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# Playwright in Element Web
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## Contents
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- How to run the tests
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- How the tests work
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- How to write great Playwright tests
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- Visual testing
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## Running the Tests
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Our Playwright tests run automatically as part of our CI along with our other tests,
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on every pull request and on every merge to develop & master.
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You may need to follow instructions to set up your development environment for running
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Playwright by following <https://playwright.dev/docs/browsers#install-browsers> and
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<https://playwright.dev/docs/browsers#install-system-dependencies>.
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However the Playwright tests are run, an element-web instance must be running on
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http://localhost:8080 (this is configured in `playwright.config.ts`) - this is what will
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be tested. When running Playwright tests yourself, the standard `yarn start` from the
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element-web project is fine: leave it running it a different terminal as you would
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when developing. Alternatively if you followed the development set up from element-web then
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Playwright will be capable of running the webserver on its own if it isn't already running.
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The tests use Docker to launch Homeserver (Synapse or Dendrite) instances to test against, so you'll also
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need to have Docker installed and working in order to run the Playwright tests.
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There are a few different ways to run the tests yourself. The simplest is to run:
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```shell
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docker pull ghcr.io/element-hq/synapse:develop
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yarn run test:playwright
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```
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This will run the Playwright tests once, non-interactively.
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Note: you don't need to run the `docker pull` command every time, but you should
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do it regularly to ensure you are running against an up-to-date Synapse.
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You can also run individual tests this way too, as you'd expect:
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```shell
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yarn run test:playwright --spec playwright/e2e/register/register.spec.ts
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```
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Playwright also has its own UI that you can use to run and debug the tests.
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To launch it:
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```shell
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yarn run test:playwright:open --headed --debug
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```
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See more command line options at <https://playwright.dev/docs/test-cli>.
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### Running with Rust cryptography
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`matrix-js-sdk` is currently in the
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[process](https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/21972) of being
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updated to replace its end-to-end encryption implementation to use the [Matrix
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Rust SDK](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk). This is not currently
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enabled by default, but it is possible to have Playwright configure Element to use
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the Rust crypto implementation by passing `--project="Rust Crypto"` or using
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the top left options in open mode.
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## How the Tests Work
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Everything Playwright-related lives in the `playwright/` subdirectory of react-sdk
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as is typical for Playwright tests. Likewise, tests live in `playwright/e2e`.
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`playwright/plugins/homeservers` contains Playwright plugins that starts instances
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of Synapse/Dendrite in Docker containers. These servers are what Element-web runs
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against in the tests.
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Synapse can be launched with different configurations in order to test element
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in different configurations. `playwright/plugins/homeserver/synapse/templates`
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contains template configuration files for each different configuration.
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Each test suite can then launch whatever Synapse instances it needs in whatever
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configurations.
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Note that although tests should stop the Homeserver instances after running and the
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plugin also stop any remaining instances after all tests have run, it is possible
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to be left with some stray containers if, for example, you terminate a test such
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that the `after()` does not run and also exit Playwright uncleanly. All the containers
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it starts are prefixed, so they are easy to recognise. They can be removed safely.
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After each test run, logs from the Synapse instances are saved in `playwright/logs/synapse`
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with each instance in a separate directory named after its ID. These logs are removed
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at the start of each test run.
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## Writing Tests
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Mostly this is the same advice as for writing any other Playwright test: the Playwright
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docs are well worth a read if you're not already familiar with Playwright testing, eg.
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https://playwright.dev/docs/best-practices. To avoid your tests being flaky it is also
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recommended to use [auto-retrying assertions](https://playwright.dev/docs/test-assertions#auto-retrying-assertions).
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### Getting a Synapse
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We heavily leverage the magic of [Playwright fixtures](https://playwright.dev/docs/test-fixtures).
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To acquire a homeserver within a test just add the `homeserver` fixture to the test:
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```typescript
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test("should do something", async ({ homeserver }) => {
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// homeserver is a Synapse/Dendrite instance
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});
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```
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This returns an object with information about the Homeserver instance, including what port
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it was started on and the ID that needs to be passed to shut it down again. It also
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returns the registration shared secret (`registrationSecret`) that can be used to
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register users via the REST API. The Homeserver has been ensured ready to go by awaiting
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its internal health-check.
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Homeserver instances should be reasonably cheap to start (you may see the first one take a
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while as it pulls the Docker image).
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You do not need to explicitly clean up the instance as it will be cleaned up by the fixture.
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### Synapse Config Templates
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When a Synapse instance is started, it's given a config generated from one of the config
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templates in `playwright/plugins/homeserver/synapse/templates`. There are a couple of special files
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in these templates:
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- `homeserver.yaml`:
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Template substitution happens in this file. Template variables are:
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- `REGISTRATION_SECRET`: The secret used to register users via the REST API.
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- `MACAROON_SECRET_KEY`: Generated each time for security
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- `FORM_SECRET`: Generated each time for security
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- `PUBLIC_BASEURL`: The localhost url + port combination the synapse is accessible at
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- `localhost.signing.key`: A signing key is auto-generated and saved to this file.
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Config templates should not contain a signing key and instead assume that one will exist
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in this file.
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All other files in the template are copied recursively to `/data/`, so the file `foo.html`
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in a template can be referenced in the config as `/data/foo.html`.
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### Logging In
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We again heavily leverage the magic of [Playwright fixtures](https://playwright.dev/docs/test-fixtures).
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To acquire a logged-in user within a test just add the `user` fixture to the test:
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```typescript
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test("should do something", async ({ user }) => {
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// user is a logged in user
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});
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```
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You can specify a display name for the user via `test.use` `displayName`,
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otherwise a random one will be generated.
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This will register a random userId using the registrationSecret with a random password
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and the given display name. The user fixture will contain details about the credentials for if
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they are needed for User-Interactive Auth or similar but localStorage will already be seeded with them
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and the app loaded (path `/`).
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### Joining a Room
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Many tests will also want to start with the client in a room, ready to send & receive messages. Best
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way to do this may be to get an access token for the user and use this to create a room with the REST
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API before logging the user in.
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You can make use of the bot fixture and the `client` field on the app fixture to do this.
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### Try to write tests from the users' perspective
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Like for instance a user will not look for a button by querying a CSS selector.
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Instead, you should work with roles / labels etc, see https://playwright.dev/docs/locators.
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### Using matrix-js-sdk
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Due to the way we run the Playwright tests in CI, at this time you can only use the matrix-js-sdk module
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exposed on `window.matrixcs`. This has the limitation that it is only accessible with the app loaded.
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This may be revisited in the future.
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## Good Test Hygiene
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This section mostly summarises general good Playwright testing practice, and should not be news to anyone
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already familiar with Playwright.
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1. Test a well-isolated unit of functionality. The more specific, the easier it will be to tell what's
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wrong when they fail.
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1. Don't depend on state from other tests: any given test should be able to run in isolation.
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1. Try to avoid driving the UI for anything other than the UI you're trying to test. e.g. if you're
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testing that the user can send a reaction to a message, it's best to send a message using a REST
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API, then react to it using the UI, rather than using the element-web UI to send the message.
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1. Avoid explicit waits. Playwright locators & assertions will implicitly wait for the specified
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element to appear and all assertions are retried until they either pass or time out, so you should
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never need to manually wait for an element.
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- For example, for asserting about editing an already-edited message, you can't wait for the
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'edited' element to appear as there was already one there, but you can assert that the body
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of the message is what is should be after the second edit and this assertion will pass once
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it becomes true. You can then assert that the 'edited' element is still in the DOM.
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- You can also wait for other things like network requests in the
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browser to complete (https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-page#page-wait-for-response).
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Needing to wait for things can also be because of race conditions in the app itself, which ideally
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shouldn't be there!
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This is a small selection - the Playwright best practices guide, linked above, has more good advice, and we
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should generally try to adhere to them.
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## Screenshot testing
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When we previously used Cypress we also dabbled with Percy, and whilst powerful it did not
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lend itself well to being executed on all PRs without needing to budget it substantially.
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Playwright has built-in support for [visual comparison testing](https://playwright.dev/docs/test-snapshots).
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Screenshots are saved in `playwright/snapshots` and are rendered in a Linux Docker environment for stability.
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One must be careful to exclude any dynamic content from the screenshot, such as timestamps, avatars, etc,
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via the `mask` option. See the [Playwright docs](https://playwright.dev/docs/test-snapshots#masking).
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Some UI elements render differently between test runs, such as BaseAvatar when
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there is no avatar set, choosing a colour from the theme palette based on the
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hash of the user/room's Matrix ID. To avoid this creating flaky tests we inject
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some custom CSS, for this to happen we use the custom assertion `toMatchScreenshot`
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instead of the native `toHaveScreenshot`.
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If you are running Linux and are unfortunate that the screenshots are not rendering identically,
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you may wish to specify `--ignore-snapshots` and rely on Docker to render them for you.
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