Improving smoke test capabilities

[PerfectSlayer]

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What Does This Do

This PR introduces smoke tests framework based on JUnit.

It provides the following capabilities:

• Register smoke applications
  • Either web server application or CLI application
  • Can be extended to new kind of applications too
  • Lifecycle handled as part of the JUnit engine
  • Registered for parameter resolution
• Provide full trace content and structure verification
  • With assert rules and matchers (similar to instrumentation testing)
• Receive traces from test agent
  • No longer test against our own instrumentation
  • Open to snapshot testing
  • Introduce test agent session support to tracer headers
• Rely on the existing CI test agent
  • Will run test agent locally if docker engine is found
  • Can run the old mock server as alternative when no docker env is available

Additionally, this PR ports two smoke tests as example:

• opentelemetry - a basic CLI app
• spring-boot-rabbit - a complex multiple apps / queues setup

Motivation

Additional Notes

This will make some tests run with the test agent side car and enable trace invariant gate too (check_test_agent_results.sh).

Related pull-requests ready for review:

• Add test agent session token support #12050
• Avoid null collection on decoded spans #12087
• Add APM test agent trace decoding #12089
• Add decoded span assert rules #12088

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Jira ticket: APMLP-1247

[dd-octo-sts]

🟢 Java Benchmark SLOs — All performance SLOs passed

Suite	Status
Startup	🟢 pass

SLO thresholds are defined here based on automatically generated metrics. A warning is raised when results are within 5% of the threshold.

PR vs. master results

Scenario	Candidate	master	Δ (95% CI of mean)
startup:insecure-bank:iast:Agent	14.03 s	13.92 s	[+0.2%; +1.4%] (maybe worse)
startup:insecure-bank:tracing:Agent	12.94 s	13.01 s	[-1.5%; +0.3%] (no difference)
startup:petclinic:appsec:Agent	17.37 s	17.34 s	[-0.6%; +0.9%] (no difference)
startup:petclinic:iast:Agent	17.42 s	17.50 s	[-1.4%; +0.4%] (no difference)
startup:petclinic:profiling:Agent	17.40 s	17.14 s	[+0.3%; +2.7%] (maybe worse)
startup:petclinic:sca:Agent	17.51 s	17.36 s	[-0.1%; +1.8%] (no difference)
startup:petclinic:tracing:Agent	16.58 s	16.16 s	[-2.0%; +7.2%] (no difference)

Commit: c659547e · CI Pipeline · Benchmarking Platform UI

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[datadog-prod-us1-5]

Bits has a CI fix ready

🟢 Investigated · 🟢 Fix prepared · ⚪ Validation skipped · 🟠 Ready

TestAgentTraceDecoder now normalizes absent meta_struct values to an empty map, matching the shared decoded-span contract. OpenTelemetrySmokeTest skips the generic telemetry teardown assertion because its short-lived CLI process can exit before asynchronous telemetry is emitted, while the test verifies traces only.

Commit fix to this PR

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