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  • SLURM failure classification now preserves deterministic pytest failures as user failures after rerun attempts still fail.
  • Removed the unreliable failed_results.xml classification check.
  • Preserved retries for monitor-lost-contact, timeout, and other genuine infrastructure failures.
  • Updated reusePassedTestResults to scan superseded-results*.xml.
  • Reuses passed tests from suppressed attempts without re-ingesting their result files into build-level JUnit output.
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On the agent path the SLURM allocation outlives pytest, so the job is still RUNNING when classifySlurmFailure inspects it after a pytest failure. A completed-pytest deterministic failure (tests ran, were re-run via --reruns, and still failed) was therefore relabeled typed:slurm-job-still-running and retried -- masking the failure whenever the retry happened to pass, and wasting a full retry when it didn't. Short-circuit such failures (failed_results.xml present, or the rerun-failure error text) to defer to the base classifier, which treats them as UserFailure (no retry). A monitor-lost-contact cut leaves results-timeout.xml / "terminated unexpectedly" instead and still retries.

Also teach reusePassedTestResults to scan superseded-results*.xml: a suppressed intermediate attempt renames its result XMLs with that prefix so the build-level junit does not re-ingest them, but its passed tests are still valid to reuse on retry (extract_passed_tests pulls only the passing subset).

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On the agent path the SLURM allocation outlives pytest, so the job is still
RUNNING when classifySlurmFailure inspects it after a pytest failure. A
completed-pytest deterministic failure (tests ran, were re-run via --reruns,
and still failed) was therefore relabeled <typed:slurm-job-still-running> and
retried -- masking the failure whenever the retry happened to pass, and wasting
a full retry when it didn't. Short-circuit such failures (failed_results.xml
present, or the rerun-failure error text) to defer to the base classifier,
which treats them as UserFailure (no retry). A monitor-lost-contact cut leaves
results-timeout.xml / "terminated unexpectedly" instead and still retries.

Also teach reusePassedTestResults to scan superseded-results*.xml: a suppressed
intermediate attempt renames its result XMLs with that prefix so the build-level
junit does not re-ingest them, but its passed tests are still valid to reuse on
retry (extract_passed_tests pulls only the passing subset).

Signed-off-by: Derek Pitman <dpitman@nvidia.com>
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Jenkins preserves deterministic pytest failures during SLURM failure classification. Prior-attempt result discovery also includes superseded-results*.xml files for passed-test reuse.

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SLURM test retry handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Deterministic pytest failure classification
jenkins/L0_Test.groovy
classifySlurmFailure detects propagated rerun failures and returns the original error instead of applying infrastructure retry classification.
Superseded result reuse
jenkins/L0_Test.groovy
Prior-attempt discovery scans both results*.xml and superseded-results*.xml files. Passed tests from suppressed attempts can be reused.

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The change avoids retrying deterministic SLURM test failures, but its failed-results guard can also suppress retries for monitor-loss timeouts, allowing a transient CI infrastructure failure to remain failed. This bounded merge-readiness issue should be fixed or explicitly accepted.

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In `@jenkins/L0_Test.groovy`:
- Around line 1345-1350: Update the failure classification around
generateRerunReport and querySlurmJobState so timeout evidence takes precedence
over failed_results.xml: check results-timeout.xml and “terminated unexpectedly”
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CodeRabbit: failed_results.xml is unreliable evidence -- generateRerunReport
writes it from the first-run results whenever any rerun occurred, even when the
rerun passed or the job timed out. Keying the gate on it could suppress a
legitimate monitor-lost-contact/timeout retry. Rely solely on the propagated
"still failed after rerun attempts" error, which is raised only on a genuine
deterministic rerun failure and takes precedence over the timeout path. Drop the
dead "Regular tests failed after rerun attempt" check (swallowed by catchError).

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