docs(reference): add run_tests and get_test_job examples

[RizgarOzan]

Description

Fills the two testing pages that still said No examples yet ("Examples in tool reference pages" is listed under Areas That Need Help in CONTRIBUTING). Content only goes inside the <!-- examples:start --><!-- examples:end --> blocks.

Type of Change

• Documentation update

Changes Made

• run_tests: all EditMode tests; specific tests by full name; a namespace via group_names regex; one PlayMode assembly with init_timeout: 120000; clear_stuck — including how it differs from the tests_running / retry_after_ms answer you get while a job is genuinely running.
• get_test_job: waiting with wait_timeout (server polls every 2 s and returns on succeeded / failed / cancelled), a non-blocking progress check (data.progress), and include_details vs include_failed_tests.

Every parameter name, default and status value was checked against Server/src/services/tools/run_tests.py and MCPForUnity/Editor/Tools/RunTests.cs on current beta.

Testing/Screenshots/Recordings

• Not applicable (docs only) — every JSON block parses, and tools/generate_docs_reference.py preserves both blocks: regenerating on this branch leaves the two pages unchanged.

Related Issues

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• Documentation
  • Added examples for waiting for test job completion, monitoring progress, and requesting details for every test.
  • Explained job statuses, timeout behavior, progress and result fields, and failure handling.
  • Added examples for running EditMode and PlayMode tests, filtering tests by full name or regex, and clearing a stuck job.
  • Clarified asynchronous polling, recommended PlayMode initialization timeout, background Unity focus nudges, and how clearing a job affects running tests.

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The testing tool reference adds examples for inspecting test jobs and clarifies test filters and stuck-job behavior.

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Layer / File(s)	Summary
Test execution filters and stuck-job handling website/docs/reference/tools/testing/run_tests.md	Clarifies that group_names entries are regular expressions matched against full test names. Documents that clear_stuck marks jobs in the running state as failed without checking whether a job is alive or stopping tests already in progress.
Test job inspection examples website/docs/reference/tools/testing/get_test_job.md	Adds examples for waiting for completion, checking progress and failure details, and requesting details for all tests. Documents the background focus nudge behavior and the difference between include_details and include_failed_tests.

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Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

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• observed — website (service) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in website/docs/reference/tools/testing/run_tests.md: Clarifies that each group_names entry is a regular expression matched against the full test name, rather than a full name that must match exactly; filters remain combinable with category_names and assembly_names.
• observed — Modified behavior in website/docs/reference/tools/testing/run_tests.md: Clarifies that clear_stuck marks any job in the running state as failed without checking whether it is alive or stopping Unity tests already in progress; an actually running job returns tests_running with retry_after_ms.
• observed — Modified behavior in website/docs/reference/tools/testing/get_test_job.md: Replaces the “No examples yet” placeholder with three usage examples. The wait example documents polling every 2 seconds until succeeded, failed, or cancelled, or returning progress after 60 seconds. The immediate-poll example describes progress and failure reporting, result and error conditions, the 25-failure cap, and a background focus nudge when Unity has been idle in the background for 3 seconds. The final example documents that include_details returns all tests, while include_failed_tests returns only failed and skipped tests.

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[RizgarOzan]

Gentle ping on this one and #1401 - both are docs-only example additions. Happy to reshape them if you'd prefer a different format.

[Enough1122]

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Fills the empty <!-- examples:start --> blocks in the two testing reference pages with five worked examples. Mostly accurate, but two of the new claims contradict the implementation they document.

1. The "without waiting" example is the one that most needs a nudge, and it is described as "Returns straight away." website/docs/reference/tools/testing/get_test_job.md:57 promises a plain poll. But in Server/src/services/tools/run_tests.py:369 the no-wait_timeout branch spawns nudge_unity_focus as a background task, which runs for 3–12 s of real focus stealing (focus_duration_s) before restoring. So the example marked "check progress without waiting" is in fact the path that hijacks the user's window, and a reader following the first example's advice will be surprised by it. Worth documenting the side effect, or pointing readers at the wait_timeout form.

2. "data.result.summary appears once the job has finished" is only true on success. MCPForUnity/Editor/Services/TestJobManager.cs:542 only builds the result payload when job.Status == TestJobStatus.Succeeded, so a failed run has result: null and the caller is left with only data.error plus the capped progress.failures_so_far (25 entries, failures_capped signals truncation). The example at website/docs/reference/tools/testing/get_test_job.md:57 reads as though summary is the universal way to learn the outcome; please note the failed case explicitly — that is precisely the case the surrounding example is about.

3. The clear_stuck example is advice that the code does not implement. website/docs/reference/tools/testing/run_tests.md:102 says "While a job really is running, run_tests answers tests_running ... wait for it rather than clearing it." But MCPForUnity/Editor/Services/TestJobManager.cs:95 does not check staleness or any liveness signal: any job with Status == Running is cleared, so a genuinely running test suite is killed and the same orphaned job recurs on the next PlayMode domain reload. That is the failure mode the example tells users to avoid, so the wording currently oversells a guard that isn't there.

Minor: group_names at website/docs/reference/tools/testing/run_tests.md:72 is passed straight to Filter.groupNames (TestRunnerService.cs:230), which Unity matches as a regex, not a full name as line 76 states.

[RizgarOzan]

Thanks — checked each point against beta; fixed in fe33c98:

• Result on failure: right, TestJobManager.cs:542 only builds result for Succeeded, and a run with failing tests ends as Failed (:381). The page now says so and points to progress.failures_so_far (cap 25, failures_capped) and error.
• clear_stuck: right, ClearStuckJob() (:95) marks any Running job failed without a liveness check. The note now says that plainly. It only changes the job record (RunTests.cs:23), so I wrote that it doesn't stop tests already running in Unity rather than "kills" them.
• group_names: reworded to "regex matched against the full test name".
• Nudge: the no-wait call does start a nudge, but only when Unity is unfocused and the job hasn't moved for 3 s (should_nudge), and the wait_timeout path nudges under the same condition (run_tests.py:319), so it isn't specific to this form. Added one sentence on it; the "returns straight away" part stays, since the nudge runs as a background task.

[RizgarOzan]

One more note: #1410 changes that condition to job.Status != TestJobStatus.Running (TestJobManager.cs hunk at ToSerializable), so failed runs will carry result too. If #1410 lands first I'll trim the failed-case sentence to match; if this one lands first, #1410 would need to drop it.

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🟡 Minor · Remove data.error from the failed-test guidance. · get_test_job.md:57-72

website/docs/reference/tools/testing/get_test_job.md:57-72
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove data.error from the failed-test guidance.

Ordinary failed test runs set status to failed but leave data.error null. Their diagnostics are available in data.progress.failures_so_far. Remove and data.error so callers do not look for ordinary test failure details in the wrong field.

Suggested fix

- failures_so_far` (at most 25; `failures_capped` is `true` when more failed) and `data.error`.
+ failures_so_far` (at most 25; `failures_capped` is `true` when more failed).

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In @website/docs/reference/tools/testing/get_test_job.md around lines 57 - 72,
Update the failed-test guidance in the get_test_job documentation to remove the
reference to data.error; direct callers to data.progress.failures_so_far for
ordinary test failure details and leave the remaining guidance unchanged.

🟡 Minor · Clarify the failures_capped meaning. · get_test_job.md:57-72

website/docs/reference/tools/testing/get_test_job.md:57-72
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clarify the failures_capped meaning.

failures_capped becomes true when failures_so_far reaches 25. It can therefore be true when exactly 25 failures occurred and no failures were omitted. The current wording says it is true “when more failed,” which can make callers assume the reported list is incomplete.

Suggested fix

-Returns straight away. `data.progress` has `completed` / `total`, the test currently running, and `failures_so_far`. `data.result` (with `summary` and the `include_*` test lists) is only filled when the job succeeded: a run with failing tests ends as `failed` with `result: null`, so read the failures from `data.progress.failures_so_far` (at most 25; `failures_capped` is `true` when more failed) and `data.error`.
+Returns straight away. `data.progress` has `completed` / `total`, the test currently running, and `failures_so_far`. `data.result` (with `summary` and the `include_*` test lists) is only filled when the job succeeded: a run with failing tests ends as `failed` with `result: null`, so read the failures from `data.progress.failures_so_far` (at most 25; `failures_capped` is `true` when 25 failures have been recorded, so additional failures may be omitted) and `data.error`.

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In @website/docs/reference/tools/testing/get_test_job.md around lines 57 - 72,
Clarify the `failures_capped` description in the get-test-job documentation:
state that it becomes true once 25 failures have been recorded, so additional
failures may be omitted, without implying that omissions are guaranteed.

🟡 Minor · Remove the unsupported wait and focus-nudge claims. · get_test_job.md:33-72

website/docs/reference/tools/testing/get_test_job.md:33-72
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the unsupported wait and focus-nudge claims.

GetTestJob.HandleCommand reads job_id and the include flags, then calls TestJobManager.GetJob and ToSerializable. It does not read wait_timeout or wait. ToSerializable only reports status fields. It does not start a focus nudge.

The stuck check uses a 60-second threshold and requires a current test start time. It does not use the documented three-second condition. Callers that send wait_timeout therefore receive an immediate snapshot, and callers relying on the documented nudge receive no focus recovery. Update the generated documentation source to match this endpoint.

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In @website/docs/reference/tools/testing/get_test_job.md around lines 33 - 72,
Update the GetTestJob documentation to describe the immediate snapshot returned
by HandleCommand and ToSerializable; remove the unsupported wait_timeout polling
and focus-nudge claims, and correct the stuck-check behavior to reflect its
60-second threshold and current-test-start-time requirement.

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In @website/docs/reference/tools/testing/get_test_job.md:
- Around line 57-72: Update the failed-test guidance in the get_test_job
documentation to remove the reference to data.error; direct callers to
data.progress.failures_so_far for ordinary test failure details and leave the
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- Around line 57-72: Clarify the `failures_capped` description in the
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- Around line 33-72: Update the GetTestJob documentation to describe the
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Verified at fe33c98. All four points are addressed, and your nudge explanation corrects my framing.

Result-on-failure is now documented where the reader needs it. get_test_job.md:57 states that data.result is only filled on success, that a run with failing tests ends failed with result: null, and names both fallbacks — progress.failures_so_far with the cap and the failures_capped signal, plus data.error. That is the whole contract in one sentence, which is the right place for it since the surrounding example is about learning the outcome.

clear_stuck is now honest, and your rewording is better than mine. The note says plainly that it "does not check whether the job is still alive: it marks any job in the running state as failed", then adds that clearing does not stop the tests already running in Unity. I had written "a genuinely running test suite is killed" — which attributes the stopping to clear_stuck, and the fact that it only changes the job record (RunTests.cs:23) is exactly the distinction a reader needs in order not to expect a different mitigation. Your version names what the flag does and separately names what it does not do.

group_names now says "regex matched against the full test name" — which is what TestRunnerService.cs:230 does, and the old "a full name" was the kind of phrase that sends someone looking for prefix matching.

On the nudge, I was wrong about it being specific to the no-wait form, and your correction is the useful part. I said the example marked "check progress without waiting" is in fact the path that hijacks the user's window. The condition is should_nudge — Unity unfocused and the job unmoved for 3 s — and run_tests.py:319 applies the same condition on the wait_timeout path, so it is a property of an unmoved job with Unity in the background rather than of this call form. The added sentence says both forms nudge, and then says why "returns straight away" still holds (background task). That is the more useful documentation: a reader now knows the trigger and can reason about it instead of being surprised.

On the sequencing note with #1410: your reading is right and the asymmetry favours you. #1410 changes the condition to job.Status != TestJobStatus.Running at ToSerializable, so if #1410 lands first the failed-run result would appear and your page's "only filled on success" sentence becomes wrong; if yours lands first, #1410 has to drop its failed-case handling. You are editing text, #1410 is changing a condition in C# — trimming a sentence is the cheaper side of that conflict, so landing yours first is the low-friction order. No action needed from me either way.

Nothing blocking from me.

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Thanks — checked CodeRabbit's three outside-diff notes against beta, two fixed in 8e34e75:

• data.error: right, a run with failing tests clears it (TestJobManager.cs:382); it's only set when the job itself broke (init timeout :509, exception :660, orphaned after reload :232). The page now says that instead of pointing to it for test failures.
• failures_capped: right, it's Count >= 25 (:567), so it can be true with exactly 25. Reworded to "there may be more".
• Wait/nudge: not changed. The page documents the Python tool, and get_test_job in run_tests.py does read wait_timeout (:280) and runs the 3 s should_nudge check (:319, :361); the C# handler only serves the snapshot.

generate_docs_reference.py --check is clean for this page.

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