Split cypress tests into shards and reduce e2e calls to form templates API - #3313
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe Cypress workflow now runs four parallel shards. A new utility balances specs by line count. WordPress test mu-plugins provide deterministic welcome-tour and form-template responses, with environment mappings and daily fixture refresh support. ChangesCypress sharding and test environment
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Severity of issue fixed: Low Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The sharded Cypress workflow can fetch the template fixture multiple times during a cold cache run, allowing shards to test different API responses and adding avoidable external API calls. Centralize fixture creation before the shard jobs before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In @.github/workflows/cypress.yml:
- Line 87: Move template fixture restore and refresh out of the matrix shard
jobs into a single prerequisite job that runs before the matrix, so a cold
date-based cache causes only one API refresh. Publish the resulting fixture from
that job and have each shard job consume the same fixture, preserving the
existing cache-hit behavior and test setup.
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set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- workflow ---'
cat -n .github/workflows/cypress.yml
printf '%s\n' '--- workflow references ---'
rg -n -C 3 'cache-templates|SHARD_TOTAL|matrix|actions/cache|upload-artifact|download-artifact|permissions|fixture|template' .github/workflows .github 2>/dev/null || trueRepository: Strategy11/formidable-forms
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official actions/cache documentation concurrent cache misses cache creation job completes
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In GitHub Actions, cache creation is an atomic process managed by the actions/cache action [1][2]. When a cache miss occurs (i.e., no exact match for the provided key), the action attempts to reserve the key with the cache service to create a new cache [3][2]. If multiple jobs within the same workflow run (such as parallel matrix legs) attempt to create a cache using the same key simultaneously, they will race for the reservation [1][2]. The following behaviors apply during this concurrency: 1. Atomic Reservation: Only the first job to successfully reserve the key will proceed to save the cache [1][2]. 2. Race Result: Subsequent jobs that attempt to reserve the same key will receive a "cache already exists" or "unable to reserve cache... another job may be creating this cache" warning [4][1][2]. 3. Benign Nature: This warning is typically benign; the job that fails the reservation will simply skip its save step [1][2]. The build itself is not affected, and data is still restored correctly in subsequent runs because the first job successfully completed the cache creation [1][2]. To avoid these race conditions and the resulting warnings, you can: - Differentiate cache keys: Include matrix-specific variables (such as runner OS, architecture, or environment versions) in the key so that parallel jobs do not collide [1][2]. - Use restore-keys: By sharing a prefix in restore-keys while keeping the primary key unique per job, jobs can still benefit from a shared base cache while avoiding concurrent write attempts [1][2]. - Accept the race: If a single shared cache is the intentional goal, the warning can be ignored as the system handles the conflict by allowing the first job to win [1][2].
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- 1: https://latchkey.dev/learn/github-actions/github-actions-cache-creating-race-another-job
- 2: https://latchkey.dev/learn/github-actions/gha-cache-unable-to-reserve-cache-in-ci
- 3: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/workflows-and-actions/dependency-caching
- 4: GitHub pull request 8128 in googleapis/google-cloud-java (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
Create the fixture before starting the matrix.
When the date-based cache key is cold, each shard can restore a miss and refresh the fixture independently. The cache does not block concurrent misses. The shards can therefore call the API multiple times and test different responses. Move fixture restore and refresh into one prerequisite job, then distribute the resulting fixture to the shard jobs.
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In @.github/workflows/cypress.yml at line 87, Move template fixture restore and
refresh out of the matrix shard jobs into a single prerequisite job that runs
before the matrix, so a cold date-based cache causes only one API refresh.
Publish the resulting fixture from that job and have each shard job consume the
same fixture, preserving the existing cache-hit behavior and test setup.
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