Tringa nebularia (Greenshank)

tringa is a tool for querying test output across multiple CI builds on GitHub. It is in early development and not ready for use.

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• Install
• Example usage
  • TUI
  • SQL REPL
• Required changes to GitHub Actions workflows

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Install

Use uv:

uv tool install git+https://github.com/dandavison/tringa

And log in with gh.

gh auth login

Example usage

tringa --help

Some commands print to the terminal, some bring up a TUI, and some bring up a SQL REPL for interactive queries. By default the database is duckdb and persists across invocations. The REPL can be a traditional SQL REPL, or a Python session using the DuckDB Python API.

Repo overview

tringa repo show

PR overview

tringa pr show

TUI

tringa pr tui

SQL REPL

The DB has one table, named test.

tringa pr repl

D select artifact, name from test
  where passed = false and skipped = false and repo = 'temporalio/cli';
┌───────────────────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│               artifact                    │                          name                           │
│                  varchar                  │                         varchar                         │
├───────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ junit-xml--10631569269--1--ubuntu-latest  │ TestSharedServerSuite/TestWorkflow_Update_Execute       │
│ junit-xml--10631569269--1--ubuntu-latest  │ TestSharedServerSuite/TestWorkflow_Update_Start         │
│ junit-xml--10631569269--1--ubuntu-latest  │ TestSharedServerSuite                                   │
│ junit-xml--10884926916--1--windows-latest │ TestServer_StartDev_ConcurrentStarts                    │
│ junit-xml--10885937402--1--ubuntu-arm     │ TestSharedServerSuite/TestActivity_Complete             │
│ junit-xml--10885937402--1--ubuntu-arm     │ TestSharedServerSuite/TestWorkflow_Reset_ReapplyExclude │
│ junit-xml--10885937402--1--ubuntu-arm     │ TestSharedServerSuite                                   │
└───────────────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

D SELECT name, type FROM pragma_table_info('test');
┌─────────────────┬───────────┐
│      name       │   type    │
│     varchar     │  varchar  │
├─────────────────┼───────────┤
│ artifact        │ VARCHAR   │
│ repo            │ VARCHAR   │
│ branch          │ VARCHAR   │
│ run_id          │ VARCHAR   │
│ sha             │ VARCHAR   │
│ file            │ VARCHAR   │
│ suite           │ VARCHAR   │
│ suite_time      │ TIMESTAMP │
│ suite_duration  │ FLOAT     │
│ name            │ VARCHAR   │
│ classname       │ VARCHAR   │
│ duration        │ FLOAT     │
│ passed          │ BOOLEAN   │
│ skipped         │ BOOLEAN   │
│ flaky           │ BOOLEAN   │
│ message         │ VARCHAR   │
│ text            │ VARCHAR   │
├─────────────────┴───────────┤
│ 17 rows           2 columns │
└─────────────────────────────┘

Custom SQL queries

Suppose you want to query for tests that have failed on main in the last 7 days:

tringa --json --since-days 7 repo sql \
  'select classname, name, count(*) as failure_count from test where passed = false and skipped = false group by classname, name order by failure_count desc' \
  --branch main --workflow-id 80591745 https://github.com/temporalio/temporal

To experiment with alternative SQL queries interactively, change that to repo repl:

tringa --since-days 7 repo repl \
  --branch main --workflow-id 80591745 https://github.com/temporalio/temporal

Required changes to GitHub Actions workflows

For tringa to find output from a CI workflow run, at least one job in the run must upload an artifact containing a directory of junit-xml format files (named uniquely for that job). For example, the following fragment of GitHub Actions workflow yaml creates a directory containing junit-xml output from two different test suite runs, and uploads the directory as an artifact. You must ensure that the artifact name is unique within the repository (so you'll probably want to use ${{github.run_id}} at least)

- run: mkdir junit-xml
- run: my-test-command --test-suite-variant=something --junit-xml=junit-xml/${{ matrix.python }}-${{ matrix.os }}-something.xml
- run: my-test-command --test-suite-variant=something-else --junit-xml=junit-xml/${{ matrix.python }}-${{ matrix.os }}-something-else.xml
- name: "Upload junit-xml artifacts"
uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
if: always()
with:
    name: junit-xml--${{github.run_id}}--${{github.run_attempt}}--${{ matrix.python }}--${{ matrix.os }}
    path: junit-xml
    retention-days: 30