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runtestsAndVerifyResults no longer needs adb root, and it only touches the one device it's aimed at.

No root
The test results XML lives in the app's private data dir, and the debuggable test app can always read it back through adb exec-out run-as com.tns.testapplication cat …. That works on Play Store emulator images and on user-build physical devices, where adbd can't run as root.

Remove the runAdbAsRoot task (and its fixed 10s sleep). On images that refuse root, adb root already exited 0 and did nothing.
The poller reads the file only through run-as. The root-only adb pull /data/data/... attempt is gone.
deletePreviousResultXml now runs after the debug install. If a release build of the test app was installed, run-as rm failed silently, so the poller picked up a stale XML from an earlier run and reported a pass.

One device per run

:app:installDebug installs on every connected device unless ANDROID_SERIAL is set, so an emulator run also overwrote the test app on an attached phone. The harness now resolves a single serial (ANDROID_SERIAL if set, else adb -d|-e get-serialno), passes it to installDebug, and uses -s <serial> for every adb call. If more than one device matches, it fails fast with "Could not pick a single emulator … Set ANDROID_SERIAL to choose one."
The -d/-e selector was always followed by a hardcoded -e, and adb uses the last flag (adb -d -e → emulator), so -PrunOnDevice still targeted the emulator.

Poller robustness

A single failed liveness check was treated as a crash and aborted runs on a loaded host while the app was still alive. The poller now uses pidof and declares death only after 3 consecutive misses.
Every adb call in the poller has a 30s timeout. On a wedged device, adb shell hangs forever, which blocked the poller and its overall 20-minute timeout.

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This change only touches the test harness. The CI emulator jobs run runtestsAndVerifyResults without adb root, so they exercise the new path. Local checks, with a user-build phone and two emulators attached:

Serial resolution: the default run fails fast ("more than one emulator"), -PrunOnDevice picks the phone, and ANDROID_SERIAL overrides the choice.
--dry-run task order: install → delete old results → start app → poll.
Poller against a live emulator: finds the app and reads the results via -s <serial> + run-as.
Poller against an emulator whose adb shell hangs: misses 1/3 and 2/3, then reports the process as dead, dumps logcat and exits 1, without hanging.
adb root on a user build prints "adbd cannot run as root in production builds" and exits 0.

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- Emulator test runs now use the same selected device throughout setup, app launch, and result collection.
- Test runs wait for the emulator, install the app, clear previous results, and then launch the app.
- Complete test results are saved locally as JUnit XML; incomplete or failed reads are not saved as results.
- Device selection accepts multiple arguments, and ADB operations use a timeout. Process checks tolerate two consecutive missing-process results before failing with a logcat dump.

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          ci(tests): fetch test results without adb root

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The result file is read with `run-as`, which works for the debuggable
test app on any image, including Play Store emulators and user-build
devices where adbd cannot run as root. Drop the runAdbAsRoot task (and
its 10s sleep) and the root-only `adb pull` attempt.

Delete the previous result file after installing the debug APK instead
of before: run-as fails against a non-debuggable (release) install, the
delete was silently ignored, and the poller then picked up a stale XML.

Also stop appending `-e` after the -d/-e selector; adb uses the last
flag, so -PrunOnDevice was still targeting the emulator.

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The Gradle tasks resolve and use one target serial for test setup and execution. The results tool checks app liveness with pidof and retrieves complete JUnit XML through run-as.

Changes: Android test workflow

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APK setup and launch
test-app/runtests.gradle, test-app/tools/make_sure_emulator_is_ready.js The Gradle tasks resolve a target serial and use it for readiness, installation, result cleanup, app launch, and polling. Readiness precedes installation, then cleanup precedes launch. The ADB-root task was removed. The readiness script combines all arguments after the script name.

JUnit result retrieval
test-app/tools/try_to_find_test_result_file.js The results tool joins selector arguments and defaults to -e. It applies a 30-second timeout and a 64 MiB output buffer to ADB calls. It checks app liveness with pidof, tolerates two consecutive missing or unparsable PIDs, and uses the existing error and logcat-dump path on the third. It reads results through run-as and saves them locally only when the command succeeds and the output is complete JUnit XML.

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  participant Gradle
  participant ADB
  participant ReadinessScript
  participant ResultsTool
  Gradle->>ADB: Resolve target serial
  Gradle->>ReadinessScript: Pass selector or ANDROID_SERIAL
  Gradle->>ADB: Install APK, clear results, and launch app on target
  Gradle->>ResultsTool: Pass target serial
  ResultsTool->>ADB: Check app process with pidof
  ResultsTool->>ADB: Read results through run-as

Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review c8a4b

Test runs on Android 5.0 can fail despite the app still running. Restore a compatible liveness check before merging.

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The title "ci(tests): fetch test results without adb root" matches the main change. The PR removes the runAdbAsRoot task and fetches result XML from the app's private data directory with run-as. The title is specific, short, and follows a conventional commit style. Other changes (serial selection, task ordering, pidof-based liveness checks, timeouts) are not named, which is expected for a title.

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_{A rabbit checks the serial bright,
Then bounds through tasks from morn to night.
With pidof, missed steps count to three,
run-as brings XML home to me.
The tests now leave their tracks in sight.}

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          ci(tests): pin runs to one device and tolerate slow adb calls

540ae7c

:app:installDebug installs on every connected device unless
ANDROID_SERIAL is set, so a run aimed at the emulator also overwrote the
test app on any attached phone. Resolve one serial per run (ANDROID_SERIAL,
else `adb -d|-e get-serialno`, failing with a clear message when that is
ambiguous), pass it to installDebug, and use `-s <serial>` for every adb
call.

The result poller treated one failed liveness check as a crash, which
aborted runs on a loaded host while the app was still alive. Use pidof and
only give up after three consecutive misses. Every adb call also gets a
30s timeout: a wedged device made `adb shell` hang forever, which blocked
the poller and its overall timeout check.

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          ci(tests): raise the poller's exec output limit

c8a4ba1

exec kills the child once output passes maxBuffer (1 MiB by default), so
a results XML or full logcat dump above that was never read. The removed
adb pull path had no such limit.

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Major · Keep the liveness check compatible with API 21 · try_to_find_test_result_file.js:106-132

test-app/tools/try_to_find_test_result_file.js:106-132
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Keep the liveness check compatible with API 21

Android 5.0 images lack pidof. If results are not ready in the first two polls, the poller can report a live test process as dead and fail the run before reading its results. Use a compatible liveness check for these images.
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Update ensureProcessAlive to avoid relying on pidof, which is unavailable on API
21 images. Use a liveness check compatible with API 21 that can distinguish an
unsupported command from a genuinely absent app process, while preserving the
existing consecutive-miss behavior for actual liveness failures.

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- Around line 106-132: Update ensureProcessAlive to avoid relying on pidof,
which is unavailable on API 21 images. Use a liveness check compatible with API
21 that can distinguish an unsupported command from a genuinely absent app
process, while preserving the existing consecutive-miss behavior for actual
liveness failures.

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          ci(tests): fall back to ps when the device has no pidof

API 21-23 images ship no pidof, so the liveness check would report a live
test app as dead there. The test app's minSdk is 21.

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Re CodeRabbit's outside-diff note on the liveness check: fixed in 0149854. It now runs pidof <app> 2>/dev/null || ps | grep <app> and parses the PID from either output, so API 21-23 images (no pidof, test app minSdk is 21) keep working. A missing command parses as a miss, and the 3-consecutive-miss rule still applies.

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ci: keep crash diagnostics when the test app dies or hangs #2109

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