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Graphviz Pipeline Graph with a Cycle

The same topology plus one back edge, so the graph is deliberately not a DAG. A renderer must still draw it and a scheduler must reject it, which is why this is a reference fixture rather than a corrupt file.

Graph dataData engineeringConversion testing
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/* INTENTIONALLY CYCLIC. The same topology plus a back edge from notify_owner to ingest_orders.
   A pipeline scheduler must reject this; a graph renderer must still draw it, which is what
   makes it useful as a reference rather than as a corrupt file. */
digraph orders_etl_cyclic {
  rankdir = LR;
  node [shape = box, style = rounded];

  ingest_orders     -> validate_orders;
  validate_orders   -> transform_orders;
  transform_orders  -> load_warehouse;
  transform_orders  -> refresh_dashboard;
  load_warehouse    -> notify_owner;
  refresh_dashboard -> notify_owner;

  /* the back edge that makes this not a DAG */
  notify_owner -> ingest_orders [color = "#dc2626", style = dashed, label = "back edge"];
}

Specifications

Format
Graphviz DOT
Type
digraph
Nodes
6
Edges
7
Acyclic
false
Back Edge
notify_owner -> ingest_orders

Testing contract

Reference control
Scenario
Detect a cycle in a DOT digraph that a renderer will still happily draw
Expected result
Cycle detection reports the notify_owner to ingest_orders back edge, while DOT parsing itself succeeds with 7 edges

What is a .dot file?

A DOT file is a Graphviz graph described in the DOT language (nodes, edges, and attributes as plain text) which Graphviz lays out and renders to an image. It is a standard way to define directed and undirected graphs as code.

How to use this file

Use an example DOT file to test Graphviz rendering, DOT parsing, and DOT-to-SVG/PNG conversion.

How to use this file for testing

“Graphviz Pipeline Graph with a Cycle” is a deterministic Testaroo fixture for Graph data, Data engineering, Conversion testing. Node/edge datasets in GraphML and GEXF (directed and undirected, with attributes and weights), for testing network importers, layout tools, and graph converters.

Documented properties for this file: 6 nodes · 7 edges · Graphviz DOT. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.

Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such, expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.

Pipeline and infrastructure fixtures are inert configuration: steps reference fictional images and scripts, and nothing here executes. Run your linter, schema validator, migrator, or policy engine against them, and expect the deprecated-syntax and intentionally invalid variants to be rejected.

Generated by generation/pipelines.py. Free for any use, no attribution required, license.

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