Where are my remote tests running?

I’m currently setting up remote tests for our build pipeline. I’ve installed pio and got it logged in on my remote machine, but I currently have it turned off and the device unplugged.

On my development machine, if I run pio remote test, I’ve noticed that the project builds and apparently the tests are passing. Where are these tests being ran? I do not have any devices currently plugged into any computer.

The device list correctly shows no devices present:

$ pio remote device list
Could not find active agents. Please start it before on a remote machine using `pio remote agent start` command.
See http://docs.platformio.org/page/plus/pio-remote.html

I’m currently using the esp32-s3-devkitc-1 for these tests using espressif32@5.3.0. Here’s the relevant section in my platformio.ini:

[env]
monitor_raw = yes
monitor_speed = 115200
test_build_src = yes # ensures ./src is built when tests are ran
extra_scripts =
    pre:scripts/add_unit_test_define.py
    pre:scripts/add_git_version.py

# additional build flags:
#  * -Wall, -Werror for additional warnings and to treat warns as errors
#  * -Wno-nonnull-compare prevent errors when using NONNULL_ATTR and comparing to NULL
#  * -Wno-type-limits for a bug in Nimble
build_flags = -Wall -Werror -Wno-nonnull-compare -Wno-type-limits -DCOMPONENT_EMBED_FILES=web/build/root.html:web/public/favicon.ico

[env:esp32-s3-devkitc-1]
platform = espressif32@5.3.0
framework = espidf
board = esp32-s3-devkitc-1
board_build.flash_mode = dio
test_framework = unity
lib_deps = throwtheswitch/Unity@^2.5.2

Here is the output of the remote test:

$ pio remote test -vvv
Building project locally
Collected 11 tests ([...])

Processing test_net_http in my-project-name-debug environment
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Building...

[notice] A new release of pip available: 22.2.2 -> 23.1.2
[notice] To update, run: pip install --upgrade pip



--------------------------------------------------------------------- my-project-name-debug:test_net_http [PASSED] Took 12.68 seconds ---------------------------------------------------------------------