The shared-record accessibility suite had four tests for five states: success and empty shared one, and neither of them ever entered an empty state. A browser run reports what it ran and never what it did not, so a state nobody wrote a test for produced exactly the same output as a state that passed. The five states are enumerated in a fixture, each test names its state, and a fast guard reads the spec back against the list — a state that loses its test, its anchor, or one of its proofs now fails in the ordinary gate rather than at the point somebody notices the spinner is silent. Every state runs four proofs: an axe scan, the document reading order, either a keyboard reach with a visible focus indicator or a live-region announcement for the one state with nothing to press, and, where the copy is something a person has to act on, that it renders as content rather than as muted meta and clears the contrast floor. The retry control on the read-failure card gained a stable slot so the keyboard proof targets the affordance rather than its wording. The eight release journeys are enumerated in the same fixture.
e2e/
End-to-end browser tests. Playwright 1.60 drives a production build of the app against a real PostgreSQL, with @axe-core/playwright for accessibility assertions. This is the heaviest test tier; CI runs it on every PR, and locally it is worth running when a change touches a UI flow.
Running
pnpm e2e
The Playwright config (../playwright.config.ts) builds the app (next build) and brings up Postgres before the specs run; setup/global-setup.ts seeds the auth + fixture state. The suite is not part of the fast local gate (typecheck / lint / test) — it surfaces at PR CI, so expect responsive/wizard/nav reworks to flag here first.
Layout
setup/—test.ts(the suite'stest+expectentry point),global-setup.ts(auth + DB seeding),test-helpers.ts(shared login + navigation helpers).utils/— fixtures such asmock-dashboard-snapshot.ts.*.spec.ts— one spec per flow: auth/login/redirect, dashboard, charts, the medication-wizard cadences (medications-wizard-*), insights generation + scroll restoration, doctor report, settings, mobile-viewport consistency, locale switch, accessibility (a11y.spec.ts), and thev1427-*regression set.
Conventions
Import test and expect from ./setup/test, never from @playwright/test — types (Page, Route, …) still come from the package. The entry point extends Playwright's test with an automatic fixture that drops route handlers and page listeners after every test, so a handler left in flight cannot fail the test it belonged to once the context closes. src/__tests__/e2e-route-cleanup-guard.test.ts enforces the import boundary.
Assert against stable data-* attributes (data-slot, data-display-step, root display attrs), not viewport-dependent visible text. Responsive sm:hidden UI changes break getByText on desktop while the underlying element is still present — anchoring on data attributes keeps the specs stable across breakpoints. See ../CLAUDE.md.