1760913 - "Add new jobs (Search)" with "xpcshell" doesn't show any of the Android tests

Status: NEW

(Tree Management :: Treeherder: Frontend, defect)

Description

[Gerald Squelart (he/him) (not at Mozilla since 2022-09-15)]

STR:

1. Go to a treeherder push, e.g.: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/jobs?repo=try&group_state=expanded&revision=e84b3c41fac9bd86c7359508e2456f1dd6c98ad2
2. Click on the down-triangle at the top-right, click "Add new jobs (Search)".
3. In the filter box, type "xpcshell" and press enter.
4. (Optional) Select "Use full job list" or not, it doesn't help here.

Expected:
There should be xpcshell tests on some Android platforms. (They can be seen when doing a manual "Add new jobs" action, listed as "X", "X-fis", etc.)

Actual:
Zero xpcshell tests on any Android platform.

Same issue when searching for "android xpcshell", while e.g., "linux xpcshell" gives the expected results for Linux.

Comment 1

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

The issue is the threshold defined for the fuzzy search. With a value of 0.4 it doesn't find the Android xpcshell tasks, with 0.6 it also returns language pack tasks which don't contain xpcshell. his also applies with ignoreLocation: true (documentation, search result scoring).

There are 2 solutions here: Switch from fuzzy to exact search or have users perform the exact search with the ' prefix, e.g. 'xpcshell.