test_runner: don't parse TAP from stderr

This commit stops the test runner CLI from parsing child
process stderr as TAP. Per the TAP spec, TAP can only come from
stdout. To avoid losing stderr data, those logs are injected
into the parser as unknown tokens so that they are output as
comments.

PR-URL: #45618
Reviewed-By: Moshe Atlow <moshe@atlow.co.il>

Author: cjihrig

lib/internal/test_runner/runner.js

@@ -241,22 +241,29 @@ function runTestFile(path, root, inspectPort, filesWatcher) {
       err = error;
     });
 
-    if (isUsingInspector()) {
-      const rl = createInterface({ input: child.stderr });
-      rl.on('line', (line) => {
-        if (isInspectorMessage(line)) {
-          process.stderr.write(line + '\n');
-        }
-      });
-    }
-
-    const parser = new TapParser();
-    child.stderr.pipe(parser).on('data', (ast) => {
-      if (ast.lexeme && isInspectorMessage(ast.lexeme)) {
-        process.stderr.write(ast.lexeme + '\n');
+    const rl = createInterface({ input: child.stderr });
+    rl.on('line', (line) => {
+      if (isInspectorMessage(line)) {
+        process.stderr.write(line + '\n');
+        return;
       }
+
+      // stderr cannot be treated as TAP, per the spec. However, we want to
+      // surface stderr lines as TAP diagnostics to improve the DX. Inject
+      // each line into the test output as an unknown token as if it came
+      // from the TAP parser.
+      const node = {
+        kind: TokenKind.UNKNOWN,
+        node: {
+          value: line,
+        },
+      };
+
+      subtest.addToReport(node);
     });
 
+    const parser = new TapParser();
+
     child.stdout.pipe(parser).on('data', (ast) => {
       subtest.addToReport(ast);
     });

lib/internal/util/inspector.js

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ const { validatePort } = require('internal/validators');
 const kMinPort = 1024;
 const kMaxPort = 65535;
 const kInspectArgRegex = /--inspect(?:-brk|-port)?|--debug-port/;
-const kInspectMsgRegex = /Debugger listening on ws:\/\/\[?(.+?)\]?:(\d+)\/|Debugger attached|Waiting for the debugger to disconnect\.\.\./;
+const kInspectMsgRegex = /Debugger listening on ws:\/\/\[?(.+?)\]?:(\d+)\/|For help, see: https:\/\/nodejs\.org\/en\/docs\/inspector|Debugger attached|Waiting for the debugger to disconnect\.\.\./;
 
 const _isUsingInspector = new SafeWeakMap();
 function isUsingInspector(execArgv = process.execArgv) {

test/fixtures/test-runner/user-logs.js

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+'use strict';
+const test = require('node:test');
+
+console.error('stderr', 1);
+
+test('a test', async () => {
+  console.error('stderr', 2);
+  await new Promise((resolve) => {
+    console.log('stdout', 3);
+    setTimeout(() => {
+      // This should not be sent to the TAP parser.
+      console.error('not ok 1 - fake test');
+      resolve();
+      console.log('stdout', 4);
+    }, 2);
+  });
+  console.error('stderr', 5);
+});
+
+console.error('stderr', 6);

test/parallel/test-runner-cli.js

@@ -168,3 +168,29 @@ const testFixtures = fixtures.path('test-runner');
   assert.match(stdout, /# pass 2/);
   assert.match(stdout, /# fail 1/);
 }
+
+{
+  // Test user logging in tests.
+  const args = [
+    '--test',
+    'test/fixtures/test-runner/user-logs.js',
+  ];
+  const child = spawnSync(process.execPath, args);
+
+  assert.strictEqual(child.status, 0);
+  assert.strictEqual(child.signal, null);
+  assert.strictEqual(child.stderr.toString(), '');
+  const stdout = child.stdout.toString();
+  assert.match(stdout, /# Subtest: .+user-logs\.js/);
+  assert.match(stdout, / {4}# stderr 1/);
+  assert.match(stdout, / {4}# stderr 2/);
+  assert.match(stdout, / {4}# stdout 3/);
+  assert.match(stdout, / {4}# stderr 6/);
+  assert.match(stdout, / {4}# not ok 1 - fake test/);
+  assert.match(stdout, / {4}# stderr 5/);
+  assert.match(stdout, / {4}# stdout 4/);
+  assert.match(stdout, / {4}# Subtest: a test/);
+  assert.match(stdout, / {4}ok 1 - a test/);
+  assert.match(stdout, /# tests 1/);
+  assert.match(stdout, /# pass 1/);
+}