proposal: testing: should `Context()` have a deadline?

[teo-tsirpanis]

Proposal Details

Go 1.24 added a standard way to get a context inside a test, however even though there is a function to get the Deadline of a test, its Context does not have this deadline set. Should it?

In some tests of mine we've been setting a timeout of 20 seconds for HTTP requests, which makes debugging challenging if you forget to temporarily remove the timeout. Having a uniform and unbotrusive way of flowing the deadline to tests would greatly help.

[gabyhelp]

Related Issues

• proposal: testing: add additional data to testing.T.Context #70480
• testing: add (*T).Deadline #28135 (closed)
• context: TestDeadline is flaky #13956 (closed)
• Proposal: add `context.Context` objects to `testing.T` EDIT: and `testing.M` #18182 (closed)

_{(Emoji vote if this was helpful or unhelpful; more detailed feedback welcome in this discussion.)}