# Session: Complete Playwright E2E Test Suite Fix

**Date**: 2025-12-03
**Branch**: `fix/playwright-e2e-complete` (feature branch)
**Base Commit**: `8894c89` - fix(e2e): Update Playwright tests to navigate to correct dashboard URL
**Goal**: Achieve 100% pass rate on all 11 Playwright E2E tests (locally and in CI)

## Current Status

**Previous Work** (commit 8894c89):
- ✅ Fixed infrastructure issue: tests now navigate to `/projects/{projectId}` instead of `/`
- ✅ Implemented global-setup.ts to create/reuse test project
- ✅ 2/11 tests passing locally (18% pass rate)
- ⚠️ 9 tests failing due to missing test data (agents, tasks, metrics, checkpoints)

**CI Status** (main branch):
- ✅ E2E Backend Tests: PASSED (25s)
- ✅ Code Quality: PASSED (51s)
- ✅ Frontend Unit Tests: PASSED (50s)
- ✅ Backend Unit Tests: PASSED (2m50s)
- ⏳ E2E Frontend Tests (Playwright): RUNNING (watching results)

## Comprehensive Execution Plan (8 Phases)

### Phase 1: Branch Setup and Context Analysis ✅
**Status**: Ready to start
**Goal**: Create feature branch and analyze test failure patterns
- Create branch `fix/playwright-e2e-complete` from main
- Analyze all 11 test files to categorize failures
- Select fix strategy: Test data seeding + empty-state handling

### Phase 2: Test Infrastructure Enhancement
**Status**: Pending
**Goal**: Enhance global-setup.ts with comprehensive test fixtures
- Seed test data: 3 agents, 10 tasks, 5 checkpoints, metrics data
- Create deterministic test environment
- Add cleanup/teardown logic

### Phase 3: Parallel Test Fixes ⚡
**Status**: Pending
**Goal**: Fix all 11 tests in parallel (3 agents working simultaneously)
- Agent 1 (playwright-expert): Fix test_dashboard.spec.ts (9 tests)
- Agent 2 (typescript-expert): Fix checkpoint_ui and metrics_ui tests
- Agent 3 (quality-engineer): Fix review_ui tests + add utilities

### Phase 4: Local Validation
**Status**: Pending
**Goal**: Run full E2E suite locally 3x to ensure 100% pass rate
- Run suite 3 times consecutively (flakiness check)
- Cross-browser validation (Chromium/Firefox/WebKit)
- Fix any timing or wait condition issues

### Phase 5: CI Configuration Validation
**Status**: Pending
**Goal**: Ensure GitHub Actions environment is optimized
- Review workflow timeout settings
- Validate environment variable propagation
- Add debug logging for test data seeding

### Phase 6: Commit and Push to Feature Branch
**Status**: Pending
**Goal**: Push changes and trigger CI run
- Commit all test changes with comprehensive message
- Push to remote: `git push -u origin fix/playwright-e2e-complete`
- Monitor GitHub Actions workflow

### Phase 7: CI Monitoring and Iteration
**Status**: Pending
**Goal**: Monitor CI run and fix environment-specific issues
- Watch GitHub Actions run in real-time
- Debug any CI-specific failures (timing, networking, etc.)
- Iterate until 100% pass rate achieved

### Phase 8: Merge and Cleanup
**Status**: Pending
**Goal**: Create PR, review, and merge to main
- Create PR with before/after metrics
- Code review for test quality
- Merge after CI passes

## Estimated Metrics

- **Token Usage**: ~75k tokens total
- **Time Estimate**: 2-3 hours (including CI validation)
- **Expected Improvement**: 18% → 100% pass rate (2/11 → 11/11 tests)
- **Risk Level**: Medium (mitigated by local-first testing strategy)

See full plan details below.
