vfox E2E Test workflow (version-fox/vfox)

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Source: version-fox/vfox.github/workflows/e2e-tests.ymlLicense Apache-2.0View source

What it does

This is the vfox E2E Test workflow from the version-fox/vfox repository, a real project running GitHub Actions. It is shown here with attribution under its Apache-2.0 license.

Below, Latchkey shows a faster, safer version produced by its optimization engine.

The workflow

workflow (.yml)

name: vfox E2E Test

on: [push]

jobs:
  test-windows:
    name: Test on Windows
    runs-on: windows-latest

    strategy:
      matrix:
        go-version: ['1.24']

    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v6
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

      - name: Setup Go
        uses: actions/setup-go@v4
        with:
          go-version: ${{ matrix.go-version }}

      - name: Check Go installation
        run: go version

      - name: Check PowerShell version
        shell: pwsh
        run: $PSVersionTable.PSVersion

      - name: Run E2E Tests (PowerShell)
        shell: pwsh
        run: |
          cd ${{ github.workspace }}
          $ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"
          
          # Run the E2E test script
          & .\scripts\e2e-test.ps1 -Verbose
        env:
          VFOX_HOME: ${{ runner.temp }}\.vfox

      - name: Upload test results
        if: always()
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
        with:
          name: test-results-windows-${{ matrix.go-version }}
          path: ${{ runner.temp }}\.vfox

  test-unix:
    name: Test on Unix
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}

    strategy:
      matrix:
        os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest]
        go-version: ['1.24']

    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v6
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

      - name: Setup Go
        uses: actions/setup-go@v4
        with:
          go-version: ${{ matrix.go-version }}

      - name: Check Go installation
        run: go version

      - name: Run E2E Tests (Bash)
        shell: bash
        run: |
          cd ${{ github.workspace }}
          chmod +x ./scripts/e2e-test.sh
          ./scripts/e2e-test.sh
        env:
          VFOX_HOME: ${{ runner.temp }}/.vfox

      - name: Upload test results
        if: always()
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
        with:
          name: test-results-${{ matrix.os }}-${{ matrix.go-version }}
          path: ${{ runner.temp }}/.vfox

  test-summary:
    name: Test Summary
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: [test-windows, test-unix]
    if: always()

    steps:
      - name: Download all artifacts
        uses: actions/download-artifact@v8

      - name: Print summary
        run: |
          echo "E2E Tests Summary"
          echo "================"
          echo "Windows tests: $(ls -d test-results-windows-* 2>/dev/null | wc -l) platform(s)"
          echo "Unix tests: $(ls -d test-results-* 2>/dev/null | grep -v windows | wc -l) platform(s)"
          echo ""
          echo "All test artifacts have been uploaded."

      - name: Check test results
        if: failure()
        run: |
          echo "Some tests failed. Please check the artifacts above."
          exit 1

The same workflow, on Latchkey

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name: vfox E2E Test
 
on: [push]
 
concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: true
 
jobs:
  test-windows:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    name: Test on Windows
    runs-on: windows-latest
 
    strategy:
      matrix:
        go-version: ['1.24']
 
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v6
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
 
      - name: Setup Go
        uses: actions/setup-go@v4
        with:
          go-version: ${{ matrix.go-version }}
 
      - name: Check Go installation
        run: go version
 
      - name: Check PowerShell version
        shell: pwsh
        run: $PSVersionTable.PSVersion
 
      - name: Run E2E Tests (PowerShell)
        shell: pwsh
        run: |
          cd ${{ github.workspace }}
          $ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"
          
          # Run the E2E test script
          & .\scripts\e2e-test.ps1 -Verbose
        env:
          VFOX_HOME: ${{ runner.temp }}\.vfox
 
      - name: Upload test results
        if: always()
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
        with:
          name: test-results-windows-${{ matrix.go-version }}
          path: ${{ runner.temp }}\.vfox
 
  test-unix:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    name: Test on Unix
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
 
    strategy:
      matrix:
        os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest]
        go-version: ['1.24']
 
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v6
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
 
      - name: Setup Go
        uses: actions/setup-go@v4
        with:
          go-version: ${{ matrix.go-version }}
 
      - name: Check Go installation
        run: go version
 
      - name: Run E2E Tests (Bash)
        shell: bash
        run: |
          cd ${{ github.workspace }}
          chmod +x ./scripts/e2e-test.sh
          ./scripts/e2e-test.sh
        env:
          VFOX_HOME: ${{ runner.temp }}/.vfox
 
      - name: Upload test results
        if: always()
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
        with:
          name: test-results-${{ matrix.os }}-${{ matrix.go-version }}
          path: ${{ runner.temp }}/.vfox
 
  test-summary:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    name: Test Summary
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    needs: [test-windows, test-unix]
    if: always()
 
    steps:
      - name: Download all artifacts
        uses: actions/download-artifact@v8
 
      - name: Print summary
        run: |
          echo "E2E Tests Summary"
          echo "================"
          echo "Windows tests: $(ls -d test-results-windows-* 2>/dev/null | wc -l) platform(s)"
          echo "Unix tests: $(ls -d test-results-* 2>/dev/null | grep -v windows | wc -l) platform(s)"
          echo ""
          echo "All test artifacts have been uploaded."
 
      - name: Check test results
        if: failure()
        run: |
          echo "Some tests failed. Please check the artifacts above."
          exit 1

What changed

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What Latchkey heals here

This workflow has steps that commonly fail on transient issues (network, registries, flaky browsers). On Latchkey managed runners they are detected, retried, and self-healed instead of failing your build:

End-to-end and browser tests

This workflow runs 3 jobs (4 with the matrix expanded) per trigger. On Latchkey the same minutes cost up to 58% less than GitHub-hosted, with zero queue time.

Actions used in this workflow

actions/checkout actions/setup-go actions/upload-artifact actions/download-artifact