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On a Windows host a burst of test traffic can drop a loopback connect now and then (every port, any program — measured on the dev desktop). The browser resends it and only waits; Node (libuv) sends a loopback SYN once and fails at ~300 ms with "connect ETIMEDOUT". `e2e/retryConnect.ts` wraps Playwright's request context so that one error is tried again (0.5 / 1 / 2 / 4 / 8 s, the system's own retry waits) while every other failure goes straight to the test; global.setup's health check, login and /api/me and speed.measure's share probe go through it. Unit-tested; e2e 61/61.
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# E2E characterization (golden-master) net
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Playwright tests that lock the app's five core flows — **feed** (scroll + filter), **channel**
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(open → back), **player** (open/close), **settings** (dirty-save + guard), and **page switching** —
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so the Platform refactor can _prove_ it changed nothing. They assert current, correct behavior;
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they deliberately do **not** encode the known Platform bugs (those get their own specs when the
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sprints that fix them land).
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## Run
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```sh
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siftlode e2e # against the baked localdev :8080 stack (authoritative)
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siftlode e2e-ui # same, Playwright UI mode
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siftlode e2e-seed # (re)seed the test account only, no tests
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```
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The localdev stack must be up (`siftlode dev`). `global.setup.ts` reseeds the account and logs in
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once, sharing the session via `e2e/.auth/state.json` (git-ignored).
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**A dropped localhost connect** — on a Windows host, a burst of test traffic can drop a loopback
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connect now and then (every port, any program). The browser resends it and only waits (a loader
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outlives an `expect` timeout); Node does not, so a request from the test side fails with
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`connect ETIMEDOUT`. Those requests go through `retryConnect` (`e2e/retryConnect.ts`), which tries
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that one error again and passes every other failure straight on. Don't run two e2e suites on the
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same machine at once.
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**Browsers** — every flow runs in three projects: `chromium` (Desktop Chrome), `webkit` (Desktop
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Safari) and `ipad` (iPad gen 7 landscape: 1080×810, touch, mobile). Install the engines once per
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machine with `npx playwright install chromium webkit`; run one project with
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`npx playwright test --project=ipad`. WebKit catches what every iOS browser inherits from the engine
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(JS, CSS/layout, event order). It does **not** reproduce iPad media refusals: Playwright's WebKit
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decodes through the host OS (Media Foundation on Windows, GStreamer on Linux), and measured on
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2026-09-14 it played an mp3-in-mp4 and an AV1 mp4 that a real iPad refuses. Check a media format
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on a real iPad against the dev stack over the LAN (`http://<desktop LAN IP>:8080`, e.g. a
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login-free `/watch/<token>` share link).
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**Target** — `PW_BASE_URL` (default `http://127.0.0.1:8080`):
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- **`:8080`** (baked SPA) is authoritative and same-origin. After a **frontend change you must
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`siftlode dev` (rebuild)** for its baked SPA to carry the latest test hooks.
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- **`:5173`** (Vite dev) serves source live — the fast refactor loop; it proxies `/api` to `:8080`,
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so the stack must still be up. All five flows are proxy-safe:
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```sh
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PW_BASE_URL=http://localhost:5173 siftlode e2e
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```
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## Account & fixture
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Tests run as a dedicated **admin** account `e2e@siftlode.local` (never a real account;
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admin so the suite can reach the admin-only pages / render branches, matching the real primary
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user), reset to a deterministic baseline every run by
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[`scripts/e2e_seed.py`](../../scripts/e2e_seed.py) (run
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in-container so it reuses the app's models + argon2 hasher): the top-3 organic channels subscribed,
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one in-progress + one watched + one saved video, prefs pinned to `language: en`. Credentials come
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from `E2E_EMAIL` (default `e2e@siftlode.local`) and `E2E_PASSWORD` — **required, no default**: run
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the suite through the ops wrapper, which exports it from the secret store. Override the container name with
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`E2E_API_CONTAINER`; skip the in-container seed with `E2E_SKIP_SEED=1`.
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## Selectors
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The app has no `data-testid`s of its own and all copy is i18n (en/hu), so the specs key on a thin
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`data-testid` layer (added with this sprint) plus the locale pinned to `en`. Stable ARIA hooks that
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already existed are used directly (`role="dialog"` on the player, `aria-current="page"` on the
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active nav row, `aria-pressed` on the feed toggles).
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## Typecheck
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`npx tsc -p e2e/tsconfig.json --noEmit` (the specs are outside the app's `src` tsconfig).
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