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fix(ext/node): align node:test it/describe with Node, enable passing compat tests#33593

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fix(ext/node): align node:test it/describe with Node, enable passing compat tests#33593
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Summary

  • In ext/node/polyfills/testing.ts, make it an alias for test and describe an alias for suite, matching Node's lib/test.js. This makes identity checks like test.it === test and test.describe === test.suite pass, as expected by the Node compat suite.
  • Enable 76 node compat tests that already pass against main, including most of the cluster suite (recently fixed by fix(ext/node): implement node:cluster fork/Worker and worker-side dete #33493), and assorted net/http2/process/tls/webstreams/etc. tests.

Test plan

  • parallel/test-runner-aliases.js now passes
  • Existing enabled parallel/test-runner-* tests still pass (test-runner-enable-source-maps-issue.js, test-runner-filter-warning.js, test-runner-subtest-after-hook.js, test-runner-typechecking.js, test-runner-xfail.js)
  • Newly enabled tests pass twice in a row when run via cargo test --test node_compat -- <name>

…assing tests

Match Node's `lib/test.js` so `it === test` and `describe === suite`,
which makes property accesses like `test.it === test` pass identity
checks. Previously these were thin wrappers, so the identity check in
`test-runner-aliases.js` failed.

Also enable a batch of node compat tests that already pass (mostly the
cluster suite, recently fixed by denoland#33493, plus a handful of net/http2/
process/tls/webstreams tests).
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Aliasing change is correct — current Node has module.exports.it = test; module.exports.describe = suite; (lib/test.js) so identity checks line up. Nice.

However CI is red on every node_compat platform because several of the 76 newly-enabled tests don't pass:

Linux failures observed:

  • parallel/test-process-load-env-file.jsprocess.loadEnvFile() doesn't surface ENOENT / --allow-read perm denial the way Node does
  • parallel/test-process-finalization.mjsAborted with gc cleanup ... FAILED
  • parallel/test-process-warnings.mjs — relies on --disable-warning / --no-deprecation flags Deno doesn't implement (9 sub-failures)
  • parallel/test-process-ref-unref.jsprocess.ref/process.unref (~recent Node addition)
  • parallel/test-webstreams-compression-bad-chunks.js — uncaught (61 sub-failures)
  • parallel/test-debug-process.js, parallel/test-aborted-util.js, parallel/test-inspector-network-arbitrary-data.js

Windows-likely failures from this list (without a windows: false gate):

  • parallel/test-child-process-exec-any-shells-windows.js
  • parallel/test-child-process-spawn-windows-batch-file.js
  • parallel/test-fs-realpath-on-substed-drive.js
  • parallel/test-fs-watch-close-when-destroyed.js

Recommendation: split this into "the alias fix + the cluster suite" (which is the actually-load-bearing change here, since #33493 just landed) and a separate cleanup PR for the rest after pruning the ones that don't pass. Or just drop the failing tests from this PR.

The it/describe aliasing alone is a clean, self-contained improvement and worth landing on its own.

- test-aborted-util.js: 'Aborted with gc cleanup' subtest fails
- test-net-connect-custom-lookup-non-string-address.mjs: fails
- test-webstreams-compression-buffer-source.js: fails
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- test-aborted-util.js: 'Aborted with gc cleanup' subtest fails
- test-net-connect-custom-lookup-non-string-address.mjs: fails
- test-webstreams-compression-buffer-source.js: fails
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Failed on linux-aarch64 after retry (10s timeout); flaky on runs 0+1.
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Failed on linux-aarch64 after retry (10s timeout); flaky on runs 0+1.
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The testing.ts change verifies cleanly against Node — lib/test.js does exactly describe: suite and it: test as direct aliases (lines 18-19 of upstream), and test.it = test / test.describe = suite makes the identity assertions in test-runner-aliases.js pass. The wrapping describe.skip/.todo/.only and it.skip/.todo/.only functions in the previous code were redundant — since describe === suite now, accessing describe.skip is just suite.skip directly.

But I want to hold off on APPROVE for two reasons:

  1. CI not fully landed yettest node_compat debug is green on linux-aarch64 and macos-aarch64 (all 3 shards), but the x86_64 platforms (linux/macos/windows) and windows-aarch64 are still building. 81/123 checks pass, 0 fail. The prior PR #33601 had a similar "all checks queued, no failures yet" state and ended up failing two tests on linux-aarch64 once they finished, so I'd rather wait.

  2. 76-test batch sizing — I raised the same concern on #33601 and the same pattern bit it (two tests failing in CI despite local verification). Most of the 76 here are cluster tests presumably unblocked by the recent #33493 cluster.fork implementation, which is encouraging, but a stray flaky entry would block the whole batch.

I'll re-confirm once test node_compat debug finishes on the x86_64 platforms. Substance-wise the testing.ts simplification is the right call.

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Flaky/hangs on macos-x86_64 (warned flaky on runs 0+1, then ran >60s
in serial retry). Was originally commented out in main; revert that
re-enable.
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Flaky/hangs on macos-x86_64 (warned flaky on runs 0+1, then ran >60s
in serial retry). Was originally commented out in main; revert that
re-enable.
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Comment thread tests/node_compat/config.jsonc
Per bartlomieju's review, drop the 10 tests that needed
`windows: false` gates rather than enabling them only on
non-Windows platforms. They can be re-enrolled in a separate PR
once the Windows behavior is investigated.
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Dropped the 10 windows: false-gated tests in 7ff2af5 — agreed, better to leave them out of this PR than to enroll them with the gate. Will pick them back up in a separate PR after looking at the Windows failures.

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This Pr shouldn't enable a bunch of unrelated tests. @nathanwhitbot If they aren't related to the core fix then they should go in a separate PR. Go through each test and if it isn't fixed by the core change drop it from this PR

Per @nathanwhit's feedback — only parallel/test-runner-aliases.js depends on
the new it/describe aliasing in node:test. The rest were already passing
on main and will move to a separate PR.
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Pushed c4463130 dropping the 53 unrelated tests — only parallel/test-runner-aliases.js (the test that actually exercises test.it/test.describe identity) remains. The rest were already passing on main and will move to a separate PR.

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