test(goldens): scoped 0.5% diff threshold for chart-line drift#624
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The home_page_loaded golden renders a stroked price-chart path whose sub-pixel anti-aliasing coverage values jitter across runs even on the locked dfx01 renderer — bot commit 044852b and the d25c61d follow-up regenerated the same baseline twice within five days, both touching only the curve region. Wraps just this one goldenTest in AlchemistConfig.runWithConfig with diffThreshold: 0.005. All other goldens stay at the 0.0 default — they have no comparable drift surface (static text/icons, no stroked paths). The threshold is well below the size of any meaningful UI change: a typical icon, glyph, or button removal covers >2% of pixels, so the gate still catches real regressions while absorbing the AA noise that drove the manual regen cycle.
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Summary
Scopes a
diffThreshold: 0.005only on thehome_page_loadedgolden viaAlchemistConfig.runWithConfig. Every other golden stays at the default0.0(exact-match).Why
The home_page_loaded golden renders a stroked price-chart path. Sub-pixel anti-aliasing along that path produces coverage values that jitter across runs even on the locked dfx01 renderer — hardware-lock is not enough for stroked-path AA. Evidence:
044852b(28.05.26, bot regen) refreshedhome_page_loadedandbuy_registration_requiredd25c61d(01.06.26, fix(kyc): keep financial-data answers on submit failure (retryable) #620) refreshedhome_page_loadedagain — only 4 days later, no UI change in scopehome_page_loadedversions: 0.24% of pixels changed, clustered in the chart-curve region only (rows 129–244, cols 252–385).Both regens were the correct fix in the moment (a real pixel drift had to be reconciled), but they're paying recurring cost for a structural property of the chart widget.
Why scoped, not global
A global
diffThresholdwould weaken the gate for every screen — including 93 static-content goldens where 0.0 is exactly right. A small icon removal (~256 px on 329 160-pixel surface) is well under 0.5% and would be silently swallowed.Local scope is the surgical fix: the chart-drift screen tolerates ~0.5%, everything else stays strict.
Why 0.005 (not lower or higher)
Alternative considered — not chosen
Hardening the chart with
StrokeJoin.bevel+StrokeCap.buttin the production code would remove drift at the source, but at the cost of making the chart visually less smooth for end users to satisfy a test concern. Wrong direction.Verification
flutter analyze test/goldens/screens/home/home_golden_test.dart→ No issues found.Zone.current(seealchemist/src/golden_test.dart:163), so the zone-based override correctly reaches the comparator'svariantConfig.diffThreshold(golden_test.dart:195).goldenTestfromtest/helper/golden_test_with_assets.dartis preserved (alchemist import usesshow AlchemistConfig, PlatformGoldensConfigto avoid ambiguous import ongoldenTest).