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Incorporated content from #52517 for implementation suggestions (see there for more details):

The circle icons for multiple parallel jobs could be collapsed into a single blob, e.g. with

 <span class="fa-clone"></span>

from https://fontawesome.com/icons/clone?style=solid

which can look like

@sebchlad already identified the right location in code which could be adjusted, e.g.
https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA/blob/master/lib/OpenQA/WebAPI/Controller/Test.pm#L567
where we could go over the result hash and combine all parallel test results into a stack.

• Clicking on the icon could open a popup with the individual results to go there. Alternative: In the most simple case just open the result from the first of the parallel job, e.g. jump immediately to the "Dependencies" tab.
• For labels: Combine them all, e.g. for two parallel jobs with one label each show the stack icon and two flash / bug icons next to it.
• The retry button can link to the first job as AFAIK the parallel jobs are started with it anyway already – or should be ;)
• Optional: On hovering over the icon show a list of test results of all stacked tests in a popover (don't overdo graphing, clickable, to be able to click into all icons, failed modules, bug icon, etc.)
• Result / color to show when they differ within the stack: Most likely user expectation on the result color is "worst", so combine with a precedence: incomplete beats fail beats cancel beats softfail beats passed
• For display of test name(s): Make it explicit and rather show a custom string from a test variable in any of the stack's job with fallback to all names with ellipsis.
• Having a cluster name for creating subgroups might actually be sensible as well - so cluster parallel jobs automatically (with autopicking a name if not present) and other jobs if they have the same cluster name. If parallel jobs have multiple cluster names, we'll explode and call shutdown. This cluster name might actually be an excellent choice for a job group template parameter - and so the circle closes :)

https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA/pull/3282

The pr for highlighting dependency jobs has been merged. I set the status to 'Feedback' because there is one thing I haven't implemented. See note #15850#note-10

IMHO we improved the UX but some ideas have been mentioned to improve further, e.g. collapsing multiple entries together, e.g. with the mentioned stack icon. Added a second AC accordingly. Leaving this ticket for the future to be followed up with.

@mkittler you might have missed that you yourself helped to resolve subtasks :)

Discussed during weekly 2022-05-06 and decided that we want to do just one more thing in #110719 and then call the epic resolved. I reviewed all the mentioned ideas and I guess it's ok like that :)

Resolving because all sub tasks have been resolved. I hope these improvements should be good enough for now.