Fixes #719.
Since #701, Preferences opens on the Library page and the Appearance theme options live on the General page. The keyboard UIA run's open-appearance step could no longer Tab to the Light/Dark/System radios, so it fell back to a UIA search that matched on name alone. That matched the window's title-bar System menu item. Focusing it opened the system menu, and from then on every UI Automation call into the WebView blocked. The probe had no time limit, so the step sat there until the 90-minute job timeout. The "no default output audio device" line was the last app log before the hang; it isn't related.
open-appearance selects the General tab first and verify-model-runtime-status selects the Separation tab first. Theme matching only accepts radio buttons now.select action (SelectionItemPattern) for tabs.$LASTEXITCODE, which otherwise kept a stale value.--budget, default --timeout + 45s). When it runs out, the probe reports the phase and last element it reached and exits with code 124. The harness kills a probe that still hasn't exited 15s later, and the UIA step has a 20-minute cap. A stuck UIA call now fails the step with a reason instead of hanging the job.dotnet build -c Release (net8.0-windows, 0 warnings) and parsed the harness with the PowerShell parser.Invoke-ProbeProcess locally with a probe stand-in that hangs: it was killed and threw at the deadline.suite=full on this branch:
System menu cause.
The Windows UIA probe now supports bounded execution and selection actions. The PowerShell harness captures probe output, navigates to settings pages before checks, and the workflow applies a timeout to the UIA step.
Changes: Windows UIA test flow
| Layer / File(s) | Summary |
|---|---|
Probe budget, diagnostics, and selection tools/windows-accessibility/OpenKara.AccessibilityProbe/Program.cs, tools/windows-accessibility/OpenKara.AccessibilityProbe/README.md | The probe accepts a wall-clock budget, reports phase and progress when the budget expires, and supports selecting a target through SelectionItemPattern. The README documents the budget and selection action. |
Bounded probe execution scripts/ci/run-windows-desktop-e2e.ps1, .github/workflows/reusable-windows-installed-app.yml | The harness runs the probe through a subprocess wrapper that captures output and exit status, and terminates it if it exceeds its process limit. The workflow UIA step now has a 20-minute timeout. |
Settings-page navigation and checks scripts/ci/run-windows-desktop-e2e.ps1 | The Appearance check opens General and matches named theme radio buttons. The runtime/model status check opens Separation. Settings-page selection falls back to clicking if UIA selection throws and fails if the page does not become selected in time. |
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes
Change: Bug fix
sequenceDiagram
participant PowerShellHarness
participant AccessibilityProbe
participant WindowsUIAutomation
PowerShellHarness->>AccessibilityProbe: start probe with budget
AccessibilityProbe->>WindowsUIAutomation: query target or accessibility tree
AccessibilityProbe->>AccessibilityProbe: watchdog terminates process when budget expires
AccessibilityProbe-->>PowerShellHarness: return output and exit code
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Suggested labels: documentation, javascript
7fd16The change bounds the Windows UIA smoke hang. In the rare case where the probe cannot be killed, the harness could still hang until the 20-minute workflow cap without producing the timeout report. This is a minor CI diagnostics risk and is safe to merge with a follow-up.
| Check name | Status | Explanation |
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| Title check |  | The title uses the required Conventional Commits format with the valid fix type and ci scope. It clearly describes the Windows UIA hang addressed by the changes. |
| Linked Issues check | | Issue #719 reports the failed Windows installed-app gate, but it has no explicit coding acceptance criteria. The PR directly addresses the reported UIA hang: it selects the correct Preferences pages, … |
| Out of Scope Changes check | | The changed workflow, PowerShell harness, accessibility probe, and probe README all support the Windows UIA smoke failure in #719. The timeout, process-kill backstop, page selection, control filtering… |
| Description Check | | Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled. |
| Ipc Contract Update | | The diff changes the UIA probe, test harness, workflow, accessibility test, and version metadata. It does not change a public IPC command, payload, event, or source enum. |
| No Type Escapes | | The TypeScript diff adds no as any, [@ts-ignore](/ts-ignore), or [@ts-expect-error](/ts-expect-error). |
| Acceptance Evidence | | The PR changes UIA smoke behavior. The PR body names a probe build, a hanging-probe test, and Windows smoke runs with reported results. The linked issue has no explicit acceptance criteria. |
| Do Not Edit Changelog | | The diff from the merge base to the PR head does not change CHANGELOG.md. |
Explanation
Issue #719 reports the failed Windows installed-app gate, but it has no explicit coding acceptance criteria. The PR directly addresses the reported UIA hang: it selects the correct Preferences pages, restricts theme matches to RadioButton controls, adds SelectionItemPattern tab selection, adds probe budget handling with diagnostic exit code 124, and caps the UIA workflow step. These changes provide a concrete implementation for the failure described by the PR.
Explanation
The changed workflow, PowerShell harness, accessibility probe, and probe README all support the Windows UIA smoke failure in #719. The timeout, process-kill backstop, page selection, control filtering, probe action, diagnostics, and documentation are connected to preventing or reporting the hang. No unrelated change is demonstrated.
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Keep timeout recovery bounded.
If Kill($true) fails and the probe remains alive after the final five-second wait, this error message accesses an incomplete $stderrTask.Result. Kill can fail, and Task.Result blocks until completion. (learn.microsoft.com)
The catch discards the termination error, and the code ignores the final wait result. The harness can therefore hang instead of throwing, until the workflow timeout interrupts it without the report.
Read stderr only when the task has completed successfully. Otherwise, throw the timeout error without awaiting stderr, and include any termination error.
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Review comment at @scripts/ci/run-windows-desktop-e2e.ps1 at line 414:
Keep timeout recovery in the AccessibilityProbe termination flow bounded: retain any error from Kill($true), check the final wait result, and read stderrTask.Result only if the task completed successfully. If the probe remains alive or stderr is incomplete, throw the timeout error without awaiting stderr, including any termination error.
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Review comments at @scripts/ci/run-windows-desktop-e2e.ps1:
- Line 414: Keep timeout recovery in the AccessibilityProbe termination flow
bounded: retain any error from Kill($true), check the final wait result, and
read stderrTask.Result only if the task completed successfully. If the probe
remains alive or stderr is incomplete, throw the timeout error without awaiting
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WARNING: The probe re-declares the same 45s slack constant as the PowerShell harness (scripts/ci/run-windows-desktop-e2e.ps1:391, $script:ProbeBudgetSlackMs = 45000). The two must stay equal or the probe's self-imposed budget and the harness's kill deadline drift apart: if the harness constant were ever raised, the probe would exit 124 before the harness kills it (still fine), but if it were lowered, the harness would kill a probe that had not yet hit its own budget and the stderr diagnostic would be lost. The budget is the load-bearing value of this whole fix, so it should not live in two places. Consider moving it to a single source of truth (e.g. a shared config file both read, or a documented invariant with a cross-reference comment).