Test suite acceleration
Contract
| Field |
Bound contract |
| Trigger |
A test suite is too slow and must be accelerated without weakening it. |
| Authority |
Reversible local: writes only test files and configuration; rollback is version control. No remote mutation. |
| Side effect |
Test-suite acceleration under unchanged behavior and coverage. |
| Done |
The fixed-baseline suite is faster without reliability, behavior, or coverage regression. |
| Stop |
No safe gain; blocked; budget exhausted. Bound: baseline environment and optimization budget. Receipt terminal classes: success, capped, stalled, blocked, exhausted, pending. Budget exhaustion is never success unless it is the predeclared success predicate. |
Inputs
- Budget (required): the maximum wall-clock time, CI cost, or engineer effort to spend on acceleration; if exceeded, stop as budget exhausted.
Refusals
- Will not delete tests to reduce runtime; that is tests-purge-unneeded.
- Will not weaken assertions, skip flaky tests, or reduce coverage to hit a speed target.
- Will not claim success when the budget is exhausted unless exhaustion was the predeclared success predicate.
Procedure
- Bind the declared bound and freeze it before mutation. Done when: the bound is recorded and no mutation has begun.
- Execute the test-suite acceleration under unchanged behavior and coverage inside the bound, using only these mechanisms: test parallelization, CI parallelization, faster fixtures and setup, caching, and reducing redundant work. Done when: the fixed-baseline suite runs faster with no reliability, behavior, or coverage regression.
- Stop at outcome.success, any outcome.non_success, or outcome.bound. Done when: a terminal class is assigned.
- Persist per profiles.persistence.P1 (durable_location .outline/loops/// when durable; emit receipt.json before return). Write an immutable K11 receipt with every K11 field. Done when: the receipt is written with every K11 field.
Output
A receipt.json with the terminal class, bound, and per-step evidence, persisted at .outline/loops///, ordering: bound, execution evidence, terminal verdict, receipt.
1---2name: test-suite-acceleration3description: Use when a test suite is too slow and needs acceleration without weakening behavior or coverage, or CI parallelization must fix serial execution. Not for deleting tests: use tests-purge-unneeded.4---56# Test suite acceleration78## Contract910| Field | Bound contract |11|---|---|12| Trigger | A test suite is too slow and must be accelerated without weakening it. |13| Authority | Reversible local: writes only test files and configuration; rollback is version control. No remote mutation. |14| Side effect | Test-suite acceleration under unchanged behavior and coverage. |15| Done | The fixed-baseline suite is faster without reliability, behavior, or coverage regression. |16| Stop | No safe gain; blocked; budget exhausted. Bound: baseline environment and optimization budget. Receipt terminal classes: success, capped, stalled, blocked, exhausted, pending. Budget exhaustion is never success unless it is the predeclared success predicate. |1718## Inputs1920- Budget (required): the maximum wall-clock time, CI cost, or engineer effort to spend on acceleration; if exceeded, stop as budget exhausted.2122## Refusals2324- Will not delete tests to reduce runtime; that is tests-purge-unneeded.25- Will not weaken assertions, skip flaky tests, or reduce coverage to hit a speed target.26- Will not claim success when the budget is exhausted unless exhaustion was the predeclared success predicate.2728## Procedure29301. Bind the declared bound and freeze it before mutation. **Done when:** the bound is recorded and no mutation has begun.312. Execute the test-suite acceleration under unchanged behavior and coverage inside the bound, using only these mechanisms: test parallelization, CI parallelization, faster fixtures and setup, caching, and reducing redundant work. **Done when:** the fixed-baseline suite runs faster with no reliability, behavior, or coverage regression.323. Stop at outcome.success, any outcome.non_success, or outcome.bound. **Done when:** a terminal class is assigned.334. Persist per profiles.persistence.P1 (durable_location .outline/loops/<slug>/<run_id>/ when durable; emit receipt.json before return). Write an immutable K11 receipt with every K11 field. **Done when:** the receipt is written with every K11 field.3435## Output3637A receipt.json with the terminal class, bound, and per-step evidence, persisted at .outline/loops/<slug>/<run_id>/, ordering: bound, execution evidence, terminal verdict, receipt.
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