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Adds a reusable fake GitHub API for testing how collectors handle unusual repositories: issues disabled, pull requests disabled, or repo deleted. Fixes for these crashes can now be verified in CI before merge instead of by manual testing and checks.

The tests are added to testpaths, so the existing "Functional tests" workflow runs them on every PR. They need no token, network, database or Redis and should take no more than a second.

  • tests/test_github_resilience/conftest.py: the fake_github fixture and its scenarios.
  • tests/test_github_resilience/test_*.py: 19 tests covering PR, issue and message collection, plus 404/410 handling.
  • tests/test_github_resilience/README.md: how to add a test for a new fix.
  • pyproject.toml: one line adding the folder to testpaths.

Helps with: #503, #504, #307, #226, #155, #85 and similar issues.

Why a fixture is enough here
Only GitHub's responses are fake. Everything before the network is the real code:

collector function      real
GithubDataAccess        real (retries, 404/410 → exceptions)
httpx client            real
network                 FAKE: path → status + JSON

These bugs are all "GitHub returned X and our code crashed", so the cause is in how our code reacts to a response, and that code runs unchanged. Each test answers: "if GitHub responds like this, do we do the right thing?"

Three things keep the fake honest:

  • Scenarios are copied from the real GitHub API, with the repository and date noted beside each. One (prs_disabled) is marked as assumed.
  • A test fails if the code requests a path the scenario doesn't cover, even when the collector catches the error.
  • Celery tasks raise if called directly, so a test can't pass by running nothing.

This PR fixes #

Manual tests/checks on CollectOSS for issues similar to #503

Notes for Reviewers

  • The fixture replaces collectoss.tasks.init.celery_app with a stand-in and sets COLLECTOSS_DEV, because celery_app.py and issues.py read from the database at import time. Making those reads lazy would remove both workarounds; that is left for a follow-up since it changes production code.
  • Scenario statuses were observed on openshift/release (issues off, PRs on) and kubernetes/apiextensions-apiserver (both off).

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- What tools were used? Claude Fable 5.2
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- Did you review these outputs before submitting this PR? Yes.

Adds a fake_github fixture that replaces only the network layer, so the
real collector, retry and error-handling code runs against scripted
GitHub responses for unusual repositories: issues disabled, pull
requests disabled, or repo deleted.

The tests need no token, network, database or Redis. They are added to
testpaths, so the existing "Functional tests" workflow runs them on
every pull request.

Scenario statuses were observed on the real GitHub API and are noted
beside each scenario. A test fails if the code requests a path the
scenario does not cover. One test is marked xfail for the known crash
in #503.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Caio Fonseca <engcaiofonseca@protonmail.com>
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  • Tests
    • Expanded coverage for GitHub repository and API responses, including missing repositories and disabled issues or pull requests.
    • Added checks for issue, pull request, and message collection behavior across these scenarios.
  • Documentation
    • Added guidance for running the GitHub resilience tests and configuring test scenarios.

This pull request adds a fake GitHub API fixture and resilience tests for GitHub error handling and issue, pull request, and message collection. Pytest now discovers the new test directory.

Changes: GitHub resilience tests

Layer / File(s) Summary
Test harness and scenario routing
tests/test_github_resilience/conftest.py, pyproject.toml, tests/test_github_resilience/README.md
The fixture routes GitHub requests through a fake API with configurable scenarios and unmatched-request tracking. Pytest discovers the test directory, and the README describes running and extending the tests.
GitHub error and availability assertions
tests/test_github_resilience/test_error_responses.py
Tests check exception mapping for configured 404 and 410 responses, PR availability across scenarios, and tracking of unmatched paths.
Issue, PR, and message collection scenarios
tests/test_github_resilience/test_issue_collection.py, tests/test_github_resilience/test_pr_collection.py, tests/test_github_resilience/test_message_collection.py
Tests check collection results across repository scenarios. The message-collection test for repositories without issues or PRs is marked strict xfail.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Other

Possibly related issues

  • chaoss/CollectOSS issue 307 — Adds message-collection coverage for repositories with issues disabled.
  • chaoss/CollectOSS issue 538 — Adds focused unit-test coverage and configures pytest to discover the new tests.
  • chaoss/CollectOSS issue 503 — Adds a strict xfail test for message collection when issues and PRs are unavailable.
Merge Risk: Low · up to 75fdf

This change only adds tests and a fake GitHub API fixture, so it does not affect production behavior. Fix the three spelling errors that fail the misspell check before merging.

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Review comments at @tests/test_github_resilience/conftest.py:
- Line 49: Update the stub registration in the test setup to replace any
existing celery_app module in sys.modules, rather than leaving a previously
imported real module in place. Preserve the existing _celery_stub and module
name.

Review comments at @tests/test_github_resilience/README.md:
- Line 53: Change “modelled” to “modeled” in the response-headers note in the
README to satisfy the misspell check; leave the rest of the text unchanged.
- Line 20: Replace “neighbouring” with “neighboring” in the README scenario
instruction so it passes the misspell check; leave the rest of the text
unchanged.

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- Line 34: Update the comment in the test to use “behavior” instead of
“behaviour” so it passes the spelling check.

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Overall looks good! Most of my comments are nonblocking. The main blocking things are:

  • spelling fixes
  • the question about whether we are using the requests feature of this mock github API

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# Known crash (#503). Remove the xfail marker once it is fixed.
@pytest.mark.unit
@pytest.mark.xfail(strict=True, raises=UrlNotFoundException, reason="#503")
def test_no_messages_when_issues_and_prs_disabled(fake_github):
fake_github("issues_and_prs_disabled")
assert collect_messages() == []

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not really a fan of disabling tests/allowing them to pass when theres a known issue. but i guess i dont have a clearly better way to do it/at least its somewhat visible relative to just having no test

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Comment thread tests/test_github_resilience/README.md Resolved
- Fix spellings flagged by the misspell check.
- Use gh.requests in the PR collection tests: the PR list is only
  fetched when pull requests are enabled.
- Add a test that uses gh.respond to override a scenario.
- Rename the repo_gone scenario to repo_not_found, since "gone" is
  HTTP 410 and this scenario returns 404.
- Add docstrings to FakeGitHub.

Signed-off-by: Caio Fonseca <engcaiofonseca@protonmail.com>
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@EngCaioFonseca something I thought of re:docstrings and stuff

Do you think its worth trying to make an effort to set a precedent that tests should include docs, (either a docsteing or a string that goes with the assert line) that communicate what a specific test failing actually means/what problem it points to?

I think part of this is good practice, but I think it can also help us guard against contributions made with worse AI tools that "write tests" that just assert true == true or something.

- Add a docstring to each test saying what a failure points to.
- Add a message to the gh.requests assertion in the PR collection test.
- Ask contributors for the same docstring in the README.
- Mark the prs_disabled scenario as observed on github/roadmap.

Signed-off-by: Caio Fonseca <engcaiofonseca@protonmail.com>
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@EngCaioFonseca something I thought of re:docstrings and stuff

Do you think its worth trying to make an effort to set a precedent that tests should include docs, (either a docsteing or a string that goes with the assert line) that communicate what a specific test failing actually means/what problem it points to?

I think part of this is good practice, but I think it can also help us guard against contributions made with worse AI tools that "write tests" that just assert true == true or something.

I agree, I've added them in. It's a good practice to have going forward.

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Adding a nonclosing ref to #538 so that this PR can be found from that epic task despite not having a linked issue

Signed-off-by: Caio Fonseca <engcaiofonseca@protonmail.com>
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