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Purpose

Add the missing React studio preview core-flow browser tests from the #8986 QA plan, using the existing Playwright host setup and the paired Compose backend check.


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Problem

#8986 requires automated Playwright coverage in CI for sign-in, the workflow list, designer create/edit/save/publish/run, the instance viewer and journal, and settings. Existing specs already cover expressions, tenancy, BPMN, localization, activity settings and navigation, but not that end-to-end path.

Solution

  • Add studio/react/tests/core-flows.spec.ts: two readable Playwright cases against the real ASP.NET host (same pnpm test:browser path CI uses). Elsa API responses are an in-memory backend in the spec so the clicks and saved payloads stay obvious; no extra test framework.
  • Rejected Elsa Identity credentials stay on the sign-in page.
  • A successful sign-in walks dashboard, empty list, create, name edit, save, add Write line, publish, run, instance journal, and Appearance settings.
  • Extend studio/react/scripts/test-container-pair.mjs so the paired Compose CI step exercises the same journey against the real reference backend and deletes the temporary definition.

This is Part of #8986, not the full QA gate. Still open on that issue: Firefox/WebKit matrix, side-by-side Blazor/React, clean-machine npm/NuGet install proof, hosting-mode expansion beyond the existing opt-in/standalone/Docker CI steps, and a QA PASS post.


Verification

Steps:

  1. cd studio/react && pnpm install --frozen-lockfile && pnpm build
  2. dotnet build Elsa.ReactStudio.slnf from the repository root
  3. pnpm exec playwright install --with-deps chromium
  4. pnpm test:browser

Expected outcome:

52 passed locally, including the two new core-flow cases (0.7s and 3.3s). Full suite 1.4 minutes.

The paired-container script change will run in the existing "Verify the paired reference server and Preview containers" CI job.


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  • The PR is focused on a single concern
  • Commit messages follow the recommended convention
  • Tests added or updated (if applicable)
  • Documentation updated (if applicable)
  • No unrelated cleanup included
  • All tests pass

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  • Tests
    • Added browser-based coverage for rejected sign-in and the Studio workflow journey, including creating and editing workflows, saving, publishing, running, and reviewing execution journals.
    • Added checks for saved workflow contents, successful completion, and opening appearance settings.
    • Added cleanup of workflows created during testing, with a warning if cleanup fails.

Add readable Playwright journeys for sign-in, the workflow list, designer
create/edit/save/publish/run, the instance journal and settings. Extend the
paired-container check so the same path runs against the real Compose backend.

Co-authored-by: Sipke Schoorstra <sipkeschoorstra@outlook.com>
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The pull request adds Playwright coverage for rejected sign-in and a successful Studio workflow journey. It also extends a container-pair browser test to create, publish, and run a workflow, inspect its journal, and open settings and appearance pages.

Changes: Studio core-flow browser coverage

Layer / File(s) Summary
Mocked API and preview configuration
studio/react/tests/core-flows.spec.ts
Adds preview configuration and an in-memory API backend for authentication, workflow definitions, execution, and journal data.
Sign-in and workflow browser journeys
studio/react/tests/core-flows.spec.ts, studio/react/scripts/test-container-pair.mjs
Adds checks for rejected credentials and a successful workflow journey. The container-pair test also verifies workflow execution and journal status, opens settings and appearance pages, and attempts to delete the created definition.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Other

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4e56d

The new checks may miss an incomplete WriteLine journal step, and a stalled backend can delay the paired-container result. These are bounded test-quality risks rather than demonstrated product failures.

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- Around line 99-110: Update the cleanup in the `finally` block guarded by
`definitionId` so failures during login, token parsing, or deletion cannot
replace the test result. Wrap the entire cleanup sequence in one `try/catch` and
log a warning on failure; check the login and DELETE response statuses before
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[Medium impact] No outstanding findings block merging these test changes.

Summary

Adds browser coverage for rejected sign-in and the main Studio journey, plus a matching journey against the paired containers.

  • Playwright checks cover sign-in through workflow execution and settings.
  • The paired-container check runs a workflow through Studio and the real backend.

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Elsa 3 Code Review: REQUEST_CHANGES + HIGH @ 1a3a304

Code Review, Round 1/6

Good shape overall: straight-line journeys, role and label selectors, no fixed sleeps, stub credentials only (the admin/password pair is the Compose reference server's Development account the script already used), and the in-memory backend is easy to follow. Four things need fixing before this coverage can be trusted.

1. The run check can pass on a failed run (both files).
getByText("Finished", { exact: true }).first() matches the static Finished field label in instance-details.tsx (the finishedAt row), which renders whatever the outcome. The 30 second timeout in test-container-pair.mjs therefore never waits for anything. Scoping to the status badge is not enough either: a faulted Elsa workflow has status: Finished and subStatus: Faulted. Suggested fix:

  • In test-container-pair.mjs, read the instance id from the URL and poll GET {api}/workflow-instances/{id} until subStatus === "Finished" (fail on Faulted), then do the UI checks.
  • In both files, require the journal step to show Completed, not only a WriteLine row, and assert Faulted is absent.

2. Cleanup in finally can hide the real failure (test-container-pair.mjs).
Only the DELETE has a .catch. If the login fetch rejects or login.json() throws, the cleanup error replaces the Playwright assertion error. login.ok and the DELETE status are also unchecked, so a failed cleanup sends Bearer undefined and leaks the definition silently. Wrap the whole cleanup in one try/catch, check both responses, and console.warn on failure. (Same as the CodeRabbit thread.)

3. The spec claims "edit, save" but never checks what was saved (core-flows.spec.ts).
The in-memory backend already holds the saved model, but nothing asserts it. After the rename, assert the saved definition has name: "Order notice v1"; after adding the step, assert root.activities contains a WriteLine. A small const saves = [] captured in the POST handler keeps this readable.

4. Remove the racy conditional save after adding the step (core-flows.spec.ts).
if (await unsaved.isVisible()) await unsaved.click(); races the editor's 2 second autosave (AUTOSAVE_DELAY_MS, on by default). Depending on timing it clicks, misses, or hits a button that is being disabled. Pick one deterministic path: either rely on autosave and wait for Saved (as the container script does, with a longer timeout), or turn autosave off in the fixture and click explicitly. The unconditional click after the rename has the same race under a slow runner. Item 3's payload assertion makes either path safe to verify.

Minor, optional: palette.locator("input") and the locator("..") label climb are the only structural selectors; getByRole("combobox"|"searchbox") or getByLabel would be sturdier if the markup allows.

CI: the paired-container job (frontend-and-host) was still queued on this head when this review was posted, so the new Compose path has not run in CI yet. Please confirm it passes on the next head. The Compose stack is torn down with down -v in CI, so item 2 mostly matters for local runs and for not masking failures.

— Code Review (Elsa 3), via Elsa Review

Poll instance subStatus instead of matching Finished text, assert the
saved name and WriteLine payload, wait for autosave, and keep cleanup
from masking assertion failures.

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R1 finding 4: removed both Unsaved-changes clicks (the post-rename click and the racy conditional after adding WriteLine). Autosave stays on; the spec waits for the captured payload and for Saved. The Compose script already waited for Saved with a 15s timeout and now also asserts the persisted definition.

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- Around line 66-68: Pass an AbortSignal to the workflow-instance fetch request,
bounded by the polling deadline’s remaining time, so a stalled response cannot
keep the polling loop pending past its deadline.

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- Line 64: Update the completion assertion in the core-flows test to check the
selected WriteLine step’s status, rather than the first “Completed” label in the
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Elsa 3 Code Review: APPROVE + HIGH @ 4e56d07

Code Review, Round 2/6

All four Round 1 findings are fixed on this head. I re-read both files in full, not only the diff since 1a3a3047.

1. A failed run can no longer pass (fixed).
Neither file matches the static Finished label any more. The Compose script takes the instance id from the URL and polls GET /workflow-instances/{id} until subStatus === "Finished", with a 30 second deadline and a 250 ms interval. It throws at once on Faulted or a non-OK response, and the timeout message names the last subStatus. Both files then open the WriteLine row and check for Completed with no Faulted in the Workflow journal tree. In journal-tree.tsx the status label and event names only render in the detail pane of the clicked row, and rows with a duration show elapsed time instead. So Completed comes from the selected step, not from a static label.

2. Cleanup can't hide the real failure (fixed).
The whole cleanup is one try/catch that ends in console.warn. apiLogin() checks login.ok and that an access token came back, and the DELETE status is checked too.

3. The saved payload is asserted (fixed).
The spec records each POST in saves[]. It waits for name: "Order notice v1" after the rename, then checks for a WriteLine in root.activities and that the name stuck. The Compose script makes the same checks against the real saved definition through by-definition-id, which defaults to Latest.

4. Autosave race (fixed).
Both Unsaved changes clicks are gone. Autosave is the single path: the spec waits for the captured payload and then Saved, with no fixed sleeps.

The new helpers (apiLogin, waitForFinishedInstance, hasWriteLine, assertJournalSucceeded) keep the journeys readable.

Optional, not blocking:

  • In the spec, a Faulted error thrown inside expect.poll is retried, so it fails at the 30 second timeout rather than at once. The in-memory stub always returns Finished, so assertJournalSucceeded is the real check in that file.
  • The Compose script reads the saved definition once, right after Saved. A short poll, as in the spec, would rule out a stale read.
  • The per-request fetch in the script's waitForFinishedInstance has no AbortSignal.timeout, unlike the readiness loops (CodeRabbit thread, already answered).
  • hasWriteLine recurses in the script but checks one level in the spec. That's fine for these fixtures.

CI: all 16 check runs on this head passed, including frontend-and-host (paired containers), ubuntu-latest, CodeQL and Greptile, and the CodeRabbit status is green.

— Code Review (Elsa 3), via Elsa Review

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