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fix(ci): select shards from the PR's own change; route tests and uncovered lines - #2156

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Almost every runtime pull request has been running the full 116-shard matrix (~2h+) even though shard selection "worked" in every proof. This PR fixes the three causes, each reproduced on real data first.

Headline, on real data: #2100's exact merge commit (ecf5a4ba8), the exact certified map CI downloaded (run 34428489968, map sha 8decd96c), and the exact inputs CI passed:

Changed files considered Escalation reasons Shards
Before (master's selector) 22 25 116 / 116 (escalated)
After (this PR) 4 (the PR's own) 0 4 / 116

The "before" row isn't an estimate. Running master's selector locally on that commit reproduces CI's log line for line: the same 22 files and the same 25 reasons (log of job 103066400544).

Why every earlier proof passed but real PRs didn't

The earlier canaries were fresh PRs branched from current master that touched only mapped src/ lines or non-runtime files. That's the one shape that avoids all three causes below. #2118 "worked" only because it was non-runtime (docs + an independent workflow), which never reaches coverage selection. Real PRs are usually behind master and almost always add or edit a test, and each of those alone forces the full matrix.

Root cause 1: the stale base (github.event.pull_request.base.sha)

Before. The Select step passed -BaseSha ${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}. That SHA is the base branch as it was when the PR was opened, not what GitHub merged it onto for this run. For #2100 it was 8decd96c, but the merge ref was built on 88364e91, 33 commits later. The selector's own rule, "a selection-control edit in this PR forces the full matrix", then fired on 16 CI files master had merged in between:

reason: current validation-selection control change: .github/workflows/sonarcloud.yml
reason: current validation-selection control change: tools/TestImpact/Select-Shards.ps1
... (16 total, none of them touched by #2100)

It feeds itself: every CI-fix PR edits tools/TestImpact/, so each merge pushes every behind PR into a full run.

After. The workflow passes the PR head (github.event.pull_request.head.sha). Resolve-PullRequestBase checks that the checkout is a two-parent merge whose second parent is that head, then uses the first parent, the base actually tested. A non-merge checkout, or a head that isn't the second parent, fails closed. Only the PR's own paths are selected for. Line ranges still come from the map commit, the only coordinates the map's ranges are expressed in. Two new fail-closed cases:

  • The PR's own path set is empty → escalate. Scoping would otherwise make this look non-runtime.
  • The PR changed a file back to exactly the map's copy, so it has no map-to-HEAD hunks → escalate. Its effect has no map coordinates.

Root cause 2: test files are never in the coverage map

Before. Coverage instruments product code only. 5,931 of the map's 5,932 files are under src/, so every test-file edit escalated (not executed by any mapped shard: tests/.../TradingAgentLearningTests.cs). Almost every PR adds or edits a test.

After. Changed test sources are routed to the shards whose .github/test-shards.yml filters select their tests (Get-TestFileRoutes):

  • Test names are read from the C#. Comments, strings and char literals are blanked first, so a { in a string or class X in a comment can't mislead brace matching. That gives namespace, nested Outer+Inner chains, and [Fact]/[Theory] methods, which become the VSTest FullyQualifiedName.
  • Filters are parsed with VSTest's grammar (& | ( ), = != ~ !~, & binding tighter) and evaluated with three-valued logic. A shard is skipped only when its filter is definitely false for every test. Whatever the parser can't know counts as "might match": casing disagreements, categories inherited from a base, and method names of inherited tests. An inherited test's unknown part is modelled as one method identifier, so it can't acquire a namespace term.
  • Shared test code follows its consumers. Routing takes the transitive closure of test files that name the changed file's top-level types (base classes, fixtures, helpers) and unions their shards, capped at 200 files.
  • Anything reference search can't follow still escalates: extension methods, global usings, assembly attributes, module initializers, xUnit collection definitions (bound by string name), a support file with no tests and no consumers, and tests no shard filter selects. So do abstract classes and any type the source generator names: TestScaffoldGenerator emits test classes deriving from test-project bases at build time, which exist in no file reference search could read.

Measured on 250 randomly sampled real test files (seed 20260911): 82% route, median 1 shard, mean 2.2, max 16. The rest escalate for the conservative reasons listed above.

Root cause 3: unexecuted changed lines

Before. A changed range no shard executes escalated. On #2100 all 8 such ranges were field declarations, attributes or between-method insertion points, lines coverage never records:

reason: changed range 60-61 is not executed by any mapped shard: src/Finance/Trading/Agents/FinancialDQNAgent.cs

After. Per your decision, such a range routes to every shard that executes any line of the same file. A new .cs file routes to the owners of its nearest mapped directory, never climbing above a two-segment root like src/Finance. Still escalates: unmapped non-C# files (.csproj, props, data), orphans with no mapped neighbour, and src/AiDotNet.Generators/**, now explicit full validation. That code runs inside the compiler, so runtime coverage never records it, yet one edit can rewrite thousands of generated tests. Before this PR it escalated only because that directory happened to be unmapped.

This is a heuristic, and the nightly selection-miss audit is its backstop. The audit now receives the audited tree's shard manifest, so it replays exactly the routing PRs get against complete matrices, and any miss revokes the map certificate (PRs then fall back to full runs).

Every selected shard now says why

selected 4 of 116 shard(s)
  Integration C - Core
      because it executes src/Finance/Trading/Agents/FinancialA2CAgent.cs, whose changed lines 148-149 no shard executes
      because it executes changed lines 111-112, 245-246 of src/Finance/Trading/Agents/FinancialDQNAgent.cs
  Integration D
      because it is always run
  Integration E-G
      because it executes changed lines 123-123 of src/Finance/Trading/Agents/FinancialA2CAgent.cs
      because it runs tests affected by tests/AiDotNet.Tests/IntegrationTests/Finance/TradingAgentLearningTests.cs (its filter selects tests in this file)
  ModelFamily - Generated Layers F
      because it executes changed lines 111-112, 127-127, 227-227, 245-246 of src/Finance/Trading/Agents/FinancialDQNAgent.cs

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Reproduce the failure first ✅ Master's selector on #2100's real merge commit reproduces CI's 25 reasons. The new end-to-end proof also builds a real behind-master repository and first asserts the old invocation escalates, citing master's merged control file and the unmapped test.
Re-run #2100 as the real case ✅ Locally: 116 → 4 (table above). ⏳ In CI, after this merges: pull-request runs use the workflow from the merge ref, so #2100 benefits only once this is on master.
Regression tests in the self-test ✅ 40+ new assertions: behind-master scoping, empty/unmappable PR path sets, owner and directory routing, filter grammar and three-valued edge cases, C# parsing traps, closure/hazard routing, and generator paths. The new end-to-end proof fails on master's selector.
Post-merge reuse on a behind PR ⏳ Not in this PR: exact-tree reuse (root cause 3 of the post-merge problem) is the next PR.

All nine impact-tooling suites pass locally under pwsh 7.6: Select-Shards -SelfTest, Measure-SelectionMiss -SelfTest, Test-CiImpactWorkflow, Test-TestImpactEndToEnd, New-ShardMap -SelfTest, Select-CoverageShards -SelfTest, Test-CertifiedShardMap -SelfTest, Test-CiGateModes, Test-ValidationReuseModes.

This PR's own CI will run the full matrix. That's correct: it edits selection-control files, which must always get complete validation.

Files

File Change
tools/TestImpact/Select-Shards.ps1 -PullRequestHeadSha (merge-parent base, verified) and -ShardManifestFile; PR scoping; owner/directory routing; VSTest filter parser + three-valued evaluator; C# code-only lexer and test-shape reader; test routing with hazards; routes in the JSON output; build-time directory as full validation; self-tests.
.github/workflows/sonarcloud.yml Select step: PR_HEAD_SHA replaces the event base.sha; writes shard-manifest.json; passes both to the classifier and selector.
.github/workflows/test-impact-map.yml Nightly audit builds the audited tree's manifest and passes it through, so routing misses are measured.
tools/TestImpact/Measure-SelectionMiss.ps1 -ShardManifestFile passthrough.
tools/TestImpact/Test-CiImpactWorkflow.ps1 Contracts: the Select step must not read pull_request.base.sha or pass -BaseSha; must pass the head and manifest; the selector must verify both merge parents; the audit must pass the manifest.
tools/TestImpact/Test-TestImpactEndToEnd.ps1 Real-git behind-master scenario: reproduction, fix, wrong-head and non-merge fail-closed.

What this deliberately does not do

  • Post-merge reuse on master (full re-run after merging a behind PR) is the next PR. Reuse still requires an exact tree match.
  • The regression-baseline lookup (find-test-baseline.ps1, the retry-baseline and comparison steps) still uses the event base.sha. Switching it to the merge parent is correct in principle, but that lookup needs an exact master run, and 11 of the last 12 master runs were cancelled by the next merge. So today it would usually find no baseline at all. It belongs with the master-run work.
  • Existing coverage gap, found while building this: statically, ~3,439 test methods in 329 files match no shard filter, so they never run in PR or master CI. The largest groups are UnitTests.NeuralNetworks (all but four named classes), UnitTests.Evolution.Programs, ContinualLearning, UnitTests.Agentic, and Generators. check-shard-coverage.ps1 only checks generated ModelFamily classes, so nothing reports this. Some are intentional (GPU/stress) and some are abstract bases whose tests run through derived classes, so the number needs confirming against real test discovery before anything changes. Edits to these files still escalate here, which is safe but runs 116 shards that don't include the edited tests.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved pull request change detection using the actual PR head and merge history.
    • Improved test-impact selection by routing changed test sources to the shards that can execute them.
    • Added safer handling for unmapped files, incomplete merge checkouts, and unselectable tests.
    • Added route details to shard-selection results and logs.
  • Tests

    • Expanded validation for behind-master pull requests, merge commits, shard routing, workflow safety, and audit consistency.

…vered lines

Every runtime pull request that was behind master, or that touched a test file,
ran all 116 shards. Reproduced on #2100's exact merge commit with the exact
certified map CI used: 22 changed files, 25 escalation reasons, full matrix.
With this change the same inputs select 4 of 116 shards.

Three independent causes, all fixed here:

1. Stale base. The selector diffed from github.event.pull_request.base.sha,
   which is the base branch as it was when the pull request was opened. For a
   pull request behind master it charged every commit master had gained since
   to the pull request (16 merged CI-control files on #2100). The selector now
   takes the pull request head, verifies the checkout is the two-parent merge
   of it, and uses the merge commit's first parent: the base actually tested.
   Only the pull request's own paths are selected for; map line numbers still
   come from the map commit.

2. Test sources are never in the coverage map (5,931 of 5,932 map files are
   under src/), so any test-file edit escalated. They are now routed to the
   shards whose test-shards.yml filters select their tests, following the
   transitive closure of test files that use their types. Anything reference
   search cannot follow (extension methods, collection definitions, assembly
   attributes, abstract bases and types the source generator names, which
   build-time generated tests can derive from) still escalates.

3. A changed range no shard executes (field declarations, attributes, the
   insertion point of new code) escalated. It now routes to every shard that
   executes the same file; a new .cs file routes to the owners of its
   nearest mapped directory, never above a two-segment root. Unmapped
   non-C# files still escalate, and src/AiDotNet.Generators is now explicit
   full validation because it runs inside the compiler.

Every selected shard now logs why it was selected. The nightly miss audit
passes the audited tree's manifest through, so it measures the new routing
against complete matrices.

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The change makes shard selection pull-request-aware. It resolves the merge base from the pull-request head, routes changed test sources through shard filters, records selection reasons, updates map audits, and adds coverage for stale-base, routing, and escalation cases.

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Pull-request-aware selection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Workflow inputs and merge-base resolution
.github/workflows/sonarcloud.yml, .github/workflows/test-impact-map.yml, tools/TestImpact/Measure-SelectionMiss.ps1, tools/TestImpact/Select-Shards.ps1
Workflows pass the pull-request head and shard manifests. Selection resolves the base from the merge commit's first parent. Audits replay the audited tree's shard filters.
Scoped impact selection and route reporting
tools/TestImpact/Select-Shards.ps1
Selection scopes paths to the pull request, routes unmapped files and uncovered ranges, escalates build-time generator changes, and returns per-shard route reasons.
Test-source routing
tools/TestImpact/Select-Shards.ps1
The selector parses C# test shapes, evaluates VSTest filters, follows file references, detects routing hazards, and maps test sources to matching shards.
Regression and end-to-end validation
tools/TestImpact/Select-Shards.ps1, tools/TestImpact/Test-CiImpactWorkflow.ps1, tools/TestImpact/Test-CiImpactWorkflowReview.ps1, tools/TestImpact/Test-TestImpactEndToEnd.ps1
Tests cover merge-base validation, stale-base behavior, test routing, uncovered ranges, manifest replay, and fail-closed cases.

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  GitHubActions->>SelectShards: pass pull-request head and shard manifest
  SelectShards->>GitMerge: resolve merge commit first parent
  GitMerge-->>SelectShards: return pull-request base
  SelectShards->>TestSources: parse changed test sources and references
  TestSources-->>SelectShards: return test candidates and hazards
  SelectShards->>ShardFilters: evaluate shard filters
  ShardFilters-->>GitHubActions: return selected shards and route reasons
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…ead multi-line modifiers

Three defects in the selector, raised in review of #2159 against code this PR
introduced:

- Select-Shards fell off the end without `exit`, so its exit code was the
  last native command's. Test-source routing runs git grep, which exits 1
  when nothing matches - e.g. the type names of a test file the pull request
  deletes - and the workflow reads a nonzero exit as a selector failure and
  runs the full matrix, discarding a valid selection. Reproduced with a real
  repository: selection {Alpha}, escalate false, exit code 1. Now exit 0;
  the new end-to-end case fails without it ("a valid selection exited 1").
- Escalation results had no `routes` property while successful ones did;
  consumers reading it under StrictMode crash on the escalated shape.
- Get-CSharpTestShape read declaration modifiers from the keyword's line
  only, so `public abstract` or `file` on the line above `class` was lost
  and an abstract base could be routed instead of escalating. Modifiers now
  run back to the previous declaration or attribute boundary.

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…rtifact, harden reads

Review of #2159:

- The delta-map step had no duration bound; continue-on-error limits the
  outcome, not the time, so a stalled gh call could eat the job's margin
  before the resolver's own 40-minute wait began. timeout-minutes: 10.
- A partial plan imports coverage-<tested>-<slug> and
  test-results-<tested>-<slug> for every imported shard by exact name, and
  every consumer fails on a missing one. The resolver now checks both exist
  in the pull request run (Get-MissingImportArtifacts) and declines to the
  full matrix instead of emitting a plan that turns the landed commit red.
- Selector output is read through Get-OptionalArray, so an older or
  escalated result without routes/reasons cannot crash the resolve step
  under StrictMode (the selector side of this landed in #2156).
- A contract pins the step's id (delta-map), which its outputs are read
  through, and its timeout.

Also rebased onto #2156's review commits (directory-owner index, exit 0,
result-shape and multi-line-modifier fixes); the two end-to-end additions
were independent and are both kept.

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Timed dependency review at dce65d3: zero unresolved threads. Locally ran Select-Shards.ps1 -SelfTest, Measure-SelectionMiss.ps1 -SelfTest, and Test-TestImpactEndToEnd.ps1; all passed. This does NOT make the PR merge-ready: hosted run 34596861846 failed DBN loss, StyDiff clone parity, custom-Transformer InputLayer reconstruction, and distributed-builder backend-consumption tests. Integration D received a runner shutdown signal (the log alone does not prove OOM). Vercel also reports a build-rate limit. #2183 targets DBN; #2112 describes StyDiff/COW fixes; #2185 concerns related cloning defects, but neither is established here as fixing these exact failures. No selector assertion was weakened and no blanket rerun was requested.

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Runtime follow-up now has concrete dependency proof: #2185 at 2811e7a passed the exact custom-Transformer InputLayer failure plus three clone regressions (4/4 locally). #2112 current-head hosted logs explicitly pass StyDiff clone parity (65/65 shard) and Integration D (2091 passed, 28 skipped). #2183 at 0e0c2a9 fixes both lazy-gradient snapshot timing and stale shard-layout caching in shared base classes; final local run passed 76/76, including the original DDP test, all five affected strategies and two-rank math checks. These fixes are in their dependency PRs, not yet merged into this selector branch. No claim that #2156 is green or merge-ready until those dependencies land and checks clear.

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