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Enable class-level parallelism in Process tests (#135160)
## Motivation
Mitigate #135001's Process-suite execution-budget exhaustion by
isolating ambient-state-sensitive tests and restoring default xUnit
class-level parallelism on Windows/Linux. This follows the [review
suggestion](#135160 (comment))
and replaces the previous sharding approach without rewriting history.
**Desktop macOS retains the original assembly-wide serialization.**
Recent Mono x64 and Checked CoreCLR arm64 runs timed out under class
parallelism. This is a compatibility safeguard against the unresolved
concurrency problem, not a root-cause fix or a claim that macOS CI is
now green.
## Changes
- Run the three parent-environment tests wholly inside `RemoteExecutor`,
preserving nested child inheritance, overrides, null removal, and
fixture disposal. Process exit handles environment cleanup.
- Run the Windows encoding test inside a remote process that detaches
from the inherited console and allocates a private console. Preserve
native/code-page checks and the Unix/container UTF-8 path; process exit
frees the private console.
- Isolate the process-wide first-chance-exception counter with
`RemoteExecutor`.
- Use a unique directory and remote working directory for the Unix
executable-resolution test. Its standard `RemoteExecutor.IsSupported`
condition intentionally excludes that one outer-loop test when
RemoteExecutor is unsupported; the bespoke single-file fallback stays
removed.
- Define `TARGET_OSX` only for `TargetOS=osx` with the Unix target
framework, then apply the original `CollectionPerAssembly` attribute.
This uses the actual test build target, not the build host, and applies
to both Mono and CoreCLR. Windows/Linux keep class-level collections;
Android, MacCatalyst, and Browser behavior is unchanged. The Browser
assembly skip is preserved.
The existing single project and packaging remain. No sharding, thread
caps, timeout increases, product-code changes, or PR-specific CI gates.
The macOS safeguard changes scheduling only, not test eligibility.
## Validation
Supplemental compilation and actual xUnit discovery passed for eight
target configurations using cached CI dependencies. The macOS Mono x64,
CoreCLR arm64, and single-file source configurations each place all 765
locally discovered rows in **one shared collection**. Windows/Linux
retain class collections; Android/MacCatalyst/Browser remain
class-based. Cross-target evaluation on Windows verified that the gate
follows `TargetOS`, and an `osx` build with a MacCatalyst target
framework does not enable it. Local execution of two inexpensive tests
from different classes confirmed one executed collection for the
macOS-targeted assembly versus two for Windows/Linux. These are
cached-runtime metadata/smoke checks, **not actual macOS or NativeAOT
execution**; collection membership restores serialization even when the
runner reports multiple available threads.
The prior cleanup revision passed all four affected Windows tests and
ten concurrent parent-state probe calls with zero violations across
3,747 samples. Supported discovery/traits remained 724 Windows rows and
765 Unix rows, with 689 ordinary Windows cases; the only
unsupported-runner eligibility change was the accepted Unix outer-loop
condition.
Earlier local serial/parallel full-suite times were 763.201s and
311.975s on the same saved x86 Checked runtime. Both had the same
job-breakaway access-denied failure. These measurements are indicative,
not controlled performance proof or a promised CI speedup.
The earlier [Windows Server 2016
experiment](https://helix.dot.net/Job/e2b3d201-2701-4bfa-98b4-c796b562836b),
on test source `a083867ca24`, ran 691 cases: 687 passed, one
job-breakaway failure, three skips; 518.706 test seconds and 586.995
full work-item seconds. All five isolation cases passed with four-thread
class parallelism. It used the intact historical x86
Checked/Debug-libraries runtime from [build
1621730](https://dev.azure.com/dnceng-public/public/_build/results?buildId=1621730),
source `dda144147efa0a3669f11b283253da3ddf0bb9c1`, not a current-head
runtime build. Its reporting script also encountered an XML naming
collision. It was **not a green run**.
## Remaining limits
The local repository build is blocked by the missing shared-framework
targeting pack; actual NativeAOT evaluation is blocked by missing
ILCompiler targets. Supplemental checks do not establish a successful
repository, bundled single-file, or native-platform build. The macOS
concurrency problem and Windows job-breakaway failure remain unresolved.
This revision restores the old macOS scheduling only; passing macOS
Mono/CoreCLR execution still needs confirmation from the new automatic
CI run. No manual jobs, new baselines, reruns, or monitoring were
started.
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