Feature request: Allow nextest to run a script prior to terminating a slow running test

[criccomini]

Motivation

We'd like to be able to get a stack dump of our slow running test before we nextest SIGTERM and kills it. We want nextet to kill the test since it's slow, but it's a bit hard to debug what the state of the test was.

Proposal

After some discussion on slatedb/slatedb#363, we converged on adding a feature to nextest that allows us to run a script prior to slow test termination.

Alternatives

Some alternatives were discussed here:

slatedb/slatedb#363 (comment)

Additional context

No response

[sunshowers]

Thanks! Yeah, this sounds good. I'm in the middle of a significant refactor of the runner code but hope to get to this soon after.

[sunshowers]

I've also written a doc on signal handling: https://nexte.st/docs/design/architecture/signal-handling -- some of this you'll likely have to interact with.

[criccomini]

@benesch wanted to nudge on this-- were you still planning to take a look? I think @sunshowers has wrapped up their work.

[beneschbot]

It's still in my queue but afraid I've been juggling a few too many things last week and this week! Picking this up is still in my queue and I'm hoping to have some time over the holidays, but I'd be happy to tag team this with someone, or have someone else beat me to it.

[benesch]

Heh, whoops, posted that while signed in to my service account.

[criccomini]

NP. No rush, was just checking on status. =) re: tag team, I'm in a similar boat as you. Already behind on some book stuff. :/ So, I'll have to bow out for now.