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Each WordPress CI job spends 2 to 3 minutes preparing WordPress before its first test. This PR cuts that to about 30 seconds in PHPUnit jobs and about 80 seconds in E2E jobs. The same tests run, with the same results.
The PR makes three changes:
Cache the prepared WordPress folder. Installing about 2,600 npm packages and building WordPress takes about 100 seconds, and the result only changes when the WordPress 7.1 branch gets a new commit or when our setup changes. All four WordPress jobs now restore it from the GitHub Actions cache instead.
Run PHPUnit with only the PHP container. The PHPUnit tests use SQLite, so they don't need MySQL, nginx, WP-CLI, an installed site, or the Gutenberg and Query Monitor plugins. The only thing they used from the installation step was wp-tests-config.php, and wp-setup.sh now creates the same file.
Remove the "Stop Docker containers" steps. GitHub discards the runner after each job, so this cleanup only added about 12 seconds.
Locally, composer run wp-test-php and the plugin PHPUnit commands now also start only the PHP container. The E2E commands start the full environment as before.
How the cache works
The cache key combines the Node.js version, the latest commit of the WordPress branch, and a hash of wp-setup.sh and the db.php source file. When any of them changes, the job sets up WordPress from scratch like today. The cache is saved right after setup, before any tests run, so tests can't leave files in it.
Size: The cache is 262 MB, and restoring it takes 6 to 7 seconds.
Cache misses happen once for each new commit on the WordPress branch, which comes every few days to weeks, and when GitHub updates Node.js on its runners. In PHPUnit jobs, a miss takes about as long as today's setup. In E2E jobs, it can take about 30 seconds longer, because it also pulls the PHP image, installs Composer packages, and saves the cache.
Composer packages are cached too. With the cache, PHPUnit jobs don't run composer update at all, and E2E jobs don't need to download any package files. This makes failures like a GitHub 504 during composer update less likely.
Measured times
GitHub-hosted runners vary a lot in speed, so each job is compared with its own earlier runs. The baseline is 9 to 10 successful runs of each job from 6 November, on trunk and other PRs. "Setup" is the time from the start of the job to its first test. The table shows medians, with the range in parentheses.
Job
Setup before
Setup with cache
Whole job before
Whole job with cache
WordPress PHPUnit
149s (121–171s)
32s (32–32s)
see below
see below
SQLite plugin PHPUnit
154s (114–233s)
29s (27–34s)
188s
50s
End-to-end
148s (137–176s)
78s (69–86s)
168s
86s
WordPress end-to-end
153s (131–221s)
82s (77–85s)
252s
166s
The WordPress PHPUnit tests themselves took between 2.5 and 5 minutes in these runs, depending on the runner, so its whole-job time is too noisy to compare. Everything else in that job went from 163s to 33s (median, 134–184s before, 33–34s with cache).
With the cache, there were 3 to 4 runs of each job, from before and after rebasing on #619. That PR changes how long the WordPress PHPUnit tests take, but not the setup. With a cache miss, setup took 114–156s in the PHPUnit jobs and 145–187s in the E2E jobs.
In the E2E jobs, most of the remaining setup is pulling Docker images (about 45 seconds) and waiting for MySQL to start (about 10 seconds).
Every run of this PR gives the same results as the baseline:
WordPress PHPUnit reports the same counts as other PR runs in all 5 runs: Tests: 30900, Assertions: 4559579, Errors: 1, Failures: 34, Warnings: 86, Skipped: 42. The lists of skipped tests, warnings, errors, and failures are identical, and the expected failures check passes. Trunk pushes skip 17 fewer tests, because WordPress runs those only on trunk.
SQLite plugin PHPUnit runs the same tests with the same number of assertions, in both single-site and multisite.
Both E2E jobs pass the same tests as before.
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WordPress setup is cached and shared across end-to-end and PHPUnit test workflows, reducing repeated preparation.
PHP test environments now verify required configuration and tools before starting services.
WordPress test configuration now uses consistent database credentials and filesystem settings, helping provide a more predictable test environment.
The pull request adds a composite action that caches WordPress test files and prepares the PHP test environment on cache misses. Test workflows use this action before running tests. Composer scripts separate PHP setup from environment startup, and wp-setup.sh generates the WordPress test configuration.
Changes: WordPress test preparation
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PHP environment setup composer.json, wp-setup.sh
Composer scripts add conditional setup for the PHP test environment. wp-setup.sh creates wp-tests-config.php with the test database credentials and adds the FS_METHOD definition.
The action builds a cache key from the Node version, WordPress branch commit, and setup-file hashes. It restores and saves the wordpress directory, and runs PHP environment setup on a cache miss.
Test workflow integration .github/workflows/end-to-end-tests.yml, .github/workflows/sqlite-plugin-phpunit-tests.yml, .github/workflows/wp-tests-end-to-end.yml, .github/workflows/wp-tests-phpunit.yml
The workflows use the WordPress preparation action before tests. Their unconditional Docker cleanup steps are removed.
sequenceDiagram
participant Workflow
participant WordPressAction
participant Cache
participant Composer
participant wpSetup
Workflow->>WordPressAction: Prepare WordPress
WordPressAction->>Cache: Restore wordpress directory
WordPressAction->>Composer: Run PHP environment setup on a cache miss
Composer->>wpSetup: Run setup when test config is missing
wpSetup-->>Composer: Generate test config
Composer-->>WordPressAction: Return setup result
WordPressAction->>Cache: Save wordpress directory on a cache miss
WordPressAction-->>Workflow: Return prepared directory
The CI optimization is mergeable with bounded follow-up: local setup can discard customized checkout configuration or retain incomplete setup, and browser tests gain an unnecessary Composer dependency. A narrow cache revision race also remains.
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- Around line 13-14: Update the WordPress setup flow that resolves `version` and
`commit` to verify the cloned tree’s commit matches the resolved `commit` before
saving the cache. Skip cache saving when they differ, so the cache key cannot
point to a different WordPress revision.
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- Line 65: Update the Composer setup command so it checks a dedicated completion
marker rather than the PHPUnit executable, and records that marker only after
`npm --prefix wordpress run env:composer -- update -W` succeeds. This ensures an
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Verify the cloned revision before saving the cache.
If the WordPress branch advances between key resolution and cloning, setup can save the newer revision under the earlier commit’s key. A concurrent job that retained that key can then restore and test the wrong revision. Do not save the tree unless its commit matches the key.
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Review comment at @.github/actions/wordpress/action.yml around lines 13 - 14:
Update the WordPress setup flow that resolves `version` and `commit` to verify
the cloned tree’s commit matches the resolved `commit` before saving the cache.
Skip cache saving when they differ, so the cache key cannot point to a different
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Not changing this. The window between git ls-remote and the clone is about 2 seconds. Jobs that start later read the new SHA and miss this cache entry. Only jobs started in that same window could restore it, and they would get the current branch head anyway.
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@JanJakes Understood. The race can still produce a cache entry whose contents do not match its key, but the short window limits its practical impact. I respect your decision to leave it unchanged.
PHPUnit runs in the PHP container and uses the SQLite drop-in, so it doesn't need MySQL, nginx, WP-CLI, a WordPress installation, or the Gutenberg and Query Monitor plugins.
The only thing it needed from "env:install" is "wp-tests-config.php", so "wp-setup.sh" now creates that file, and it is the last thing the script does. This also makes the file a better check for a finished setup than "wp-load.php", which exists right after cloning.
Installing the npm packages and building WordPress takes about 100 seconds of each WordPress CI job, and the result only changes when the WordPress branch moves or our setup changes.
The cache includes Composer packages too, so that PHPUnit jobs don't depend on GitHub and Packagist being available.
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- Line 68: Separate the shared WordPress environment setup from PHPUnit
dependency installation in the Composer scripts around @wp-test-ensure-php-env.
Ensure the E2E setup path does not install PHP development dependencies or
require wordpress/vendor/autoload.php, while preserving that installation for
PHPUnit workflows.
- Line 63: Update the test command’s missing-configuration flow to create
wordpress/wp-tests-config.php without rerunning the destructive wp-setup command
when a checkout already exists. Reuse or establish a non-destructive setup path
that preserves the checkout and its customized .env.
- Line 63: Update the setup check in the Composer script so it also detects when
src/wp-load.php is missing, even if wordpress/wp-tests-config.php exists. Run
the existing wp-setup command whenever either required file is absent, ensuring
the WordPress source is restored before E2E tests run.
- Line 63: Update the wp-setup flow invoked by this Composer command to generate
the test configuration in a temporary file and move it into place only after
both writes succeed. Ensure a failed generation leaves no final
wordpress/wp-tests-config.php, so a retry runs setup again rather than using an
incomplete configuration.
- Line 65: Update the Composer dependency check in the WordPress install command
to detect changes to the WordPress requirements, not just a missing
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Supported by static analysis
Script executed:
sed -n '1,130p' wp-setup.sh; sed -n '45,100p' composer.json; rg -n 'wp-setup|\.env|wp-tests-config' README* docs .github 2>/dev/null | head -120
Repository: WordPress/sqlite-database-integration
Length of output: 7415
Script executed:
git status --short
git diff c3dde4fb687ab1ba55208be1fbc8730be1a46830 cb4fd457fd03d0c89bb6d3d1dcd889c11ded795e -- composer.json wp-setup.sh
printf'\n--- head setup ---\n'
nl -ba wp-setup.sh
printf'\n--- head composer ---\n'
nl -ba composer.json | sed -n '1,115p'printf'\n--- base setup ---\n'
git show c3dde4fb687ab1ba55208be1fbc8730be1a46830:wp-setup.sh | nl -ba
printf'\n--- base composer ---\n'
git show c3dde4fb687ab1ba55208be1fbc8730be1a46830:composer.json | nl -ba | sed -n '1,115p'printf'\n--- local usage documentation ---\n'
nl -ba README.md | sed -n '1,150p'
rg -n -F -e 'wp-test-php' -e 'wp-test-e2e' -e 'wp-test-ensure-php-env' -e 'wp-tests-config.php' --glob '!composer.json' --glob '!wp-setup.sh'.||test"$?" -eq 1
Repository: WordPress/sqlite-database-integration
Length of output: 26930
Preserve the existing checkout when test configuration is missing.
If wordpress/wp-tests-config.php is missing, a test command reruns wp-setup, which deletes the checkout and its customized .env. Generate the missing configuration without deleting an existing checkout.
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Update the test command’s missing-configuration flow to create
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when a checkout already exists. Reuse or establish a non-destructive setup path
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If wp-tests-config.php remains after src/wp-load.php is removed, setup is skipped and E2E tests cannot load WordPress. Detect the missing source file and restore it before running the tests.
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Review comment at @composer.json at line 63:
Update the setup check in the Composer script so it also detects when
src/wp-load.php is missing, even if wordpress/wp-tests-config.php exists. Run
the existing wp-setup command whenever either required file is absent, ensuring
the WordPress source is restored before E2E tests run.
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Supported by static analysis
Script executed:
sed -n '1,130p' wp-setup.sh; rg -n 'wp-tests-config|wp-test-php' composer.json .github wp-setup.sh
Publish the test configuration only after both writes succeed.
If configuration generation fails after creating the file, the retry skips setup and passes an incomplete configuration to PHPUnit. Bootstrap can then fail until the file is removed. Write to a temporary file and move it into place only after both writes succeed.
Prompt for AI Agents
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Review comment at @composer.json at line 63:
Update the wp-setup flow invoked by this Composer command to generate the test
configuration in a temporary file and move it into place only after both writes
succeed. Ensure a failed generation leaves no final
wordpress/wp-tests-config.php, so a retry runs setup again rather than using an
incomplete configuration.
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Not changing this. With this PR, wp-setup.sh creates wp-tests-config.php itself, so only checkouts made before this PR that never ran env:install can hit this, and only once. Checking this file also means an interrupted setup is redone, which the old src/wp-load.php check missed.
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@JanJakes Understood. The configuration check can recover from an interrupted setup. I understand the trade-off for existing checkouts and won’t pursue this change.
Keep PHP dependency installation out of E2E setup.
When the WordPress environment is already running but wordpress/vendor/autoload.php is missing, a Composer registry outage can stop E2E before Playwright starts. The browser tests do not need those development packages. Keep the shared environment setup separate from the PHPUnit dependency installation.
Prompt for AI Agents
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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Review comment at @composer.json at line 68:
Separate the shared WordPress environment setup from PHPUnit dependency
installation in the Composer scripts around @wp-test-ensure-php-env. Ensure the
E2E setup path does not install PHP development dependencies or require
wordpress/vendor/autoload.php, while preserving that installation for PHPUnit
workflows.
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@JanJakes Understood. As you note, E2E already depends on Composer when the environment starts. My comment concerned the narrower case where the environment is running but vendor/autoload.php is missing. I understand your decision to leave this as is.
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Summary
Each WordPress CI job spends 2 to 3 minutes preparing WordPress before its first test. This PR cuts that to about 30 seconds in PHPUnit jobs and about 80 seconds in E2E jobs. The same tests run, with the same results.
The PR makes three changes:
wp-tests-config.php, andwp-setup.shnow creates the same file.Locally,
composer run wp-test-phpand the plugin PHPUnit commands now also start only the PHP container. The E2E commands start the full environment as before.How the cache works
The cache key combines the Node.js version, the latest commit of the WordPress branch, and a hash of
wp-setup.shand thedb.phpsource file. When any of them changes, the job sets up WordPress from scratch like today. The cache is saved right after setup, before any tests run, so tests can't leave files in it.composer updateat all, and E2E jobs don't need to download any package files. This makes failures like a GitHub 504 duringcomposer updateless likely.Measured times
GitHub-hosted runners vary a lot in speed, so each job is compared with its own earlier runs. The baseline is 9 to 10 successful runs of each job from 6 November, on trunk and other PRs. "Setup" is the time from the start of the job to its first test. The table shows medians, with the range in parentheses.
The WordPress PHPUnit tests themselves took between 2.5 and 5 minutes in these runs, depending on the runner, so its whole-job time is too noisy to compare. Everything else in that job went from 163s to 33s (median, 134–184s before, 33–34s with cache).
With the cache, there were 3 to 4 runs of each job, from before and after rebasing on #619. That PR changes how long the WordPress PHPUnit tests take, but not the setup. With a cache miss, setup took 114–156s in the PHPUnit jobs and 145–187s in the E2E jobs.
In the E2E jobs, most of the remaining setup is pulling Docker images (about 45 seconds) and waiting for MySQL to start (about 10 seconds).
Runs of this PR
After rebasing on #619:
Before rebasing on #619:
Same test results
Every run of this PR gives the same results as the baseline:
Tests: 30900, Assertions: 4559579, Errors: 1, Failures: 34, Warnings: 86, Skipped: 42. The lists of skipped tests, warnings, errors, and failures are identical, and the expected failures check passes. Trunk pushes skip 17 fewer tests, because WordPress runs those only on trunk.Summary by CodeRabbit