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Fixes parallel restore tests crashing the sandbox: cap concurrency from measured sandbox capacity, isolate tests per environment, and queue excess work. Use when parallel agent restore tests overload their sandbox. Not for a single test crashing a VM from inside.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent timed out waiting for restore sandbox provisioning and the test failed - agent timed out waiting for VM boot in the sandbox and the restore test failed
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's parallel restore tests crashed the sandbox and every test failed
Problem outcome: unknown
Finds the shared file handle behind the I/O operation on closed file flake in parallel pytest runs. Use when the error appears intermittently with xdist. Covers finding module-level or module-scoped file handles, giving each test its own file via tmp_path, and rerunning in parallel. Not for single-process occurrences.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - pytest "DID NOT RAISE" flaky: expected exception raised only sometimes under parallel xdist - pytest "sqlalchemy.exc.OperationalError: database is locked" in parallel CI runs: how to fix
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: pytest ValueError: I/O operation on closed file flake under parallel
Problem outcome: unknown
Raises the file-descriptor limit for pytest-xdist workers in CI. Use when parallel runs fail with OSError: [Errno 24] Too many open files. Covers confirming the limit, raising it with ulimit in the CI step, reducing worker count, and checking for leaked handles. Not for the same error without xdist.
Fixes Node heap exhaustion during jest runs in CI. Use when the run dies with FATAL ERROR: Reached heap limit or Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory. Covers raising the heap with NODE_OPTIONS, cutting worker memory pressure, and finding the leak with open-handle and heap logging. Not for out-of-memory in…
Stops parallel workers from overwriting each other's JUnit reports by writing per-worker report files and merging them after the run. Use when parallel test runs produce incomplete or corrupted JUnit XML. Not for single-worker runs, where one report file is correct and merging adds nothing.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - hubspot 429 'Requests per second per app' - agent's parallel workers share one app id and tripped it together - [two outreach agents emailed the same candidate list - the claim-lock on the queue expi…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's parallel workers overwrote each other's junit reports: ho
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes playwright 'Target crashed' failures in CI. Use when the browser process dies mid-suite. Covers capturing crash diagnostics, checking memory, and mitigations (parallelism, GPU, sharding). Not for test-assertion failures.
Fixes shard-unsafe tests that fail only under CI sharding. Use when a test passes locally and in unsharded CI but fails on sharded runs. Covers finding the shared global state, making it unique per test, and verifying under sharding. Not for failures that happen unsharded.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent didn't know CI sets CI=true - the app disables animations in CI and the test's timing assumptions broke - [playwright test kept timing out in CI but passed locally - the agent couldn't reproduc…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent didn't know CI shards the suite — the failing test
Problem outcome: unknown
Isolates Mocha --parallel test files that leak state into each other. Use when files pass alone but fail together under --parallel. Not for order dependence inside one file.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - flaky tests from shared database state: how to isolate - flaky tests from parallel workers sharing ports: how to isolate - [m…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: mocha --parallel tests leaking state between files: how to isolate
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes Vitest out-of-memory crashes when the threads pool runs a large suite. Use when workers die with heap errors and the suite is big. Not for OOM in a single test file or for leaks in application code.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's parallel test shards collided on ports: how to isolate - cucumber tags not filtering scenarios: how to fix - [flaky t…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: cucumber parallel scenarios database collision: how to isolate
Problem outcome: unknown
Detects why Playwright test.describe.skip (or test.skip) behaves differently in CI than locally and makes skips deterministic. Use when tests skip on a developer machine but run in CI, or vice versa. Not for tests that fail instead of skipping, or for grep filters excluding tests.
Finds the slow hook behind mocha's 'Timeout of 2000ms exceeded' errors that appear only when the full suite runs in CI. Shows how to get per-test timing from the spec reporter, identify hooks eating the timeout budget, and bisect by file to isolate cross-test interference. Use when a mocha test times out in the full C…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - mocha timeout 2000ms exceeded in before hook: how to fix - mocha timeout of 2000ms exceeded in afterEach hook - [jest "Exceed…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: mocha Error: Timeout of 2000ms exceeded only when the full suite runs in
Problem outcome: unknown