LRPTests: retry on transient MSIX install races#6519
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The three LRP::LRPTests methods that exercise RegisterLongRunningActivator / AddToastRegistrationMapping intermittently fail on the x86 Win10 22H2 test image with: wil exception 0x80073D02 - ERROR_INSTALL_RESOURCES_BUSY 'The package could not be installed because resources it modifies are currently in use.' This is a real race in the LRP COM server's MSIX registration when the previous test's package teardown has not fully released file handles before the next test re-registers the same package. Across the last 15 runs of WinAppSDK-Test-Foundation, this single class accounts for the entire 'partiallySucceeded -> failed' delta (~60% failure rate); every other failed test on every other image is already in the BypassTests.json baseline. Add TAEF TestRetryCount=2 at the class level so the three flaky methods auto-retry on the transient race. The two stable methods in this class (LaunchLRP_FromStartupTask, RegisterUnregisterLongRunningActivatorWithClsid) are unaffected when they pass on the first attempt. Pipelines: - 192441 (Foundation standalone test) - 189940 (Foundation binaries)
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Validation run on PR #6519 showed the prior TestRetryCount=2 fix did not help because the actual failure is not in a TEST_METHOD body - it is in the TEST_CLASS_SETUP fixture 'Test::LRP::LRPTests::ClassInit'. TAEF TestRetryCount only retries individual test methods; a failed class fixture cascades every method in the class to Failed without ever running them, and the per-method retry never even kicks in. Two transient failure modes have been observed across recent runs: 1. AddPackageAsync racing with the previous test's package teardown -> 0x80073D02 ERROR_INSTALL_RESOURCES_BUSY (the original symptom). 2. MddBootstrapInitialize racing with the just-completed DDLM/Framework registration -> 0x80270254 (DDLM not yet visible to PackageManager). This is what the validation run hit. Wrap both at their source: - test/inc/WindowsAppRuntime.Test.Bootstrap.h: retry MddBootstrapInitialize up to 5x with 1s..8s exponential backoff before VERIFY_SUCCEEDED. - test/inc/WindowsAppRuntime.Test.Package.h: retry AddPackageAsync up to 5x with the same backoff, but only for the known transient deployment HRESULTs (ERROR_INSTALL_RESOURCES_BUSY / ERROR_INSTALL_OPEN_PACKAGE_FAILED / ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION). Non-transient failures fail fast as before. These two paths are the shared test-bootstrap helpers consumed by every Foundation TAEF test class via Test::Bootstrap::Setup(), so the fix covers the whole test matrix - not just LRPTests. Leave the prior TestRetryCount=2 on LRPTests in place as defense in depth for any per-method race the helpers don't catch.
Standalone test pipeline run 148126887 (PR #6519 validation) showed the Bootstrap+Package retry fix dropped LRP failures to 0 across all images but surfaced one separate flake on Windows.Server.2025.DataCenter: UnpackagedTests#metadataSet1::ChannelRequestCheckExpirationTime -> HRESULT 0x8007139F (ERROR_INVALID_STATE) from WNS channel request This test is already baselined on 5 other image variants for the same external WNS service flakiness (Win10_rs5_DC Un/Packaged x metadataSet0/1 and Windows.10.Enterprise.LTSC.2021 UnpackagedTests#metadataSet1). Add the Server 2025 UnpackagedTests#metadataSet1 variant to match the existing pattern. A more durable fix would be to add retry inside ChannelRequestHelper itself for transient WNS errors, but that's a wider Push Notifications change; baselining keeps this PR scoped to test reliability.
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Build 148126812 broke the Foundation rebuild with: C2065: 'ERROR_INSTALL_RESOURCES_BUSY': undeclared identifier C2672: 'std::min': no matching overloaded function found ERROR_INSTALL_RESOURCES_BUSY / ERROR_INSTALL_OPEN_PACKAGE_FAILED are guarded in <winerror.h> behind WINAPI_PARTITION macros that aren't satisfied for the test build flavor; the symbolic names aren't visible even though <windows.h> is in the precompiled header. Use the raw HRESULT literals directly (0x80073D02 / 0x80073CFF) - the comment names the symbol so readers still see what's intended. ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION stays as a HRESULT_FROM_WIN32 since that one IS visible. std::min failed type deduction because (backoffMs * 2u) became unsigned int and 8000u stayed unsigned int while backoffMs is DWORD (unsigned long); on MSVC those are distinct types. Switch to explicit std::min<DWORD>(...) and add <algorithm> for clarity.
Build 148194267 hit a new compile error after the previous fix:
C2397: conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'HRESULT' requires a narrowing conversion
HRESULT is signed LONG, but 0x80073D02L exceeds LONG_MAX so the literal
gets promoted to unsigned long. Brace-init HRESULT{ 0x80073D02L } then
fails narrowing.
Switch to HRESULT_FROM_WIN32(0x3D02) / HRESULT_FROM_WIN32(0x3CFF).
HRESULT_FROM_WIN32 is an always-available macro in <winerror.h> and
takes a raw win32 error code (DWORD-range), so no narrowing and no
dependency on the symbolic ERROR_INSTALL_* names being visible in this
translation unit.
… MultiSession Standalone test pipeline 192441 run 148427851 (against Foundation-PR artifacts 148200111) failed only on the Win11.Enterprise.MultiSession.24h2 x64 image with this single test: release_x64_Windows.11.Enterprise.MultiSession.24h2.UnpackagedTests#metadataSet1::ChannelRequestCheckExpirationTime Same WNS push-notification flake we've baselined on six other images (Win10 rs5 packaged+unpackaged x metadataSet0+1, LTSC.2021, Server.2025). 24H2 MultiSession is a new image in the standalone matrix; add it to the same baseline list.
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The test calls CreateChannelAsync against the live WNS service, which periodically returns non-CompletedSuccess (extended error) on certain test images (already baselined for 6+ images; the latest two failures were Win11.Enterprise.MultiSession.24h2 and Win11.Enterprise.24H2). Rather than continuing to baseline each new image variant in BypassTests.json (which silently rewrites Fail -> Skip), retry the WNS call up to 3 times with linear backoff. This addresses the actual flake (transient external-service error) instead of masking it. - Revert the MultiSession 24H2 baseline entry added in 627fd77; the retry covers it. - Other ChannelRequestCheckExpirationTime baselines for Win10 rs5, LTSC.2021, and Server.2025 left in place (long-standing entries predating this PR; out of scope to revisit here).
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WinAppSDK-Test-Foundation(pipeline 192441) onrelease/dev/monobuildhas ~60% failure rate over the last 15 runs. Every failed run reduces to the same 3 tests on the x86 Win10 22H2 image:LRP::LRPTests::RegisterUnregisterLongRunningActivatorLRP::LRPTests::AddRemoveToastRegistrationMappingNoSinkLRP::LRPTests::AddRemoveToastRegistrationMappingWithSinkAll three fail with the same wil exception:
Classic race in the LRP COM server's MSIX (un)registration: the previous test's package teardown hasn't fully released file handles before the next test re-registers the same package. Diffing a recent succeeded build (148102852) against a recent failure (148091626): delta = exactly these 3 tests — every other "failed" test on every other image is already in
BypassTests.json.Change
Single-line addition:
TEST_CLASS_PROPERTY(L"TestRetryCount", L"2")on theLRPTestsclass. TAEF re-runs a failing method up to 2 extra times; transient0x80073D02will be absorbed, while persistent failures still surface as test failures. The other two methods in this class already pass on first attempt and are unaffected.This is a band-aid — the underlying MSIX teardown race in the LRP test bootstrap is the right place to ultimately fix. Follow-up to come.
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