Fixing flaky integration test: TestCrashAfterRejectDoesNotLoseMessages#274
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…test TestCrashAfterRejectDoesNotLoseMessages was flaky because it asserted consumer lag immediately after Ack(), but Ack() only marks the delivery state — watermark advancement (which updates offset_acked) is deferred to the next poll loop tick. The test raced against the poll loop: if the lag check ran before advanceWatermark, offset_acked was still stale and lag was non-zero. Fix by adding OnSignal to worker-2's queue and calling waitForSignal after acks, ensuring the poll loop has run advanceWatermark before we check lag. This matches the pattern already used by TestWatermarkAdvancesContiguously. Verified with 50 consecutive passes (0 failures). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
TestCrashAfterRejectDoesNotLoseMessages was flaky because it asserted consumer lag immediately after Ack(), but Ack() only marks the delivery state — watermark advancement (which updates offset_acked) is deferred to the next poll loop tick. The test raced against the poll loop: if the lag check ran before advanceWatermark, offset_acked was still stale and lag was non-zero.
Fix by adding OnSignal to worker-2's queue and calling waitForSignal after acks, ensuring the poll loop has run advanceWatermark before we check lag. This matches the pattern already used by TestWatermarkAdvancesContiguously.
Test Plan
Ran the test 50 times to confirm it's no longer flaky:
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