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[Split 4/N] Split the UTS into its own CI workflow, and run it through the device package's factory - #2275
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WalkthroughThe PR separates SDK and UTS test execution. It adds Fastlane suite and test-plan selection, device-side UTS client routing, a dedicated UTS workflow, a device XCTest plan, and updated CI documentation. ChangesUTS workflow split
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The UTS ran as part of Integration Test, which misnamed it — it is primarily a unit suite, with the sandbox and proxy tiers a minority — and meant a UTS failure was indistinguishable from an AblyTests one without opening a log, and re-running either re-ran both. It now has uts.yaml, so it appears as "UTS / check (...)" against "Integration Test / check (...)", and can be dispatched and re-run on its own. Fastlane lanes take a suite: option that selects targets: sdk skips the UTS target, uts runs only it, and between them they cover the test plan exactly once. A lane called without suite: still runs everything, so local invocations are unchanged. Job and check names are left alone in both workflows, so any required status checks configured against them keep reporting. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
UTS_SIDE selects which entry point the suite builds realtime clients through: unset or 'core' uses the constructor, 'device' uses PubSubDevice.createClient. Running the same specs both ways is what shows the factory to be a faithful pass-through rather than a stamp on a client nothing else exercises. Both realtime construction points now go through makeRealtimeForSide, so there is one seam. REST is untouched: the device package exposes no HTTP door. An unrecognised UTS_SIDE aborts rather than falling back, and SideSeamTests asserts the routing, since either would otherwise leave the suite quietly repeating the core run and reporting it as coverage. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@CONTRIBUTING.md`:
- Line 94: Update the workflow documentation paragraph to distinguish target
ownership from execution count: state that the workflows cover disjoint targets,
then explicitly note that the UTS target intentionally runs twice per
platform—once with core and once with device. Keep the existing whole-plan
behavior for invocations without suite unchanged.
In `@Test/UTS/README.md`:
- Around line 605-606: Update the CI description in the UTS README to reference
the dedicated .github/workflows/uts.yaml workflow and its suite:uts matrix,
replacing the outdated claim that UTS runs only as part of the full test suite.
Keep the surrounding CI guidance unchanged.
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Lead-developer review — SDK device/server split, [Split 4/N].
Verdict: a tightly scoped, faithful implementation of the UTS-per-side step of the split. There is a single construction seam in Test/UTS/infra/Side.swift with both call sites (UTSTestCase, IntegrationTestCase) routed through it, the harness self-tests both modes (SideSeamTests, plus a fatalError on an unknown UTS_SIDE), integration-test.yaml now passes suite:sdk so the UTS never runs twice, and the boundaries are clean — including the correctly deferred tier-leg work.
Worth calling out positively: the device-mode CI mechanism is better than originally anticipated. Delivering UTS_SIDE=device via a checked-in Test/UTSDevice.xctestplan plus the checked-in ably-cocoa scheme runs all three platforms across both modes, rather than a macOS-only swift test job or a compile-time flag.
One sequencing note: this PR sits above #2267 (the ably-pubsub-cocoa agent-identifier change) in the stack, so it inherits that PR's merge gate — it should not merge to integration/v2 (nor be cut into any prerelease) until ably/ably-common#361 lands, registering the new identifiers, and the Test/AblyTests/ably-common submodule pin is bumped past it.
Individual findings are posted as inline comments (two on uts.yaml, one on SideSeamTests.swift, one on IntegrationTestCase.swift).
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[INFO] Identical pass counts across modes is structural, not auto-compared
Finding: The core and device legs run as independent matrix entries against the same UTS target, so the expectation that both modes report identical results is achieved structurally, and guarded by SideSeamTests plus the fatalError on an unknown UTS_SIDE — but there is no automated cross-leg comparison of pass counts. Why it matters: "Same results either way" (as the workflow comment above says) is only ever confirmed by eye; a leg that silently skipped tests would still be green. This matches how ably-js handled the same step, so it is a note, not a request. Suggested action: On the first green run, eyeball both legs' counts to confirm they line up; no code change needed.
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Eyeballed, as suggested, on the green run for the current head (5d3de1e2, run 34503393241). The counts line up per platform:
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| iOS | 752 | 752 |
| tvOS | 376 | 376 |
| macOS | 382 | 382 |
So the structural expectation holds on this run. Your underlying point stands — nothing compares them, so a leg that silently stopped selecting tests would still be green — and it is recorded here rather than acted on, in line with how ably-js left the same step.
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[INFO] Trailing whitespace on lines 134 and 141
Finding: Both lines carry trailing whitespace. Why it matters: Not a lint gate — .editorconfig scopes trimming to *.{swift,m,h}, so CI won't catch it — but it's avoidable noise, and CodeRabbit flagged it too. Suggested action: Strip it if the file is touched again.
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Fixed in #2290. Both lines were six spaces; uts.yaml now has no trailing whitespace anywhere in it.
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[MINOR] Spec-check outcome not recorded (Test/UTS/deviations.md untouched)
Finding: The split work included a step to check the ably/specification repo for any new spec points covering agent side flags or factory doors, and to record the outcome in Test/UTS/deviations.md. No record of that check is visible on this PR: deviations.md is untouched and the description doesn't mention it. This line is why it matters here — these self-tests are explicitly "not derived from any UTS spec", so if the specification has gained points covering per-side behaviour, this is where they would need to be derived. It may well be N/A: keeping the per-side claim in unit tests mirrors how ably-js handled the same step. Why it matters: Without a recorded outcome, later readers can't distinguish an intentional "nothing to derive" from an overlooked check. Suggested action: Confirm whether ably/specification gained any split-related spec points; either note "no new spec points — N/A" in this thread, or derive them and update Test/UTS/deviations.md.
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Checked, and the answer is that there is nothing to derive, so Test/UTS/deviations.md needs no entry.
I pulled ably/specification to d9a04cac (2026-09-17), 91 commits on from the checkout I had. Searching the whole repository's Markdown for pubsub-device, pubsub-server, ably-pubsub, "device package", "server package", "side flag", UTS_SIDE and createRealtimeClient returns nothing, and neither does "device-side" or "server-side SDK" in features.md.
Two checks that go further than keyword matching. The agent clauses were not touched: git diff over features.md for that range has no added or removed line mentioning RSC7a-RSC7e, so RSC7d's Agent rules are as this SDK already implements them. And the 44 clause IDs that appeared or changed in the range are all elsewhere — DF1a, RTL3d, RTL4j, RTL7i, RTL10b, RTL15*, RTL33*, RTN8c/d, RTN9c/d, RTN14h, RTN15g*, RTN16g*, RTN23b/c*, RTN27d, RTP11b/e/f*, TO3r*. The one new client option, TO3r strictMode, is about operations that silently succeed without a granted channel mode. uts/ gained a lot in the window, all of it the objects tier plus doc moves.
Corroborating from the other direction: ably-js's own split code cites no spec points either. packages/shared/side.ts, packages/device/src/index.ts and the two index.d.ts files carry the reasoning for the side stamp and the factory, and none of them reference a clause — what they point at is the decision record, ably/ably-common#361, and the core's own source.
So: no new spec points covering agent side flags or factory doors, verified at d9a04cac, and keeping the per-side claim in SideSeamTests is the intentional outcome rather than an overlooked check.
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[MINOR] Stale doc-comment example in ProxySession.swift
Finding: This change correctly routes the proxy tier's runtime path through the seam — proxy-tier clients are built via this method through IntegrationTestCase inheritance. But the usage example in the doc comment at Test/UTS/infra/integration/proxy/ProxySession.swift:149 still shows the old constructor:
/// let client = ARTRealtime(options: options)Why it matters: Behaviour is correct; only the illustrative comment is stale. Still, anyone copying that example writes a client that bypasses the seam and always runs core-side regardless of UTS_SIDE. Suggested action: Update the example to build the client through makeRealtimeForSide(options:) next time the file is touched. Cosmetic.
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Fixed in #2290. ProxySession.swift:149 now reads let client = makeRealtimeForSide(options: options), so the example builds its client the way the rest of the suite does.
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Fourth PR in the split stack, stacked on #2274 (base:
ci/retry-absorbs-flakes), which in turn sits on #2273 and #2267. Two commits.1.
CI: run the UTS in its own workflowThe Universal Test Suite ran as part of Integration Test, alongside
AblyTestsandAblyTestsObjC, because all three are targets ofTest/Ably.xctestplanand one Fastlane lane per platform ran the whole plan.That misnames the suite. The UTS is primarily a unit suite: the
objectsunit tier alone is ~145 fully-mocked tests, plus the realtime and rest unit suites, with the sandbox-network and macOS-only proxy tiers a minority of it.It also welded the two together. A red
check (iOS, test_iOS26_2)could be either suite, and re-running one re-ran both, at ~40 minutes per platform leg.UTS / check (iOS, test_iOS26_2)…uts.yaml)UTS-only-testing:UTSIntegration Test / check (iOS, test_iOS26_2)…AblyTests,AblyTestsObjC-skip-testing:UTSBetween them they cover the plan exactly once, so total work is unchanged; it parallelises differently and reports separately, and the UTS can now be dispatched or re-run on its own.
fastlane/Fastfile—args_for_run_teststakes asuite:option:utssetsonly_testing: ['UTS'],sdksetsskip_testing: ['UTS'],nil/allsets neither.sdkis defined by exclusion rather than by naming the two targets, so a fourth test target added to the plan later lands in that leg instead of being silently dropped. An unrecognised value raises. Lane names are unchanged, and a lane invoked withoutsuite:still runs the whole plan — which is whatmake test_[iOS|tvOS|macOS]does, so local runs are unaffected and theMakefileneeded no edit..github/workflows/uts.yaml— reuses Integration Test's setup with the samecheckjob name, so the two read as siblings and the workflow name does the distinguishing, as it already does for the othercheckandbuildjobs here.xcparsecheckout or cache — those steps exist only to feedupload_test_results.sh, which needsxcparseto extract crash reports. That upload earns its place for the SDK's own long-lived suite, where the value is analysing which tests fail intermittently over time. This suite is new, like the LiveObjects one, which does not upload either. Note this is a deliberate behaviour change: the UTS was uploading before the split.CONTRIBUTING.md's "only place CI executes theUTStarget's tests" claim, the pointers inliveobjects.yamlandcheck-spm.yaml, and the proxy-tier CI note inTest/UTS/README.md.Deliberately not here: splitting the UTS further into
UnitandIntegrationlegs. Worth doing, but a change of its own.2.
Run the UTS through the device package's factoryPort of ably-js#2294. Makes the suite runnable through either entry point, selected by
UTS_SIDE:core(default, or unset)ARTRealtime(options:)ARTRest(options:)devicePubSubDevice.createClient(options:)ARTRest(options:)The specs are identical either way. The factory has tests of its own in #2265, but they check only that it stamps the declaring agent and leaves the caller's options untouched; they barely use the client it returns. Running the specs through it is what puts that client to work — connection lifecycle, channels, presence, history, objects, auth — and so shows the factory to be a faithful pass-through and not merely a correct stamp.
Test/UTS/infra/Side.swift—UTSSideplusmakeRealtimeForSide(options:).UTSTestCase.makeRealtimeandIntegrationTestCase.withRealtimeClient— and both route through the factory. No spec file changes.ARTRestis the only way to build a stateless client in either mode. Same as ably-js's device mode.SideSeamTests, andUTS_SIDEdocumented inTest/UTS/README.mdalongside the existingRUN_DEVIATIONSandUTS_PROXY_LOCAL_PATHoverrides.Guarding against a silently degraded run
If the seam stopped routing, every spec would still pass — the run would just be a second copy of the core run, reported as coverage. Two things prevent that:
UTS_SIDEcallsfatalErrorrather than falling back tocore, so a mistyped leg aborts instead of quietly passing.SideSeamTestsasserts the declaration is present indeviceand absent incore. It builds its client throughmakeRealtimeForSide— the function every suite uses — rather than calling the factory directly, so it checks the wiring, not just the factory. Verified by mutation: pointing thedevicebranch at the core constructor fails it with "device mode built a client without the device declaration — the suite is silently repeating the core run".The device-mode CI leg
uts.yamlruns the suite twice per platform, via asidedimension:coreAbly(the default)ARTRealtime(options:)deviceTest/UTSDevice.xctestplanPubSubDevice.createClient(options:)UTSDeviceholds theUTStarget and a configuration settingUTS_SIDE=device; the lanes gain atest_plan:option that becomes scan'stestplan:. Plans are declared in.swiftpm/xcode/xcshareddata/xcschemes/ably-cocoa.xcscheme, which is checked in.A test plan is the only way to get an environment variable into an SPM test bundle under
xcodebuild, which took some finding — the obvious routes are dead ends, and they fail in ways that look like success:UTS_SIDEdoes not reach the test process; xcodebuild isolates its environment.TEST_RUNNER_UTS_SIDEas a build setting does not either. That run passed, which proves nothing, becausecorepasses too — re-running with the valuebogus, which should have hit thefatalError, is what exposed it.-only-testing:cannot name a directory. It takes a test identifier, so-only-testing:UTS/unitmatches nothing and exits green.Under
swift testno plan is involved, because the test binary inherits the environment.The plan route is confirmed to work on simulators, not just macOS. A throwaway probe (#2271) set the plan's value to
bogus: the iOS and tvOSdevicelegs aborted withFatal error: UTS_SIDE must be 'core' or 'device', got 'bogus'while all threecorecontrols passed. That check was necessary because a device leg receiving nothing runs ascoreand passes exactly like one that works.Scope: only the UTS goes through the door
AblyTestsandAblyTestsObjCstay on the core constructors. They exist to test the core SDK, and since the door returns the sameARTRealtime, routing their constructions through it would add churn without a distinct claim. The per-side claim for those suites is carried byPubSubDeviceTestsin #2265, which asserts the agent on the wire in both directions.That matches the reference implementation: ably-js#2294 changes only
test/uts/**plus its own workflow andtest:uts*scripts. Its existing mocha suites construct through a separateshared_helperand are untouched; their per-side assertion istest/unit/pubsub_side_agent.test.js, from ably-js#2293.Verification
Local, both modes: the realtime and REST unit suites (11 tests × 2), the objects unit tier (145 tests × 2), and
SideSeamTests— all green, plus the mutation check.swift build -Xswiftc -warnings-as-errorsandswift build --build-testsclean, editorconfig clean,ruby -c fastlane/Fastfileclean, and thesuite:/test_plan:mapping checked by evaluatingLaneConfigdirectly.A CodeRabbit finding on #2268 — the
actions/checkoutpin declaringusing: node12— is addressed in the workflow commit itself, so no commit here carries the old pin. Its severity did not hold up: checkout does not fail, because the runner forces such actions onto a supported Node and only warns.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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