Workflow Failure Issue Triage
This dataset contains CI/CD workflow failure issues for the past month. This README serves as the auto-generated summary report.
Executive Summary
- Reporting period: Mar 03, 2025 – Apr 01, 2025 — 30 issues logged; 25 valid issues analyzed (Mar 03, 2025 – Mar 31, 2025).
- Excluded: 5 issues (3 closed, 2 duplicates) removed from analysis.
- Top root cause: Test Timeout (6 issues, 24% of valid), followed by Build Failure and Deployment Error (5 each).
- Volume: failure flow was steady at ~6 issues/week across the four full weeks, then dropped to 1 in the final partial week.
- Attention: 5 issues (20%) could not be classified (e.g. "Random pipeline crash", "Unexpected error") — consider extending the triage rules to capture these.
Classification Counts (25 valid issues)
| Root Cause | Count | Share of Valid |
|---|---|---|
| Build Failure | 5 | 20% |
| Test Timeout | 6 | 24% |
| Deployment Error | 5 | 20% |
| Configuration Error | 4 | 16% |
| Unknown | 5 | 20% |
| Total | 25 | 100% |
Weekly Breakdown
| Week (Mon–Sun) | Build Failure | Test Timeout | Deployment Error | Configuration Error | Unknown | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 03 – Mar 09 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Mar 10 – Mar 16 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| Mar 17 – Mar 23 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Mar 24 – Mar 30 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Mar 31 – Apr 06 (partial) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 25 |
Week-over-Week Observations
- Test Timeout spiked in the week of Mar 3 (3 issues), then settled to a steady 1/week — the most recurring failure category.
- Build Failure peaked in the week of Mar 17 (2 issues); otherwise 1/week.
- Deployment Error peaked in the week of Mar 24 (2 issues); otherwise 1/week.
- Configuration Error peaked in the week of Mar 10 (2 issues), then held at 1/week.
- Unclassified issues remained a constant ~1/week throughout — a persistent triage gap worth addressing.
Excluded from Analysis
| Issue | Title | Created | Status | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WF-005 | Build failure on main | 2025-03-07 | duplicate | Duplicate of another issue |
| WF-012 | Deploy failed due to config | 2025-03-14 | closed | Already closed / resolved |
| WF-018 | config_error: missing env | 2025-03-20 | closed | Already closed / resolved |
| WF-025 | build-failure on staging | 2025-03-27 | duplicate | Duplicate of another issue |
| WF-030 | Build failed for feature X | 2025-04-01 | closed | Already closed / resolved |
Excluded total: 5 issues — 3 closed, 2 duplicates. Exclusions are applied to all counts above.
Methodology
- Failure categories were normalized with fuzzy matching per
rules.txt(e.g.build_failure,build-failure,build failure→ Build Failure). - When a category was missing, the title was classified by keywords (
build,timeout,deploy,config); otherwise the issue was marked Unknown. - Issues with status
closedorduplicatewere excluded from all counts.