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Patrick Ohly 34021d451d Revert "E2E framework: start slow tests first"
This reverts commit cff07e7551.

The commit caused several kubeadm jobs to fail while executing all conformance
tests (including slow ones) in parallel. Sometimes execution took longer and
ran into the overall timeout, sometimes there was:

    [FAILED] Expected
        <int>: 440
    to be ==
        <int>: 400
    In [It] at: k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/apimachinery/chunking.go:202

It looks like the tests are flaky and/or reveal a real bug when slow tests run
all in parallel at the same time.

This should work, but doesn't right now, so let's revert until that problem is fixed.
2025-11-02 20:09:28 +01:00
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2025-10-30 17:52:57 +00:00
2025-10-29 23:00:29 +00:00

test/e2e

This is home to e2e tests used for presubmit, periodic, and postsubmit jobs.

Some of these jobs are merge-blocking, some are release-blocking.

e2e test ownership

All e2e tests must adhere to the following policies:

  • the test must be owned by one and only one SIG
  • the test must live in/underneath a sig-owned package matching pattern: test/e2e/[{subpath}/]{sig}/..., e.g.
    • test/e2e/auth - all tests owned by sig-auth
    • test/e2e/common/storage - all tests common to cluster-level and node-level e2e tests, owned by sig-node
    • test/e2e/upgrade/apps - all tests used in upgrade testing, owned by sig-apps
  • each sig-owned package should have an OWNERS file defining relevant approvers and labels for the owning sig, e.g.
# test/e2e/node/OWNERS
# See the OWNERS docs at https://go.k8s.io/owners

approvers:
- alice
- bob
- cynthia
emeritus_approvers:
- dave
reviewers:
- sig-node-reviewers
labels:
- sig/node
  • packages that use {subpath} should have an imports.go file importing sig-owned packages (for ginkgo's benefit), e.g.
// test/e2e/common/imports.go
package common

import (
	// ensure these packages are scanned by ginkgo for e2e tests
	_ "k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/common/network"
	_ "k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/common/node"
	_ "k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/common/storage"
)
  • test ownership must be declared via a top-level SIGDescribe call defined in the sig-owned package, e.g.
// test/e2e/lifecycle/framework.go
package lifecycle

import "k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/framework"

// SIGDescribe annotates the test with the SIG label.
var SIGDescribe = framework.SIGDescribe("cluster-lifecycle")
// test/e2e/lifecycle/bootstrap/bootstrap_signer.go

package bootstrap

import (
	"github.com/onsi/ginkgo"
	"k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/lifecycle"
)
var _ = lifecycle.SIGDescribe("cluster", feature.BootstrapTokens, func() {
  /* ... */
  ginkgo.It("should sign the new added bootstrap tokens", func(ctx context.Context) {
    /* ... */
  })
  /* etc */
})

These polices are enforced:

  • via the merge-blocking presubmit job pull-kubernetes-verify
  • which ends up running hack/verify-e2e-test-ownership.sh
  • which can also be run via make verify WHAT=e2e-test-ownership

more info

See kubernetes/community/.../e2e-tests.md