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What changed

  • Upgraded Playwright to 1.62.1 and migrated all 15 webview visual specs from experimental React CT to Playwright's stable browser-owned story gallery while preserving the existing 42 tests and snapshot names.
  • Added reusable 320px reflow, WCAG text-spacing, overflow, clipping, action-row, and focused-control contracts for Welcome, Chat, History, and UI Settings without expanding the screenshot matrix.
  • Added a serial Playwright Electron runner that launches the pinned VS Code 1.100.0 Extension Development Host with isolated profiles and deterministic extension-driven readiness.
  • Added real-host scenarios for Welcome in dark/high contrast and a populated dark-theme chat backed by a deterministic mock provider.
  • Added a pinned Ubuntu 24.04/Xvfb CI job with canonical fonts, locale, timezone, scale, three repeated comparisons, traces, logs, workbench diagnostics, and visual diff artifacts.
  • Fixed narrow-layout behavior exposed by the new contracts so History filters can shrink and the UI Settings font-size controls can wrap.
  • Stabilized the populated-chat scene against fresh-profile telemetry, release-announcement overlays, and focus-state drift.

Why this change was made

Component screenshots provide broad, fast regression coverage but did not prove that Zoo Code renders the same way inside the actual VS Code Electron shell. The previous component harness was also experimental and lacked shared contracts for narrow viewport and user text-spacing failures.

Closes #1358.

Impact

There is no intended workflow change for users. Maintainers gain broad stable component coverage plus a small production-parity gate for real VS Code embedding, theme propagation, sizing, and extension-to-webview setup.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added an API method for retrieving the latest announcement identifier.
    • Expanded visual coverage for VS Code extension views, themes, chat, settings, history, and accessibility scenarios.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved responsive layouts for history filters, chat controls, settings, and visual test containers.
    • Added layout checks to help prevent content clipping and overflow on narrow screens.
  • Testing

    • Introduced a streamlined visual gallery for consistent UI verification.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds Electron Extension Host visual smoke tests and migrates webview visual tests from Playwright Component Testing to a Vite-backed Story Gallery. It also adds responsive layout checks, CI execution, pinned Playwright tooling, and a test API method.

Changes

Visual testing platform

Layer / File(s) Summary
Story Gallery foundation
webview-ui/playwright-ct.config.ts, webview-ui/playwright/gallery/*, webview-ui/playwright/vite.config.ts, webview-ui/playwright/AppProviders.tsx
The visual harness now runs through a Vite gallery and Playwright Test. Named stories expose asynchronous mount and unmount controls.
Responsive visual contracts
webview-ui/playwright/layout-contracts.ts, webview-ui/src/components/history/HistoryView.tsx, webview-ui/src/components/settings/UISettings.tsx, webview-ui/src/components/*/__tests__/*visual.fixture.tsx
The suite checks overflow, clipping, focus visibility, and action-row bounds at a 320px viewport. Affected controls and fixtures now support shrinking or wrapping.
Story-based visual test migration
webview-ui/src/components/*/__tests__/*.visual.tsx
Existing visual tests mount registered stories instead of rendering fixtures directly. Screenshot, theme, accessibility, and interaction assertions remain in the tests.
Electron scene control
apps/vscode-e2e/src/visual/sceneController.ts
The scene controller validates environment settings, activates the extension, applies themes, configures the chat mock, waits for semantic readiness, and exchanges JSON readiness and completion markers.
Electron visual runner
apps/vscode-e2e/src/visual/electron.visual.ts
The runner launches pinned VS Code instances in isolated directories and covers dark Welcome, high-contrast Welcome, and populated chat scenes. It captures sidebar and webview screenshots and attaches logs and traces on failure.
Electron visual CI wiring
.github/workflows/visual-regression.yml, apps/vscode-e2e/package.json, apps/vscode-e2e/playwright-electron.config.ts, .gitignore
CI runs the Electron suite with pinned Playwright and VS Code versions, locale and timezone settings, xvfb, caching, and failure artifacts.
Test API announcement access
packages/types/src/api.ts, src/extension/api.ts, src/extension/__tests__/api-theme-fixture.spec.ts
The test API now exposes getLatestAnnouncementId() and tests the sidebar provider value.
Visual test guidance
webview-ui/AGENTS.md, apps/vscode-e2e/AGENTS.md, webview-ui/playwright/vscode-theme-base.css, webview-ui/docker-compose.visual.yml
Documentation and visual-test runtime references now use Story Gallery terminology and Playwright 1.62.1.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to d7284

This change adds visual regression coverage and responsive layout checks without changing the shipped user workflow. A localized test-only typing cleanup remains advisable, but no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Suggested reviewers: edelauna

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Playwright
  participant Electron
  participant VSCode
  participant SceneController
  participant LLMock

  Playwright->>Electron: Launch pinned VS Code
  Electron->>VSCode: Start Extension Host
  VSCode->>SceneController: Run configured scene
  SceneController->>VSCode: Activate extension and apply theme
  SceneController->>LLMock: Request deterministic chat completion
  LLMock-->>SceneController: Return completion result
  SceneController-->>Playwright: Write readiness snapshot
  Playwright->>VSCode: Capture sidebar and webview screenshots
  Playwright->>SceneController: Write done marker
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🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (1 warning, 1 inconclusive)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 17 functions across 34 files. (10 skipped:… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Linked Issues check ❓ Inconclusive The changes address the main objectives in [#1358]: stable story-gallery migration, dedicated pinned Electron coverage, isolated directories, semantic readiness, dark/high-contrast Welcome scenes, pop… Provide CI or test results showing three stable Electron comparisons and confirming existing component, behavioral E2E, fixture-drift, and repository tests remain green. The baseline PNGs are excluded by the !**/*.png filter, so their prese…
✅ Passed checks (3 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title is concise and accurately identifies the main Extension Host visual regression change.
Description check ✅ Passed The description clearly explains the implementation, rationale, linked issue, and impact. It does not include the template's explicit Test Procedure or completed checklist, so reproduction steps and v…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes are within the scope of [#1358]. The API addition, layout fixes, documentation updates, gallery migration, Electron runner, and CI changes directly support deterministic visual testing and…
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Explanation

The description clearly explains the implementation, rationale, linked issue, and impact. It does not include the template's explicit Test Procedure or completed checklist, so reproduction steps and verification status are not documented.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

The changes address the main objectives in [#1358]: stable story-gallery migration, dedicated pinned Electron coverage, isolated directories, semantic readiness, dark/high-contrast Welcome scenes, populated chat coverage, separate CI execution, layout contracts, and diagnostic artifacts. The supplied context does not verify repeated snapshot stability, existing-suite results, or the excluded baseline image files.

Resolution

Provide CI or test results showing three stable Electron comparisons and confirming existing component, behavioral E2E, fixture-drift, and repository tests remain green. The baseline PNGs are excluded by the !**/*.png filter, so their presence and contents cannot be independently verified from this review context; inspect those files separately if required.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The changes are within the scope of [#1358]. The API addition, layout fixes, documentation updates, gallery migration, Electron runner, and CI changes directly support deterministic visual testing and production-parity coverage.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 17 functions across 34 files. (10 skipped: 10 unsupported.)

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src/extension/__tests__/api-theme-fixture.spec.ts (1)

36-37: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Document or remove the double assertions.

as unknown as ClineProvider and as unknown as vscode.OutputChannel bypass type checking for the test dependencies. Prefer a narrow typed test seam. If the runtime types cannot be constructed in this unit test, add a nearby comment that explains why the double assertions are unavoidable.

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In `@src/extension/__tests__/api-theme-fixture.spec.ts` around lines 36 - 37,
Replace the double assertions for ClineProvider and vscode.OutputChannel in the
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In `@src/extension/__tests__/api-theme-fixture.spec.ts`:
- Around line 36-37: Replace the double assertions for ClineProvider and
vscode.OutputChannel in the test setup with narrowly typed test doubles where
possible; if either runtime type cannot be constructed, retain the assertion
only with a nearby comment explaining why it is unavoidable.

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[ENHANCEMENT] Add Electron visual smoke tests and migrate Playwright components

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