Continue test execution after an expected failure (#36447)

.changes/unreleased/ENHANCEMENTS-20250206-162053.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+kind: ENHANCEMENTS
+body: Terraform Test: Continue subsequent test execution when an expected failure is not encountered.
+time: 2025-02-06T16:20:53.83763+01:00
+custom:
+    Issue: "34969"

internal/backend/local/test.go

@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ func (runner *TestFileRunner) Test(file *moduletest.File) {
 	}
 
 	// walk and execute the graph
-	diags = runner.walkGraph(graph)
+	diags = runner.walkGraph(graph, file)
 
 	// If the graph walk was terminated, we don't want to add the diagnostics.
 	// The error the user receives will just be:
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ func (runner *TestFileRunner) Test(file *moduletest.File) {
 }
 
 // walkGraph goes through the graph and execute each run it finds.
-func (runner *TestFileRunner) walkGraph(g *terraform.Graph) tfdiags.Diagnostics {
+func (runner *TestFileRunner) walkGraph(g *terraform.Graph, file *moduletest.File) tfdiags.Diagnostics {
 	sem := runner.Suite.semaphore
 
 	// Walk the graph.
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ func (runner *TestFileRunner) walkGraph(g *terraform.Graph) tfdiags.Diagnostics
 		defer sem.Release()
 
 		switch v := v.(type) {
-		case *graph.NodeTestRun:
+		case *graph.NodeTestRun: // NodeTestRun is also executable, so it has to be first.
 			file := v.File()
 			run := v.Run()
 			if file.GetStatus() == moduletest.Error {
@@ -374,7 +374,11 @@ func (runner *TestFileRunner) walkGraph(g *terraform.Graph) tfdiags.Diagnostics
 			if diags.HasErrors() {
 				return diags
 			}
-			// continue the execution of the test run.
+
+			startTime := time.Now().UTC()
+			runner.run(run, file, startTime)
+			runner.Suite.View.Run(run, file, moduletest.Complete, 0)
+			file.UpdateStatus(run.Status)
 		case graph.GraphNodeExecutable:
 			diags = v.Execute(runner.EvalContext)
 			return diags
@@ -382,75 +386,56 @@ func (runner *TestFileRunner) walkGraph(g *terraform.Graph) tfdiags.Diagnostics
 			// If the vertex isn't a test run or executable, we'll just skip it.
 			return
 		}
-
-		// We already know that the vertex is a test run
-		runNode := v.(*graph.NodeTestRun)
-
-		file := runNode.File()
-		run := runNode.Run()
-
-		key := run.GetStateKey()
-		if run.Config.ConfigUnderTest != nil {
-			if key == moduletest.MainStateIdentifier {
-				// This is bad. It means somehow the module we're loading has
-				// the same key as main state and we're about to corrupt things.
-
-				run.Diagnostics = run.Diagnostics.Append(&hcl.Diagnostic{
-					Severity: hcl.DiagError,
-					Summary:  "Invalid module source",
-					Detail:   fmt.Sprintf("The source for the selected module evaluated to %s which should not be possible. This is a bug in Terraform - please report it!", key),
-					Subject:  run.Config.Module.DeclRange.Ptr(),
-				})
-
-				run.Status = moduletest.Error
-				file.UpdateStatus(moduletest.Error)
-				return
-			}
-		}
-
-		startTime := time.Now().UTC()
-		state, updatedState := runner.run(run, file, runner.EvalContext.GetFileState(key).State)
-		runDuration := time.Since(startTime)
-		if updatedState {
-			// Only update the most recent run and state if the state was
-			// actually updated by this change. We want to use the run that
-			// most recently updated the tracked state as the cleanup
-			// configuration.
-			runner.EvalContext.SetFileState(key, &graph.TestFileState{
-				Run:   run,
-				State: state,
-			})
-		}
-
-		// If we got far enough to actually execute the run then we'll give
-		// the view some additional metadata about the execution.
-		run.ExecutionMeta = &moduletest.RunExecutionMeta{
-			Start:    startTime,
-			Duration: runDuration,
-		}
-		runner.Suite.View.Run(run, file, moduletest.Complete, 0)
-		file.UpdateStatus(run.Status)
 		return
 	}
 
 	return g.AcyclicGraph.Walk(walkFn)
 }
 
-func (runner *TestFileRunner) run(run *moduletest.Run, file *moduletest.File, state *states.State) (*states.State, bool) {
+func (runner *TestFileRunner) run(run *moduletest.Run, file *moduletest.File, startTime time.Time) {
 	log.Printf("[TRACE] TestFileRunner: executing run block %s/%s", file.Name, run.Name)
+	defer func() {
+		// If we got far enough to actually execute the run then we'll give
+		// the view some additional metadata about the execution.
+		run.ExecutionMeta = &moduletest.RunExecutionMeta{
+			Start:    startTime,
+			Duration: time.Since(startTime),
+		}
+
+	}()
+
+	key := run.GetStateKey()
+	if run.Config.ConfigUnderTest != nil {
+		if key == moduletest.MainStateIdentifier {
+			// This is bad. It means somehow the module we're loading has
+			// the same key as main state and we're about to corrupt things.
+
+			run.Diagnostics = run.Diagnostics.Append(&hcl.Diagnostic{
+				Severity: hcl.DiagError,
+				Summary:  "Invalid module source",
+				Detail:   fmt.Sprintf("The source for the selected module evaluated to %s which should not be possible. This is a bug in Terraform - please report it!", key),
+				Subject:  run.Config.Module.DeclRange.Ptr(),
+			})
+
+			run.Status = moduletest.Error
+			file.UpdateStatus(moduletest.Error)
+			return
+		}
+	}
+	state := runner.EvalContext.GetFileState(key).State
 
 	config := run.ModuleConfig
 	if runner.Suite.Cancelled {
 		// Don't do anything, just give up and return immediately.
 		// The surrounding functions should stop this even being called, but in
 		// case of race conditions or something we can still verify this.
-		return state, false
+		return
 	}
 
 	if runner.Suite.Stopped {
 		// Basically the same as above, except we'll be a bit nicer.
 		run.Status = moduletest.Skip
-		return state, false
+		return
 	}
 
 	start := time.Now().UTC().UnixMilli()
@@ -459,35 +444,31 @@ func (runner *TestFileRunner) run(run *moduletest.Run, file *moduletest.File, st
 	run.Diagnostics = run.Diagnostics.Append(run.Config.Validate(config))
 	if run.Diagnostics.HasErrors() {
 		run.Status = moduletest.Error
-		return state, false
+		return
 	}
 
 	configDiags := graph.TransformConfigForTest(runner.EvalContext, run, file)
 	run.Diagnostics = run.Diagnostics.Append(configDiags)
 	if configDiags.HasErrors() {
 		run.Status = moduletest.Error
-		return state, false
+		return
 	}
 
 	validateDiags := runner.validate(run, file, start)
 	run.Diagnostics = run.Diagnostics.Append(validateDiags)
 	if validateDiags.HasErrors() {
 		run.Status = moduletest.Error
-		return state, false
+		return
 	}
 
-	references, referenceDiags := run.GetReferences()
-	run.Diagnostics = run.Diagnostics.Append(referenceDiags)
-	if referenceDiags.HasErrors() {
-		run.Status = moduletest.Error
-		return state, false
-	}
+	// already validated during static analysis
+	references, _ := run.GetReferences()
 
 	variables, variableDiags := runner.GetVariables(run, references, true)
 	run.Diagnostics = run.Diagnostics.Append(variableDiags)
 	if variableDiags.HasErrors() {
 		run.Status = moduletest.Error
-		return state, false
+		return
 	}
 
 	// FilterVariablesToModule only returns warnings, so we don't check the
@@ -498,7 +479,7 @@ func (runner *TestFileRunner) run(run *moduletest.Run, file *moduletest.File, st
 	tfCtx, ctxDiags := terraform.NewContext(runner.Suite.Opts)
 	run.Diagnostics = run.Diagnostics.Append(ctxDiags)
 	if ctxDiags.HasErrors() {
-		return state, false
+		return
 	}
 
 	planScope, plan, planDiags := runner.plan(tfCtx, config, state, run, file, setVariables, references, start)
@@ -508,7 +489,7 @@ func (runner *TestFileRunner) run(run *moduletest.Run, file *moduletest.File, st
 		run.Diagnostics = run.Diagnostics.Append(planDiags)
 		if planDiags.HasErrors() {
 			run.Status = moduletest.Error
-			return state, false
+			return
 		}
 
 		runner.AddVariablesToConfig(run, variables)
@@ -549,8 +530,7 @@ func (runner *TestFileRunner) run(run *moduletest.Run, file *moduletest.File, st
 		// Now we've successfully validated this run block, lets add it into
 		// our prior run outputs so future run blocks can access it.
 		runner.EvalContext.SetOutput(run, outputVals)
-
-		return state, false
+		return
 	}
 
 	// Otherwise any error during the planning prevents our apply from
@@ -559,7 +539,7 @@ func (runner *TestFileRunner) run(run *moduletest.Run, file *moduletest.File, st
 	run.Diagnostics = run.Diagnostics.Append(planDiags)
 	if planDiags.HasErrors() {
 		run.Status = moduletest.Error
-		return state, false
+		return
 	}
 
 	// Since we're carrying on an executing the apply operation as well, we're
@@ -579,14 +559,16 @@ func (runner *TestFileRunner) run(run *moduletest.Run, file *moduletest.File, st
 	applyScope, updated, applyDiags := runner.apply(tfCtx, plan, state, run, file, moduletest.Running, start, variables)
 
 	// Remove expected diagnostics, and add diagnostics in case anything that should have failed didn't.
-	applyDiags = run.ValidateExpectedFailures(applyDiags)
-
-	run.Diagnostics = run.Diagnostics.Append(applyDiags)
-	if applyDiags.HasErrors() {
-		run.Status = moduletest.Error
+	// We'll also update the run status based on the presence of errors or missing expected failures.
+	failOrErr := runner.checkForMissingExpectedFailures(run, applyDiags)
+	if failOrErr {
 		// Even though the apply operation failed, the graph may have done
 		// partial updates and the returned state should reflect this.
-		return updated, true
+		runner.EvalContext.SetFileState(key, &graph.TestFileState{
+			Run:   run,
+			State: updated,
+		})
+		return
 	}
 
 	runner.AddVariablesToConfig(run, variables)
@@ -628,7 +610,37 @@ func (runner *TestFileRunner) run(run *moduletest.Run, file *moduletest.File, st
 	// our prior run outputs so future run blocks can access it.
 	runner.EvalContext.SetOutput(run, outputVals)
 
-	return updated, true
+	// Only update the most recent run and state if the state was
+	// actually updated by this change. We want to use the run that
+	// most recently updated the tracked state as the cleanup
+	// configuration.
+	runner.EvalContext.SetFileState(key, &graph.TestFileState{
+		Run:   run,
+		State: updated,
+	})
+}
+
+// checkForMissingExpectedFailures checks for missing expected failures in the diagnostics.
+// It updates the run status based on the presence of errors or missing expected failures.
+func (runner *TestFileRunner) checkForMissingExpectedFailures(run *moduletest.Run, diags tfdiags.Diagnostics) (failOrErr bool) {
+	// Retrieve and append diagnostics that are either unrelated to expected failures
+	// or report missing expected failures.
+	unexpectedDiags := run.ValidateExpectedFailures(diags)
+	run.Diagnostics = run.Diagnostics.Append(unexpectedDiags)
+	for _, diag := range unexpectedDiags {
+		// // If any diagnostic indicates a missing expected failure, set the run status to fail.
+		if ok := moduletest.DiagnosticFromMissingExpectedFailure(diag); ok {
+			run.Status = run.Status.Merge(moduletest.Fail)
+			continue
+		}
+
+		// upgrade the run status to error if there still are other errors in the diagnostics
+		if diag.Severity() == tfdiags.Error {
+			run.Status = run.Status.Merge(moduletest.Error)
+			break
+		}
+	}
+	return run.Status > moduletest.Pass
 }
 
 func (runner *TestFileRunner) validate(run *moduletest.Run, file *moduletest.File, start int64) tfdiags.Diagnostics {

internal/command/test_test.go

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ func TestTest_Runs(t *testing.T) {
 		code                  int
 		initCode              int
 		skip                  bool
-		desc                  string
+		description           string
 	}{
 		"simple_pass": {
 			expectedOut: []string{"1 passed, 0 failed."},
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ func TestTest_Runs(t *testing.T) {
 			args:        []string{"-parallelism", "1"},
 			expectedOut: []string{"1 passed, 0 failed."},
 			code:        0,
-			desc:        "simple_pass with parallelism set to 1",
+			description: "simple_pass with parallelism set to 1",
 		},
 		"simple_pass_very_nested_alternate": {
 			override:    "simple_pass_very_nested",
@@ -112,10 +112,6 @@ func TestTest_Runs(t *testing.T) {
 			expectedOut: []string{"1 passed, 0 failed."},
 			code:        0,
 		},
-		"expect_failures_outputs": {
-			expectedOut: []string{"1 passed, 0 failed."},
-			code:        0,
-		},
 		"expect_failures_resources": {
 			expectedOut: []string{"1 passed, 0 failed."},
 			code:        0,
@@ -405,7 +401,7 @@ func TestTest_Runs(t *testing.T) {
 				Meta: meta,
 			}
 
-			code := c.Run(tc.args)
+			code := c.Run(append(tc.args, "-no-color"))
 			output := done(t)
 
 			if code != tc.code {
@@ -1843,6 +1839,7 @@ the apply operation could not be executed and so the overall test case will
 be marked as a failure and the original diagnostic included in the test
 report.
 
+  run "no_run"... skip
 input.tftest.hcl... tearing down
 input.tftest.hcl... fail
 output.tftest.hcl... in progress
@@ -1875,7 +1872,7 @@ test report.
 resource.tftest.hcl... tearing down
 resource.tftest.hcl... fail
 
-Failure! 1 passed, 3 failed.
+Failure! 1 passed, 3 failed, 1 skipped.
 `
 	actualOut := output.Stdout()
 	if diff := cmp.Diff(expectedOut, actualOut); len(diff) > 0 {
@@ -1922,6 +1919,71 @@ input must contain the character 'b'
 	}
 }
 
+func TestTest_MissingExpectedFailuresDuringApply(t *testing.T) {
+	// Test asserting that the test run fails, but not errors out, when expected failures are not present during apply.
+	// This lets subsequent runs continue to execute and the file to be marked as failed.
+	td := t.TempDir()
+	testCopyDir(t, testFixturePath(path.Join("test", "expect_failures_during_apply")), td)
+	defer testChdir(t, td)()
+
+	provider := testing_command.NewProvider(nil)
+	view, done := testView(t)
+
+	c := &TestCommand{
+		Meta: Meta{
+			testingOverrides: metaOverridesForProvider(provider.Provider),
+			View:             view,
+		},
+	}
+
+	code := c.Run([]string{"-no-color"})
+	output := done(t)
+
+	if code == 0 {
+		t.Errorf("expected status code 0 but got %d", code)
+	}
+
+	expectedOut := `main.tftest.hcl... in progress
+  run "test"... fail
+  run "follow-up"... pass
+
+Warning: Value for undeclared variable
+
+  on main.tftest.hcl line 16, in run "follow-up":
+  16:     input = "does not matter"
+
+The module under test does not declare a variable named "input", but it is
+declared in run block "follow-up".
+
+main.tftest.hcl... tearing down
+main.tftest.hcl... fail
+
+Failure! 1 passed, 1 failed.
+`
+	actualOut := output.Stdout()
+	if diff := cmp.Diff(expectedOut, actualOut); len(diff) > 0 {
+		t.Errorf("output didn't match expected:\nexpected:\n%s\nactual:\n%s\ndiff:\n%s", expectedOut, actualOut, diff)
+	}
+
+	expectedErr := `
+Error: Missing expected failure
+
+  on main.tftest.hcl line 7, in run "test":
+   7:     output.output
+
+The checkable object, output.output, was expected to report an error but did
+not.
+`
+	actualErr := output.Stderr()
+	if diff := cmp.Diff(actualErr, expectedErr); len(diff) > 0 {
+		t.Errorf("output didn't match expected:\nexpected:\n%s\nactual:\n%s\ndiff:\n%s", expectedErr, actualErr, diff)
+	}
+
+	if provider.ResourceCount() > 0 {
+		t.Errorf("should have deleted all resources on completion but left %v", provider.ResourceString())
+	}
+}
+
 func TestTest_UnknownAndNulls(t *testing.T) {
 
 	tcs := map[string]struct {

internal/command/testdata/test/expect_failures_during_apply/main.tf

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+
+locals {
+  input = uuid() # using UUID to ensure that plan phase will return an unknown value
+}
+
+output "output" {
+  value = local.input
+
+  precondition {
+    condition = local.input != ""
+    error_message = "this should not fail during the apply phase"
+  }
+}

internal/command/testdata/test/expect_failures_during_apply/main.tftest.hcl

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+run "test" {
+
+  command = apply
+
+// We are expecting the output to fail during apply, but it will not, so the test will fail.
+  expect_failures = [
+    output.output
+  ]
+}
+
+// this should still run
+run "follow-up" {
+  command = apply
+
+  variables {
+    input = "does not matter"
+  }
+}

internal/command/testdata/test/expected_failures_during_planning/input.tftest.hcl

@@ -14,3 +14,17 @@ run "input_failure" {
   ]
 
 }
+
+
+// This should not run because the previous run block is expected to error, thus
+// terminating the test file.
+run "no_run" {
+
+  variables {
+    input = "abc"
+  }
+  assert {
+    condition = var.input == "abc"
+    error_message = "should not run"
+  }
+}

internal/moduletest/graph/eval_context.go

@@ -320,11 +320,6 @@ func diagsForEphemeralResources(refs []*addrs.Reference) (diags tfdiags.Diagnost
 func (ec *EvalContext) SetFileState(key string, state *TestFileState) {
 	ec.stateLock.Lock()
 	defer ec.stateLock.Unlock()
-	fileState := ec.FileStates[key]
-	if fileState != nil {
-		ec.FileStates[key] = state
-		return
-	}
 	ec.FileStates[key] = &TestFileState{
 		Run:   state.Run,
 		State: state.State,

internal/moduletest/graph/transform_test_run.go

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ func (t *TestRunTransformer) Transform(g *terraform.Graph) error {
 
 	// Connect nodes based on dependencies
 	if diags := t.connectDependencies(g, nodes); diags.HasErrors() {
-		return tfdiags.NonFatalError{Diagnostics: diags}
+		return tfdiags.DiagnosticsAsError{Diagnostics: diags}
 	}
 
 	// Runs with the same state key inherently depend on each other, so we

internal/moduletest/run.go

@@ -548,9 +548,32 @@ func (run *Run) ValidateExpectedFailures(originals tfdiags.Diagnostics) tfdiags.
 				Summary:  "Missing expected failure",
 				Detail:   fmt.Sprintf("The checkable object, %s, was expected to report an error but did not.", addr.String()),
 				Subject:  sourceRanges.Get(addr).ToHCL().Ptr(),
+				Extra:    missingExpectedFailure(true),
 			})
 		}
 	}
 
 	return diags
 }
+
+// DiagnosticExtraFromMissingExpectedFailure provides an interface for diagnostic ExtraInfo to
+// denote that a diagnostic was generated as a result of a missing expected failure.
+type DiagnosticExtraFromMissingExpectedFailure interface {
+	DiagnosticFromMissingExpectedFailure() bool
+}
+
+// DiagnosticFromMissingExpectedFailure checks if the provided diagnostic
+// is a result of a missing expected failure.
+func DiagnosticFromMissingExpectedFailure(diag tfdiags.Diagnostic) bool {
+	maybe := tfdiags.ExtraInfo[DiagnosticExtraFromMissingExpectedFailure](diag)
+	if maybe == nil {
+		return false
+	}
+	return maybe.DiagnosticFromMissingExpectedFailure()
+}
+
+type missingExpectedFailure bool
+
+func (missingExpectedFailure) DiagnosticFromMissingExpectedFailure() bool {
+	return true
+}

internal/tfdiags/diagnostics.go

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ func (diags Diagnostics) Append(new ...interface{}) Diagnostics {
 			diags = append(diags, ti)
 		case Diagnostics:
 			diags = append(diags, ti...) // flatten
-		case diagnosticsAsError:
+		case DiagnosticsAsError:
 			diags = diags.Append(ti.Diagnostics) // unwrap
 		case NonFatalError:
 			diags = diags.Append(ti.Diagnostics) // unwrap
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ func diagnosticsForError(err error) []Diagnostic {
 
 	// If we've wrapped a Diagnostics in an error then we'll unwrap
 	// it and add it directly.
-	var asErr diagnosticsAsError
+	var asErr DiagnosticsAsError
 	if errors.As(err, &asErr) {
 		return asErr.Diagnostics
 	}
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ func (diags Diagnostics) Err() error {
 	if !diags.HasErrors() {
 		return nil
 	}
-	return diagnosticsAsError{diags}
+	return DiagnosticsAsError{diags}
 }
 
 // ErrWithWarnings is similar to Err except that it will also return a non-nil
@@ -257,11 +257,12 @@ func (diags Diagnostics) Sort() {
 	sort.Stable(sortDiagnostics(diags))
 }
 
-type diagnosticsAsError struct {
+// DiagnosticsAsError embeds diagnostics, and satisfies the error interface.
+type DiagnosticsAsError struct {
 	Diagnostics
 }
 
-func (dae diagnosticsAsError) Error() string {
+func (dae DiagnosticsAsError) Error() string {
 	diags := dae.Diagnostics
 	switch {
 	case len(diags) == 0:
@@ -291,7 +292,7 @@ func (dae diagnosticsAsError) Error() string {
 
 // WrappedErrors is an implementation of errwrap.Wrapper so that an error-wrapped
 // diagnostics object can be picked apart by errwrap-aware code.
-func (dae diagnosticsAsError) WrappedErrors() []error {
+func (dae DiagnosticsAsError) WrappedErrors() []error {
 	var errs []error
 	for _, diag := range dae.Diagnostics {
 		if wrapper, isErr := diag.(nativeError); isErr {