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Default value for instrumentation_filter will change when using on instrumentation test targets #14652

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Description of the problem / feature request:

The behavior of instrumentation_filter doesn't match the documentation's description: default: "-/javatests[/:],-/test/java[/:]"

For example, here is the result of offline instrumentation test result of different commands with options:

bazel coverage app → offline instrumentation works
bazel coverage app //unit-test-target → only unit test lib got offline instrumentation
bazel coverage app-instrumentation-test → offline instrumentation doesn't work
bazel build app-instrumentation-test --collect_code_coverage  → offline instrumentation works
bazel coverage app-instrumentation-test --collect_code_coverage  → offline instrumentation doesn't work

As you can see, the behavior is very inconsistent and the root cause is that the default value of instrumentation_filter will be changed to match the target itself when we run test command on an instrumentation test target, meaning none of the dependency will got instrumented.

Example, say //app depends on //battery, when we run bazel coverage app-instrumentation-test, the default instrumentation_filter for //battery will be "-/battery[/:]" and the same applies to all other libraries

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Either update the documentation, or keep default value of instrumentation_filter unchanged everywhere.

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