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  • test/js/bun/webview/webview-chrome.test.ts takes 17-22s on every Linux lane that has Chrome (24.5s on alpine aarch64, 22.2s on the x64 ASAN lane in build #97275); it is in parallel-allowlist.json's excludeFiles because of that.
  • The time is Chrome's, not bun's: each of the ~48 tests opened its own tab, serially. A tab is a renderer process that Chrome creates one at a time: measured ~100ms per new WebView + first navigate() on 12 cores and ~165ms on 4, and the same per-tab cost whether 1 or 16 are opened at once. Navigating a tab that already exists costs ~20-30ms, an evaluate()/click() ~2ms, and launching a bun child with its own Chrome (four tests did this) ~0.4s.
  • Several assertions were loose: url checked with toContain, subprocess stderr checked with not.toContain("ERROR:"), errors matched with regexes, reload() checked via Date.now() inequality, the "circular reference" test actually exercised a SyntaxError, nothing verified that a closed view's tab goes away, and the attach-chain test waited on a 200ms setTimeout.

Fix

  • Page-level tests (itOnPage) borrow one of two long-lived tabs created in beforeAll and navigate it to their HTML; the tab is handed back afterwards. A failed test's tab is closed instead, and the next borrower opens a fresh one, so an operation left pending by a failure can't poison the next test and the original failure is what gets reported (checked by temporarily injecting two failing pooled tests). Two tabs measured as fast as four or eight, since tab work funnels through Chrome's browser process.
  • Tests about a view's own lifecycle, history or configuration (it) still open their own tabs, at most four at a time. The three process-level tests (backend.path/argv, console: globalThis.console, closeAll()) each assert on a different part of one shared child bun process, launched on first use so it overlaps the tab tests. The caps are in the file rather than left to --max-concurrency because Chrome is ~135 threads plus ~10 per tab and a child is ~145 more; two extra Chromes at once already peaked near this container's 512-pid limit, 40 tabs at once aborted Chrome on it, and 20 tabs taking screenshots used most of its 64MB /dev/shm. Peak during a run is now ~400 pids.
  • The one test that has to look at the whole tab list runs alone after the concurrent group, and replaces the sleep with an ordering argument: Target commands are handled in arrival order on the single pipe, so after two probe round trips the pruned chain provably never attached (the only thing left behind is the unattached about:blank tab, which webview: close the tab created by a Target.createTarget that was in flight at close() #39075 fixes; the assertion passes either way).
  • The animation test now waits for the animation to be running before clicking. A fresh animation holds its first keyframe until it gets a start time, and two samples inside that window look stable; on a pooled tab the click arrives sooner, so the race fired 16/30 times under load on this host (main's version: 2/15). After the change: 0/40 in isolation, then 1 failure in a further 25 isolated runs plus 1 in 22 full runs once the host's load average passed 200 (the click landed one or two frames in, i.e. the two samples straddled a frame that did not advance the animation clock). That residual window is the one main's version of the test has always had, and the root-cause fix for the sampling is webview: sample click(selector) stability from distinct rAF callbacks #35173.
  • Gating is unchanged: every Chrome test is test.todo when findChrome() finds nothing or on the macOS < 15 CI boxes; the ungated tests are still only option validation (now a 14-case table, including the console option cases that used to be gated for no reason) plus the closeAll static check (now last, since it kills the shared Chrome; before, it did so mid-file). Lanes without Chrome run the file in ~0s as before: 15 pass, 43 todo, nothing spawned.
  • Assertions: error shapes (name/code/message) compared exactly via a thrown()/rejection() helper wherever the text is bun's, regexes kept only for Chrome-produced text; evaluate() results, the Network.requestWillBeSent payload, console calls, history walks and the scrollTo table asserted with one toEqual each; PNG checked by full signature plus IHDR dimensions (also after resize()); buffer/base64/shmem screenshots compared byte for byte with the Blob, shmem object checked exactly and read back from /dev/shm on Linux; close() tests check the tab disappears from Target.getTargets and that the other view keeps working; reload() verified by a mutation disappearing; the large-payload test round-trips 100KB both ways; the child's stderr must be exactly the one forwarded console.error line, which is a stricter form of the old "stderr defaults to ignore" test.
  • New coverage: backend.path actually selecting the executable and the real argv order Chrome receives (a launcher script records it), the Page.navigate errorText rejection, all five scrollTo block values and its timeout, empty selectors, argv not being an array, width: 0, the evaluate slot guard, close() idempotence and the closed-view errors, and the statement-vs-expression contract of evaluate(). Every behaviour the old 52 tests checked still has a test; 58 tests now (the four validation tests became a 14-case table, the four screenshot tests became two, the two url/title tests one).
  • Avoided toMatchObject with asymmetric matchers on objects the test reuses, since it mutates the received object (expect.any / toMatchObject mutates the object #3521, fix in expect: stop toMatchObject/toMatchSnapshot from mutating the received object #35452).

Verification (Google Chrome 151.0.7922.137 from /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable; the container runs as root, so BUN_CHROME_PATH pointed at a two-line sh wrapper that execs it with --no-sandbox; the host was heavily loaded during all measurements, load average 140-195, so individual numbers are noisy):

before (52 tests) after (57 tests)
bun bd test (debug+ASAN), 12 CPUs 14.9 / 15.1 / 15.7 / 16.2s 7.8 / 8.1 / 8.7 / 8.9 / 9.2s (one 17.5s outlier during a load spike)
bun bd test, pinned to 4 CPUs (taskset, CI lanes are 4 vCPU) 17.4 / 17.6 / 17.6s 7.7 / 7.7 / 8.1s
release bun test, 12 CPUs 8.2 / 11.0 / 11.6s 2.9 / 3.1 / 3.1s
release bun test, pinned to 4 CPUs 12.5 / 13.1s 4.3 / 4.6 / 5.2s

The table was taken just before the animation-wait change, which only adds ~0.1s to one overlapped test. About 4.4s of every debug number is the debug binary's fixed startup for this file (a run with Chrome hidden, where everything is todo, takes 4.4-4.5s). Stability of the final version: 12 consecutive release runs (2.8-5.6s) and 4 debug runs (6.3-10.0s) all green under that load, plus the whole test/js/bun/webview/ directory in one process, and a run with Chrome hidden.

What CI itself measured, from the Buildkite per-line timestamps in the job logs (the file runs as its own bun test process, so the gap before the first progress dot is bun's startup plus whatever has to happen before the first test completes):

lane total before the first test completes the tests themselves
this PR (build 98198), debian 13 x64 13.7s 9.0s (beforeAll: Chrome's first launch on the agent + 2 tabs) 4.6s
this PR (build 98198), debian 13 x64-asan 18.4s 14.2s (same, under ASAN) 4.2s
main (build 98020), debian 13 x64 10.8s 2.5s until the 2nd test (its 1st test returns before Chrome answers) 8.3s
main (build 98020), ubuntu 25.04 x64 21.3s 13.8s 7.5s
main (build 98020), alpine 3.23 x64 7.9s 3.2s 4.7s
main (build 98020), alpine 3.23 aarch64 24.0s 18.4s 5.6s

So on a CI agent the first launch of Chrome costs anywhere from 2.5s to 18s depending on the agent (the file is among the first to run, on a cold box), and that is most of the 17-24s the slow-test report was seeing; it is the same before and after, and nothing in a test file can avoid paying it once. The part this PR controls went from 4.7-8.3s to ~4.5s per lane, and the file launches two Chromes per run instead of five. (The main run's alpine aarch64 log also shows the runner's temp-dir cleanup failing with ENOTEMPTY right after this file, which is the leaked --user-data-dir handed off above.)

Related PRs that also touch this file and will need a small rebase on whichever lands second: #39064, #39075, #35173, #29953. Bugs in the backend found while writing this, handed off separately: the viewport coming out 87px short of height with full Chrome (the pool pins its tabs to 300x300 with resize() because of it), failed navigations never calling onNavigationFailed, the attach-chain tab leak (#39075), the console callback's null/NaN mapping (#39064), and the temp --user-data-dir never being deleted (386 of them, 756MB, after this session's runs).

Background

  • The Chrome backend spawns one Chrome per bun process (--remote-debugging-pipe); every new Bun.WebView() whose navigate() is awaited becomes a tab via Target.createTarget, with its own CDP session, so views are independent of each other and can be driven concurrently. Options such as path, argv and stdio only matter for the first spawn in a process, which is why those tests need a child process.
  • Target.getTargets / Target.getTargetInfo, sent through any live view's cdp(), list Chrome's tabs; close() sends Target.closeTarget without waiting for the reply, so the tests poll the list until the tab is gone (about 10ms).
  • bun test runs consecutive test.concurrent tests as one group (up to --max-concurrency, default 20); a plain test after them runs by itself once the group has drained, which is what the tab-list test and the final closeAll rely on. A concurrent test's duration includes any time it spends waiting for a tab.
  • click(selector) resolves only after the element's bounding box has been identical on two consecutive samples, which is what the animation test exercises.
Measurements behind the design (release build, this host)
24 x (new view + navigate + evaluate + close), N at a time:
  12 CPUs: width 1: 100ms/tab  2: 105  4: 88  8: 82  16: 111
   4 CPUs: width 1: 129ms/tab  2: 116  4: 119  8: 112  16: 112
per operation on an existing tab (12 CPUs / 4 CPUs):
  navigate 20 / 33ms   evaluate 1.9 / 2.3ms   click 1.7 / 2.0ms   screenshot 29 / 34ms
  closed tab gone from Target.getTargets after 7 / 10ms
32 x (navigate + click(selector) + evaluate) spread over a pool of N tabs:
  12 CPUs: pool 1: 41ms/test  2: 30  4: 33  8: 35
   4 CPUs: pool 1: 47ms/test  2: 39  4: 42  8: 38
pids (threads) in the cgroup: bun idle 36, + Chrome with one tab 170, + 8 tabs 244;
  40 tabs at once: Chrome aborted (pthread_create EAGAIN, pids.max 512);
  20 tabs + 20 screenshots: /dev/shm (64MB) at 48MB and mojo CopyOutput errors

…ghten their assertions

Every test used to open its own tab, serially. A tab is a renderer
process that Chrome creates one at a time (~100-165ms each), which is
what made this file take 17-22s on the Linux lanes. Page-level tests
now borrow one of two long-lived tabs and navigate it (~20-30ms); only
lifecycle/configuration tests open their own tabs, at most four at a
time; the three process-level tests read different parts of one shared
child bun process with a Chrome of its own. The test that observes the
whole tab list runs alone after the concurrent group and orders itself
with CDP round trips instead of a 200ms sleep. The animation test waits
for the animation to actually be running before clicking, which removes
a race that fired frequently under load.

Assertions now compare whole error shapes (name/code/message), whole
evaluate() results, event payloads and console calls with one toEqual
each, check the PNG signature and IHDR dimensions, compare the
screenshot encodings byte for byte, and verify that closed views' tabs
disappear from Target.getTargets. Also covers backend.path, the
Page.navigate errorText path, every scrollTo block value, empty
selectors and two more constructor validation cases.
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The Chrome WebView test suite adds capability gating, pooled page scheduling, shared subprocess coverage, reusable assertions, and broader validation for lifecycle, evaluation, screenshots, CDP, input, navigation, viewport, console, and cancellation behavior.

Chrome WebView test suite

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Chrome detection and pooled test execution
test/js/bun/webview/webview-chrome.test.ts
The tests discover supported Chrome installations, gate unsupported environments, schedule work across bounded lanes, reuse pooled pages, retire failed pages, and clean up temporary resources.
Construction, lifecycle, and subprocess validation
test/js/bun/webview/webview-chrome.test.ts
The tests validate constructor options, backend setup, lifecycle state, pending-operation rejection, subprocess output, Chrome arguments, cleanup behavior, and shared assertion helpers.
Evaluation, screenshots, and CDP behavior
test/js/bun/webview/webview-chrome.test.ts
The tests cover evaluation results and failures, screenshot formats and shared-memory cleanup, CDP responses and guards, typed Network events, and listener removal.
Input, navigation, viewport, and console behavior
test/js/bun/webview/webview-chrome.test.ts
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In `@test/js/bun/webview/webview-chrome.test.ts`:
- Around line 421-426: Update the child-process result flow around readFileSync
and the returned chromeArgv value to tolerate a missing argv.txt, returning an
appropriate empty/default argument list when the file does not exist while
preserving the captured stdout, stderr, and exitCode so child diagnostics remain
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- Around line 360-364: Change the “chrome: console option validates” case from
it to plain test so its synchronous option validation runs even when Chrome is
unavailable, matching the neighboring test.each validation block.
- Around line 204-212: Update the catch/finally flow around page.close,
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Status: ready for review; CI on 2f265f6 is green for this file on every lane, the one red test (test-http-chunk-problem.js, an ASAN use-after-free in the pipe reader, untouched by this PR) has been reported separately and the rest of the failures were retries that passed.

What the change buys, measured two ways:

  • Locally (Google Chrome 151 from /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable, wrapped to add --no-sandbox because the container runs as root): bun bd test test/js/bun/webview/webview-chrome.test.ts 14.9-16.2s -> 7.8-9.2s on 12 CPUs (about 4.4s of which is the debug binary's startup), 17.4-17.6s -> 7.7-8.1s pinned to 4 CPUs; release binary 8-12s -> 3-5s. 16 consecutive full runs green on a heavily loaded host.
  • In CI (Buildkite line timestamps, table in the description): the part of the file that is tests went from 4.7-8.3s per lane on main to ~4.5s here, and the file launches 2 Chromes per run instead of 5. The rest of each lane's total (2.5-18s, varies per agent; 9.0s on the debian x64 lane of build 98198, 14.2s under ASAN) is Chrome's very first launch on the agent, which is the same before and after and is most of what the slow-test report was measuring.

Lanes without Chrome still see every Chrome test as todo. Coverage mapping and methodology are in the description.

…ion into the table, tolerate a missing argv.txt

A pooled tab whose test failed is now simply closed and the next
borrower opens a fresh one, so the original failure is what gets
reported even if Chrome is in a bad state. The console option
validation runs without Chrome like the other constructor validation
cases. If the launcher script never ran, the child's own stderr and
exit code are what the tests show rather than an ENOENT.
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I reviewed this PR and the bug hunting pass found no issues; the pool-recovery concern from the earlier commit is fixed in 37aecb7. Because this is a ~1200-line rewrite that introduces new test-concurrency infrastructure (the lanes semaphore, tab pool with failure-retirement, one shared child split across three tests, ordering-based assertions replacing sleeps), a human look at the design would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • onPooledPage failure path — a failed test's tab is closed and never re-pooled; the next borrower creates a fresh one, so the original error propagates unchanged.
  • lanes() semaphore — the finally hands the slot to the next waiter or decrements busy; no path leaks a slot.
  • observeSharedChild — tempDir lifetime spans the awaited spawn, argv.txt is read only if it exists, and stdout/stderr/exited are drained concurrently.
  • The final closeAll test is placed last (after itAlone) so it can't kill the shared Chrome under the concurrent group; the itAlone attach-chain test refills the pool if earlier failures emptied it.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR rewrites test/js/bun/webview/webview-chrome.test.ts (the only file touched) to cut wall-clock from 17-22s to ~4-5s per CI lane. It replaces ~48 serial per-test tabs with a 2-tab pool (itOnPage), a bounded lane for own-tab tests (it, cap 4), and one lazily-spawned child bun process shared across three process-level tests (itInChild). It also tightens most assertions from regex/toContain to exact toEqual on error shapes, adds a 14-case constructor-validation test.each table, and replaces the attach-chain test's 200ms sleep with a CDP ordering argument. No runtime code is touched.

Security risks

None. Test-only; the launcher shell script embeds chromePath (from local filesystem discovery) via single-quoted interpolation, and the child script embeds the temp dir path via JSON.stringify. No network hosts are contacted (data: URLs and one http://127.0.0.1:1/ that Chrome rejects as ERR_UNSAFE_PORT before opening a socket).

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high. Although test-only, this introduces bespoke concurrency machinery (lanes, pool-with-retirement, shared-child memoization) whose correctness affects whether failures are reported cleanly vs. cascade. The PR description documents pid/shm exhaustion measurements that motivated the caps, and acknowledges a residual rare flake in the animation test under load-average >200 (same window as main, root-cause fix in #35173). The design choices — pool size 2, tab lane 4, itAlone placed after the concurrent group, closeAll last — are all load-bearing and worth a maintainer's eye.

Other factors

All three CodeRabbit findings and my own earlier inline comment (closed tab re-entering the pool) were addressed in 37aecb7. The one CI failure in build #98198 (test-http-chunk-problem.js ASAN) is unrelated. The PR description lists four other open PRs touching this file that will need rebasing on whichever lands first. Given the scope and the number of interacting design decisions, deferring to a human reviewer rather than auto-approving.

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