Cuts shard-3 local runtime in half by neutralizing real wall-clock
waits across three classes of slow test:
## 1. Retry backoff mocks
- tests/run_agent/conftest.py (NEW): autouse fixture mocks
jittered_backoff to 0.0 so the `while time.time() < sleep_end`
busy-loop exits immediately. No global time.sleep mock (would
break threading tests).
- test_anthropic_error_handling, test_413_compression,
test_run_agent_codex_responses, test_fallback_model: per-file
fixtures mock time.sleep / asyncio.sleep for retry / compression
paths.
- test_retaindb_plugin: cap the retaindb module's bound time.sleep
to 0.05s via a per-test shim (background writer-thread retries
sleep 2s after errors; tests don't care about exact duration).
Plus replace arbitrary time.sleep(N) waits with short polling
loops bounded by deadline.
## 2. Subprocess sleeps in production code
- test_update_gateway_restart: mock time.sleep. Production code
does time.sleep(3) after `systemctl restart` to verify the
service survived. Tests mock subprocess.run \u2014 nothing actually
restarts \u2014 so the wait is dead time.
## 3. Network / IMDS timeouts (biggest single win)
- tests/conftest.py: add AWS_EC2_METADATA_DISABLED=true plus
AWS_METADATA_SERVICE_TIMEOUT=1 and ATTEMPTS=1. boto3 falls back
to IMDS (169.254.169.254) when no AWS creds are set. Any test
hitting has_aws_credentials() / resolve_aws_auth_env_var() (e.g.
test_status, test_setup_copilot_acp, anything that touches
provider auto-detect) burned ~2-4s waiting for that to time out.
- test_exit_cleanup_interrupt: explicitly mock
resolve_runtime_provider which was doing real network auto-detect
(~4s). Tests don't care about provider resolution \u2014 the agent
is already mocked.
- test_timezone: collapse the 3-test "TZ env in subprocess" suite
into 2 tests by checking both injection AND no-leak in the same
subprocess spawn (was 3 \u00d7 3.2s, now 2 \u00d7 4s).
## Validation
| Test | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| test_anthropic_error_handling (8 tests) | ~80s | ~15s |
| test_413_compression (14 tests) | ~18s | 2.3s |
| test_retaindb_plugin (67 tests) | ~13s | 1.3s |
| test_status_includes_tavily_key | 4.0s | 0.05s |
| test_setup_copilot_acp_skips_same_provider_pool_step | 8.0s | 0.26s |
| test_update_gateway_restart (5 tests) | ~18s total | ~0.35s total |
| test_exit_cleanup_interrupt (2 tests) | 8s | 1.5s |
| **Matrix shard 3 local** | **108s** | **50s** |
No behavioral contract changed \u2014 tests still verify retry happens,
service restart logic runs, etc.; they just don't burn real seconds
waiting for it.
Supersedes PR #11779 (those changes are included here).
First pass of test-suite reduction to address flaky CI and bloat.
Removed tests that fall into these change-detector patterns:
1. Source-grep tests (tests/gateway/test_feishu.py, test_email.py): tests
that call inspect.getsource() on production modules and grep for string
literals. Break on any refactor/rename even when behavior is correct.
2. Platform enum tautologies (every gateway/test_X.py): assertions like
`Platform.X.value == 'x'` duplicated across ~9 adapter test files.
3. Toolset/PLATFORM_HINTS/setup-wizard registry-presence checks: tests that
only verify a key exists in a dict. Data-layout tests, not behavior.
4. Argparse wiring tests (test_argparse_flag_propagation, test_subparser_routing
_fallback): tests that do parser.parse_args([...]) then assert args.field.
Tests Python's argparse, not our code.
5. Pure dispatch tests (test_plugins_cmd.TestPluginsCommandDispatch): patch
cmd_X, call plugins_command with matching action, assert mock called.
Tests the if/elif chain, not behavior.
6. Kwarg-to-mock verification (test_auxiliary_client ~45 tests,
test_web_tools_config, test_gemini_cloudcode, test_retaindb_plugin): tests
that mock the external API client, call our function, and assert exact
kwargs. Break on refactor even when behavior is preserved.
7. Schedule-internal "function-was-called" tests (acp/test_server scheduling
tests): tests that patch own helper method, then assert it was called.
Kept behavioral tests throughout: error paths (pytest.raises), security
tests (path traversal, SSRF, redaction), message alternation invariants,
provider API format conversion, streaming logic, memory contract, real
config load/merge tests.
Net reduction: 169 tests removed. 38 empty classes cleaned up.
Collected before: 12,522 tests
Collected after: 12,353 tests
