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Summary

  • Add end-to-end latency benchmarks for Android and iOS, with reports documenting baseline attempts, smoke runs, and investigation findings.
  • Add benchmark transport, session, reporting, and fixture support, plus measurement utilities and snapshot collection improvements.
  • Document the benchmark workflow, results, and approved Android snapshot-pair amendment.

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  • Added unit coverage for benchmark metrics, report generation, owned transport, and debug snapshot capture.
  • Added automated device benchmark coverage for Android and iOS; device results and limitations are recorded in the benchmark reports.

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  • New Features
    • Android debug snapshots now use the same fresh screen capture for the UI hierarchy and fingerprint, keeping both based on one observation.
    • Added optional request-timing diagnostics and end-to-end latency benchmarks for Android and iOS, with reports that include failed attempts and build details.
  • Documentation
    • Added benchmark instructions, results, limitations, and verification details. iOS fixture measurements remain blocked by prerequisites.

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Android debug snapshots now use one fresh UI tree for both the returned hierarchy and fingerprint. The change adds opt-in request and stage timing, Android and iOS latency benchmark harnesses, and documentation of measurement results, limitations, and verification.

Changes: Snapshot reuse and request timing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Measurement scope and protocol
docs/specs/036-end-to-end-interaction-latency/*
The accepted specification defines benchmark cases, reporting and timing requirements, device and cleanup boundaries, and limits on runtime and public-contract changes.
Android snapshot reuse and timing instrumentation
src/observe/snapshot-collection.ts, src/utils/benchmark-metrics.ts, src/utils/timing.ts, src/utils/exec.ts, src/server-core.ts, src/server/handlers/*, src/observe/device-readiness.ts, src/observe/screenshot-encoding.ts, src/interact/waits/ui-wait.ts, test/unit/observe/capture_debug_snapshot.test.ts, docs/tools/observe.md, docs/specs/036-end-to-end-interaction-latency/android-snapshot-*
Android snapshot collection passes the acquired tree to fingerprint calculation. Request and stage timings are emitted only when the latency metrics environment flag is enabled. Tests cover tree reuse, errors, concurrent device captures, and the unchanged iOS fingerprint path.
Benchmark execution and reporting
test/device/automated/latency/*, test/device/automated/latency-ios/*, test/fixtures/latency-journey-app/build.ts, test/unit/server/*, test/unit/utils/benchmark-metrics.test.ts
The benchmark harnesses record attempts, environment details, timings, and cleanup status. They validate observations and reports, compare measurement modes, and check source stability and subprocess cleanup.
Benchmark documentation and results
docs/benchmarks/*, docs/specs/036-end-to-end-interaction-latency/verification.md, docs/CHANGELOG.md
The documents report Android measurements and investigation findings, an iOS smoke run stopped by a readiness failure, verification evidence, benchmark instructions, and snapshot-pair results.

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Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant endToEnd as end-to-end.ts
  participant BenchmarkSession
  participant MCPServer as MCP server
  participant AndroidEmulator
  participant Reports as JSON and Markdown reports
  endToEnd->>BenchmarkSession: Connect instrumented and uninstrumented sessions
  endToEnd->>BenchmarkSession: Run benchmark case
  BenchmarkSession->>MCPServer: Call Android tool
  MCPServer->>AndroidEmulator: Perform observation or journey
  AndroidEmulator-->>MCPServer: Return tool result
  MCPServer-->>BenchmarkSession: Return result and timing metrics
  BenchmarkSession-->>endToEnd: Record attempt
  endToEnd->>Reports: Write benchmark results
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Possibly related issues

  • Issue 100: The benchmark harness and component timing address its measurement-first objectives. This change does not establish a verified optimization gain.
  • Issue 89: The PR adds iOS observation-latency measurement, but its documented smoke run produced no samples and it does not complete the equivalent iOS fixture journeys.

Possibly related PRs

  • clivejefferies/mobile-debug-tools#106: The benchmark measures compact journey modes and validates their responses, which connect to the compact response formatting and diagnostics changed in that PR.
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Review comments at
@docs/specs/036-end-to-end-interaction-latency/verification.md:
- Line 85: Revise the verification section’s blanket statement about runtime
optimization to clarify that it describes the original broad investigation, not
the later accepted Android tree-reuse candidate. Link to the later snapshot
verification and paired comparison so the section remains consistent with the
recorded result.

Review comments at @test/device/automated/latency-ios/benchmark.ts:
- Line 54: Update the report text generated in the `writeFileSync` call to
describe Settings as the intended screen rather than a stable screen, so reports
do not claim an observed starting state when the readiness assertion fails.

Review comments at @test/device/automated/latency/end-to-end.ts:
- Line 112: Track the fixture installation attempt independently of
`adb('install', '-r', apk)` completing, and update cleanup to detect and remove
a package created by this run even if installation times out before `installed`
is set. Apply the same correction to the paired runner’s install and cleanup
flow, preserving cleanup behavior for fixtures that were not created by the run.
- Line 51: Update the Markdown summary generated by the end-to-end report so its
percentile guidance reflects the successful sample counts actually collected,
rather than always claiming ten attempts. Use the per-case successful counts
represented in `rows`, including smoke and partial or empty runs, and describe
percentile limits accordingly.

Review comments at @test/device/automated/latency/snapshot-pair.ts:
- Around line 38-39: Update the fingerprint assertion using `current` and
`computeScreenFingerprint` so it uses the same activity value the collector used
when hashing the tree, rather than independently collected `raw.activity`. If
that value is not available to the test, establish and record a stable activity
before asserting; preserve coverage of the fingerprint calculation.

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