Heavy ops-shape tests. Shell scripts that exercise gbrain end-to-end against
real infrastructure (Postgres, large fixtures, concurrent processes). Cost
minutes per run; NOT in default bun test.
Put a test here if it:
- Costs more than ~30s wallclock per run
- Needs real Postgres (not PGLite in-memory)
- Spins up multiple processes or measures concurrency
- Measures system metrics (RSS, latency under load, lock contention)
- Tests an upgrade / migration matrix against committed historical states
Put a slow test in test/ with the .slow.test.ts suffix if it:
- Runs under
bun test(TypeScript, uses bun:test imports) - Is correctness-shaped, not ops-shaped (asserts behavior of one function)
- Can stub external dependencies
The two patterns coexist intentionally. *.slow.test.ts is per-file
correctness for cold paths; tests/heavy/ is ops-shape scripts that don't
fit bun's test runner.
# Run every script in this directory, sequentially:
bun run test:heavy
# Run a single script:
tests/heavy/<script>.shThe runner is scripts/run-heavy.sh. It discovers every tests/heavy/*.sh
file at this directory's top level (NOT recursive), runs them in lexical
order, fails on the first non-zero exit.
tests/heavy/<name>.sh— top-level test script, picked up by the runner.tests/heavy/_<name>.sh— library/helper invoked by a sibling test. The leading underscore tells the runner to SKIP this file. Use this pattern for fixture builders, shared setup, anything that needs a required argument or isn't standalone-runnable.tests/heavy/fixtures/<name>— committed input data (SQL, JSON, etc).
Heavy tests run nightly at 08:17 UTC via .github/workflows/heavy-tests.yml,
and on PRs labeled heavy-tests. They are NOT part of the default PR CI
matrix — that gate stays fast.
Each script writes a per-run log to ~/.gbrain/audit/heavy-<script>-<ts>.log
containing subprocess stdout/stderr, environment state, and any captured
metrics. The CI workflow uploads these as artifacts on failure for triage
without re-running locally.
#!/usr/bin/env bashset -euo pipefail- Explicit array argv for execs (no
eval, no unquoted globs) - Print a one-line
[<script>] <action>log per major step - Exit non-zero on any failure path; print enough context to diagnose
- Honor
$GBRAIN_HOME/$TMP_ROOTenv overrides where relevant
See scripts/check-jsonb-pattern.sh and scripts/run-slow-tests.sh for the
in-tree style reference.