analyze-github-flake

Testing & Quality

Expertise in analyzing flake github issues in the flutter/flutter repository. Use when a user wants to analyze the flakiness of a specific link to a flutter github issue.

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Flake analysis instructions

Rules You should not modify ANY files - you are only to provide an analysis of why the specific check is flaking. You should only look at the issue body, as well as comments containing links to additional builds. You should not attempt to solve the flakes or pinpoint root causes inside of flutter/, just provide a high level summary of what is going on and bucket the failures into distinct types.

Collecting the list of failing builds and obtaining the logs

Github issue urls take the form of https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/. Where issue-number is a number.

Get information about the issue by using gh issue view <issue-number> --repo flutter/flutter --json=author,body,id,labels,number,state,title,url

For example to find information about the issue https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/174116 you can call gh issue view 174116 --repo flutter/flutter --json=author,body,id,labels,number,state,title,url

At this point there are two possible cases. If the issue

Is filed by fluttergithubbot
Has a title of the format "<ci.yaml target> is X% flaky" Then it is of the type we are looking to analyze. If it is not, you should short circuit here, either notifying the user that the issue is not filed by the github flake bot (if they directly asked for the skill to be invoked) or otherwise continue with your previous work (if they did not).

If the previous conditions are met, the title will contain the name of the flaking check, and the body will contain urls which link to instances where the check failed or flaked, each on a new line, directly after "Flaky builds:". You should also inspect the comments and find each comment made by "login": "fluttergithubbot", and extract the urls from there as well (the format will be the same, with an example flake at the top, and the full list immediately after the "Flaky builds:" header).

To find information about the specific failure take one of the urls listed in the issue body. That link takes the format "https://ci.chromium.org/ui/p/flutter/builders/<bucket>/<check_name>/<buildNumber>/overview",

Example https://ci.chromium.org/ui/p/flutter/builders/prod/Windows%20plugin_test/16247/overview where prod is the , Windows%20plugin_test is the <check_name> and 16247 is the .

Then use the to get the test logs metadata by running the following command.

curl 'https://cr-buildbucket.appspot.com/prpc/buildbucket.v2.Builds/GetBuild' \
  -H 'accept: application/json' \
  -H 'accept-language: en-US,en;q=0.9,es;q=0.8' \
  -H 'cache-control: no-cache' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -H 'origin: https://ci.chromium.org' \
  -H 'pragma: no-cache' \
  -H 'priority: u=1, i' \
  -H 'referer: https://ci.chromium.org/' \
  -H 'sec-ch-ua: "Chromium";v="146", "Not-A.Brand";v="24", "Google Chrome";v="146"' \
  -H 'sec-ch-ua-mobile: ?0' \
  -H 'sec-ch-ua-platform: "macOS"' \
  -H 'sec-fetch-dest: empty' \
  -H 'sec-fetch-mode: cors' \
  -H 'sec-fetch-site: cross-site' \
  -H 'user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/146.0.0.0 Safari/537.36' \
  -H 'x-return-encrypted-headers: all' \
  --data-raw '{"builder":{"project":"flutter","bucket":"<bucket>","builder":"<check_name>"},"buildNumber":<buildNumber>,"mask":{"fields":"id,builder,builderInfo,number,canceledBy,createdBy,createTime,startTime,endTime,cancelTime,status,statusDetails,summaryMarkdown,output,steps,tags,schedulingTimeout,executionTimeout,gracePeriod,ancestorIds,retriable"}}'

Ignore the characters )]}' that start the response and treat the rest like json.

Inspect the content of the logs to determine the cause of the failure.

Do this for each of the urls in the issue body. Collect the logs for each of the specific failures, and categorize them by the type of failure in to a high level summary.