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Description

Preserve exceptions thrown while a timed-out test handles cancellation, including Aspire's resource diagnostics. The timeout remains classified as a timeout, while its exception and message are forwarded to Microsoft Testing Platform.

Adds unit coverage for TimeoutHelper and an end-to-end regression test covering reflection locally and Native AOT in CI.

Related Issue

Fixes #6688

Type of Change

  • Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
  • New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality)
  • Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
  • Documentation update
  • Performance improvement
  • Refactoring (no functional changes)

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  • I have read the Contributing Guidelines
  • My code follows the project's code style
  • I have written tests that prove the fix is effective

Testing

  • dotnet test tests/TUnit.UnitTests/TUnit.UnitTests.csproj
  • Focused Issue6688Tests end-to-end test (reflection passed; AOT case is CI-only locally)
  • Existing focused TimeoutTests1 and DefaultTimeoutClassificationTests
  • Release builds for TUnit.TestProject and TUnit.Engine.Tests
  • Full solution test run (intentionally omitted because it is prohibitively slow)

Additional Notes

The change is in the shared execution path and does not modify discovery, source-generator output, public APIs, or reflection usage.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Timeout handling now preserves meaningful exceptions raised during cancellation.
    • Timeout reports retain custom cancellation messages and diagnostic details.
    • Routine cancellation continues to produce a clear timeout result without unnecessary details.
    • Timeout diagnostics display the most relevant underlying exception for improved troubleshooting.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for cancellation-time exceptions, custom cancellation messages, and non-cancellation failures during timed-out operations.

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Walkthrough

The timeout flow now observes exceptions raised during cancellation, preserves non-routine exceptions, and includes their diagnostics in timeout results. Tests cover cancellation messages, routine cancellation, custom TaskCanceledException, and non-cancellation exceptions.

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Timeout exception preservation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Capture exceptions during timeout grace period
src/TUnit.Engine/Helpers/TimeoutHelper.cs
The timeout path observes the execution task during the grace period. It preserves non-routine exceptions and filters only exact routine cancellation cases.
Propagate timeout diagnostics
src/TUnit.Engine/Helpers/TimeoutDiagnostics.cs, src/TUnit.Engine/TUnitMessageBus.cs
Timeout diagnostics accept an explicit execution exception. Message handling selects and appends the preserved diagnostic exception while retaining the timeout exception state.
Validate preserved timeout exceptions
tests/TUnit.UnitTests/TimeoutHelperTests.cs, tests/TUnit.TestProject/Bugs/_6688/TimeoutCancellationExceptionTests.cs, tests/TUnit.Engine.Tests/Issue6688Tests.cs
Tests verify preserved cancellation messages, routine cancellation filtering, custom task-cancellation exceptions, and non-cancellation diagnostics.

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

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 0d5e5

Timeout failures now retain diagnostics raised during cancellation while continuing to report the test as timed out. The covered cancellation and non-cancellation cases indicate no remaining merge-blocking risk.

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I’m a rabbit guarding the timeout gate,
Custom exception crumbs no longer wait.
Cancellation messages hop into view,
Inner diagnostics come bounding through.
Routine pauses still rest quietly.

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 9.09% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 22 functions across 7 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: fixing timeout cancellation diagnostics.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #6688 by preserving custom cancellation and non-cancellation exceptions, forwarding their diagnostic messages, and retaining timeout classification. Unit and regression tests…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The implementation and tests remain within the linked issue scope. All changes support timeout exception preservation and diagnostic reporting.
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The changes satisfy issue #6688 by preserving custom cancellation and non-cancellation exceptions, forwarding their diagnostic messages, and retaining timeout classification. Unit and regression tests cover the required behavior.

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The PR preserves exceptions raised while timed-out tests handle cancellation while retaining timeout classification.

  • Observes test completion during the timeout grace period and retains non-routine cancellation diagnostics.
  • Passes the retained exception and message through the Microsoft Testing Platform timeout state.
  • Adds unit and end-to-end coverage for custom cancellation and non-cancellation exceptions.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge.

No blocking failure remains.

Important Files Changed

Filename Overview
src/TUnit.Engine/Helpers/TimeoutHelper.cs Observes cancellation-time failures during the grace period and retains non-routine exceptions inside the final timeout.
src/TUnit.Engine/Helpers/TimeoutDiagnostics.cs Adds an explicitly observed execution exception to timeout diagnostic text.
src/TUnit.Engine/TUnitMessageBus.cs Forwards timeout exceptions and diagnostic messages through the platform timeout state.
tests/TUnit.UnitTests/TimeoutHelperTests.cs Covers preservation of custom cancellation diagnostics and suppression of routine cancellation.
tests/TUnit.Engine.Tests/Issue6688Tests.cs Verifies host-visible timeout classification and diagnostic messages through the end-to-end runner.
tests/TUnit.TestProject/Bugs/_6688/TimeoutCancellationExceptionTests.cs Supplies timeout scenarios covering custom operation cancellation, task cancellation, and non-cancellation failures.

Sequence Diagram

sequenceDiagram
    participant Test
    participant TimeoutHelper
    participant MessageBus
    participant MTP
    TimeoutHelper->>Test: Cancel after timeout
    Test-->>TimeoutHelper: Throw diagnostic exception during grace period
    TimeoutHelper->>TimeoutHelper: Preserve non-routine exception
    TimeoutHelper-->>MessageBus: TimeoutException with diagnostic inner exception
    MessageBus->>MTP: Timeout state with exception and explanation
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- Line 99: Add a compatible internal message-and-inner-exception constructor to
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Review: fix/6688-preserve-timeout-cancellation-details

Good fix overall — replacing the swallow-everything grace-period catch with ObserveExceptionDuringGracePeriodAsync is a real improvement, and the NET8/legacy split plus the new unit/E2E/TestProject coverage make the intended behavior verifiable. Three issues to address before merge:

1. TimeoutHelper.cs:94 — filter only excludes TaskCanceledException, not the base OperationCanceledException

var exceptionToPreserve = executionException is TaskCanceledException ? null : executionException;

The stated intent is "routine Task cancellation adds no useful context; preserve exceptions explicitly thrown while handling cancellation." But the idiomatic .NET pattern cancellationToken.ThrowIfCancellationRequested() (used elsewhere in this repo's docs, e.g. method-data-source.md/aot.md) throws a plain OperationCanceledException, not TaskCanceledException — so it isn't filtered. Every test using that common pattern will now get a noisy TimeoutException with --- Task Status: Canceled ---\nTask exception:\n OperationCanceledException: The operation was canceled. appended, and a generic OperationCanceledException as InnerException, defeating the "no useful context" goal for the common case rather than just the Aspire-style custom-exception case.

Suggest filtering on the base type instead: executionException is OperationCanceledException ? null : executionException, and only override that when the caught exception carries a different message/type than a routine cancellation (which is effectively what the Aspire scenario already does — it constructs a distinct OperationCanceledException subtype/message). If the goal is specifically "preserve anything that isn't a bare same-token cancellation," consider comparing message content or exception identity rather than type name.

2. TUnitMessageBus.cs:157 — explanation text only surfaces OperationCanceledException-derived diagnostics

var cancellationException = unwrapped as OperationCanceledException
    ?? unwrapped.InnerException as OperationCanceledException;

if (cancellationException is not null and not TaskCanceledException)
{
    explanation = $"{explanation}{Environment.NewLine}{cancellationException.Message}";
}

If the exception thrown during cancellation handling is not an OperationCanceledException (e.g. a real Aspire diagnostics exception type, or any other custom exception), this cast fails and the short explanation string silently stays generic — even though TimeoutHelper already preserved it as InnerException. Issue6688Tests asserts against ErrorInfo.Message (this explanation string), so for any non-OperationCanceledException cause the PR's headline goal ("surfacing Aspire's resource diagnostics") won't actually show up in the primary displayed message, only in the buried inner exception. Since the test fixture happens to reuse OperationCanceledException with a custom message, this gap isn't caught by the new tests. Consider checking for any non-null preserved exception rather than narrowing to OperationCanceledException.

3. tests/TUnit.UnitTests/TimeoutHelperTests.cs:23 — test has a timing margin, not a hard guarantee

The test relies on: the CTS-cancellation callback (cancelledTcs) completing before executionTask finishes its catch block + Task.Delay(50) + rethrow. In practice there's a comfortable ~50ms margin since executionTask can't complete before that delay elapses, so this should be reliable in normal conditions — but under heavy CI scheduler/thread-pool contention it's theoretically possible for executionTask to observe completion before cancelledTcs.Task if delays stack up. Not blocking, but worth being aware of if this test ever shows intermittent flakiness in CI — a comment noting the reliance on that margin would help future debugging.


Nice to see the E2E coverage across reflection/AOT via TestMode — that's the right way to satisfy the dual-mode requirement for engine changes like this.

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Addressed latest review feedback in 9c2f65f, 99dc836, and 0d5e5ba; corrected one namespace false positive in efcad91:

  • suppress only exact framework-default cancellation shapes;
  • preserve custom OperationCanceledException and TaskCanceledException diagnostics, including inner exceptions;
  • surface preserved exceptions in the timeout explanation;
  • add routine-cancellation, custom-task-cancellation, and non-cancellation unit/E2E regressions;
  • document the timing margin in the focused unit test;
  • verify TimeoutHelper uses System.TimeoutException's existing (string?, Exception?) constructor.

Validation: 9 focused unit cases passed across net8.0/net9.0/net10.0; 3 engine regressions passed in all local modes. AOT variants remain CI-only by repository policy.

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Review: fix/6688-preserve-timeout-cancellation-details (follow-up)

Verified the latest commit (9c2f65f3bf) against the three issues raised in the prior review — all are correctly addressed:

  1. TimeoutHelper.cs routine-cancellation filterIsRoutineCancellation now matches on the base OperationCanceledException type (exact type, null inner exception, matching token/message) in addition to TaskCanceledException, so the common cancellationToken.ThrowIfCancellationRequested() pattern is correctly filtered as routine while custom exceptions (Aspire-style, or any type/message that doesn't match the default) are preserved. The new Timeout_Does_Not_Preserve_Routine_Operation_Cancellation test exercises exactly this path and confirms InnerException stays null.

  2. TUnitMessageBus.cs explanation surfacing — now checks unwrapped.InnerException directly (any type) rather than narrowing to OperationCanceledException, so non-cancellation diagnostic exceptions (e.g. a real Aspire resource-diagnostics exception, or the new InvalidOperationException test case) are surfaced in the reported message rather than only sitting in the buried inner exception. Covered by the new Custom_Non_Cancellation_Exception_Message / Timeout_Preserves_Custom_Non_Cancellation_Exception_Message test pair.

  3. Timing margin in TimeoutHelperTests.cs — this was a non-blocking note; a clarifying comment was added on the Task.Delay(50) explaining its role in the Aspire regression scenario.

No new issues found in the diff between the two commits. This looks ready to merge.

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In `@src/TUnit.Engine/Helpers/TimeoutHelper.cs`:
- Line 109: Update IsRoutineCancellation in TimeoutHelper so custom
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Re-verified against the current head (efcad9198225ec12fd4885836e34ca988f6731af) — no new commits since the prior follow-up review, and no new issues found.

  • All three issues from the initial review (routine-cancellation filtering in TimeoutHelper.IsRoutineCancellation, diagnostic surfacing in TUnitMessageBus.GetFailureStateProperty, and the timing-margin note in TimeoutHelperTests) remain correctly addressed, matching the prior follow-up review's findings.
  • Confirmed the change stays within the shared execution path (TimeoutHelper.cs, TimeoutDiagnostics.cs, TUnitMessageBus.cs) with no source-generator or public API changes, so the dual-mode/snapshot rules in CLAUDE.md don't apply here.
  • No blocking async calls (.Result/.GetAwaiter().GetResult()) introduced, and the new code avoids reflection, keeping it AOT-safe.

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40-42: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use [GenerateAssertion] for the new assertions.

Replace these direct Shouldly assertions with the repository [GenerateAssertion] pattern.

As per coding guidelines, “Prefer [GenerateAssertion] for new assertions.”

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In `@tests/TUnit.Engine.Tests/Issue6688Tests.cs` around lines 40 - 42, Update the
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