fix(tests): stop retry-count test from sleeping ~15 minutes

[zacharywomack8-source]

Fixes #11 — the one test that is 99.8% of Carom.Tests.dll runtime (889.55s of 891s).

Root cause

Shot_WithMaxRetries_ExecutesCorrectNumberOfTimes ran retries: 100 with no baseDelay, so the
default 100ms applied and decorrelated jitter multiplied each delay by up to 3 until it sat at the
30s ceiling — ~9s per retry on average, using Thread.Sleep (Carom.cs:145) the whole time.

Changes

• EdgeCaseTests.cs: add baseDelay: TimeSpan.Zero to the 100-retry counting test. The assertion
  (Assert.Equal(maxRetries + 1, executionCount) → 101) is unchanged; CalculateDelay with a zero
  base gives minMs = maxMs = 0, so the 101 attempts still run but nothing sleeps (same pattern
  already used at EdgeCaseTests.cs:111 and :138).
• Guard it: add [Fact(Timeout = 10000)] to the retry-count tests
  (Shot_WithZeroRetries_ExecutesOnlyOnce, Shot_WithNegativeRetries_TreatsAsZero,
  Shot_WithMaxRetries_ExecutesCorrectNumberOfTimes) and to Shot_DoesNotExhaustStack
  (retries: 1000) so a future regression is loud instead of quietly adding a quarter of an hour.
• Set longRunningTestSeconds: 10 (was 120) in both xunit.runner.json files.
• Sweep: only other test paying the 100ms default was Shot_PreservesExceptionType_ThroughRetries
  (0.89s in the TRX); gave it an explicit baseDelay: TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(1). All other
  retries-without-baseDelay calls are retries: 0, succeed first try, or are timeout/cancellation
  tests where a shrink would be wrong scope. Elapsed-time assertions (e.g.
  SecurityTests.cs:316-321) were left untouched per the issue.

Why the fix costs nothing

The counting assertion is what matters and it still holds: 100 retries + 1 initial attempt = 101
executions. retries: 100 was kept (with zero delay it is free and still exercises a 100-iteration
loop); the mutation check from the issue — breaking Carom.cs:100 to attempt >= 1 — would still
redden this test with Expected 101, Actual 2.

Note: no dotnet SDK is available in this environment, so the run was verified by inspection of the
delay arithmetic above rather than a local dotnet test.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Tests
  • Added 10-second timeouts to retry boundary and stack-safety tests.
  • Removed retry delays from selected edge-case tests to speed up execution.
  • Reduced the threshold for reporting long-running tests from two minutes to 10 seconds.

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Walkthrough

The test suite now detects long-running tests after 10 seconds. Retry boundary tests use explicit timeouts and shorter delays. The stack-exhaustion test also has a 10-second timeout.

Changes

Test runtime safeguards

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Test timeout and retry configuration tests/Carom.Tests/EdgeCaseTests.cs, tests/Carom.Tests/SecurityTests.cs, tests/Carom.Tests/xunit.runner.json, tests/Carom.Extensions.Tests/xunit.runner.json	Retry boundary tests and the stack-exhaustion test use 10-second timeouts. Retry tests use zero or 1-millisecond base delays where configured. Both xUnit runners use a 10-second long-running threshold.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ddcec

The retry-count tests still use synchronous methods, so their new timeout guards will not reliably stop a future regression from making the test suite sleep for many minutes again. Make these tests asynchronous or otherwise enforce the timeout before merging.

Suggested reviewers: arnelirobles

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the primary change: preventing the retry-count test from sleeping for approximately 15 minutes.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes set zero retry delay for the counting test, preserve its assertion, add timeout protection, and address other unintended retry delays required by issue #11.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	All changes support issue #11 by reducing unintended test delays or adding protection against long-running retry and stack-exhaustion tests.
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In `@tests/Carom.Tests/EdgeCaseTests.cs`:
- Around line 49-50: Make the four timeout-bearing tests asynchronous so xUnit
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63-64, and 77-89, plus tests/Carom.Tests/SecurityTests.cs lines 394-395. Change
each test to return Task, execute its synchronous Carom.Shot call via Task.Run,
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[arnelirobles]

Merging. Verified rather than read, and it holds up on every check that mattered.

The root cause is correctly identified. retries: 100 with no baseDelay took the 100ms default, and decorrelated jitter multiplied each delay until it sat at the 30 second ceiling, on Thread.Sleep. Setting baseDelay: TimeSpan.Zero removes the wait without touching what the test asserts, which is an execution count.

Measured, not estimated. Carom.Tests goes from 891 seconds to 495 ms. The whole solution now runs in about 71 seconds instead of over twelve minutes. I ran the same single test on master and killed it at 400 seconds, still going, which is the before number.

The test still fails when it should. Two mutations, both caught:

• Reducing the retry count by one in Carom.Shot fails Shot_WithMaxRetries_ExecutesCorrectNumberOfTimes in 2 ms. Removing the delay did not weaken it; it proves the same thing roughly 400,000 times faster.
• Making the final rethrow wrap the exception fails Shot_PreservesExceptionType_ThroughRetries, so the 1 ms baseDelay there is likewise cosmetic to the assertion.

288 tests pass across all three projects in Release.

Fixes #11, and it is the change that makes CI on this repo practical at all: a twelve minute suite is one nobody runs locally.

Thanks for finding the actual cause instead of raising the timeout, which is the fix most people would have reached for and would have left the twelve minutes in place.

[arnelirobles]

@zacharywomack8-source thank you for this, and apologies for the delay: your four pull requests sat a day and a half because I was heads-down on another repo and, it turns out, I was not watching notifications on this one. That is my problem, not yours, and it is fixed now. You should not have had to wonder whether anyone was here.

This one is merged. I verified it rather than took it on trust, and it holds up on everything that mattered:

• Carom.Tests goes from 891 seconds to 495 ms. I ran the same single test on master and killed it at 400 seconds, still going.
• The whole solution now runs in about 71 seconds instead of over twelve minutes.
• The test still fails when it should. Reducing the retry count by one in Carom.Shot fails Shot_WithMaxRetries_ExecutesCorrectNumberOfTimes in 2 ms. Removing the delay did not weaken it, it proves the same thing far faster.

What I want to call out is that you found the actual cause. 100 retries with no baseDelay took the 100 ms default, jitter multiplied it toward the 30 second ceiling, and Thread.Sleep held the thread the whole time. The fix most people reach for is raising a timeout, which leaves the twelve minutes in place. You removed the reason for the wait instead.

One finding from the review, which is not a criticism of the change: the [Fact(Timeout = ...)] attributes do not fire. xUnit 2.5.3 only enforces Timeout on tests returning Task, so on a synchronous void test it is ignored. CodeRabbit spotted it and I confirmed it by adding a throwaway test that sleeps 6 seconds against a 2 second timeout: it passed, after 6 seconds. Your instinct to add a guard was right, it just is not connected to anything yet. Filed as #18 with the exact shape, and it is yours if you want it.

Two practical things:

Your CLA is signed but only #16 could see it. #13, #14 and #15 commit under zacharywomack8@users.noreply.github.com, which has no numeric ID prefix, so GitHub cannot resolve it to your account and cla-assistant has nothing to match. #16 used 231405294+zacharywomack8-source@users.noreply.github.com and passed immediately. Setting git config user.email to the ID-prefixed address and re-committing should clear all three. (There is also an Agent Core <agent@agent-core.local> commit on #14 that will never be signable.)

I am reviewing #13, #14 and #15 next. #15 overlaps work I started before I saw your queue, which was my mistake for not reading the board first; yours closes the issue and I will drop that part of mine. On #14 I have one design question about whether burst below rate should be allowed, which is a decision about intent rather than anything wrong with the change, and I will raise it there.

If you want more, the repo has open issues and I would rather point you at ones that are actually worth your time than have you guess. #18 above is the natural next one. Genuinely glad you are here.