Error when running CodeQL tests on codespaces
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- typescript, vscode
- Domain
- devtools, testing-qa
Research direction
The payload names no repository file or test; start by reproducing the CodeQL test run in Codespaces and inspect the VS Code Remote extension output. Check the reported vscode-test-explorer-2.21.1 stack trace and determine whether the repository or that extension is responsible; done means the failure is resolved or its cause and reproduction path are documented.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Description
A user is getting errors when trying to run codeql tests in codespace. Even though the errors were logged, the tests ran anyway. Creating an issue in case anyone can reproduce this.

Stack trace from the "Log (Remote extension)" output pane:
[2022-01-05 16:41:53.030] [exthost] [error] TypeError: Cannot read property 'collection' of undefined
at TestExplorer.<anonymous> (/home/codespace/.vscode-remote/extensions/hbenl.vscode-test-explorer-2.21.1/out/testExplorer.js:118:55)
at Generator.next (<anonymous>)
at /home/codespace/.vscode-remote/extensions/hbenl.vscode-test-explorer-2.21.1/node_modules/tslib/tslib.js:117:75
at new Promise (<anonymous>)
at Object.__awaiter (/home/codespace/.vscode-remote/extensions/hbenl.vscode-test-explorer-2.21.1/node_modules/tslib/tslib.js:113:16)
at TestExplorer.run (/home/codespace/.vscode-remote/extensions/hbenl.vscode-test-explorer-2.21.1/out/testExplorer.js:113:24)
at /home/codespace/.vscode-remote/extensions/hbenl.vscode-test-explorer-2.21.1/out/main.js:74:82
at l._executeContributedCommand (/vscode/bin/linux-x64/6cba118ac49a1b88332f312a8f67186f7f3c1643/out/vs/server/remoteExtensionHostProcess.js:94:111652)
at l.$executeContributedCommand (/vscode/bin/linux-x64/6cba118ac49a1b88332f312a8f67186f7f3c1643/out/vs/server/remoteExtensionHostProcess.js:94:112090)
at i._doInvokeHandler (/vscode/bin/linux-x64/6cba118ac49a1b88332f312a8f67186f7f3c1643/out/vs/server/remoteExtensionHostProcess.js:98:13802)
at i._invokeHandler (/vscode/bin/linux-x64/6cba118ac49a1b88332f312a8f67186f7f3c1643/out/vs/server/remoteExtensionHostProcess.js:98:13486)
at i._receiveRequest (/vscode/bin/linux-x64/6cba118ac49a1b88332f312a8f67186f7f3c1643/out/vs/server/remoteExtensionHostProcess.js:98:12148)
at i._receiveOneMessage (/vscode/bin/linux-x64/6cba118ac49a1b88332f312a8f67186f7f3c1643/out/vs/server/remoteExtensionHostProcess.js:98:11025)
at /vscode/bin/linux-x64/6cba118ac49a1b88332f312a8f67186f7f3c1643/out/vs/server/remoteExtensionHostProcess.js:98:8922
at a.fire (/vscode/bin/linux-x64/6cba118ac49a1b88332f312a8f67186f7f3c1643/out/vs/server/remoteExtensionHostProcess.js:66:1712)
at l.fire (/vscode/bin/linux-x64/6cba118ac49a1b88332f312a8f67186f7f3c1643/out/vs/server/remoteExtensionHostProcess.js:74:15990)
at /vscode/bin/linux-x64/6cba118ac49a1b88332f312a8f67186f7f3c1643/out/vs/server/remoteExtensionHostProcess.js:113:30514
at a.fire (/vscode/bin/linux-x64/6cba118ac49a1b88332f312a8f67186f7f3c1643/out/vs/server/remoteExtensionHostProcess.js:66:1712)
at l.fire (/vscode/bin/linux-x64/6cba118ac49a1b88332f312a8f67186f7f3c1643/out/vs/server/remoteExtensionHostProcess.js:74:15990)
at u._receiveMessage (/vscode/bin/linux-x64/6cba118ac49a1b88332f312a8f67186f7f3c1643/out/vs/server/remoteExtensionHostProcess.js:74:21260)
at /vscode/bin/linux-x64/6cba118ac49a1b88332f312a8f67186f7f3c1643/out/vs/server/remoteExtensionHostProcess.js:74:18138
at a.fire (/vscode/bin/linux-x64/6cba118ac49a1b88332f312a8f67186f7f3c1643/out/vs/server/remoteExtensionHostProcess.js:66:1712)
at w.acceptChunk (/vscode/bin/linux-x64/6cba118ac49a1b88332f312a8f67186f7f3c1643/out/vs/server/remoteExtensionHostProcess.js:74:13351)
at /vscode/bin/linux-x64/6cba118ac49a1b88332f312a8f67186f7f3c1643/out/vs/server/remoteExtensionHostProcess.js:74:12699
at a.fire (/vscode/bin/linux-x64/6cba118ac49a1b88332f312a8f67186f7f3c1643/out/vs/server/remoteExtensionHostProcess.js:66:1712)
at /vscode/bin/linux-x64/6cba118ac49a1b88332f312a8f67186f7f3c1643/out/vs/server/remoteExtensionHostProcess.js:113:19582
at afterWrite (internal/streams/writable.js:466:5)
at onwrite (internal/streams/writable.js:446:7)
at InflateRaw.afterTransform (internal/streams/transform.js:103:3)
at Zlib.processCallback (zlib.js:586:8) test-explorer.run
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