Chore(UI): Playwright test util improvement

[aniketkatkar97]

I worked on adding a tab selection logic while searching by text to avoid flakiness

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Summary by Gitar

• Refactored function signatures:
  • Converted navigateToExploreAndSelectEntity and openEntitySummaryPanel from positional to object parameters for improved clarity
  • Updated 40+ call sites in ExplorePageRightPanel.spec.ts to use new object-based syntax
• Enhanced tab selection:
  • Added exploreTab parameter to enable tab selection logic when searching by text to reduce test flakiness

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Pull request overview

This PR updates Playwright Explore-page test utilities to reduce flakiness by allowing callers to specify an Explore left-panel tab to select before continuing entity selection.

Changes:

• Extended navigateToExploreAndSelectEntity to accept an optional exploreTab parameter and pass it through.
• Extended openEntitySummaryPanel to optionally click a specified Explore left-panel tab after executing a search.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 2 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

File	Description
openmetadata-ui/src/main/resources/ui/playwright/utils/explore.ts	Adds an optional exploreTab parameter to the high-level Explore navigation helper.
openmetadata-ui/src/main/resources/ui/playwright/utils/entityPanel.ts	Implements Explore left-panel tab selection inside the entity summary panel opening helper.

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Code Review ✅ Approved

Playwright test utility improvements add tab selection logic during text searches to eliminate flakiness. No issues found.

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Jest test Coverage

UI tests summary

Lines	Statements	Branches	Functions
	65.01% (58080/89328)	44.8% (30712/68547)	47.8% (9196/19235)

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Quality Gate passed for 'open-metadata-ui'

Issues
0 New issues
0 Accepted issues

Measures
0 Security Hotspots
0.0% Coverage on New Code
0.0% Duplication on New Code

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🟡 Playwright Results — all passed (22 flaky)

✅ 3409 passed · ❌ 0 failed · 🟡 22 flaky · ⏭️ 209 skipped

Shard	Passed	Failed	Flaky	Skipped
🟡 Shard 1	454	0	1	2
🟡 Shard 2	602	0	3	32
🟡 Shard 3	610	0	5	28
🟡 Shard 4	597	0	6	47
🟡 Shard 5	586	0	1	67
🟡 Shard 6	560	0	6	33

🟡 22 flaky test(s) (passed on retry)

• Pages/UserCreationWithPersona.spec.ts › Create user with persona and verify on profile (shard 1, 1 retry)
• Features/BulkEditEntity.spec.ts › Glossary (shard 2, 1 retry)
• Features/BulkImport.spec.ts › Keyboard Delete selection (shard 2, 1 retry)
• Features/DataProductPersonaCustomization.spec.ts › Data Product - customization should work (shard 2, 1 retry)
• Features/LandingPageWidgets/FollowingWidget.spec.ts › Check followed entity present in following widget (shard 3, 1 retry)
• Features/Permissions/GlossaryPermissions.spec.ts › Team-based permissions work correctly (shard 3, 1 retry)
• Flow/ExploreDiscovery.spec.ts › Should not display soft deleted assets in search suggestions (shard 3, 1 retry)
• Flow/PersonaDeletionUserProfile.spec.ts › User profile loads correctly before and after persona deletion (shard 3, 1 retry)
• Flow/PersonaFlow.spec.ts › Set default persona for team should work properly (shard 3, 1 retry)
• Pages/Customproperties-part2.spec.ts › entityReferenceList shows item count, scrollable list, no expand toggle (shard 4, 1 retry)
• Pages/DataContracts.spec.ts › Create Data Contract and validate for MlModel (shard 4, 1 retry)
• Pages/Domains.spec.ts › Data consumer can manage domain as owner (shard 4, 1 retry)
• Pages/DomainUIInteractions.spec.ts › Rename data product via UI (shard 4, 1 retry)
• Pages/DomainUIInteractions.spec.ts › Delete data product via UI (shard 4, 1 retry)
• Pages/Entity.spec.ts › Set & Update table-cp, hyperlink-cp, string, integer, markdown, number, duration, email, enum, sqlQuery, timestamp, entityReference, entityReferenceList, timeInterval, time-cp, date-cp, dateTime-cp Custom Property (shard 4, 1 retry)
• Pages/EntityDataSteward.spec.ts › Glossary Term Add, Update and Remove (shard 5, 1 retry)
• Pages/Lineage.spec.ts › Lineage creation from ApiEndpoint entity (shard 6, 1 retry)
• Pages/ODCSImportExport.spec.ts › Multi-object ODCS contract - object selector shows all schema objects (shard 6, 1 retry)
• Pages/Teams.spec.ts › Teams Page Flow (shard 6, 1 retry)
• Pages/UserDetails.spec.ts › Create team with domain and verify visibility of inherited domain in user profile after team removal (shard 6, 1 retry)
• Pages/Users.spec.ts › Permissions for table details page for Data Consumer (shard 6, 1 retry)
• VersionPages/EntityVersionPages.spec.ts › Directory (shard 6, 1 retry)

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