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feat: implement per-test timeout limits for slow test investigation

Summary

This PR implements per-test timeout limits using the existing pytest-timeout plugin to address Windows CI timeout issues. The changes include:

  • CI timeout configuration: Added --timeout=300 (5 minutes per test) and --session-timeout=3600 (1 hour total) to all pytest jobs
  • New poe tasks: Added timeout-controlled test execution tasks for different scenarios
  • Slow test analysis: Created executable script to identify and analyze tests marked with @pytest.mark.slow
  • Documentation: Added comprehensive timeout configuration guide

The implementation leverages pytest-timeout plugin v2.4.0 already installed in PyAirbyte to provide granular timeout control that should prevent the 1-hour CI timeouts currently experienced on Windows.

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  • Verify timeout values are appropriate: Test that 300s per-test limit doesn't cause legitimate tests to fail unexpectedly (especially integration tests that may need longer execution time)
  • Test new poe tasks locally: Run poetry run poe test-integration-timeout and poetry run poe test-with-short-timeout to ensure they work correctly and respect timeout limits
  • Confirm scope alignment: The implementation applies timeouts to ALL CI jobs (Linux + Windows), not just Windows as originally discussed - verify this aligns with requirements
  • Validate session timeout: Ensure 3600s (1 hour) session timeout allows full test suite completion on Ubuntu while preventing Windows hangs

Notes

⚠️ Scope Change: The original plan targeted Windows-only timeout limits, but this implementation applies timeouts to all CI matrix jobs. This was necessary because the pytest job in the workflow doesn't have separate Windows/Linux conditional steps.

Test Analysis: The slow test analysis script identifies 11 integration tests marked as @pytest.mark.slow, primarily involving source-faker connector with multiple cache types and write strategies. These tests involve 200-300 record scales and are parametrized across DuckDB, Postgres, BigQuery, and Snowflake caches.

Timeout Strategy:

  • Per-test: 300s (down from 600s global timeout)
  • Session: 3600s (1 hour maximum)
  • Integration tests can use test-integration-timeout task with 180s limit for faster feedback

Requested by AJ Steers (@aaronsteers) in Devin session: https://app.devin.ai/sessions/2cd62f25e51440258413a76d0e0763c6

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  • New Features

    • Added a tool to report and summarize slow tests.
  • Tests

    • Enforced per-test and overall session timeouts in CI to reduce hangs and improve reliability.
  • Documentation

    • Added a guide explaining test timeout configuration, strategies, and usage examples.
  • Chores

    • Added convenient tasks/commands to run unit, integration, and slow-test analyses with predefined timeouts and duration reporting.

- Add timeout-controlled poe tasks for different test scenarios
- Update CI to use per-test timeout limits (300s per test, 1hr session)
- Create slow test analysis script to identify problematic tests
- Document timeout configuration strategy
- Addresses Windows CI timeout issues by providing granular timeout control

Co-Authored-By: AJ Steers <[email protected]>
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@Devin - In PyAirbyte, Windows CI tests are taking forever, timing out after 1hr - versus ubuntu CI tests finishing in 22 minutes. Let's do a two stage fix:
1. Create a new PR that skips all integration tests in CI when running on Windows - we'll just run unit tests for Windows instead of all tests.
2. Create a follow-on PR that attempts to discover why things are taking so much longer, and also why some testes are failing outright.
Thread URL: https://airbytehq-team.slack.com/archives/D089P0UPVT4/p1757449919843449?thread_ts=1757449919.843449

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Adds per-test and session timeout flags to the CI pytest step, introduces documentation on timeout configuration, removes the hardcoded pytest timeout from pyproject addopts and adds Poe test tasks, and adds a script that prints a hard-coded slow-test report.

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Cohort / File(s) Summary of Changes
CI workflow timeouts
.github/workflows/python_pytest.yml
Added pytest flags --timeout=300 and --session-timeout=3600 to the Run Pytest step.
Documentation
docs/timeout_configuration.md
New documentation describing PyAirbyte test timeout configuration, per-test/session strategy, usage examples, and slow-test analysis notes.
Pyproject / Poe tasks
pyproject.toml
Removed --timeout=600 from [tool.pytest.ini_options].addopts; added Poe tasks: test-unit-tests, test-with-short-timeout, test-integration-timeout, test-slow-analysis.
Slow test analyzer script
scripts/analyze_slow_tests.py
New script with main() that prints a hard-coded list/count of slow tests, timeout recommendations, and CLI usage examples; executable as a script.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
    autonumber
    actor Developer
    participant Poe as Poe Tasks (pyproject.toml)
    participant Pytest as pytest
    participant Timeout as pytest-timeout plugin

    Developer->>Poe: Run test-* task
    Poe->>Pytest: Invoke pytest with flags (e.g. --timeout=300 / --session-timeout=3600)
    Pytest->>Timeout: Initialize timeout settings
    rect rgba(230,240,255,0.5)
    note right of Timeout: Enforce per-test timeouts (abort individual tests)
    Timeout-->>Pytest: Abort test > per-test limit
    end
    rect rgba(240,230,255,0.5)
    note right of Timeout: Enforce session timeout (abort whole run)
    Timeout-->>Pytest: Abort session > suite limit
    end
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sequenceDiagram
    autonumber
    actor GitHubActions as GitHub Actions
    participant Workflow as CI Workflow
    participant Pytest as pytest
    participant Timeout as pytest-timeout plugin

    GitHubActions->>Workflow: Trigger Pytest job
    Workflow->>Pytest: pytest --timeout=300 --session-timeout=3600
    Pytest->>Timeout: Configure per-test and session timeouts
    Timeout-->>Pytest: Enforce timing constraints
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Would you like me to suggest consolidating timeout values between CI and Poe tasks to avoid divergence, wdyt?

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.github/workflows/python_pytest.yml (1)

45-53: Propagate timeouts to the other jobs for consistency.

As written, only the matrix job enforces the per-test and session timeouts; fast/no-creds do not. Shall we add the same flags there to match the stated scope, wdyt?

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-    - name: Run Pytest with Coverage (Fast Tests Only)
+    - name: Run Pytest with Coverage (Fast Tests Only)
       timeout-minutes: 60
       env:
         GCP_GSM_CREDENTIALS: ${{ secrets.GCP_GSM_CREDENTIALS }}
       run: >
-        poetry run coverage run -m pytest
-        --durations=5 --exitfirst
+        poetry run coverage run -m pytest
+        --durations=5 --exitfirst
+        --timeout=300 --session-timeout=3600
         -m "not slow and not requires_creds and not linting and not flaky"
@@
-    - name: Run Pytest (No-Creds)
+    - name: Run Pytest (No-Creds)
       timeout-minutes: 60
       env:
         # Force this to a blank value.
         GCP_GSM_CREDENTIALS: ""
       run: >
-        poetry run coverage run -m pytest
-        --durations=5 --exitfirst
+        poetry run coverage run -m pytest
+        --durations=5 --exitfirst
+        --timeout=300 --session-timeout=3600
         -m "not requires_creds and not linting and not super_slow and not flaky"

Also applies to: 111-119, 185-195

pyproject.toml (1)

87-95: Default per-test timeout still 600s in config; intentional?

addopts sets --timeout=600, but the PR summary says 300s replaces the previous 600s. If the goal is 300s by default, shall we update this (and/or add session_timeout = 3600) so local runs match CI, wdyt?

-[tool.pytest.ini_options]
+# Pytest config
+[tool.pytest.ini_options]
@@
-addopts = "-rs --strict-markers --timeout=600 --junit-xml=build/test-results/test-results.xml"
+addopts = "-rs --strict-markers --timeout=300 --junit-xml=build/test-results/test-results.xml"
+session_timeout = 3600
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.github/workflows/python_pytest.yml (1)

164-166: Minor: matrix runner label casing can be brittle.

runs-on: "${{ matrix.os }}-latest" with Ubuntu/Windows yields Ubuntu-latest/Windows-latest. GitHub labels are typically lowercase (ubuntu-latest, windows-latest). It’s usually fine, but do you want to standardize to lowercase to avoid edge cases, wdyt?

scripts/analyze_slow_tests.py (2)

38-43: Keep the numbers DRY and in sync with config.

These recommendations will drift from pyproject/workflow over time. Would you factor them into named constants and/or read from env/pyproject so the script reflects reality, wdyt?

-    print("  - Current global timeout: 600 seconds (10 minutes)")
-    print("  - Recommended per-test timeout for integration tests: 180 seconds (3 minutes)")
-    print("  - Recommended per-test timeout for unit tests: 60 seconds (1 minute)")
-    print("  - Session timeout for entire test suite: 3600 seconds (1 hour)")
+    DEFAULT_PER_TEST_TIMEOUT_S = 600
+    RECOMMENDED_IT_TIMEOUT_S = 180
+    RECOMMENDED_UNIT_TIMEOUT_S = 60
+    SESSION_TIMEOUT_S = 3600
+    print(f"  - Current global timeout: {DEFAULT_PER_TEST_TIMEOUT_S} seconds (10 minutes)")
+    print(f"  - Recommended per-test timeout for integration tests: {RECOMMENDED_IT_TIMEOUT_S} seconds (3 minutes)")
+    print(f"  - Recommended per-test timeout for unit tests: {RECOMMENDED_UNIT_TIMEOUT_S} seconds (1 minute)")
+    print(f"  - Session timeout for entire test suite: {SESSION_TIMEOUT_S} seconds (1 hour)")

15-36: Prefer dynamic discovery over a hard-coded slow test list.

Since you already added a poe task that collects slow tests, would you auto-collect here too to avoid maintenance overhead, wdyt?

+import subprocess
+import sys
@@
-    slow_tests = [
-        "tests/integration_tests/test_all_cache_types.py::test_faker_read "
-        "(4 parametrized variants)",
-        "tests/integration_tests/test_all_cache_types.py::test_append_strategy",
-        "tests/integration_tests/test_all_cache_types.py::test_replace_strategy",
-        "tests/integration_tests/test_all_cache_types.py::test_merge_strategy",
-        "tests/integration_tests/test_all_cache_types.py::test_auto_add_columns",
-        "tests/integration_tests/test_source_faker_integration.py::test_replace_strategy",
-        "tests/integration_tests/test_source_faker_integration.py::test_append_strategy",
-        "tests/integration_tests/test_source_faker_integration.py::test_merge_strategy "
-        "(2 parametrized variants)",
-        "tests/integration_tests/test_docker_executable.py::test_replace_strategy",
-        "tests/integration_tests/test_docker_executable.py::test_append_strategy",
-        "tests/integration_tests/test_docker_executable.py::test_merge_strategy "
-        "(2 parametrized variants)",
-    ]
+    cmd = ["pytest", "tests/integration_tests/", "--collect-only", "-q", "-m", "slow"]
+    res = subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True, text=True)
+    if res.returncode != 0:
+        print("Failed to collect slow tests:\n", res.stderr, file=sys.stderr)
+        sys.exit(res.returncode)
+    slow_tests = [line.strip() for line in res.stdout.splitlines() if "::" in line]
pyproject.toml (2)

186-189: Align poe tasks with the timeout strategy.

Do you want these tasks to also enforce the session cap and the per-test limits for unit tests, wdyt?

-test-unit-tests = { shell = "pytest tests/unit_tests/" }
-test-with-short-timeout = { shell = "pytest --timeout=300 --durations=10" }
-test-integration-timeout = { shell = "pytest tests/integration_tests/ --timeout=180 --durations=10 -m 'not super_slow'" }
+test-unit-tests = { shell = "pytest tests/unit_tests/ --timeout=60 --session-timeout=3600" }
+test-with-short-timeout = { shell = "pytest --timeout=300 --session-timeout=3600 --durations=10" }
+test-integration-timeout = { shell = "pytest tests/integration_tests/ --timeout=180 --session-timeout=3600 --durations=10 -m 'not super_slow'" }
 test-slow-analysis = { shell = "pytest tests/integration_tests/ --collect-only --durations=0 -m slow" }

58-75: Doc claims v2.4.0; pyproject pins ^2.3.1.

--session-timeout exists since 2.3.0, so you’re functionally fine, but the stated version in docs doesn’t match the dependency. Want to bump to ^2.4.0 or adjust the doc to say “>=2.3.0”, wdyt? (pypi.org)

-pytest-timeout = "^2.3.1"
+pytest-timeout = "^2.4.0"
docs/timeout_configuration.md (2)

7-17: Clarify per-test timeout: 600s default vs 300s in CI.

Current text states “Global test timeout: 600s,” but the workflow enforces --timeout=300 for the matrix job. Would you add a short note that CI overrides the default to 300s (and where), wdyt?


24-33: Include session-timeout examples for parity.

Since CI uses --session-timeout=3600, do you want to include it in the examples (and/or show session_timeout = 3600 in pytest ini), wdyt?

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190-194: Good addition: enforce per-test and session caps in CI.

--timeout=300 and --session-timeout=3600 are valid pytest-timeout flags; session timeout was added in v2.3.0, so they’ll work with >=2.3.x. (pypi.org, github.com)

Given the PR summary says “apply to all pytest jobs,” do you also want these flags on pytest-fast and pytest-no-creds for consistency, wdyt?

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- **Global test timeout**: 600 seconds (10 minutes) per test
- **CI job timeout**: 60 minutes for pytest jobs
- **pytest-timeout plugin**: v2.4.0 installed

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⚠️ Potential issue

Version mismatch: plugin version in doc vs dependency.

Doc says “pytest-timeout v2.4.0 installed,” but pyproject pins ^2.3.1. Either bump the dep or reword to “pytest-timeout >=2.3.0,” wdyt? Note: --session-timeout is available since 2.3.0. (pypi.org)

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In docs/timeout_configuration.md around lines 7 to 10, the documented
pytest-timeout version (v2.4.0) conflicts with pyproject which pins ^2.3.1;
update the doc to match the dependency by either changing the text to
“pytest-timeout >=2.3.0” (or “pytest-timeout v2.3.x”) or bumping the pyproject
dependency to >=2.4.0, and mention that --session-timeout is available since
2.3.0 if you keep the lower bound.

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### Session Timeouts
- **Full test suite**: 3600 seconds (1 hour maximum)
- **Windows CI**: Limited to unit tests only to prevent timeouts

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⚠️ Potential issue

Windows scope is inaccurate.

Doc says “Windows CI: Limited to unit tests,” but the workflow runs the full matrix on Windows. Shall we update this to reflect current behavior, wdyt?

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In docs/timeout_configuration.md around lines 18 to 21, the "Windows CI: Limited
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PyTest Results (Full)

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Results for commit 6415232. ± Comparison against base commit beb6665.

- Remove conflicting --timeout=600 from addopts to allow CI timeout args to work
- Prevents pytest-timeout plugin malfunction that caused 60-minute GitHub Actions timeout
- Allows per-test timeout (300s) and session timeout (3600s) to work correctly
- Update comments to reflect timeout handling by CI workflow

Co-Authored-By: AJ Steers <[email protected]>
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