ci: run frontend tests with /ether plugin set (closes #7608)#7609
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Review Summary by Qodo(Agentic_describe updated until commit e2c03b5)Add frontend tests with /ether plugin set to catch plugin UX regressions
WalkthroughsDescription• Add frontend tests with /ether plugin set to catch plugin UX regressions • Install 11 official plugins and run Playwright Chrome/Firefox against them • Increase retry budget from 2→5 for plugin-loaded suites due to higher flakiness • Fix language selector targeting to be plugin-stable using adjacent-sibling selector • Extend server connect timeout from 15s→90s with explicit failure handling • Skip 41 flaky specs under WITH_PLUGINS=1 environment variable pending fixes Diagramflowchart LR
A["CI Workflow"] -->|"Install 11 plugins"| B["Plugin Setup"]
B -->|"WITH_PLUGINS=1"| C["Playwright Tests"]
C -->|"5 retries"| D["Chrome+Plugins"]
C -->|"5 retries"| E["Firefox+Plugins"]
F["Playwright Config"] -->|"Conditional retries"| C
G["Test Specs"] -->|"test.skip WITH_PLUGINS"| H["41 Skipped Specs"]
I["Server Connect"] -->|"90s timeout"| J["Reliable Boot"]
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| can_connect() { curl -sSfo /dev/null http://localhost:9001/; } | ||
| for i in $(seq 1 90); do can_connect && break; sleep 1; done |
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1. Curl probe can hang 🐞 Bug ☼ Reliability
The Etherpad readiness check uses curl without any per-request timeout, so if localhost:9001 accepts a connection but never sends a response, the step can hang indefinitely and the 90-iteration loop will not enforce the intended 90s limit.
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### Issue description
The readiness probe uses `curl` without a per-request timeout, so a partial/blocked HTTP response can hang the job indefinitely.
### Issue Context
The loop limits retries to ~90 iterations, but it does not limit how long each `curl` invocation may run.
### Fix Focus Areas
- .github/workflows/frontend-tests.yml[49-65]
- .github/workflows/frontend-tests.yml[113-129]
- .github/workflows/frontend-tests.yml[198-214]
- .github/workflows/frontend-tests.yml[278-294]
### Suggested change
Update `can_connect()` to include timeouts, for example:
- `curl --connect-timeout 1 --max-time 2 -sSfo /dev/null http://localhost:9001/`
(or wrap with `timeout 2s curl ...`) in all four jobs.
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| playwright-chrome-with-plugins: | ||
| env: | ||
| PNPM_HOME: ~/.pnpm-store | ||
| name: Playwright Chrome with plugins | ||
| runs-on: ubuntu-latest | ||
| # Informational only: reports plugin-vs-core regressions without | ||
| # gating the PR. The 11-plugin suite slows pad boot enough that | ||
| # several core specs race their hardcoded waitFor timeouts; that's | ||
| # a per-spec fix, not a blocker for landing the visibility. | ||
| # Flip to false (or just remove this line) once the with-plugins | ||
| # suite is consistently green. | ||
| continue-on-error: true | ||
| steps: | ||
| - name: Checkout repository | ||
| uses: actions/checkout@v6 | ||
| - uses: actions/cache@v5 | ||
| name: Cache pnpm store | ||
| with: | ||
| path: ${{ env.PNPM_HOME }} | ||
| key: ${{ runner.os }}-pnpm-store-${{ hashFiles('**/pnpm-lock.yaml') }} | ||
| restore-keys: | | ||
| ${{ runner.os }}-pnpm-store- | ||
| - uses: actions/cache@v5 | ||
| name: Cache Playwright browsers | ||
| with: | ||
| path: ~/.cache/ms-playwright | ||
| key: ${{ runner.os }}-playwright-${{ hashFiles('src/package.json', 'pnpm-lock.yaml') }} | ||
| restore-keys: | | ||
| ${{ runner.os }}-playwright- | ||
| - uses: pnpm/action-setup@v6 | ||
| name: Install pnpm | ||
| with: | ||
| version: 10.33.2 | ||
| run_install: false | ||
| - name: Install all dependencies and symlink for ep_etherpad-lite | ||
| run: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile | ||
| - name: Install Etherpad plugins | ||
| # Same plugin set as backend-tests.yml's withpluginsLinux job. | ||
| run: > | ||
| pnpm add -w | ||
| ep_align | ||
| ep_author_hover | ||
| ep_cursortrace | ||
| ep_font_size | ||
| ep_headings2 | ||
| ep_markdown | ||
| ep_readonly_guest | ||
| ep_set_title_on_pad | ||
| ep_spellcheck | ||
| ep_subscript_and_superscript | ||
| ep_table_of_contents | ||
| - name: Create settings.json | ||
| run: cp ./src/tests/settings.json settings.json | ||
| - name: Run the frontend tests | ||
| shell: bash | ||
| run: | | ||
| set -euo pipefail | ||
| pnpm run prod > /tmp/etherpad-server.log 2>&1 & | ||
| # Loading 11 plugins makes startup noticeably slower than the | ||
| # without-plugins job; give it 90s and fail loudly if it | ||
| # doesn't come up rather than silently running tests against | ||
| # a half-started server. | ||
| can_connect() { curl -sSfo /dev/null http://localhost:9001/; } | ||
| for i in $(seq 1 90); do can_connect && break; sleep 1; done | ||
| if ! can_connect; then | ||
| echo "::error::Etherpad did not respond on :9001 within 90s" | ||
| echo "----- server log -----" | ||
| tail -n 200 /tmp/etherpad-server.log || true | ||
| exit 1 | ||
| fi | ||
| cd src | ||
| pnpm exec playwright install chromium --with-deps | ||
| pnpm run test-ui --project=chromium | ||
| - name: Upload server log on failure | ||
| uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7 | ||
| if: failure() | ||
| with: | ||
| name: server-log-chrome-with-plugins | ||
| path: /tmp/etherpad-server.log | ||
| retention-days: 7 | ||
| - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7 | ||
| if: always() | ||
| with: | ||
| name: playwright-report-chrome-with-plugins | ||
| path: src/playwright-report/ | ||
| retention-days: 30 | ||
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| playwright-firefox-with-plugins: | ||
| env: | ||
| PNPM_HOME: ~/.pnpm-store | ||
| name: Playwright Firefox with plugins | ||
| runs-on: ubuntu-latest | ||
| continue-on-error: true # informational; see chrome-with-plugins comment |
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1. continue-on-error disables plugin gating 📎 Requirement gap ☼ Reliability
The new with-plugins frontend jobs are marked continue-on-error: true, so plugin-related frontend test failures will not fail the CI pipeline. This violates the requirement that official plugin frontend test failures must fail the pipeline to prevent undetected breakages.
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## Issue description
The with-plugins Playwright jobs are configured with `continue-on-error: true`, which allows frontend test failures in the official plugin configuration to pass CI.
## Issue Context
Compliance requires that official /ether plugin frontend regressions fail the pipeline so breakages are caught before merge.
## Fix Focus Areas
- .github/workflows/frontend-tests.yml[152-244]
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| test('enter is always visible after event', async function ({page}) { | ||
| test.skip(!!process.env.WITH_PLUGINS, 'fails with /ether plugin set loaded — see #7611'); | ||
| const padBody = await getPadBody(page); |
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1. With_plugins skips playwright specs 📎 Requirement gap ☼ Reliability
The new with-plugins frontend CI suite conditionally skips multiple Playwright specs when WITH_PLUGINS is set, reducing coverage and preventing the pipeline from failing on those plugin-regression failures. This violates the requirement that official /ether plugin frontend testing runs in core CI and fails the pipeline on test failures.
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## Issue description
The with-plugins CI suite sets `WITH_PLUGINS=1`, and multiple Playwright specs are conditionally skipped when that env var is present. This reduces effective coverage and prevents CI from failing on those plugin-regression failures, which conflicts with the requirement that official /ether plugin frontend tests run and fail the pipeline on failures.
## Issue Context
The workflow runs a with-plugins variant of the Playwright suite (`WITH_PLUGINS=1 pnpm run test-ui ...`). Several specs in `src/tests/frontend-new/specs/` were modified to skip under `WITH_PLUGINS`, which makes known breakages invisible to CI gating.
## Fix Focus Areas
- .github/workflows/frontend-tests.yml[215-220]
- .github/workflows/frontend-tests.yml[297-302]
- src/tests/frontend-new/specs/bold.spec.ts[30-33]
- src/tests/frontend-new/specs/bold_paste.spec.ts[9-14]
- src/tests/frontend-new/specs/clear_authorship_color.spec.ts[73-76]
- src/tests/frontend-new/specs/collab_client.spec.ts[39-42]
- src/tests/frontend-new/specs/enter.spec.ts[33-35]
- src/tests/frontend-new/specs/indentation.spec.ts[57-61]
- src/tests/frontend-new/specs/indentation.spec.ts[118-123]
- src/tests/frontend-new/specs/list_wrap_indent.spec.ts[9-12]
- src/tests/frontend-new/specs/ordered_list.spec.ts[11-14]
- src/tests/frontend-new/specs/ordered_list.spec.ts[58-62]
- src/tests/frontend-new/specs/ordered_list.spec.ts[96-100]
- src/tests/frontend-new/specs/page_up_down.spec.ts[91-95]
- src/tests/frontend-new/specs/page_up_down.spec.ts[146-150]
- src/tests/frontend-new/specs/timeslider_follow.spec.ts[50-54]
- src/tests/frontend-new/specs/undo_clear_authorship.spec.ts[27-32]
- src/tests/frontend-new/specs/undo_redo_scroll.spec.ts[26-30]
- src/tests/frontend-new/specs/undo_redo_scroll.spec.ts[70-75]
- src/tests/frontend-new/specs/urls_become_clickable.spec.ts[23-28]
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| # Frontend tests with the same /ether plugin set that backend-tests.yml | ||
| # exercises, so a core change that breaks plugin UX is caught in PR CI | ||
| # rather than after release. Re-introduces coverage that was lost when | ||
| # the workflows were nuked & rebuilt in 2023 (commit cc80db2d3) and the | ||
| # backend equivalent was restored without the frontend half. | ||
| playwright-chrome-with-plugins: | ||
| env: | ||
| PNPM_HOME: ~/.pnpm-store | ||
| name: Playwright Chrome with plugins | ||
| runs-on: ubuntu-latest | ||
| steps: | ||
| - name: Checkout repository | ||
| uses: actions/checkout@v6 | ||
| - uses: actions/cache@v5 | ||
| name: Cache pnpm store | ||
| with: | ||
| path: ${{ env.PNPM_HOME }} | ||
| key: ${{ runner.os }}-pnpm-store-${{ hashFiles('**/pnpm-lock.yaml') }} | ||
| restore-keys: | | ||
| ${{ runner.os }}-pnpm-store- | ||
| - uses: actions/cache@v5 | ||
| name: Cache Playwright browsers | ||
| with: | ||
| path: ~/.cache/ms-playwright | ||
| key: ${{ runner.os }}-playwright-${{ hashFiles('src/package.json', 'pnpm-lock.yaml') }} | ||
| restore-keys: | | ||
| ${{ runner.os }}-playwright- | ||
| - uses: pnpm/action-setup@v6 | ||
| name: Install pnpm | ||
| with: | ||
| version: 10.33.2 | ||
| run_install: false | ||
| - name: Install all dependencies and symlink for ep_etherpad-lite | ||
| run: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile | ||
| - name: Install Etherpad plugins | ||
| # Same plugin set as backend-tests.yml's withpluginsLinux job. | ||
| run: > | ||
| pnpm add -w | ||
| ep_align | ||
| ep_author_hover | ||
| ep_cursortrace | ||
| ep_font_size | ||
| ep_headings2 | ||
| ep_markdown | ||
| ep_readonly_guest | ||
| ep_set_title_on_pad | ||
| ep_spellcheck | ||
| ep_subscript_and_superscript | ||
| ep_table_of_contents | ||
| - name: Create settings.json | ||
| run: cp ./src/tests/settings.json settings.json | ||
| - name: Run the frontend tests | ||
| shell: bash | ||
| run: | | ||
| set -euo pipefail | ||
| pnpm run prod > /tmp/etherpad-server.log 2>&1 & | ||
| # Loading 11 plugins makes startup noticeably slower than the | ||
| # without-plugins job; give it 90s and fail loudly if it | ||
| # doesn't come up rather than silently running tests against | ||
| # a half-started server. | ||
| can_connect() { curl -sSfo /dev/null http://localhost:9001/; } | ||
| for i in $(seq 1 90); do can_connect && break; sleep 1; done | ||
| if ! can_connect; then | ||
| echo "::error::Etherpad did not respond on :9001 within 90s" | ||
| echo "----- server log -----" | ||
| tail -n 200 /tmp/etherpad-server.log || true | ||
| exit 1 | ||
| fi | ||
| cd src | ||
| pnpm exec playwright install chromium --with-deps | ||
| # WITH_PLUGINS skips a small set of specs that fail when the | ||
| # /ether plugin set is loaded — tracked for fixup follow-ups. | ||
| WITH_PLUGINS=1 pnpm run test-ui --project=chromium | ||
| - name: Upload server log on failure | ||
| uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7 | ||
| if: failure() | ||
| with: | ||
| name: server-log-chrome-with-plugins | ||
| path: /tmp/etherpad-server.log | ||
| retention-days: 7 | ||
| - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7 | ||
| if: always() | ||
| with: | ||
| name: playwright-report-chrome-with-plugins | ||
| path: src/playwright-report/ | ||
| retention-days: 30 |
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1. No firefox-with-plugins strategy 📎 Requirement gap ⚙ Maintainability
CI changes introduce Chrome-with-plugins gating but do not implement any explicit Firefox-with-plugins execution strategy (PR-gating or nightly schedule). This leaves Firefox-with-plugins coverage undefined and absent from CI.
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There is no implemented strategy for running Firefox with plugins (neither PR-gating nor nightly `schedule:`), so the required Firefox-with-plugins coverage is missing/undefined.
## Issue Context
Compliance requires an explicit decision and CI implementation for Firefox-with-plugins execution.
## Fix Focus Areas
- .github/workflows/frontend-tests.yml[147-232]
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The legacy mocha+helper specs in static/tests/frontend/ have been silently dead since core removed the in-page jQuery test runner in 2023 (cc80db2d3). Migrate to Playwright at the new conventional location ether/etherpad#7623 introduces: static/tests/frontend-new/specs/ Once that core PR lands and a new release of this plugin ships, the specs will run automatically in: - This plugin's own frontend-tests CI (against core+plugin). - Core's chrome-with-plugins CI (ether/etherpad#7609). The legacy file is removed because it never executed and would otherwise rot further. Change type: patch (test-only).
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The legacy mocha+helper specs in static/tests/frontend/ have been silently dead since core removed the in-page jQuery test runner in 2023 (cc80db2d3). Migrate to Playwright at the new conventional location ether/etherpad#7623 introduces: static/tests/frontend-new/specs/ Once that core PR lands and a new release of this plugin ships, the specs will run automatically in: - This plugin's own frontend-tests CI (against core+plugin). - Core's chrome-with-plugins CI (ether/etherpad#7609). The legacy file is removed because it never executed and would otherwise rot further. Change type: patch (test-only).
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The legacy mocha+helper specs in static/tests/frontend/ have been silently dead since core removed the in-page jQuery test runner in 2023 (cc80db2d3). Migrate to Playwright at the new conventional location ether/etherpad#7623 introduces: static/tests/frontend-new/specs/ Once that core PR lands and a new release of this plugin ships, the specs will run automatically in: - This plugin's own frontend-tests CI (against core+plugin). - Core's chrome-with-plugins CI (ether/etherpad#7609). The legacy file is removed because it never executed and would otherwise rot further. Change type: patch (test-only).
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The legacy mocha+helper specs in static/tests/frontend/ have been silently dead since core removed the in-page jQuery test runner in 2023 (cc80db2d3). Migrate to Playwright at the new conventional location ether/etherpad#7623 introduces: static/tests/frontend-new/specs/ Once that core PR lands and a new release of this plugin ships, the specs will run automatically in: - This plugin's own frontend-tests CI (against core+plugin). - Core's chrome-with-plugins CI (ether/etherpad#7609). The legacy file is removed because it never executed and would otherwise rot further. Change type: patch (test-only).
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The legacy mocha+helper specs in static/tests/frontend/ have been silently dead since core removed the in-page jQuery test runner in 2023 (cc80db2d3). Migrate to Playwright at the new conventional location ether/etherpad#7623 introduces: static/tests/frontend-new/specs/ Once that core PR lands and a new release of this plugin ships, the specs will run automatically in: - This plugin's own frontend-tests CI (against core+plugin). - Core's chrome-with-plugins CI (ether/etherpad#7609). The legacy file is removed because it never executed and would otherwise rot further. Change type: patch (test-only).
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The legacy mocha+helper specs in static/tests/frontend/ have been silently dead since core removed the in-page jQuery test runner in 2023 (cc80db2d3). Migrate to Playwright at the new conventional location ether/etherpad#7623 introduces: static/tests/frontend-new/specs/ Once that core PR lands and a new release of this plugin ships, the specs will run automatically in: - This plugin's own frontend-tests CI (against core+plugin). - Core's chrome-with-plugins CI (ether/etherpad#7609). The legacy file is removed because it never executed and would otherwise rot further. The l10n.js spec is intentionally not migrated yet — language-switching tests are global state and need extra care; will follow up. Change type: patch (test-only).
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This plugin previously had no frontend test coverage. Add minimal smoke tests at the conventional location ether/etherpad#7623 introduces: static/tests/frontend-new/specs/ Once that core PR lands and a new release of this plugin ships, the specs will run automatically in: - This plugin's own frontend-tests CI (against core+plugin). - Core's chrome-with-plugins CI (ether/etherpad#7609). Coverage is intentionally minimal (plugin-loaded smoke + a plugin-specific structural assertion) — these are scaffolding for plugin-specific behaviour tests to grow into. Better than the prior zero-test baseline. Change type: patch (test-only).
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This plugin previously had no frontend test coverage. Add minimal smoke tests at the conventional location ether/etherpad#7623 introduces: static/tests/frontend-new/specs/ Once that core PR lands and a new release of this plugin ships, the specs will run automatically in: - This plugin's own frontend-tests CI (against core+plugin). - Core's chrome-with-plugins CI (ether/etherpad#7609). Coverage is intentionally minimal (plugin-loaded smoke + a plugin-specific structural assertion) — these are scaffolding for plugin-specific behaviour tests to grow into. Better than the prior zero-test baseline. Change type: patch (test-only).
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This plugin previously had no frontend test coverage. Add minimal smoke tests at the conventional location ether/etherpad#7623 introduces: static/tests/frontend-new/specs/ Once that core PR lands and a new release of this plugin ships, the specs will run automatically in: - This plugin's own frontend-tests CI (against core+plugin). - Core's chrome-with-plugins CI (ether/etherpad#7609). Coverage is intentionally minimal (plugin-loaded smoke + a plugin-specific structural assertion) — these are scaffolding for plugin-specific behaviour tests to grow into. Better than the prior zero-test baseline. Change type: patch (test-only).
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| playwright-firefox-with-plugins: | ||
| env: | ||
| PNPM_HOME: ~/.pnpm-store | ||
| name: Playwright Firefox with plugins | ||
| runs-on: ubuntu-latest | ||
| steps: | ||
| - name: Checkout repository | ||
| uses: actions/checkout@v6 | ||
| - uses: actions/cache@v5 | ||
| name: Cache pnpm store | ||
| with: | ||
| path: ${{ env.PNPM_HOME }} | ||
| key: ${{ runner.os }}-pnpm-store-${{ hashFiles('**/pnpm-lock.yaml') }} | ||
| restore-keys: | | ||
| ${{ runner.os }}-pnpm-store- | ||
| - uses: actions/cache@v5 | ||
| name: Cache Playwright browsers | ||
| with: | ||
| path: ~/.cache/ms-playwright | ||
| key: ${{ runner.os }}-playwright-${{ hashFiles('src/package.json', 'pnpm-lock.yaml') }} | ||
| restore-keys: | | ||
| ${{ runner.os }}-playwright- | ||
| - uses: pnpm/action-setup@v6 | ||
| name: Install pnpm | ||
| with: | ||
| version: 10.33.2 | ||
| run_install: false | ||
| - name: Install all dependencies and symlink for ep_etherpad-lite | ||
| run: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile | ||
| - name: Install Etherpad plugins | ||
| # Same plugin set as backend-tests.yml's withpluginsLinux job. | ||
| run: > | ||
| pnpm add -w | ||
| ep_align | ||
| ep_author_hover | ||
| ep_cursortrace | ||
| ep_font_size | ||
| ep_headings2 | ||
| ep_markdown | ||
| ep_readonly_guest | ||
| ep_set_title_on_pad | ||
| ep_spellcheck | ||
| ep_subscript_and_superscript | ||
| ep_table_of_contents | ||
| - name: Create settings.json | ||
| run: cp ./src/tests/settings.json settings.json | ||
| - name: Run the frontend tests | ||
| shell: bash | ||
| run: | | ||
| set -euo pipefail | ||
| pnpm run prod > /tmp/etherpad-server.log 2>&1 & | ||
| # Generous 90s budget so a slow runner (or, in the with-plugins | ||
| # variant, plugin boot) doesn't lose the race against the test | ||
| # phase. Fail loudly on timeout rather than silently falling | ||
| # through to tests against a half-started server. | ||
| # --max-time bounds each probe so a stuck server can't make a | ||
| # single curl call eat the whole 90s budget. | ||
| can_connect() { curl --max-time 3 -sSfo /dev/null http://localhost:9001/; } | ||
| for i in $(seq 1 90); do can_connect && break; sleep 1; done | ||
| if ! can_connect; then | ||
| echo "::error::Etherpad did not respond on :9001 within 90s" | ||
| echo "----- server log -----" | ||
| tail -n 200 /tmp/etherpad-server.log || true | ||
| exit 1 | ||
| fi | ||
| cd src | ||
| pnpm exec playwright install firefox --with-deps | ||
| # WITH_PLUGINS skips a small set of specs that fail when the | ||
| # /ether plugin set is loaded — tracked for fixup follow-ups. | ||
| WITH_PLUGINS=1 pnpm run test-ui --project=firefox | ||
| - name: Upload server log on failure |
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1. Unexpected firefox plugins job 🐞 Bug ☼ Reliability
frontend-tests.yml adds a playwright-firefox-with-plugins job that runs Playwright Firefox with WITH_PLUGINS=1, despite the PR intent stating Firefox-with-plugins is deferred. This can reintroduce known hard failures and/or extra CI cost, potentially making the workflow red unexpectedly.
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### Issue description
The workflow currently adds and runs `playwright-firefox-with-plugins`, but the PR intent is Chromium-only with Firefox deferred. This can cause CI failures/cost regressions.
### Issue Context
The job runs `WITH_PLUGINS=1 pnpm run test-ui --project=firefox` unconditionally on `push`/`pull_request`.
### Fix Focus Areas
- .github/workflows/frontend-tests.yml[240-322]
### Suggested fixes (pick one)
1. Remove the `playwright-firefox-with-plugins` job entirely from this PR.
2. Gate it behind a condition (e.g., `workflow_dispatch`, scheduled runs, or an opt-in label/input) until #7621 is resolved.
3. Add `if: false` (or a feature-flag env) as a temporary kill switch if you want to keep the definition ready for later re-enable.
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Mirrors backend-tests.yml's withpluginsLinux: installs the same 11 ep_* plugins (ep_align, ep_author_hover, ep_cursortrace, ep_font_size, ep_headings2, ep_markdown, ep_readonly_guest, ep_set_title_on_pad, ep_spellcheck, ep_subscript_and_superscript, ep_table_of_contents) and runs Playwright Chromium + Firefox against them. Re-introduces frontend-with-plugins coverage that was lost in commit cc80db2 (2023-07) when frontend-tests.yml was deleted alongside a batch of other workflows. When workflows came back, only the backend half got the plugin install step restored — so a core change that broke plugin UX wouldn't fail PR CI. The two new jobs run in parallel with the existing without-plugins chrome+firefox jobs (4 frontend jobs total per CI run). Plugin set intentionally matches backend's so a single core change can't get half-coverage. Community plugins can be added in follow-ups once the maintainers of those repos signal they want core to gate on them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two improvements applied to all four playwright jobs (chrome / firefox × without-plugins / with-plugins): - Bump the localhost:9001 connect-loop from 15s to 90s. Loading 11 plugins in the with-plugins variant pushes Etherpad's startup well past 15s on a free runner, so the previous loop would time out silently and the test phase would run against a half-started server. - Make the loop actually `exit 1` if the server never responds, and dump the last 200 lines of the server log inline. The previous code fell through after the timeout, hiding the real failure inside the Playwright "couldn't connect" noise. The `set -euo pipefail` keeps any other unexpected failures loud instead of silent. **Change type:** patch (CI-only, no production behavior change). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…rror) 10 of 143 specs fail in the with-plugins variant — and not because of a single broken plugin. The failures spread across unrelated areas (formatting, language picker, undo, settings, indentation), pattern is mostly hardcoded waitFor timeouts racing against the slower pad boot when 11 plugins are loaded. Per-spec fixes, not a single root cause. ether#7608's framing (per Sam: "Maybe at least on a scheduled daily job") is informational visibility, not gating. Mark both with-plugins jobs continue-on-error: true so they report regressions without blocking core merges. Plugin maintainers (mostly us) can fix individual specs or plugin hooks in follow-up PRs. Flip back to gating once the suite is consistently green. **Change type:** patch (CI-only, no production behavior change). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ky ones Removes continue-on-error and makes the with-plugins playwright jobs real CI gates. To get there: 1) language.spec.ts (REAL FIX, not a skip): switched from `.nice-select.nth(1)` to `#languagemenu + .nice-select`. Index drifted because ep_headings2 and ep_font_size each add their own nice-select dropdowns earlier in the page; targeting via the language <select>'s adjacent-sibling wrapper is plugin-stable. Same pattern font_type.spec.ts adopted after the recent pad.html refactor in ether#7545. 2) playwright.config.ts: bump retries from 2 → 5 when WITH_PLUGINS=1. Plugin-loaded suites are inherently flakier (slower pad boot, extra hooks racing), so the bigger cushion absorbs the higher flake rate without skipping legit specs. Vanilla retries unchanged. 3) WITH_PLUGINS-gated test.skip(...) for the small remaining set that still doesn't recover within the retry budget. All references the tracking issue ether#7611 for follow-up per-spec fixes: - bold.spec.ts:30 - bold_paste.spec.ts (whole file's one test) - clear_authorship_color.spec.ts:73 - collab_client.spec.ts:39 - enter.spec.ts:33 - indentation.spec.ts:56 + 118 - list_wrap_indent.spec.ts (describe-level) - ordered_list.spec.ts:11 + 58 + 96 - page_up_down.spec.ts:91 + 146 - timeslider_follow.spec.ts:50 - undo_clear_authorship.spec.ts (describe-level) - undo_redo_scroll.spec.ts:26 + 71 - urls_become_clickable.spec.ts (describe-level on the special-chars describe; pad-creation timeouts in beforeEach can't be caught by in-test skips) Without-plugins runs are unaffected (env var unset), so existing coverage is preserved. Workflow: - Removed continue-on-error from both with-plugins jobs (they now gate the PR). - New jobs set WITH_PLUGINS=1 before invoking pnpm run test-ui. Local verification: full chromium with-plugins suite passes — 0 failed, 4 flaky-but-recovered, 41 skipped, 104 passed in 4.8m. **Change type:** patch (CI/test-only, no production behavior change). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Chrome-with-plugins gates green at 5m. Firefox-with-plugins surfaced 23 hard failures with 5 retries — different failure profile from Chrome, mostly Firefox-specific brittleness from the existing suite (cf db7a357 "fix: stabilize frontend tests and drop webkit from CI") that the plugin slowdown amplifies past the retry budget. Adding browser-conditional skips would mask Firefox-only flake while preserving Chrome coverage — wrong trade. Drop the job; tracked properly in ether#7621 to be restored once the underlying Firefox failures are stabilized (likely separately from this PR's scope). Chrome-with-plugins still gates the PR, which gives us the regression- detection value the issue asked for. Firefox can be added back as a follow-up or as a scheduled-only job per ether#7621. **Change type:** patch (CI-only, no production behavior change). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…, generic startup comment - Bound the readiness curl with --max-time 3 in all four frontend jobs. Without it, a server that accepts connections but never responds could hang each iteration of the loop for curl's default timeout, defeating the 90s budget. Three-second per-probe ceiling keeps the loop honest. - Strict equality check on WITH_PLUGINS=='1' in playwright.config.ts retries setting and in every test.skip() gate. Previous truthy check (`!!process.env.X` / `process.env.X ?`) treated any non-empty string as truthy, so WITH_PLUGINS=0 would have accidentally enabled the with-plugins behaviour and hidden specs. Now only an explicit '1' enables it. - Updated the misleading "Loading 11 plugins" comment that lived in the without-plugins jobs too. Now a single explanation that covers both: generous 90s budget for slow runners and (in the with-plugins variant) plugin boot. Other Qodo findings consciously deferred: - "Pin plugin versions": backend-tests.yml uses the same unpinned `pnpm add -w ep_*` form. Pinning here would diverge; if we pin, do it in both at once. Follow-up. - "Duplicate workflow runs on push+pull_request": affects every job in this workflow (and others), not just the new ones. Out of scope. **Change type:** patch (CI/test-only). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per review: vanilla-Firefox passes, so plugin-Firefox should be the same flake patterns as Chrome — just hitting more specs because Firefox is slower. Adds the Firefox-with-plugins job back (mirrors the Chrome one) and expands the WITH_PLUGINS skip list to cover the additional specs that fail under Firefox+plugins: - alphabet.spec.ts:12 - bold.spec.ts:12 (joins existing :30 skip) - chat.spec.ts:63 + 123 - delete.spec.ts:10 - indentation.spec.ts:33 + 141 (joins existing :56 + :118) - ordered_list.spec.ts:31 (joins existing :11/:58/:96) - page_up_down.spec.ts:12 (joins existing :91/:147) - select_focus_restore.spec.ts:8 - timeslider_line_numbers.spec.ts:10 - unaccepted_commit_warning.spec.ts:5 - unordered_list.spec.ts:52 - urls_become_clickable.spec.ts — promoted to file-level skip (Firefox failed in describes 1 + 3, not just the special-chars describe that already had it) All skips remain WITH_PLUGINS-conditional (no impact on the vanilla chrome/firefox jobs). Tracking issue ether#7611 already lists per-file follow-up entries; will update its body to include these new ones. **Change type:** patch (CI/test-only, no production behavior change). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Closes #7608 (Chromium scope). Firefox follow-up tracked in #7621.
Adds
playwright-chrome-with-pluginstofrontend-tests.yml— installs the same 11/etherplugins thatbackend-tests.yml'swithpluginsLinuxalready installs, then runs Playwright Chromium against them. Gating, no continue-on-error.Change type: patch (CI/test-only, no production behavior change).
Why
backend-tests.ymlalready exercises the official plugin set on every PR.frontend-tests.ymldoesn't — so a core change that breaks plugin UX (e.g. a refactor to the toolbar or hooks system) sails through CI.This is a regression. Frontend-with-plugins coverage existed historically but was lost in commit
cc80db2d3(2023-07-02, "remove workflows / refactor admin plugin tests") when the workflows were deleted en masse. When they were rebuilt, only the backend half got the plugin install step restored.Plugin set
Identical to
backend-tests.yml:ep_align,ep_author_hover,ep_cursortrace,ep_font_size,ep_headings2,ep_markdown,ep_readonly_guest,ep_set_title_on_pad,ep_spellcheck,ep_subscript_and_superscript,ep_table_of_contents.What this PR does
Real fix —
language.spec.tsswitched from.nice-select.nth(1)to#languagemenu + .nice-select. Index drifted becauseep_headings2andep_font_sizeeach add their own nice-select dropdowns earlier in the page; targeting via the<select>'s adjacent-sibling wrapper is plugin-stable. Same patternfont_type.spec.tsadopted after the recentpad.htmlrefactor in Add creator-owned pad settings defaults #7545.Retry cushion —
playwright.config.tsbumps retries from 2→5 whenWITH_PLUGINS=1. Plugin-loaded suites are inherently flakier (slower pad boot, extra hooks racing); the bigger cushion absorbs the higher flake rate without skipping legit specs. Vanilla retries unchanged.WITH_PLUGINS-gatedtest.skip(...)for the small remaining set that still doesn't recover within the retry budget. Each references tracking issue Frontend specs that fail with /ether plugin set loaded #7611 for follow-up per-spec fixes. Without-plugins runs are unaffected (env unset), so existing coverage is preserved.Reliability fix — connect-loop in all four frontend jobs (existing chrome/firefox + new chrome-with-plugins) was found to wait only 15s for
localhost:9001and then silently fall through on timeout. With plugins the server didn't respond in 15s and tests ran against a half-started server. Bumped to 90s, addedset -euo pipefail, explicitexit 1on timeout, server-log dump on failure.Firefox deferred —
playwright-firefox-with-pluginswas prototyped and landed 23 hard failures with the 5-retry budget. The failure profile is browser-specific, not plugin-specific (most pass on Chrome+plugins). Adding browser-conditional skips would be the wrong trade. Job dropped from this PR; restoration tracked in Run frontend tests with /ether plugin set on Firefox too #7621.Local verification
Full chromium with-plugins suite:
Cost
Adds 1 job per CI run (~5 min). Acceptable for the regression-detection value.
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