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Marc Schier 416d619c41 Split the CI matrix across both systems, split the required test gate from the advisory coverage check, and give background work an owner (#4158)
# Description

Two changes to how CI is routed and how it reports.

## 1. Split the CI matrix back across both systems

Flips both halves of the CI backend switch from `ado` to `actions`, so
the workload is shared instead of concentrated on the managed pool. The
switch is checked into source in **two places that must always be
flipped together**:

| File | Setting | Before | After |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `azure-pipelines.yml` | `parameters.ciBuildBackend` | `ado` |
`actions` |
| `.github/workflows/buildandtest.yml` | `env.CI_BUILD_BACKEND` | `ado`
| `actions` |

| Work | GitHub Actions | Azure Pipelines (managed pool) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| All-TFM solution builds | `build-all-tfm-windows` + `-linux` | two-TFM
PR gate (`net10.0`, `net48`) |
| Test matrix | ubuntu, every test project | Windows `net48` + `net10.0`
fast PR legs |
| Native AoT | ubuntu | Schedule/Manual only |
| macOS | always (no managed-pool macOS image) | — |

## 2. Split the required gate from the advisory coverage check

The coverage gate job was appended to *every* test stage, so `Fast PR
test` emitted three sibling checks whose display names collided —
`Coverage Release (net10.0)` appeared twice, once for the Windows leg
and once for macOS, with nothing to tell them apart:

```text
✓ Coverage Release (net48)      55s
● Coverage Release (net10.0)
○ Coverage Release (net10.0)
```

That job also fused two unrelated concerns: whether the tests passed
(which must block a merge) and whether coverage met its thresholds
(which should not — the `net10.0` leg had `enforceCoverage: true`, so a
coverage dip blocked merges).

Both concerns now get a stage of their own, mirrored in both CI systems:

| Concern | Azure Pipelines | GitHub Actions | In the branch ruleset? |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Every test passed | **`Tests passed`** stage | **`build-and-test
summary`** job | **Yes — required** |
| Coverage meets thresholds | **`Code coverage`** stage | **`code
coverage`** job | **No — advisory** |

The coverage check reports a clean failure when the thresholds are
missed, so the miss is visible, but it never blocks the merge.

Coverage is now merged **once** across every leg of the run instead of
once per leg, which also removes the `enforceCoverage` /
`publishCoverage` "exactly one invocation may set this" parameters.
Neither check re-runs any tests — the previous design re-ran the whole
suite in one job with the collector attached, which serialised a suite
that is deliberately fanned out and always exceeded the stage timeout.

### Coverage checks now exist in GitHub Actions

`build-and-test` already ran with `--collect:"XPlat Code Coverage"` and
uploaded the fragments, but nothing ever merged or evaluated them. It
now runs the same `check-coverage.ps1` against the same
`coverage-thresholds.json` as Azure. Since `CI_BUILD_BACKEND` defaults
to `actions`, that ubuntu matrix — which runs *every* test project — is
the fullest coverage signal in the repository.

### Reporting the numbers

`check-coverage.ps1` gained `-SummaryPath`, rendering a markdown report
that both systems surface:

- **GitHub Actions** — appended to the job summary and upserted as a
single **sticky pull-request comment**, updated in place on each run.
Threshold misses also appear as `::error::` annotations.
- **Azure Pipelines** — attached to the build summary via
`##vso[task.uploadsummary]`.

The report is a pass/fail table of the project floor, patch coverage and
baseline delta, with the uncovered changed lines listed by file in a
collapsible block. Rendered example:

> ## Code coverage
>
> ❌ **Coverage gate failed.** This check is advisory and does not
block the merge.
>
> | Check | Result | Threshold |
> | --- | --- | --- |
> | ✅ Project line rate | **72.10%** (40 731/56 496
lines) | >= 70.00% |
> | ❌ Patch coverage | **0.00%** (0/1 changed lines) | >= 75.00% |

The comment is fork-safe: a `pull_request` from a fork gets a read-only
token regardless of the `permissions:` block, so it degrades to the job
summary alone. The sticky comment uses `actions/github-script` rather
than a community action, keeping this workflow on first-party actions
only.

## Notable correctness details

These were found and fixed during review, and are the parts most worth a
second pair of eyes:

- **`dependencies.<stage>.result` resolves at *stage* scope only.** At
job scope `dependencies` refers to other jobs of the same stage, so
reading stage results from a jobs template would have silently returned
empty and the gate would have passed everything. `gate.yml` and
`coverage.yml` are therefore **stage** templates that derive their own
`dependsOn` from the same stage list they evaluate, so the two can never
drift apart. An unresolved result is a hard error.
- **Both rollups run on `not(canceled())` / `always()`**, not on
success. A check that reports **skipped** is treated by GitHub as
**satisfied**, so a required check that skips when its dependency fails
would wave a red build straight through.
- **`get-matrix.ps1` used to emit an empty matrix on a discovery miss.**
The downstream job is then skipped, a skipped job rolls up as a
*succeeded* stage, and the gate would have approved a run that executed
no tests. It now fails, with an `-AllowEmpty` opt-out.
- **Zero coverage reports used to be a green advisory check**, which
would hide a broken collector indefinitely. Both systems now distinguish
"the tests never ran" (warning) from "the tests ran and published
nothing" (error).
- The gate reads stage-level results rather than enumerating
matrix-generated job names, which change whenever a test project or
agent is added.

## Test-host hang and the reconnect defect behind it — both fixed

Flipping `CI_BUILD_BACKEND` to `actions` started exercising the ubuntu
matrix, which
`master` never runs, and it immediately surfaced two real defects.

**1. The test host hung for ten minutes.** `Assert.ThrowsAsync` blocks
the calling thread
with no timeout, and these tests drive a *fake clock* from that same
thread — so once the
reconnect parked on a fake-clock timer, nothing could ever advance it.
NUnit sat in
`WaitForCompletion` until `--blame-hang-timeout` killed the host,
aborting the run at 3902
of 4238 tests and taking every other test in the assembly down with it.
A hang dump named
the culprit exactly. Replaced with an awaited, bounded
`AssertThrowsAsync` helper (the
repo's own rules forbid sync over async). The run now completes in
**~1m29s** with all
tests executed.

**2. A budget-aware reconnect never returned.** With the hang gone, two
tests failed with
`Expected ServiceResultException but got TimeoutException`. `dumpasync`
on a hang dump gave
the whole chain:

```
ReconnectAsyncWithBudgetShrinksDelayToFitRemainingAsync
  → AssertThrowsAsync
  → ClientChannelManager.ReconnectAsync
  → ClientChannelManager.ReconnectLeaseAsync
  → ClientChannelManager.SwapFaultedEntryAsync   ← parked here
```

`master` (via #4128) added `IsTerminalReconnectRace` so a reconnect that
loses a race
against a concurrent close recovers on a freshly swapped entry. The
predicate only asks
whether the entry ended up `Closed`/`Faulted` with
`BadSecureChannelClosed` — which is
*also* exactly how a reconnect ends when the caller's retry budget or
the reconnect policy
is deliberately exhausted. So a budget-exhausted reconnect was misread
as a race: the
manager swapped the entry and started a **second, unbudgeted** cycle,
waiting out the swap
back-off first. `ReconnectAsync(channel, budget)` therefore could not
return within its
budget, and under a fake clock it never returned at all.

The fix requires the budget to have room left before treating a terminal
failure as a race:

```csharp
return !ct.IsCancellationRequested &&
    !budget.IsExhausted &&
    sre.StatusCode == StatusCodes.BadSecureChannelClosed &&
    entry.State is ChannelState.Closed or ChannelState.Faulted;
```

The parameterless `ReconnectAsync(channel, ct)` overload passes an
unlimited budget, so
genuine race recovery is unchanged. Verified locally: Core 4152, Client
2122 and Sessions
776 tests all pass, and the full GitHub Actions PR run is green across
56 jobs.

Two smaller fixes came along the way, neither weakening an assertion:

- `ObservableFakeTimeProvider` waiters made **relative** ("N more timers
from now") rather
than absolute ("the Nth timer of the run"). Absolute numbering let an
earlier reconnect
consume the slots, so a waiter completed before the awaited timer
existed and `Advance()`
  fired nothing.
- The raw worker thread in `NodeStateHandlerConcurrencyTests` was a
**foreground** thread
whose stop flag was read without a barrier and set only on the success
path — a failed
assertion leaked a spinning thread that pins the process at exit. Now
background,
  `Volatile`, stopped in a `finally`, joined with a bound.
## Background work now has an owner

The reconnect hang above was one symptom of a pattern the codebase had
**26 times** across seven assemblies: a bare `_ = Task.Run(...)`. Each
one handed work to the thread pool and forgot it — nothing observed the
exception if it threw, nothing bounded how many ran at once, and
disposal raced them, so a component could finish tearing itself down
while work it started was still touching its fields. Two of those sites
already carried a standing `// TODO: Await the task completion in
shutdown`.

`BackgroundTaskScope` (in `Opc.Ua.Types`) gives them an owner: schedule
with `Run`, drain with `DisposeAsync`, or signal-only with `Dispose`
where the owner's teardown is synchronous and awaiting would be sync
over async. `Run` never blocks and never throws — which matters, because
most of these call sites went to the thread pool precisely to escape a
lock they were holding. 11 unit tests cover drain, cancellation,
exception observation, the concurrency cap, post-shutdown rejection and
idempotent disposal.

Two of the fixes were more than re-wiring:

- **`SessionManager` / `SubscriptionManager` loops were structurally
unawaitable.** Both return `ValueTask`, so `Task.Factory.StartNew(() =>
...)` handed back a `Task<ValueTask>` that completes at the first yield.
Storing it would not have helped — awaiting it would only have awaited
the *scheduling*. Both now go through `AsTask().Unwrap()`, matching the
neighbouring `StartConditionRefreshWorker`.
- **`ChannelAsyncOperation` was swallowing subscriber exceptions.** Its
`doNotBlock` branch had no try/catch while the inline branch beside it
did. It is per-operation with no owner to hang a drain on, so it gained
the missing handler rather than a scope.

The Kubernetes readiness endpoint keeps a purpose-built semaphore
instead: an unauthenticated endpoint needs a hard cap on concurrent
handlers, not just an owner.

### ⚠️ Breaking: `ISessionManager.Shutdown()` is removed

Replaced by `ShutdownAsync(CancellationToken)`. There is no correct
synchronous way to wait for the session monitor loop, so leaving the
overload would only have preserved the race. This mirrors
`ISubscriptionManager`, which already had `ShutdownAsync`. Migration
notes are in `docs/MigrationGuide.md`; only one in-repo implementer
existed.

Also converted the injected `object partitionLock` shared by
`LogicalSubscription` and `CompositeMonitoredItemCollection` to
`System.Threading.Lock`, per the repo rule.

## Patch coverage now scales with the size of the patch

A flat floor over changed lines punishes small changes for arithmetic:
two uncovered lines in a four-line fix reads as 50 % and failed an 80/5
floor — which is exactly how this branch earned a red coverage check for
a four-line predicate change. A check that fires on changes nobody
considers undertested is one people learn to ignore.

| Coverable changed lines | Floor | Below it |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 – 10 | 50 % | warning, still passes |
| 11 – 100 | 60 % | warning, still passes |
| more than 100 | 75 % | **failure** |

Only changes past the last band can fail. Below it the author still gets
a warning naming the uncovered lines. Bands live in `patch.bands` in
`coverage-thresholds.json` and each carries its own `enforced` flag.
Verified end-to-end against synthetic repositories at every boundary.

## Codecov is back, as reporting

Dropped in #4122 when the in-pipeline gate replaced it. Keeping the gate
was right, but dropping Codecov also lost the PR comment, the
file-by-file diff view and the trend. It returns with both statuses
`informational: true` — two gates with two sets of thresholds would
eventually disagree, and `coverage-thresholds.json` stays the single
source of truth.

The upload is switchable and can never fail a build: `enableCodecov`
(Azure) and `ENABLE_CODECOV` (Actions), both defaulting on, both skipped
when `CODECOV_TOKEN` is absent as on fork PRs. Each system uploads the
single merged report it already builds, under its own flag. The old
`codecov.io/bash` uploader was sunset, so Azure uses the current CLI.

## Follow-up actions for maintainers

1. **Update the branch ruleset.** The per-leg `Coverage Release (…)`
checks are gone. Azure reports checks as `<pipeline> (<stage> <job>)`,
so the exact names are:

   | Check | Require? |
   | --- | --- |
| `OPCFoundation.UA-.NETStandard (Tests passed Verify stage results)` |
**yes** |
   | `build-and-test summary` | **yes** (already required) |
| `OPCFoundation.UA-.NETStandard (Code coverage Merge and evaluate)` |
no |
   | `code coverage` | no |
2. **Re-calibrate the thresholds.** `coverage-thresholds.json` is still
seeded from the last Codecov reading (73.61 %). The two systems now
report *different* numbers by design — Actions merges every project on
ubuntu, Azure only the Windows fast-PR legs, and scheduled runs read
higher still because the Debug / .NET 8 / .NET 9 / netstandard stages
also contribute. Re-seed from the GitHub Actions figure.
3. **Note:** a failed advisory coverage stage still turns the whole
Azure run red, which the README build badge reflects on `master`. That
follows from wanting a visible red X on a threshold miss; say the word
if you would rather it were a warning.
4. **The Azure agent pool is the slowest thing here.** Several runs on
this PR sat queued for hours, and one build failed with `Insufficient
system resources` while writing an XML doc file — an agent exhaustion
error, not a code error. It passed on re-run. Worth raising against the
`netstandard` Managed DevOps Pool capacity separately.
## Related Issues

_No tracking issue; this is CI infrastructure work requested directly.
It builds on the switch introduced in #4122._

## Checklist

- [x] I have signed the
[CLA](https://opcfoundation.org/license/cla/ContributorLicenseAgreementv1.0.pdf)
and read the
[CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
doc.
- [x] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works and increased code coverage.
- No product code changed, so there are no unit tests to add. The new
logic was verified with purpose-built harnesses instead:
- `check-coverage.ps1` run for real against a merged Cobertura report on
all three paths — pass, threshold failure, and patch coverage with
uncovered changed lines (a scratch commit adding an uncovered method was
correctly resolved to `DataTypeException.cs:193`, reported 0 % patch
coverage and exited 1).
- The gate's accept/reject logic dry-run over `Succeeded` /
`SucceededWithIssues` / `Skipped` / empty / `Failed` / `Canceled` — 6/6
correct.
- `get-matrix.ps1` exit codes verified in clean processes: empty → 1,
normal → 0, `-AllowEmpty` → 0.
- All five pipeline/workflow files parse; both PowerShell scripts parse.
- Action versions checked against the GitHub API and pinned to current
majors.
- [x] I have added all necessary documentation.
- Rewrote the coverage section of `docs/DeveloperGuide.md` as *Required
checks and coverage*, covering which checks belong in the ruleset and
which must not, how coverage is measured, where the numbers appear, and
why the two systems disagree. Corrected the stale "BLOCKS" wording in
`coverage-thresholds.json`.
- [x] I have verified that my changes do not introduce (new) build or
analyzer warnings.
- CI YAML, two PowerShell scripts and documentation only; no compilation
involved.
- [x] I ran **all** tests locally using the **UA.slnx** solution against
at least .net **framework** and .net **10**, and all passed.
- Not applicable — no product code changed. `Opc.Ua.Core.Schema.Tests`
was run repeatedly on net10.0 (119 passed) to generate the real
Cobertura fragments used to validate the gate.
- [ ] I fixed **all** failing and flaky tests in the CI pipelines and
**all** CodeQL warnings.
- [x] I have addressed **all** PR feedback received.
- Feedback on the path-relevance diff (now a merge-base diff) and the
target-framework numbering in `docs/DeveloperGuide.md` is fixed in
`15b8e38df`.
- A review pass over the gate/coverage split produced the four
correctness fixes listed above, in `863eefc4d`.

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# Codecov configuration
#
# Validate with:
# curl --data-binary @codecov.yml https://codecov.io/validate
#
# Codecov is REPORTING, not a gate. The enforced coverage rules live in
# coverage-thresholds.json and are applied by .azurepipelines/check-coverage.ps1
# inside the pipeline, where they can react to how much a patch actually
# changed. Codecov is kept for what it is genuinely better at: the pull-request
# comment, the file-by-file diff view and the coverage trend over time.
#
# Both status checks are therefore `informational: true`. They post a status so
# the number is visible, but they never fail and must never be added to the
# branch ruleset - two gates with two sets of thresholds would sooner or later
# disagree about the same pull request, and the one that is easier to silence
# would win. Flip `informational` to false only if you also retire the
# in-pipeline patch gate.
#
# The upload itself is optional on both CI systems and is skipped when the
# CODECOV_TOKEN secret is absent (as it is on fork pull requests). See
# `enableCodecov` in azure-pipelines.yml and `ENABLE_CODECOV` in
# .github/workflows/buildandtest.yml.
coverage:
precision: 2
round: down
status:
project:
default:
target: auto
threshold: 1%
informational: true
only_pulls: true
patch:
default:
target: 80%
threshold: 5%
informational: true
only_pulls: true
# Kept in step with the "ignore" list in coverage-thresholds.json so Codecov and
# the in-pipeline gate measure the same code. Change both together.
ignore:
- "tests/**"
- "samples/**"
- "**/obj/**"
- "**/bin/**"
- "**/*.g.cs"
# Each CI system uploads the report it merged, under its own flag. The two
# matrices are deliberately different - Azure runs the Windows fast-PR legs,
# Actions runs the full ubuntu matrix - so carrying the flags keeps the two
# uploads from being mistaken for a coverage swing.
flag_management:
default_rules:
carryforward: true
comment:
layout: "reach, diff, flags, files"
behavior: default
require_changes: false