node:test: enforce the timeout and signal options of suites

[robobun]

Problem

• The timeout and signal options of describe() / suite() are validated and then ignored under bun test, for top-level suites and for suites declared inside a running test alike. This file reports 1 pass, exit 0; node --test (v26.3.0) fails the suite with test timed out after 50ms, fails the child with test did not finish before its parent and was cancelled, and exits 1:

  import { describe, it } from "node:test";
  describe("suite", { timeout: 50 }, () => {
    it("child", async () => { await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 200)); });
  });

  Same with describe("suite", { signal: AbortSignal.abort() }, ...): bun runs and passes the child, node fails the suite with the reason and never runs the child.
• Cause, in src/js/node/test.ts: a top-level suite is registered as a bun:test describe block in addSuite() (bunTestOptions() forwards the timeout, but bun:test's describe does not take one, and nothing looked at the signal); an inline suite's scheduleSuiteSubtest() only drained its children. Tests enforce their own timeout in executeTestNode(); nothing enforced a suite's. Same on 1.3.x and main, not a regression.

Fix

• TestNode gets the pieces of Node's Suite.run() / postRun() that a suite needs: every node sits in its parent's unfinishedSubtests (bun:test-driven and inline children alike) until finish() removes it, so a finished node stays collectable as before; fail(error) records a verdict that arrives from outside the node's own run, cancel(error) is fail() plus aborting the node's signal (t.signal / suite.signal now come from the node, so a cancelled test's t.signal aborts), and cancelSubtests() is the recursive sweep of that set. executeTestNode() reports a test that was swept while queued without running hooks or body, and, for a test inside a suite that has one of these options (inStoppableSuite), races the body and plan wait against cancellation() as well as its own timeout, so the sweep ends the running child's turn; a cancellation is the verdict however the body settles afterwards. scheduleSubtest() does not run the before hooks for a swept child.
• createStopController() takes the signal too (the suite's stop rejects with the timeout or with the signal's reason, abortFailure(): reason, or Node's AbortError('The test was aborted') for a falsy one); tests still pass only their timeout. armSuiteStop() is the stopTest() call of Suite.run(): when it fires, the suite is failed (timeout) or cancelled (signal; this is the one case where the suite's own signal aborts, as in Node) and the children are swept. suiteShouldAbort() is [kShouldAbort]: a suite that was swept, or whose signal has aborted by the time its turn comes, is cancelled along with its children and runs nothing; armSuiteStop() asks it again once the before hooks have run, so a signal aborted by one of them stops the suite right there (remaining before hooks and the after hooks still run, no child starts), as Node's eager abort listener does.
• Inline suites: startInlineSuite() is chained at the head of the suite's own subtest chain, ahead of its children, and does the abort check, the before hooks (moved here from run(); they are still recorded on the suite and a failing one still fails the children through the memoized rejection), then arms the stop. run() drains (a stopped suite drains on its own: the running child is woken up, the rest report as cancelled; a child that is inside a hook at that moment reports once the hook returns, see the last difference below), disposes the stop, runs the after hooks only if the suite started, and reports cancelError as the suite's error (also as the cause rolled up into the owning test, and in the run() event), failing the owning test even when no child failed.
• Top-level suites: bun:test runs the children, so the suite's part is spread over hooks of its describe block, registered from the describe callback wrapper only when the suite or an enclosing suite has one of these options. bun:test runs hooks of one kind in registration order, so the pair registered before the callback runs ahead of the suite's own before() / after() hooks and the pair registered after it runs behind them, giving Node's order: the leading beforeAll does the abort check and marks the suite started; the trailing beforeAll arms the stop (the suite's before hooks have run by then and, as in Node, do not count against the timeout); the leading afterAll releases the stop before the suite's after hooks (a stop can no longer fail the suite once its children are done, and the timer is released whatever those hooks do); the trailing afterAll reports a suite that was stopped after it started. A suite's own failure is reported by throwing from the hook, which bun:test shows as a failure of the describe block and, from the leading beforeAll, also makes it skip the block's hooks and tests (what Node does with a suite that never starts); a todo suite's failure is not thrown, as it is not a failure in Node. The node:test before() / after() wrappers skip their hook for a suite that never started (suiteNeverStarted(): bun:test still runs a block's afterAll hooks after its beforeAll failed, and a todo suite's leading hook does not fail), while a suite stopped after it started still runs its after hooks, as in Node.
• Why this is right: each behavior above is what node --test v26.3.0 does when run on the same files (details below): running child and queued children cancelled as cancelledByParent, queued nested suites cancelled without running their hooks, after hooks run for a stopped suite and skipped for one that never started, before hooks exempt from the timeout, suite failed with the timeout / the reason / The test was aborted, suite.signal aborted by the signal option but left alone by a timeout, a signal aborted by the suite's own before hook still running the other hooks but starting no child, a test's own shorter timeout still applying inside a suite, and a suite stopped while a child is inside an await t.test() cancelling that in-flight subtest as well (both signals abort). Suites without these options register no hooks and get no race, so they behave exactly as before. Deliberate differences, none of which changes a verdict: bun:test lists a suite's own failure as a failed hook of the block (it has no verdict line for a describe block); the children of a top-level suite that never started are skipped by bun:test rather than listed one by one, and under run() the children of an inline suite that was already aborted report as cancelled where Node drops them silently; the children are swept when the stop fires, before the suite's after hooks, because the sweep is what lets the chain (or bun:test's scope) drain, whereas Node runs the after hooks first; and a stopped inline suite still waits for a hook one of its children (or a nested suite) is in the middle of before it reports, where Node reports at once and lets the hook finish in the background (same verdicts, later by the hook's remaining duration; bounded by the hook, or bun:test's watchdog for one that never returns, exactly as on main today). Not waiting would mean running that node's after hooks while its before hook is still running, or completing it in the background, which is the restructuring node:test: cancel subtests still pending when their parent finishes #39286 does to the drain, so it is left for that rebase.
• Two bun:test facts shape the hooks and are noted in the code: a callback registered while an async context is active (a nested describe callback runs inside its parent's, through the shim's AsyncLocalStorage) is wrapped by bun:test in a way that hides its arity, so bun:test waits for a done callback regardless of the function's parameter count (every test and hook callback this module hands to bun:test already declares and calls done; the new hooks do too), and an error passed to done() is only printed by bun:test, while a throw fails the hook. Both are bun:test issues in their own right and were reported separately; the code here is correct either way.
• Verified: test/js/node/test_runner/node-test.test.ts, 49 pass on the debug build; the four new tests (fixtures/32-suite-timeout.js, 33-suite-signal.js, 34-inline-suite-stop.js under bun test, and 34 again through run()) fail on the unfixed build with the children running and nothing cancelled (fixture bodies only wait for their cancellation with a 200ms bound, so the failing runs are fast). Fixtures 33 and 34 include the signal-aborted-by-a-before-hook case for both kinds of suite. Fixture 34's checks pass verbatim under node --test v26.3.0 and fixtures 32/33 print the same markers and fail the same entities there (modulo the after-hook ordering above). The 25 ported test/js/node/test/parallel/test-runner-* files are unchanged (24 pass; test-runner-mock-timers-scheduler.js fails its 100ms wall-clock bound under the debug build regardless), as are the node:test users in test/regression/issue and test/cli/test/bun-test.test.ts. Also checked by hand: -t filtering, --rerun-each, --todo, a throwing describe callback, and that a 30s suite timeout no longer keeps a BUN_TEST_DRAIN_EVENT_LOOP child (what run() spawns) alive once the suite is done.
• Related open PRs: node:test: abort t.signal and enforce the test-level signal option #39287 (test-level signal option and aborting t.signal; it deliberately left suites out and notes the gap) and node:test: cancel subtests still pending when their parent finishes #39286 (a finished parent test sweeping its unfinished subtests) build the same Node postRun() machinery on TestNode for their own triggers, so this conflicts textually with both; the fixtures here are numbered 32-34 to stay clear of theirs. Whichever lands first, the others rebase onto its cancel() / sweep; if this lands second, I will rebase it (it then keeps the suite arming, the two registration paths, fail() for the timeout case, and the tests).

Background

• node:test under bun is a shim (src/js/node/test.ts) over bun:test. A top-level test() registers a bun:test test whose body is executeTestNode(); a top-level describe() registers a bun:test describe block whose callback declares the children, and bun:test then runs them itself, so the shim has no code of its own running "for" such a suite. before() / after() inside one become bun:test beforeAll / afterAll hooks, and bun:test runs a block's hooks in registration order. A describe() called while a test is running is an inline suite: the shim runs its children itself, serialized on the suite's subtestChain (a promise chain every child appends a link to), and scheduleSuiteSubtest() rolls the result up into the owning test.
• A TestNode is the shim's per-test / per-suite record; TestContext (t) and SuiteContext are the objects handed to user code. executeTestNode() runs one test: inherited beforeEach hooks, the body raced against a stop controller, the plan wait, the verdict, afterEach/after hooks.
• In Node, Suite.run() awaits the build, returns at once if the suite is already cancelled ([kShouldAbort], dropping its children), runs the before hooks, arms stopTest(timeout, signal), races the children against it, runs the after hooks, and on a stop fails the suite; postRun() then cancels every unfinished child with cancelledByParent, recursively. Test#cancel records the error and aborts the test's own AbortController, whose signal is t.signal; a suite's signal option is wired to that at construction, which is why an aborted signal also aborts suite.signal while a timeout does not. A stop controller here is the port of stopTest(): one never-resolving promise per run that rejects on the timeout or the signal and is disposed when the run is over.

Node v26.3.0 vs bun, before and after, on the probes behind the design

Top-level suite with { timeout: 50 }: running child, queued child, nested suite (with a child and hooks), empty nested suite, before/after hooks, plus a test after the suite.

• node: before hook runs; at 50ms the after hook runs; running child, queued child, nested child, nested suite, empty nested suite all cancelledByParent; suite test timed out after 50ms; the later test passes; exit 1.
• bun before: everything runs and passes, exit 0.
• bun after: before hook runs; running child and queued child fail as cancelled; each nested suite fails (as a failed hook of its block) as cancelled and its children are skipped; after hook runs; suite fails as test timed out after 50ms; the later test passes; exit 1.

Top-level suite with an already aborted signal, and one whose signal an earlier test aborts:

• node: the describe callback runs, then at the suite's turn it fails with the reason; no hook and no child runs; exit 1. Same for both.
• bun before: hooks and children run and pass, exit 0.
• bun after: callback runs, suite fails with the reason, no hook and no child runs, exit 1.

Top-level suite whose signal aborts while its second child runs:

• node: first child passes; the running child's t.signal aborts and it is cancelled; the queued child is cancelled; the after hook sees suite.signal.aborted === true; the suite fails with the reason.
• bun after: identical (the after hook runs after the cancelled children rather than before them).

Inline suites inside one test ({ timeout: 30 } with a slow and a queued child, an already aborted one, and one within its timeout):

• node: first suite test timed out after 30ms with both children cancelled, second fails with the reason and its child is never reported, third passes; the owning test fails with 2 subtests failed.
• bun after: the same, except that under run() the aborted suite's child is reported as cancelled; under bun test the owning test fails with 2 subtests failed and the timeout as its printed cause.

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Walkthrough

Changes

Suite cancellation and timeout handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Cancellation state and stop controllers src/js/node/test.ts	TestNode now tracks shared signals, cancellation errors, child nodes, and stoppable suites. Stop controllers race timeouts and abort signals, then clean up listeners and timers.
Test cancellation during execution src/js/node/test.ts	Tests race bodies, plans, and subtest draining against cancellation. Queued tests skip execution and preserve the first cancellation error.
Suite lifecycle and reporting src/js/node/test.ts	Inline and top-level suites coordinate stop controllers, child cancellation, lifecycle hooks, cleanup, and cancellation reporting.
Timeout and signal coverage test/js/node/test_runner/fixtures/*, test/js/node/test_runner/node-test.test.ts	Fixtures and runner tests cover suite timeouts, abort signals, hook behavior, child outcomes, cleanup, and run() events.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#39286: Both changes modify test-runner cancellation, timeout, stop-controller, and suite lifecycle handling.
• oven-sh/bun#39287: This change extends related suite-level cancellation and signal behavior in src/js/node/test.ts.

Suggested reviewers: cirospaciari

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^{Updated 12:10 AM PT - Aug 16th, 2026}

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• test/js/bun/s3/s3.test.ts - code 1 on 🐧 25.04 x64

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Status: reproduced on main (8c5296a) and on the 1.4 canary with the describe(name, { timeout }) / { signal: AbortSignal.abort() } files in the description (bun passes everything, node --test v26.3.0 fails the suite and cancels the children). Fix is in src/js/node/test.ts; coverage is test/js/node/test_runner/node-test.test.ts with fixtures 32-34, which fail on the unfixed build and pass with it (49/49 on the debug build as of b9fb05b). Review threads are addressed (summary in the comment below); waiting on CI.

[claude]

Beyond the inline finding, I also checked whether a stoppable top-level suite whose describe callback throws/rejects would leave its stop unarmed — registerTopLevelSuiteStart is never reached in that case, but the callback's error already fails the block and no children run, so nothing leaks or hangs.

Extended reasoning...

One nit-level Node-compat edge was found (top-level suite's after hooks skipped when the signal aborts during a before hook); the PR is still a strict improvement over the status quo where these options were ignored entirely. The change is large (~350 net lines across two execution paths — bun:test-driven hooks for top-level suites, subtest-chain links for inline suites) and the PR description notes textual conflicts with two related open PRs building the same cancel/sweep machinery, so a human look is warranted regardless. The ruled-out concern above was the one additional candidate the finder agents raised.

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In `@src/js/node/test.ts`:
- Around line 1557-1559: Prune completed children from the parent’s subtests
bookkeeping: update the child-completion lifecycle around the TestNode subtests
handling so finished TestNode instances are removed or compacted, while
cancelSubtests() continues to see every unfinished stoppable child.
- Around line 2597-2612: The stop handler in armSuiteStop must choose fail
versus cancel from the recorded stop reason, not a later read of signal.aborted.
Update createStopController or the surrounding stop.promise handling so the
winning timeout/abort racer is preserved and timeout errors still call
suite.fail even if the signal aborts before the rejection handler runs; retain
suite.cancelSubtests() for either outcome.

In `@test/js/node/test_runner/node-test.test.ts`:
- Around line 404-411: Replace the unsupported run(...).toArray() call in the
test.concurrent case with a supported async-iteration collector, preserving the
existing events filtering and outcome mapping for the inline-suite stop
scenario.

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Additional findings (outside current diff — PR may have been updated during review):

• 🟡 src/js/node/test.ts:2618-2631 — A parent inline suite's stop does not wake a nested inline suite that is inside await runOwnBeforeHooks — startInlineSuite (line 2622) awaits the before hooks without racing suite.cancellation(), so the whole chain up to the owning test's runBody() waits for the hook to return (or hangs, if it never does) instead of draining at ~T. Not a regression (suite timeouts were ignored before) and the eventual verdict is correct, so probably fine as a follow-up alongside the #39286/#39287 rebase; the "a stopped suite drains too" comment at line 2649 is worth qualifying in the meantime.

  Extended reasoning...

  What the bug is

  The drain mechanism this PR introduces relies on cancelSubtests() waking every running child so an inline suite's chain drains once its stop fires. For a child test that works: executeTestNode races the body and plan wait against node.cancellation() (via untilStopped). But for a child suite, the link on the chain is startInlineSuite(suite), and its

  await runOwnBeforeHooks(suite);

  at line 2622 is not raced against anything. So when a stoppable inline suite A has a nested inline suite B whose before() hook is still running when A's stop fires, A.cancelSubtests() calls B.cancel(undefined), which sets B.cancelError and would reject B.#cancellation — but nothing has ever asked for B.cancellation(), so B.#cancellation is undefined and the ?.reject in fail() is a no-op. startInlineSuite(B) keeps awaiting the hook, and the whole chain waits with it.

  Step-by-step trace

  test('t', () => {
    describe('A', { timeout: 20 }, () => {
      describe('B', () => {
        before(() => new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 5000)));
        it('c', () => {});
      });
    });
  });

  1. t runs. A is inline (t.isRunning()); A.subtestChain = t.subtestChain → gate_A → startInlineSuite(A); scheduleSuiteSubtest(t, A) chains run_A onto t.subtestChain.
  2. B is inline (A.isRunning() via isExecutionPhase); B.subtestChain = A.subtestChain → gate_B → startInlineSuite(B); scheduleSuiteSubtest(A, B) chains run_B onto A.subtestChain; it('c') chains onto B.subtestChain.
  3. executeTestNode(t): t.inStoppableSuite is false (its parent is the root/collection, no stop options) and t.options.timeout is undefined, so stops = [] and untilStopped(runBody()) === runBody() — nothing bounds it.
  4. runBody() → drainSubtestChain(t) → run_A() → drainSubtestChain(A) → startInlineSuite(A) (no before hooks; armSuiteStop(A) arms the 20 ms timer) → run_B() → drainSubtestChain(B) → startInlineSuite(B).
  5. startInlineSuite(B) reaches line 2622 and awaits runOwnBeforeHooks(B), which awaits the 5000 ms promise. Not raced against B.cancellation() or anything else.
  6. At 20 ms, A's stop.promise rejects → A.fail(timeout), A.cancelSubtests() → B.cancel(undefined) → B.fail(cancelledByParent) sets B.cancelError and does this.#cancellation?.reject(error). B.#cancellation is undefined (only executeTestNode ever calls node.cancellation()), so nothing wakes.
  7. startInlineSuite(B) stays parked. The chain drainSubtestChain(B) ← run_B ← drainSubtestChain(A) ← run_A ← drainSubtestChain(t) ← runBody() waits ~5 s. With before(() => new Promise(() => {})) it hangs until bun:test's default watchdog kills t with the wrong error.

  Node's Suite.run() races SafePromiseAll(subtests.map(s => s.run())) against stopPromise, so A's race resolves at ~20 ms regardless of where B.run() is; B's before hook keeps running in the background but nothing waits for it.

  Why the existing checks don't help

  • suiteShouldAbort(B) is checked at line 2619, before the before hooks, not raced against them.
  • armSuiteStop(B)'s post-hook suiteShouldAbort check (line 2598) only runs after runOwnBeforeHooks returns.
  • The comment at line 2649 ("A stop ends the running child's turn and the rest report as cancelled, so a stopped suite drains too") holds for child tests but not for a child suite parked here.

  The same shape exists for a child test's beforeEach loop in executeTestNode (awaited before the raced body), though that's less likely to be slow in practice.

  Impact and severity

  Not a regression: before this PR the same await runOwnBeforeHooks(suite) sat in scheduleSuiteSubtest.run() and suite timeouts were ignored entirely, so the same scenario already waited the full duration. The eventual verdict once the hook returns is correct (armSuiteStop(B) → suiteShouldAbort(B) sees cancelError and cancels c); only the timing differs from Node, and a truly never-resolving hook is bounded by bun:test's watchdog. The trigger — a nested inline suite whose before hook is the thing running when its enclosing inline suite times out, all inside a running test — is narrow. The PR is a strict improvement either way, so this is a nit / follow-up, not a merge blocker.

  Possible fix

  Race the before-hook wait against the suite's cancellation, e.g.:

  await Promise.race([runOwnBeforeHooks(suite), suite.cancellation()]);

  catching a cancellation the same way the post-hook suiteShouldAbort check would (record the failure, skip armSuiteStop, and let the queued children report as cancelled). Alternatively, mirror Node more directly and have scheduleSuiteSubtest's run() race drainSubtestChain(suite) against the parent's stop. Either way it likely folds into the #39286/#39287 rebase the PR description already anticipates.

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Review follow-ups, as of b9fb05b:

• Signal aborting during a suite's own before() hook (inline review above): fixed in 370a971. The abort check and the started flag of a top-level suite now live in a beforeAll registered ahead of the suite's own hooks, only the arming stays behind them, and armSuiteStop() re-runs the check, so such a suite is treated as stopped after it started: the remaining before hooks and the after hooks run, no child starts, and it fails with the reason, matching node --test (fixtures 33 and 34 now cover this for both kinds of suite; 34's assertions still pass verbatim under node). The per-hook re-check in the before() wrapper is gone with it, so a signal aborted by hook 1 no longer skips hook 2.
• Nested inline suite (or a child) that is inside a hook when the enclosing inline suite stops: confirmed, and it is timing-only. Verdicts are identical to node's (child and nested suite cancelledByParent, suite test timed out, owner 1 subtest failed); the owning test just reports once the hook returns, bounded by the hook itself (or bun:test's watchdog for a hook that never returns, which is also what happens on main today). Waking the parked link is not enough on its own: the nested suite's after hooks must not run while its before hook is still running, so the node would have to complete in the background, which is the drain restructuring node:test: cancel subtests still pending when their parent finishes #39286 does. Left for that rebase; noted in the description and next to the drain.
• Finished children are now removed from the sweep set (unfinishedSubtests / finish(), e33a93b), so nothing is retained longer than before this change. run(...).toArray() is supported here (Readable.prototype.toArray comes from internal/streams/operators; the test passes), and the fail-vs-cancel decision in the stop handler intentionally reads the signal at that point, which is the condition node's eager abort listener implements; both threads have the details.
• The comment linter flagged every multi-line comment in the diff; the pass in e33a93b and d372da1 cut the added comment lines by more than half, and what remains is node line references and the bun:test behaviors the hooks depend on, in the style of the rest of the file. Those threads are resolved.

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I re-reviewed after 370a971 and the follow-ups — the top-level-suite before()-aborts-signal case I flagged earlier is now handled correctly (leading/trailing hook split, and fixtures 33/34 cover it), and no new issues turned up this pass. Given this is ~350 lines of new cancellation/lifecycle machinery in the node:test shim that two other open PRs (#39287, #39286) will rebase onto, a human look is still worthwhile before merge.

Checked: unfinishedSubtests prunes on finish() so completed nodes stay collectable; createStopController disposes both timer and abort listener on every path; inStoppableSuite gates the extra race so suites without these options take the exact pre-PR path; the async-describe-callback rejection case still registers no trailing hooks (only .then, no catch swallow).

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR ports Node's Suite.run() / postRun() timeout+signal enforcement into Bun's node:test shim (src/js/node/test.ts). It adds cancellation state to TestNode (unfinishedSubtests, cancelError, fail()/cancel()/cancelSubtests(), a per-node AbortController backing t.signal/suite.signal), extends createStopController to race a signal alongside the timeout, and wires two enforcement paths: inline suites via startInlineSuite() chained ahead of the children, and top-level suites via leading/trailing beforeAll/afterAll pairs that bracket the user's own hooks. executeTestNode now short-circuits swept-while-queued children and races the body/plan against an ancestor-suite cancellation. Three new fixtures and four new tests cover top-level timeout, top-level signal (including aborted-by-own-before-hook), inline suites under bun test, and inline suites through run().

Prior feedback

My earlier finding — a signal aborted during a top-level suite's own before() hook was misclassified as "never started" so its after() hooks were skipped — was fixed in 370a971 exactly as suggested: the abort check and suiteStarted = true moved to a beforeAll registered before the describe callback (registerTopLevelSuiteLeadingHooks), only armSuiteStop stays in the trailing pair, and armSuiteStop re-runs suiteShouldAbort. The per-hook re-check in the before() wrapper is gone, replaced by a single suiteNeverStarted() gate. Fixtures 33 and 34 both include the aborted-by-before-hook case now, and the test asserts the second before hook and the after hook both still run. The other three CodeRabbit threads (subtests retention, stop-verdict source, toArray, expectFailure-on-cancel) were each answered or fixed and are resolved.

Security risks

None. This is test-runner control flow in the node:test compat layer; no parsing of untrusted external input, no auth/crypto/fs/network surface.

Level of scrutiny

High, and beyond what an automated pass should sign off on alone. The change is large and its correctness hinges on subtle ordering (bun:test hook registration order, subtestChain sequencing, microtask timing of the stop rejection vs. signal.aborted), with acknowledged deliberate divergences from Node (after-hook ordering relative to the sweep; a stopped inline suite waiting on an in-flight child hook). It also establishes shared infrastructure that #39287 and #39286 will rebase onto, so the shape of TestNode.cancel()/fail()/unfinishedSubtests is a design decision a maintainer should ratify.

Other factors

Test coverage is thorough (exact marker sequences, exact pass/fail counts, the run() event stream sorted and matched by name+message, the 30s-timeout leak check, the falsy-reason case, a test's own shorter timeout inside a suite). The inStoppableSuite gate keeps suites without these options on the exact pre-PR code path. No outstanding unresolved review threads.