node:test: finish a test's hooks and subtests before the next test when an uncaught error fails it

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Problem

• Under bun test, an error thrown outside a pending node:test test (a throwing timer, an unhandled rejection) fails the test and the next test starts at once. Its afterEach/t.after hooks, t.mock restore and remaining subtests run during the next test, after it, or never. Node runs them first.
• Cause: on_unhandled_rejection (src/runtime/test_runner/jest.rs) fails the running entry and advances. executeTestNode() (src/js/node/test.ts) runs those steps inside that entry.

Fix

• bun:test still fails the entry and prints the error at the throw. It then asks a handler that node:test registers per entry, and does not advance while that test runs.
• The handler ends the one wait the innermost running test is in: body, plan or hook (Node: test.fail() plus abort). The rest runs in order, then done() lets bun:test advance. A retry runs on a clean node.
• Verdicts and printed errors do not change, only the order.
• Verified: four new cases in test/js/node/test_runner/node-test.test.ts. All fail without the fix. Self-reviewed: 7 concerns raised, 5 addressed (see Notes).

Background

• node:test registers each top-level test as one bun:test test and runs its hooks, subtests and mock restore around the body.
• bun:test runs its own hooks as separate entries, so bun:test files do not show this.

Downsides

• The next test waits for the failed test's remaining hooks and subtests, up to the entry's timeout.
• A hook pending at the error is given up. Its remainder can overlap what follows.
• Only the innermost test ends its wait. A parent that never settles waits for the entry's timeout, where 1.4.3 failed at once.

Notes

Repro from the report. node --test r.test.mjs and bun test ./r.test.mjs print one line.

import { test, after, afterEach } from 'node:test';
const log = []; const L = (s) => log.push(s);
const sleep = (ms) => new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, ms));
let shared = 'clean';
afterEach((t) => { L('afterEach(' + t.name + ')'); shared = 'clean'; });
test('A', async (t) => {
  t.after(() => L('t.after(A)'));
  shared = 'dirty-by-A';
  setTimeout(() => { throw new Error('thrown from a timer of A'); }, 5);
  await sleep(40);
});
test('B', async () => {
  L('B start shared=' + shared); shared = 'used-by-B';
  await sleep(80);
  L('B end shared=' + shared);
});
test('P', async (t) => {
  await t.test('sub1', async () => { L('sub1'); setTimeout(() => { throw new Error('from sub1'); }, 5); await sleep(40); });
  await t.test('sub2', () => L('sub2'));
  L('P end');
});
test('C', async () => { L('C start'); await sleep(80); L('C end'); });
after(() => console.log(log.join(' | ')));

node v26.3.0 and this branch:
afterEach(A) | t.after(A) | B start shared=clean | B end shared=used-by-B | afterEach(B) | sub1 | afterEach(sub1) | sub2 | afterEach(sub2) | P end | afterEach(P) | C start | C end | afterEach(C)
bun 1.4.3:
B start shared=dirty-by-A | afterEach(A) | t.after(A) | B end shared=clean | afterEach(B) | sub1 | C start | afterEach(sub1) | sub2 | afterEach(sub2) | P end | afterEach(P) | C end | afterEach(C)

Which test gives up its wait. The innermost running test. Subtests run one at a time, so the activeSubtest links lead from the top-level test to it. In the reported cases that is the test that owns the error. When a parent's timer throws while a subtest is pending, Node fails the parent and the subtest's hooks run during the next test (afterEach(P) | t.after(P) | B start | afterEach(sub1) | ... on v26.3.0). This branch ends the running subtest instead, so the order stays serial.

Verdicts do not change. bun:test marks the entry failed and prints the error at the throw, as before. The first version of this PR handed the error to node:test and reported it through done(err). Then a todo or expectFailure subtest, t.skip() or t.todo() could absorb an error that belongs to the parent, and the test passed. 32-outside-error-not-absorbed.js covers those. On 1.4.3 the verdicts of that fixture are the same, but its errors print under the wrong tests. Node passes an expectFailure test whose own timer throws. This PR keeps bun's verdict, because the owner of the error is not known: Bun loses the AsyncLocalStorage context for a microtask throw and an unhandled rejection (#31721).

Hooks. A hook that is pending when the error arrives is often the reason for it and never settles (a setup callback that throws before it resolves). So the test gives that wait up too, as the base did, and does not sit until the bun:test timeout. An error during a beforeEach hook skips the body. The remaining afterEach/t.after hooks and the mock restore still run before the next test. Node awaits hooks and only prints a diagnostic for an error that a hook owns.

--retry. done() carries no error here, so each attempt gets one completion: bun test --retry=1 on the repro prints (fail) A (attempt 2), as on 1.4.3. bun:test calls the same runner again for a retry, and the TestNode kept what the first run left on it (finished, one failed subtest, hooks the body added). On 1.4.3 the retry started before the first attempt had dirtied the node. Now the first attempt winds down first, so each rerun gets its own node. 33-outside-error-retry.js asserts the order of the two attempts; without the fix the retry starts at the throw and both t.after hooks run twice. An ordinary node:test failure still goes through done(err) and still meets the stale completion of #38876.

Waking the loop. The handler only rejects a promise. By the code, a rejection can be reported after the turn's last microtask drain, and the reactions would then wait until the loop next wakes up. I could not reproduce such a park (a rejection after await fetch(), and one during a hook that never settles, both end at once with and without the flag). offer_uncaught_to_node_test still sets wants_wakeup, the flag run_next_tick uses, so the next turn runs them. It does not drain: a listener that throws inside dispatchEvent() is reported under the live frame of the test body, and a drain there ran microtasks in the middle of synchronous code (case S in 30-outside-error-order.js). For the same reason each wait is armed before the awaited code starts.

Self-review. Seven concerns. Addressed: the unarmed wait and the drain above, the retry node, a termination exception taken in the handler's error path, two inaccurate comments. Kept: only the innermost test ends its wait. Ending every ancestor too would stop the remaining subtests, and Node runs them (sub2 in the repro). So a parent whose own wait never settles while a subtest runs waits for the entry's timeout (5 s by default) and also prints the timeout message. Rejected: "the third new case passes on main". It fails on 1.4.3, because the late done(err) calls print the errors under the wrong tests.

Paths that do not change. With --concurrent, get_current_state_data() names no entry, so the error stays an "Unhandled error between tests". A bun:test hook entry or a bun:test test in the same file is not the registered entry (checked with a mixed file). Outside bun test nothing registers. A second error for the same test is printed by bun:test as before.

Related open PRs. #34515 adds a similar interrupt to executeTestNode() for its --test and standalone modes through process.on('uncaughtException'), which bun test does not emit. The two will conflict textually in executeTestNode(). #39286 cancels subtests that were scheduled but not started when their parent ends. Until then such subtests of a test that gave up its body still run later. #39287 aborts t.signal.

Also seen, not changed here. A node:test test that the bun:test timeout ends (default 5 s, or --timeout) is detached the same way: bun test --timeout 300 on a 700 ms test never runs its afterEach before the next test starts.

run(). With this change a run() child reports test:fail for the subtest and test:pass for the next subtest in order (checked against node with a small driver).

Cost per node:test test. One native call, one GC handle, two closures, and one promise pair per awaited hook, body or plan.

Suites run on the debug build. test/js/node/test_runner/node-test.test.ts (49 pass). 113 vendored Node tests that import node:test: 112 pass, and test-runner-mock-timers-scheduler.js asserts a 100 ms wall-clock bound that a debug build misses with and without this change. test/js/bun/test/{bun_test,dots,stack,test-test}.test.ts and test/cli/test/test-timeout-behavior.test.ts pass. tsc -p src/js/tsconfig.json, prettier, oxlint and cargo fmt --check are clean.

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fails on main (without fix)

ASAN without fix: 4 FAILED
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/js/node/test_runner/node-test.test.ts
bun test v1.4.3 (367d939d9)

test/js/node/test_runner/node-test.test.ts:
(pass) node:test > should run hooks in the right order [2184.01ms]
(pass) node:test > should run basic tests [2330.08ms]
(pass) node:test > should run tests with different variations [2004.57ms]
(pass) node:test > should run async tests [1965.79ms]
(pass) node:test > should run all tests from multiple files [2354.53ms]
(pass) node:test > should run test() and describe() called inside another test() as subtests [2004.55ms]
(pass) node:test > should run before hooks created on a running test once and validate hook options [2108.62ms]
(pass) node:test > should fail tests whose hooks, bodies, or inline suite callbacks fail [2060.83ms]
(pass) node:test > should support done callbacks in tests and hooks [2105.55ms]
(pass) node:test > should count runtime t.todo()/t.skip() as todo/skip and keep runner timers real under mock timers [2141.50ms]
(pass) node:test > should count runtime t.todo()/t.skip() as todo/skip under --concurren
... (truncated)

release without fix: all passed
bun test v1.4.3-canary.1 (e999b9da4)

test/js/node/test_runner/node-test.test.ts:
(pass) node:test > should run basic tests [36.15ms]
(pass) node:test > should run hooks in the right order [52.52ms]
(pass) node:test > should run tests with different variations [33.91ms]
(pass) node:test > should run async tests [33.85ms]
(pass) node:test > should run all tests from multiple files [56.59ms]
(pass) node:test > should run test() and describe() called inside another test() as subtests [34.73ms]
(pass) node:test > should run before hooks created on a running test once and validate hook options [34.98ms]
(pass) node:test > should fail tests whose hooks, bodies, or inline suite callbacks fail [36.27ms]
(pass) node:test > should support done callbacks in tests and hooks [35.34ms]
(pass) node:test > should count runtime t.todo()/t.skip() as todo/skip and keep runner timers real under mock timers [38.65ms]
(pass) node:test > should count runtime t.todo()/t.skip() as todo/skip under --concurrent too [37.21ms]
(pass) node:test > should run todo bodies under --todo instead of registering an empty function [31.92ms]
(pass) node:test > should forward Infinity and finite timeouts s
... (truncated)

passes on PR (with fix)

ASAN with fix: all passed
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/js/node/test_runner/node-test.test.ts
bun test v1.4.3 (367d939d9)

test/js/node/test_runner/node-test.test.ts:
(pass) node:test > should run hooks in the right order [2109.24ms]
(pass) node:test > should run basic tests [2162.44ms]
(pass) node:test > should run tests with different variations [2014.77ms]
(pass) node:test > should run async tests [1985.22ms]
(pass) node:test > should run all tests from multiple files [2318.43ms]
(pass) node:test > should run test() and describe() called inside another test() as subtests [2119.19ms]
(pass) node:test > should run before hooks created on a running test once and validate hook options [2134.57ms]
(pass) node:test > should fail tests whose hooks, bodies, or inline suite callbacks fail [2110.31ms]
(pass) node:test > should support done callbacks in tests and hooks [1976.26ms]
(pass) node:test > should count runtime t.todo()/t.skip() as todo/skip and keep runner timers real under mock timers [2140.52ms]
(pass) node:test > should count runtime t.todo()/t.skip() as todo/skip under --concurren
... (truncated)

release with fix: all passed
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped) in 1224ms (unchanged)
ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[1/211] gen generated_host_exports.rs
generated_host_exports.rs: 121 exports (host=5, lazy=10, generic=106, rust=0); 245 extern-C blocks audited
[2/211] gen cpp.rs (cppbind)
[3/211] gen JS modules (bundle-modules)
Preprocess modules (6746ms)
Bundle modules (46ms)
Postprocesss modules (186ms)
Bundle Functions (477ms)
Generate Code (37ms)

[7.50s] Bundled "src/js" for production
  2597 kb
  197 internal modules
  13 native modules
  50 internal functions across 16 files
[4/112] build.rs build_script_build
[5/112] cxx obj/src/jsc/bindings/bindings.cpp.o
[6/112] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings-2.cpp.o
[7/112] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings-3.cpp.o
[8/112] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings-4.cpp.o
[9/112] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings-0.cpp.o
[10/112] cxx obj/src/jsc/bindings/BunObject.cpp.o
[11/112] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings-5.cpp.o
[12/112] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings_v8-0.cpp.o
[13/112] cxx obj/unified/Unifi
... (truncated)

diff hotspot

src/js/node/test.ts                                | 102 ++++++++++++++++--
 src/runtime/test_runner/bun_test.rs                |  59 +++++++++-
 src/runtime/test_runner/jest.rs                    |  83 +++++++++-----
 .../test_runner/fixtures/30-outside-error-order.js | 104 ++++++++++++++++++
 .../fixtures/31-outside-error-in-hooks.js          |  50 +++++++++
 .../fixtures/32-outside-error-not-absorbed.js      |  54 ++++++++++
 .../test_runner/fixtures/33-outside-error-retry.js |  24 +++++
 test/js/node/test_runner/node-test.test.ts         | 120 +++++++++++++++++++++
 8 files changed, 562 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

gate history · 2 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 0

evidence per changed file

file                                                      reads  edits  tests
src/js/node/test.ts                                           7     18     35
src/runtime/test_runner/bun_test.rs                          10     14     39
src/runtime/test_runner/jest.rs                               5      5     32
…/js/node/test_runner/fixtures/30-outside-error-order.js      4      3     31
…/node/test_runner/fixtures/31-outside-error-in-hooks.js      1      3     30
…e/test_runner/fixtures/32-outside-error-not-absorbed.js      0      1     29
…/js/node/test_runner/fixtures/33-outside-error-retry.js      0      1     29
test/js/node/test_runner/node-test.test.ts                    3      3     29

[robobun]

^{Updated 1:50 AM PT - Sep 22nd, 2026}

✅ @robobun, your commit 30f94491f3f12bdc5f8e15aa711bc24b1292c72c passed in Build #119663! 🎉

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[robobun]

Status

• Reproduced: the four new cases in test/js/node/test_runner/node-test.test.ts (-t "error") fail on the 1.4.2 release and on 1.4.3 canary. The next test starts before afterEach(A) runs and while the mock of test A is still installed.
• With this branch, bun bd test test/js/node/test_runner/node-test.test.ts passes (49 tests). 30-outside-error-order.js prints the same order as node --test v26.3.0.
• PR: node:test: finish a test's hooks and subtests before the next test when an uncaught error fails it #43751

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The node:test runner routes uncaught timer errors and unhandled rejections to active tests. It races these errors with test execution phases and defers late failures until cleanup. Native state identifies the matching callback. Tests verify ordering, cleanup, retries, and results.

Changes

node:test uncaught-error handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Uncaught claim and entry resolution src/runtime/test_runner/bun_test.rs, src/runtime/test_runner/jest.rs	Runtime state stores the node:test uncaught handler and execution entry. Callback resolution supports active, concurrent, stamped, and already-called callbacks.
Active test failure routing src/js/node/test.ts, src/runtime/test_runner/bun_test.rs, src/runtime/test_runner/jest.rs	Test execution races external errors with timeouts and pending phases. Uncaught errors route to the innermost active test. Late failures apply after cleanup.
Error ordering and cleanup coverage test/js/node/test_runner/fixtures/*, test/js/node/test_runner/node-test.test.ts	Fixtures and integration tests verify hook completion, cleanup, mock restoration, subtest ordering, retries, later tests, and reported results.

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Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the native side of the handler call in offer_uncaught_to_node_test (src/runtime/test_runner/bun_test.rs): the Strong is created and read on the JS thread, the handler is copied out before re-entering JS and the &mut BunTest is re-derived only after it returns, a handler throw is routed to on_uncaught_exception with termination left alone, and under --concurrent get_current_state_data() names no entry so is_same_entry cannot match a stale registration.

Extended reasoning...

The change adds a per-entry uncaught-error claim on BunTest plus a node:test handler that fails the innermost running test in place; it touches no security-sensitive surface. The rooting, re-entrancy and termination-exception handling in the new native path were examined and hold up; the posted findings concern JS-side ordering, retry and hook semantics rather than memory safety.

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🟡 Minor · Preserve the original entry data for the node:test offer. · jest.rs:646-651

src/runtime/test_runner/jest.rs:646-651
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Preserve the original entry data for the node:test offer.

When an unhandled rejection occurs in a hook, the code rewrites current_state_data to RefDataValue::Start before it calls offer_uncaught_to_node_test. That function only invokes the handler when claim.entry.is_same_entry(current) is true. RefDataValue::Start cannot match the registered execution entry, so the handler does not run and its done callback cannot advance the pending hook.

Use RefDataValue::Start for Bun's error attribution, but pass the original entry data to offer_uncaught_to_node_test.

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In `@src/runtime/test_runner/jest.rs` around lines 646 - 651, Update the
unhandled-rejection handling around buntest.on_uncaught_exception to retain the
original current_state_data for offer_uncaught_to_node_test, while continuing to
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- Around line 646-651: Update the unhandled-rejection handling around
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[robobun]

On the outside-diff finding for jest.rs:646-651 (pass the original entry data to offer_uncaught_to_node_test when the active entry is a hook): no change is needed.

• current_state_data becomes RefDataValue::Start only when the active bun:test entry is a hook entry. For node:test that is a file-level or describe-level before()/after(), which the module registers as beforeAll/afterAll. A hook entry never registers a handler. Only createTopLevelTestRunner does, for a test entry. So the original hook entry data cannot match the registered test entry either.
• There is also nothing to hold back in that case. With Start, Execution::step only calls step_group, and a sequence that is still executing does not advance. bun:test reports the error as "Unhandled error between tests" and keeps waiting for the hook.

Checked with a file-level before() whose timer throws while the hook is pending. 1.4.3 and this branch print the same report and the same order: before start, before end, t1, t2, with 2 pass and 1 error.

[claude]

Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

[robobun]

On the summary's merge-risk line ("an unhandled rejection during hook processing may leave the test run waiting indefinitely"): I checked it, and it does not.

• A node:test beforeEach or afterEach hook runs inside the test's entry. I ran a variant of 31-outside-error-in-hooks.js where the hook never settles and its timer creates a rejection that nothing handles, with no other timer pending. On this branch the test fails at once with that rejection, the remaining hooks and t.after run, and the next test starts: afterEach(H), t.after(H), I, afterEach(I), beforeEach(J), afterEach(J), K, afterEach(K). The whole file takes 1.5 s on a debug build and nothing reports "timed out". The 1.4.2 release starts I before t.after(H) and never runs afterEach(J).
• A file-level or describe-level before()/after() is a bun:test hook entry. That path does not change, as in my earlier comment.
• A hook that hangs with no error at all is bounded by the entry's timeout, as before.

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[robobun]

#43803 handles the case this PR leaves out: a node:test test that the bun:test timeout ends. It adds an execution-phase entry right after the test entry (jsNodeTestAfterEntry), keyed through on_stack_entry_data, so it also works inside a concurrent group. bun:test runs that entry on every way out of the test entry, also after an uncaught error, where it does nothing today. The two PRs touch the same lines of executeTestNode() and createTopLevelTestRunner(). If #43803 merges first, this PR can move onto that entry and drop offer_uncaught_to_node_test.