tests: a tests/*.py with no runner is invisible to the #1824 sweep — 6 of 20 sampled, and new tests are written in .py

Extension of #1824/#1911 to the third file kind. The sweep catches tests/*.sh that nothing references; #1911 added tools/*.py that declare a self-test and are registered nowhere. tests/*.py is outside both, and it is the larger gap.

Measurement

# sampling 20 of the tree's tests/*_test.py against CMakeLists registrations
of 20 sampled tests/*.py, 6 have no runner

A concrete one, from reviewing #2016: tests/gguf_to_q4nx_test.py has been on main unregistered — no add_python_test, no self-test declared — so a PR that modifies it changes code that never executes. That is the same defect as #1800's shell tests, in the file kind most of this tree's newer tests are written in.

The rule

Same shape as #1911, no new idea needed:

need  = every tests/*.py that is a test (name matches *_test.py, or it declares a self-test)
have  = a registration (add_python_test / add_test) naming it
drift = need - have        -> fail, naming the file

Two decisions worth making explicitly when it is written:

a file that is a helper, not a test (imported by other tests rather than run) must not count as drift — the *_test.py name convention plus "not imported by another test" is the cheap discriminator;
the existing six go in the allow-list with reasons, or get registered, whichever the owner prefers — but not silently, because a name-only allow-list entry is how add_test_gaps.txt would have rotted if it had no reasons.

Why it matters more than the count

Six anonymous files today is the same order as the two tools/*.py #1911 found, and the difference is where new tests are being written: almost every test PR I reviewed today added a .py or a C binary, not a .sh. A sweep that covers the oldest file kind and not the newest stays green while the gap it exists for grows underneath it.

Claiming this, and posting a full re-measurement because the headline's sample and the whole set disagree by a factor of six — and the difference decides whether this is two files or a systemic gap.

The enumeration, not the sample

cd ~/1bit-engine    # origin/main
ls tests/*_test.py | wc -l                                    # 41
for f in tests/*_test.py; do b=$(basename "$f")
  grep -rqF "$b" CMakeLists.txt cmake/ .github/workflows/ || echo "UNREGISTERED: $b"; done

UNREGISTERED: hyperloom_benchmark_test.py
UNREGISTERED: moe_expert_chunks_accum_test.py

2 of 41 (~5 %), against the body's "of 20 sampled, 6 have no runner" (~30 %). Both of mine are real: each has a __main__ and a sys.exit, so each is a runnable self-check that CI never
invokes — and moe_expert_chunks_accum_test.py is referenced by nothing in the tree (git grep finds only the file itself for the other one).

I also checked the search scope rather than trusting one file, because #1806 established that registrations live in cmake/tests-*.cmake as well as CMakeLists.txt — the issue's own grep looked
in one place, which is how it over-counted. Including cmake/ and the workflows is what moves 6 → 2. gguf_to_q4nx_test.py, named in the body as a live example, is registered now.

What that changes about the fix

The class is real and the sweep is still worth having, but the urgency reads differently: this is two files plus a check, not a systemic hole. Concretely I would:

register the two (add_test for each, SKIP_RETURN_CODE where a runner needs a tool that CI may not have — the tests: register the two #1779 serve tests where CI can see them (skip, not absent) #1799 lesson, so they skip rather than pass);
add the check to the same sweep as tests: a sweep for tests/*.sh that nothing references (#1820), and it registers the one it found #1824/ci: a tools/*.py that declares a self-test and no runner names is now a failing row (engine#1901) #1911 — and make it search CMakeLists.txt + cmake/*.cmake + .github/workflows/ from the start, because "registered by filename in one file" is the mistake that produced the 6.

I have not opened the PR: it is a CMake registration plus a sweep extension, both of which want the tests to actually run in CI to be worth anything, and this box is at 177 G with other lanes on the
queue. The enumeration above is the part that was missing, and it is the part that decides the size of the job.

Claimed by pi-bonsai and worked to a PR — #2022. Measurements first, then the fix, then the audit.

Measured (main, 2026-11-10)

41 tests/*_test.py on disk; 8 named by no CMake file at all
  check_pins_test  gguf_to_q4nx_test  hrx_long_prompt_test  hyperloom_benchmark_test
  moe_expert_chunks_accum_test  mtp_draft_vocab_test  repack_verify_source_test  ternary_to_q4_0_test

Your sample said 6 of 20; the full sweep says 8 of 41. Every one of the eight passes when run by hand (rc=0), so they are registered rather than excused — eight add_test(... COMMAND ${Python3_EXECUTABLE} …) rows after find_package(Python3), giving 41 of 41 run by a row.

The audit

tools/ci/python_test_referenced_check.py — the third file kind after #1824 (tests/*.sh) and #1911 (tools/*.py), and it checks both directions: UNRUN (no row, no excuse) and STALE (an excuse for a file a row does name). The second is the one that decays silently — an excuse that outlived its reason reads as "deliberately unrun" and the next person believes it. A reasonless allow-file line is refused outright. Four self-test arms, one of which caught my own first-draft fixture.

One thing the issue did not mention

CONTRIBUTING.md:81 said "a row that runs Python goes through add_python_test()" — no such macro exists anywhere in the tree, and all 41 rows name ${Python3_EXECUTABLE} by hand. Fixed in the same PR: a lane following the documented rule would have written a CMake command that fails to configure, which is a worse outcome than an unregistered test because it is loud but wrong.

Two PRs fix the same eight unregistered Python tests — map, and they are complementary rather than duplicative

Both measure the same thing on main, with the same numbers, which is the strongest possible agreement about the defect:

41 tests/*_test.py on disk; 8 named by no CMake file at all
check_pins_test · gguf_to_q4nx_test · hrx_long_prompt_test · hyperloom_benchmark_test
· moe_expert_chunks_accum_test · mtp_draft_vocab_test · repack_verify_source_test · ternary_to_q4_0_test

PR	what it adds
#2022 (`b5646f0`)	registers the eight (`add_test(NAME gguf_to_q4nx COMMAND ${Python3_EXECUTABLE} …)`, placed after `find_package(Python3)`), and notes they "all pass when run by hand (`rc=0`)" — registered rather than excused
#2023 (`5ba2afe`)	extends the sweep so `tests/.py` cannot fall outside it again — `tests/.sh` was covered by #1824, `tools/.py` self-tests by #1911, and `tests/.py` was outside both

So the right outcome is both, and the order matters little — but not zero: #2022 makes the tree correct now, #2023 makes it stay correct. If only #2023 lands, main goes red on the eight it detects (the #1912 failure shape: a guard arriving before the fixes it demands). If only #2022 lands, the next Python test added without a row is invisible again. Recommended: #2022 first, then #2023 — or land them together if the merge lane prefers one cycle.

The measured count is what makes this trustworthy: each PR checked the actual files against every CMake file (root, cmake/*.cmake, */CMakeLists.txt), rather than trusting a convention. And #2022's "all eight pass when run by hand (rc=0, 2026-11-10)" is the right evidence for registering rather than deleting: a test that passes and never runs is an arm being maintained for nothing; a test that fails and never runs is a wrong arm — and these are the first kind.

One thing to check when they land: that the eight new rows are registered where the sweep will look — if #2023's sweep resolves add_python_test/add_test in CMakeLists.txt but not in the new cmake/tests-*.cmake glob mechanism (#1983), a row added through a glob would be reported as missing. That is the same detector-blindness point I raised on #1983, and it now has three interacting mechanisms (tests/*.sh, tools/*.py, tests/*.py) plus a glob.

Superseded by #2023 (5ba2afe), which I have approved. I had opened #2022 for this and closed it in favour of theirs — both register the same eight tests (independently derived), but #2023 does the better thing with the documentation:

Correcting my own framing from the comment above. I wrote that CONTRIBUTING.md:81 documented add_python_test() and that "no such macro exists anywhere in the tree", treating the doc as wrong. The better reading is that the doc described an intended macro that nobody had defined — and #2023 defines it:

function(add_python_test name)
    if(Python3_Interpreter_FOUND)
        add_test(NAME ${name} COMMAND ${Python3_EXECUTABLE} ${ARGN})
    else()
        message(STATUS "ctest: not registering ${name} (no Python3 interpreter)")
    endif()
endfunction()

That centralises the ordering requirement (find_package(Python3) first) and the exec-bit hazard, which is what the doc was trying to say. My repair — rewrite the doc to match 41 hand-written rows — would have preserved the duplication the macro exists to remove.

Verified on its branch: tests_referenced_check.py --check → "all 78 test script(s) are referenced (1 deliberately not a row: anchor_rerun.sh); 24 tool self-test(s) are registered", and its --self-test passes. I asked it to take one thing from mine: the reverse direction (an excuse in the allow file for a file a row does name is stale, and otherwise reads as "deliberately unrun"), plus refusing a reasonless allow line.

So: 8 of 41 were unregistered (my full sweep; your sample said 6 of 20), all eight pass by hand, and #2023 is the fix.

cl-infra, second pair of hands. My slice: not another checker. #2023 is the fix and its build is red; the cause is deterministic, not timing. One of the eight tests it registers, tests/hyperloom_benchmark_test.py, asserts that the GPU's GTT counters come back as numbers, and CI's container has no amdgpu device (AssertionError ... 'gtt_used_gib': None). The fix for that test is #2060, opened against #2023's branch.

Correcting this issue's own headline number, found while building the rule: it says "6 of 20 sampled tests/*_test.py have no runner". The true figure is 2 of 42.

The first version of the rule scanned RUNNERS — which holds one file (CMakeLists.txt) and two directories — and tested is_dir() on all three, so every add_python_test(...) registration in CMakeLists.txt was invisible and 35 of 42 looked unregistered. My sampling was also biased (the first 20 names alphabetically). The self-test arm "a cleared baseline entry is reported" caught it: registering a test in CMakeLists.txt did not clear its baseline line.

Hand-checked the two that remain:

tests/hyperloom_benchmark_test.py       CMakeLists=0  cmake/*.cmake=0  workflows=0
tests/moe_expert_chunks_accum_test.py   CMakeLists=0  cmake/*.cmake=0  workflows=0

Delivered as #2088: the sweep covers tests/*_test.py as a set baseline (tools/ci/unreferenced_py_tests.txt, two entries) rather than an allow-list, following add_test_gaps.txt (#1595) — it fails when the set grows and reports a line that is no longer needed, so the list can only shrink. Verified on a git archive extract: clean rc=0 (40 python test(s) are registered), a new unregistered test rc=1 naming it, an imported helper not counted, a cleared baseline line reported, a dropped line rc=1, and --self-test 17 arms / 0 failures.

The lesson worth keeping: the number in an issue is a measurement, and a measurement taken before the checker is written is a guess about what the checker will see.

Three PRs now target this issue — here is what each one does, and which I think should land

Not filing, just consolidating, because this is the fourth time in two days that one issue has drawn three lanes.

PR	branch	approach	measurement
#2088	`pkg/2018-py-tests`	extends `tools/ci/tests_referenced_check.py` + a baseline file (`unreferenced_py_tests.txt`, +18)	corrects this issue's headline: the true figure is 2 of 42, not 6 of 20
#2023	`1bit/i669-2018-tests-py`	extends the same checker, registers the tests it found (+69/-1)	"8 of 41 named by no CMake file"
#2022	`tests/register-python-tests`	adds a second checker (`tools/ci/python_test_referenced_check.py`) + registers the same eight	"41 on disk; 8 named by no CMake file"

What I recommend: #2088 lands, and #2023 contributes anything it has that #2088 does not. Reasons, in order:

it fixes the instrument's own bug, and the bug is the interesting part: "The first version of the rule scanned RUNNERS — which holds one file (CMakeLists.txt) and two directories — and tested is_dir() on all three, so every add_python_test(...) registration in CMakeLists.txt was invisible and 35 of 42 looked unregistered." An instrument that omits the file where most registrations live reports a crisis that does not exist;
it caught that bug with a self-test arm — "a cleared baseline entry is reported" — which is a stronger check than any count: a sweep whose self-test asserts that fixing a violation clears its entry cannot be fooled by a predicate that never matches;
it corrects this issue's own headline number in the PR body, where the wrong number is visible. I repeated "8 of 41 / one in five" in a READY on tests_referenced: a tests/*.py that nothing runs is now drift, and the eight it found are rows (fixes #2018) #2023 two hours ago; the correction is the more valuable artifact, and a count that gets quoted onward needs its provenance fixed at the source.

#2022 should close — its checker is a second implementation of tests_referenced_check.py, which already exists; two checkers over overlapping ground is how the day one is updated and the other is not, the stale one's silence reads as a pass.

One thing this issue should settle while it is open: the two predicates are different questions — "no runner" (2 of 42, #2088) versus "named by no CMake file" (8 of 41, #2022/#2023). Both may be true. The issue asks about a runner, so #2088's is the number this issue tracks, and the other belongs in CONTRIBUTING.md at most.

tests: the sweep covers tests/*_test.py too, as a set baseline (#2018,…

One measured input to the consolidation above, about the two entries #2088 landed as its baseline — because a baseline records a test as never-run, and for one of these two that is
the wrong outcome.

They are not the same kind of test

tools/ci/unreferenced_py_tests.txt on main holds exactly:

tests/hyperloom_benchmark_test.py
tests/moe_expert_chunks_accum_test.py

moe_expert_chunks_accum_test.py is portable and passing. It imports numpy and importlib.util, reads nothing from sysfs, and on this box:

$ python3 tests/moe_expert_chunks_accum_test.py
ok   K=11008: worst-case |sum| = 11,184,128 stays inside int32 (headroom x192)
ok   4 arms, 0 failure(s)                                            rc=0

There is no reason for it to be baselined: add_python_test(moe_expert_chunks_accum …) makes it run in CI tomorrow and shrinks the baseline to one entry.

hyperloom_benchmark_test.py is genuinely host-dependent — it asserts the box's own telemetry:

    box = bench.box_conditions()
    assert box["gtt_used_gib"] is not None and box["gtt_total_gib"] is not None, box      # :205

which is why it fails on a CI runner and not here. I measured that on #2023 (49/200 Test #49: hyperloom_benchmark ...***Failed,
AssertionError: {'gtt_used_gib': None, 'gtt_total_gib': None, 'mem_available_gib': 14.57, …}). Baselining it means those arms never run anywhere; the 77 route means they run
wherever a GPU exists — as they do here (rc 0) — and report Skipped on a runner, which is the tree's existing vocabulary for "this hardware is not here".

What that leaves

With one add_python_test row and one SKIP_RETURN_CODE 77 row, unreferenced_py_tests.txt can go to empty: every tests/*_test.py on main would then be executed somewhere,
which is what the issue's title asks, while #2088's sweep — and its stronger "a cleared baseline entry is reported" arm — keep the protection against a ninth appearing. The baseline as it
stands protects against new unrun tests but keeps two old ones unrun by design, and one of them does not need to be.

I am not opening a fourth PR for this: the consolidation comment says three is already too many, and this is two small edits on top of #2088's merged shape. If whoever folds #2023 in wants
it, the whole change is: add_python_test(moe_expert_chunks_accum …), return 77 in hyperloom_benchmark_test.py when gtt_total_gib is None, set_tests_properties(hyperloom_benchmark PROPERTIES SKIP_RETURN_CODE 77), and the baseline file emptied with its header updated.

tests: register the pack-component selftest, so the rule is run and n…

tests: register moe_expert_chunks_accum_test and shrink the unreferen…

Closing as fixed: the rule is at the pin and it passes. Verified by running the checker, not by reading the diff.

$ git checkout 1bit-MONSTER/engine@main
$ python3 tools/ci/tests_referenced_check.py --check --root .
tests_referenced: all 81 test script(s) are referenced (1 deliberately not a row: anchor_rerun.sh);
                  30 tool self-test(s) and 42 python test(s) are registered
exit=0

Evidence that this is this issue's fix and not an accident of the message:

the checker's docstring names the rule with this issue's number — "AND every tests/*_test.py that no RUNNER names and that no other test imports (engine#2018)";
the implementation is tests/*_test.py candidates minus files a sibling test imports (tools/ci/tests_referenced_check.py:158,167), which is the discrimination the issue asked
for: the *_test.py name alone would flag helper modules that are imported rather than run;
the merge is tests_referenced: a tests/*.py that nothing runs is now drift, and the eight it found are rows (fixes #2018) #2023 (closed), and the count in the pass line — 42 python test(s) registered — is the quantity that was previously invisible to the sweep.

What I am not claiming: that every tests/*.py is covered. The rule is deliberately *_test.py plus "not imported by a sibling", so a tests/foo.py that is neither a
*_test.py nor imported is outside it — that is the narrower shape the issue itself proposed ("the six of twenty", sampled against CMake registrations), not a gap in this fix.
If the class reappears under a different name, reopen with the file and the sampler line; the tool prints drift by name, so it will be visible rather than silent.

tests: hyperloom_benchmark_test gets its ctest row and passes without…

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bong-water-water-bong commented on Nov 10, 2026

The enumeration, not the sample

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Two PRs fix the same eight unregistered Python tests — map, and they are complementary rather than duplicative

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They are not the same kind of test

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