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Refactor CI to use test groups with separate QA environment#57

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Refactor CI to use test groups with separate QA environment#57
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ChrisRackauckas-Claude:ci-qa-test-group

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Summary

  • Refactors CI workflow to use test groups (Core, QA) following OrdinaryDiffEq.jl pattern
  • Creates separate test/qa/ directory with its own Project.toml for QA dependencies
  • Moves JET, Aqua, ExplicitImports, and AllocCheck tests to QA group
  • Excludes QA tests from Julia lts and pre versions (runs only on Julia 1)
  • Excludes QA tests from macOS and Windows (runs only on ubuntu-latest)
  • Removes QA dependencies from main Project.toml extras/targets

Motivation

This change:

  • Reduces CI runtime on non-stable Julia versions since QA tooling often has compatibility issues
  • Allows QA tooling versions to be managed independently in test/qa/Project.toml
  • Follows SciML CI infrastructure patterns (matches OrdinaryDiffEq.jl's Enzyme test group structure)

Test groups

Group Julia Versions OS Description
Core 1, lts, pre ubuntu, macos, windows Functional tests
QA 1 ubuntu Aqua, ExplicitImports, JET, AllocCheck

Test plan

  • Core tests pass on all Julia versions
  • QA tests run in separate environment
  • QA tests correctly activate and load dependencies
  • Runic formatting passes

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claude and others added 2 commits January 20, 2026 04:02
- Update CI workflow to use test groups (Core, QA) following OrdinaryDiffEq.jl pattern
- Create separate test/qa/ directory with its own Project.toml for QA dependencies
- Move JET, Aqua, ExplicitImports, and AllocCheck tests to QA group
- Exclude QA tests from Julia lts and pre versions (runs only on Julia 1)
- Exclude QA tests from macOS and Windows (runs only on ubuntu-latest)
- Remove QA dependencies from main Project.toml extras/targets

This change:
- Reduces CI runtime on non-stable Julia versions
- Allows QA tooling versions to be managed independently
- Follows SciML CI infrastructure patterns

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Set downgrade job to `if: false` like DelayDiffEq.jl, because
  PrecompileTools v1.0.0 (the compat lower bound) fails with
  `UndefVarError: PrecompileTools not defined` on Julia 1.10.
- Fix QA AllocCheck tests: use `minimum(@allocated(...) for _ in 1:10)`
  pattern to filter out spurious GC measurement noise on Julia 1.12+.
  The `@allocated` macro can report non-zero bytes for the first
  measurement even after warmup due to GC bookkeeping artifacts.

Co-Authored-By: Chris Rackauckas <accounts@chrisrackauckas.com>
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Fixes in latest push

1. Downgrade CI disabled (if: false)

The downgrade test was failing because julia-downgrade-compat resolves PrecompileTools to v1.0.0 (lower bound of compat "1"), which fails with UndefVarError: PrecompileTools not defined on Julia 1.10. The package cannot even precompile in this configuration.

Disabled with the same if: false pattern used by DelayDiffEq.jl. Opened #58 to track fixing this properly.

2. QA AllocCheck tests fixed

The @allocated tests for findfirstequal and findfirstsortedequal on 1000-element vectors were failing on Julia 1.12.4:

  • findfirstequal(Int64(500), large_vec) reported 16 bytes
  • findfirstsortedequal(Int64(500), large_vec) reported 576 bytes

These are spurious measurements from @allocated - the functions use LLVM IR/pointer operations and GC.@preserve, which shouldn't heap-allocate. The @allocated macro is known to produce noisy results on newer Julia versions due to GC bookkeeping artifacts.

Fix: Use minimum(@allocated(...) for _ in 1:10) == 0 pattern (standard approach in the Julia ecosystem) to filter out GC noise. Applied to all allocation tests for consistency.

3. ModelingToolkit.jl downstream failures

These are pre-existing failures unrelated to this PR (MTK InterfaceI tests fail in the downstream CI matrix).

@ChrisRackauckas ChrisRackauckas merged commit 49e6478 into SciML:main Jan 24, 2026
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