The `/insights/workouts` case gated its axe scan on `#main-content
[role="status"]`. That role is not a content marker: the busy skeletons
carry it too, and the one the streamed route shell paints first is a
`chart-skeleton` with `aria-busy="true"`. The sentinel therefore went
green on a document the page client had not touched yet. A frame trace
under a 20x CPU throttle puts that skeleton on screen at 408 ms and the
page's own `<h1>` at 4119 ms, so for most of four seconds the scan could
land on a tree with no level-one heading and report
`page-has-heading-one` against `html`. That is the failure a loaded
runner has been showing, and the page it accused has the heading.
Gate on the two states the page itself renders instead, the list or the
empty state. The overview case above already excludes `aria-busy`
skeletons the same way.
`/coach` had a smaller version of the same gap: `coach-page` is the
sizing wrapper around a `<Suspense fallback={null}>`, on screen 241 ms
before the conversation under it exists. Gate on the conversation.
Neither sentinel waits for a heading. Removing the `<h1>` from
`SubPageShell`, `CoachHero` and the conversation's screen-reader title
still turns the matrix red with four `page-has-heading-one` violations
per theme.
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.