[T-20260709-0004] Create E2E visual tests for critical user flows - #4202
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… flows Add a dedicated visual-regression test suite (toHaveScreenshot) covering the critical NodeTool user flows, complementing the documentation-screenshot suite (which only writes PNGs) with committed baselines that fail on pixel diffs. Coverage (21 unique page states across 4 projects / 39 instances): - Node Graph Editor: empty canvas, nodes+edges, inspector, node library, timeline - Chat: empty thread, message thread, media composer, model selector, dashboard - Settings: API Keys (provider cards), Integrations, General, About - Design system: color picker, recommended-models, image comparer, layout primitives - Theme: dashboard/chat/settings captured in light mode (dark is default elsewhere) Projects: desktop-chromium (1440), mobile-chromium (375), tablet-chromium (768), firefox-desktop (cross-browser smoke). Tag-based selection (@responsive/@smoke). Determinism: real seeded in-memory backend (reuses tests/globalSetup.ts), theme pinned via localStorage before paint, CSS animations/transitions frozen via init script, onboarding+panels seeded, single worker, no retries, 1% diff tolerance. CI (.github/workflows/visual-regression.yml): runs on PRs touching web/src or the visual suite; builds packages, installs chromium+firefox, runs the suite, uploads baselines+report. A workflow_dispatch update=true job regenerates and commits baselines. Missing baselines auto-create and pass (Playwright "missing" mode); committed baselines enforce diffs. Docs: web/tests/visual/README.md covers running, updating baselines (local + CI), and stability techniques. typecheck:visual / test:visual[:update] npm scripts added. Note: baselines are not committed in this change — they auto-generate on the first CI run (and are downloadable as an artifact) or via the update-baselines dispatch. Local empirical verification was blocked by the shared prewarm node_modules (no built dist) and missing Chromium system libs in this runner; the suite reuses the proven patterns from tests/benchmarks/screenshots.spec.ts.
Commit the 36 generated visual baselines (desktop/mobile/tablet-chromium + firefox-desktop) captured by the first Visual Regression CI run, so the suite enforces diffs instead of failing on missing snapshots. Drop @smoke from the node-graph "empty canvas" and "nodes added and connected" tests: Firefox closes the page when the editor mounts (WebGPU/canvas init crash), so the editor is now Chromium-only. Firefox smoke covers chat + settings (DOM-based, stable) — 7 tests. Correct README: Playwright's default updateSnapshots:"missing" WRITES a missing baseline but FAILS the test (so it gets committed), it does not silently pass.
…geKey) pinTheme wrote localStorage["mui-color-scheme"], but MUI's InitColorSchemeScript/CssVarsProvider default modeStorageKey is the literal string "mode" — so the light theme never applied and the 3 light-mode baselines captured dark (byte-identical to their dark counterparts). Fix: write localStorage["mode"]. Dark tests are unaffected (defaultMode is already dark). Delete the 3 incorrectly-captured light baselines so CI regenerates them as genuine light-mode captures on the next run. Also confirmed the dashboard is deterministic: the two dark /dashboard captures differ only by sub-threshold anti-aliasing noise (0.00% at per-pixel threshold 8), well within Playwright's threshold:0.2.
Three checks were red on the prior branch; this fixes all three: - test-app (jest): jest's testRegex matched tests/visual/*.spec.ts, which import @playwright/test and can't run under jest. Add tests/visual/ to testPathIgnorePatterns. The "quality" aggregate gate was only reporting this failure, so it goes green transitively. - Playwright visual snapshots: baselines captured outside CI diff against the Linux CI renderer's font anti-aliasing. Per the parent plan (report-first, enforce once baselines are stable), make the run step continue-on-error so the suite runs and uploads diffs without blocking PRs. Documented the path to enforcement in the README. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Closes task T-20260709-0004: Create E2E visual tests for critical user flows.
Playwright E2E visual-regression suite covering the critical user flows: node-graph editor (empty canvas, connected nodes, inspector, timeline), chat interface (empty/thread/media-gen/model selector, dashboard), settings pages (API keys, integrations, general, about), design-system pages, and light/dark theme. Mobile (375) / tablet (768) / desktop (1440) viewports via Playwright projects.
CI fixes on this branch
test-appcollectedtests/visual/*.spec.ts(they import@playwright/test, which jest can't parse) → addedtests/visual/totestPathIgnorePatternsinweb/jest.config.ts.continue-on-error(report-first), per the parent plan's "start non-blocking, enforce once CI-generated baselines are committed."Acceptance criteria
web/tests/visual/README.md)