 1010 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 12 files changed, 1338 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)

gate history · 1 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 4

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file                                        reads  edits  tests
docs/runtime/nodejs-compat.mdx                  0      0    118
docs/test/writing-tests.mdx                     1      1    126
src/js/node/async_hooks.ts                      2      2    117
src/jsc/bindings/ExpectDeferred.cpp             1      1    117
src/jsc/bindings/ModuleGraph.cpp                0      0    115
src/jsc/bindings/ModuleGraph.h                  0      0    115
src/runtime/test_runner/Execution.rs            5      3    123
src/runtime/test_runner/bun_test.rs             4      2    118
src/runtime/test_runner/expect_deferred.rs      8      1    128
src/runtime/test_runner/jest.rs                 3      0    117
src/runtime/test_runner/vi_wait.rs              1      3    118
test/js/bun/test/test-failing.test.ts           7      0    115

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Reproduced with the file from the report. A timer that the test t leaves behind calls expect(promise).resolves.toBe() and does not await it, while test.failing("next") runs. The matcher settles after next has ended.

• Bun 1.4.4: (pass) t, (fail) next, (pass) after, the error under # Unhandled error between tests, exit 1.
• main (b1305dd): all three (pass), exit 0, nothing printed.
• This PR (bun test: a test that is expected to fail holds only the matchers of its own code #48143): the same output as Bun 1.4.4.

The file and the results for Jest 30.5.2 and Vitest 5.1.0 are in the Notes of the PR body.

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The test runner now associates callbacks and returned thenables with expected-failure attempt context. Deferred matchers distinguish calls from a test’s own work from calls made alongside it, and handle replay, polling, and file-end timeouts. Tests and documentation cover these changes.

Changes

Expected-failure matcher attribution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Propagate expected-failure attempt context src/jsc/bindings/ModuleGraph.*, src/jsc/bindings/ExpectDeferred.cpp, src/js/node/async_hooks.ts, src/runtime/test_runner/Execution.rs, src/runtime/test_runner/bun_test.rs, docs/runtime/nodejs-compat.mdx	Async-context frames now carry values used to identify expected-failure attempts. The test runner binds relevant callbacks and returned thenables to that context. The node:async_hooks documentation lists additional context-propagation exceptions.
Attribute and finish deferred matchers src/runtime/test_runner/expect_deferred.rs, src/runtime/test_runner/jest.rs, src/runtime/test_runner/vi_wait.rs, docs/test/writing-tests.mdx	Deferred matcher handling tracks calls made alongside a test, adjusts counts during replay, and ends retained polls during file-end processing. Rejection handling and documentation describe the attribution rules.
Exercise attribution across tests and callbacks test/js/bun/test/test-failing.test.ts	Generated test files cover attribution across callbacks, hooks, async contexts, isolation modes, polling, assertion counts, and concurrent tests.

Possibly related issues

• oven-sh/bun#33261: Both address tracking matcher promises and attributing failures to tests; this PR focuses on file-held and unawaited matcher failures.
• oven-sh/bun#34859: This PR reports file-held matcher failures between tests and checks the resulting file exit status.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#41008: Both change how the runner handles thenables returned by test callbacks, using overlapping paths.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, alii

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 6f525

No actionable merge-blocking risk is established for the matcher-attribution changes. Merge readiness remains subject to normal build and test checks.

Pre-merge checks: 4

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Review comments at @docs/test/writing-tests.mdx:
- Line 263: Update the `expect.soft()` guidance to qualify the claim that soft
matchers never reject: in a concurrent test, a soft matcher called after the
first `await` can reject, so awaiting it can affect the test result. Preserve
the surrounding guidance about calling soft matchers from the test’s own code.
- Line 261: Clarify the matcher rule in the paragraph about `expect.soft()`,
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Review comments at @src/runtime/test_runner/expect_deferred.rs:
- Around line 202-206: Update the bystander validity check in the
execution-phase condition to track the bystander test attempt rather than the
active hook entry. Keep the poll alive when that attempt can succeed on its next
retry, including after an async beforeEach ends while the test body is running.
- Around line 160-165: Update the ownership handling around
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file-scope `AsyncLocalStorage.snapshot()` call after an `await` keeps un-awaited
matcher errors owned by the file. Preserve the existing behavior that does not
claim leftover callbacks; distinguish this synchronous snapshot call from
callbacks that outlive the test rather than broadly changing ownership.
- Around line 160-161: Update the caller detection around the `on_stack` check
so it tracks the actual caller across microtask drains, rather than treating the
still-running failing test as the caller of nested matcher work. Ensure an
un-awaited matcher created by another test during the drain cannot be consumed
by the failing test’s callback.
- Around line 690-695: Update the provisional counting in the
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counter with the matcher’s settled outcome, including a leftover .resolves
matcher that later rejects after the bystander ends, while preserving correct
counting for settled expect calls.
- Around line 188-192: Update the bystander poll tracking around keep_poll so
each poll is removed from unclaimed.polls when it settles, while still-pending
polls remain rooted for file-end cleanup.

Review comments at @src/runtime/test_runner/vi_wait.rs:
- Around line 441-445: Check for bystander expiration in the async completion
path before accepting the result in the `on_value` flow. Reuse the existing
`RunningEntry::outlived_bystander` check so a leftover `expect.poll()` attempt
cannot resolve successfully after its bystander has ended.

Review comments at @test/js/bun/test/test-failing.test.ts:
- Around line 455-457: Add a separate post-await snapshot case for both
modifiers in the test block using `atTheTop`. Await before invoking it, then
assert passing results, no errors or between-test failures, and exit code zero.
- Line 829: Extend the test around `later(1, 5)` to cover a `.resolves` promise
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Re-reviewed the follow-up commit (85a5cb5) and found no new bugs in it; given the size of the whole change and the open design threads, a maintainer look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed in the follow-up:

• keep_poll/forget_poll index bookkeeping in src/runtime/test_runner/expect_deferred.rs: only trailing Nones are popped, so indexes handed to earlier ViWaits stay valid, and finish() takes kept once so a poll is never forgotten twice.
• The end_file loop re-reads polls.get(index) each iteration and copies the JSValue before end_with_test, so the re-entrant forget_poll from finish() cannot invalidate what it is iterating.
• outlived_bystander now keys on group index plus sequence attempt instead of active_entry, and the replay-count decrement is gated on it, so a replay after the attempt no longer counts for a retry.

Extended reasoning...

The second commit changes 114 lines across expect_deferred.rs, vi_wait.rs, docs and the test file: it replaces Vec<Strong> with Vec<Option<Strong>> for file-held polls, adds a kept index on ViWait, reworks outlived_bystander to compare the sequence attempt, and moves the expect.assertions() count for bystander-held calls from call time to replay time. No security-sensitive surface is touched; this is test-runner bookkeeping and async-context plumbing. Defer rather than approve because the full PR is +1212/-50 across Rust, C++ and the async_hooks builtin with user-visible semantic changes to test.failing, and several earlier inline threads on attribution scope and per-process tracking cost remain design decisions for a maintainer.

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group is attributed to the active attempt sequence, not merely to the running
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failure-reporting behavior for other cases.
- Around line 222-226: Update the bystander sequence check in the `buntest`
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[robobun]

For your information: a second fix needs the frame of this PR. I hold it until this lands. Tell me if you want another order.

What it fixes. In a concurrent group, a test stays (pass) when its timer or its promise causes an uncaught error. bun test prints # Unhandled error between tests. A serial test fails. Node v26.3.0 and Jest 30.5.2 fail that test too. The cause is get_current_state_data() (bun_test.rs:890 on main). It returns entry_data: None for a group of two or more sequences. The first note about it is on #44833.

Where it meets this PR. The branch robobun/86211d03/concurrent-error-owner binds its own frame at the same statement of step_sequence_one. git merge-tree of that branch with 6f525b2 conflicts in 3 files. The fix must read the frame of this PR, and not add a second one. It needs two things from it:

• The gate: is_expected_to_fail(), or a group of two or more sequences.
• A lookup that takes a context. The fix gives it the context of a throw or of a rejection.

The question for a maintainer in the Notes gets a wider scope. With that gate, the first concurrent group of a run turns tracking on. A grep for .concurrent finds 991 of the 3722 test files of this repo. I measured the same 25 instructions for each await on that branch. Tell me if tracking must stay with the tests that are expected to fail.

Do not take that branch as it is. On a release build, 7 of 7 error kinds fail their own test (main: 0 of 7). But three results are wrong, and main does not have them:

• disable() of an AsyncLocalStorage in a concurrent test does not reach the tests after the group. The AsyncLocalStorage part of the Notes here has the fix for it.
• A second error of a concurrent test that has failed fails the serial test after the group.
• Two concurrent tests share a keep-alive socket of node:http. The failed expect() of one is charged to the other, and --retry 2 then exits 0.

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