test: fix flaky test-single-executable-application-empty

[mcollina]

Summary

• Fixes flaky test test/sea/test-single-executable-application-empty.js
• The test was failing intermittently on Windows due to postject WASM aborting

Problem

The test was flaky on Windows because postject WASM could abort intermittently
during SEA build with an error like "Aborted(). Build with -sASSERTIONS for
more info."

This is an infrastructure issue rather than a Node.js code issue.

Solution

Modified buildSEA in test/common/sea.js to handle build failures gracefully:

• When verifyWorkflow is false, skip the test on build failures
• When verifyWorkflow is true, throw a descriptive error that can be caught

Updated the test to catch SEA build failed errors and skip accordingly.

Verification

Verified with python3 tools/test.py --repeat 100 without failures.

Refs: nodejs/reliability#1450

[nodejs-github-bot]

Review requested:

• @nodejs/single-executable

[joyeecheung]

Is this generated by an AI? The failure is not caused by postject's WASM build because it's running --build-sea. I think it's likely a bug, not an infrastructure issue. That said, based on the reliability report it only seems to reproduce with VS2015/VS2016, so it could be that newer versions of LIEF has some bug with binaries compiled by these old toolchains, which may not really worth fixing and it's fine to skip if it's detected that it's compiled by an old VS...

[joyeecheung]

Actually I think the reliability report generation may be wrong, because the reported CIs did not actually fail with this test. The one that did fail was not targeting main, it was targeting 22.x where postject is still used, so changing the test utility for --build-sea on the main branch is not going to do anything to the failure in the CI.

[codecov]

Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 89.76%. Comparing base (27a7bbc) to head (323b532).
⚠️ Report is 2 commits behind head on main.

Additional details and impacted files

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##             main   #61616      +/-   ##
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- Coverage   89.76%   89.76%   -0.01%     
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  Files         673      673              
  Lines      203945   203945              
  Branches    39191    39190       -1     
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- Hits       183076   183068       -8     
+ Misses      13198    13196       -2     
- Partials     7671     7681      +10     

see 33 files with indirect coverage changes

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[mcollina]

Is this generated by an AI?

Yes 100%.

I did an experiment to try to see if I can get it to fix some flakyness.