Make the Playwright e2e + kicad suites deterministic so screenshot flake stops
tracing to timing races.
- Blind page.waitForTimeout -> condition waits (expect.poll, web-first
assertions, waitUntil) + readiness helpers (waitForWxApp, waitForCanvasApp).
Remaining sleeps are documented interaction dwells (annotated).
- Defensive "if element exists" branches -> loud asserts; label-fallback chains
-> normalized clickMenuItemByText. First-run wizard for/if loops removed by
seeding calculator/gerbview/pcbnew HTMLs.
- Screenshots: new stableShot(page, name) settles the render in-page (canvas
hash over rAF) then writes a raw PNG to test-results/ for the existing offline
gate (tools/screenshots vs baseline-screenshots). Replaces toHaveScreenshot,
which did inline compare + its own baselines and had decoupled the specs from
the real gate. scale:'css' pinned.
- retries: 0 in both configs.
- Guard: tests/tools/lint-determinism.ts (npm run lint:determinism) bans blind
sleeps / toHaveScreenshot / inline retries / swallowed catches in specs;
documented exceptions carry a marker. Rules in tests/TESTING.md.
Assertions, coverage, and renders unchanged (semantic-equivalence reviewed;
captures pixel-identical modulo inherent timer/timestamp/3d-raytrace variance).
Both suites green at retries:0 (e2e 340, kicad 92); ~35-61% faster.
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Move console.log call before the null guard in LogEvent() so that
messages are always logged to the browser console, even during early
initialization when m_log is not yet created.
Also make the "Tree is populated" test more robust by falling back to
verifying tree functionality (expand events) if early init logs are
not captured by Playwright due to timing.
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- Add null guard in TreeTestFrame::LogEvent() to prevent crash when
events fire before m_log is initialized during tree population
- Update button click coordinates in tree.spec.ts for Add Item and
Delete Selected buttons
- Update WHATWORKS.md to reflect wxTreeCtrl now fully working (7/7 tests)
- Update baseline screenshots for tree tests
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- Extract common logging code to tests/e2e/utils/
- fixtures.ts: Playwright fixture with automatic log capture
- test-utils.ts: Logging utilities and helper functions
- Each test now automatically captures:
- Console logs with timestamps and log levels
- Page errors with full stack traces
- Log files written per test to tests/logs/
- <test-name>.log for all console output
- <test-name>.errors.log only when errors occur
- Update all 13 spec files to use shared fixtures
- Update README with test structure and logging docs
- Net reduction of ~700 lines by removing duplicated code
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