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Why

In CI the core unit job (Playwright CT plus Vitest) took about 314 s. The slowest visual-regression shard took about 166 s. The CT suite runs 1,421 tests on one 4-vCPU runner, so it is CPU-bound.

What

One commit per improvement:

  1. Config. workers is 100% in CI and 50% locally (it was a fixed 10 on 4 vCPUs). retries is 1 in CI and 0 locally (it was 3). CI uses the blob reporter.
  2. CI sharding. Core CT runs on 4 shards. test.spec runs on shard 1 only. Blob reports are uploaded and merged into an HTML report on failure (merge-core-ct-reports).
  3. toHaveVisibleFocus. The negated form now resolves right away instead of waiting out the 5 s timeout.
  4. getFormValue. The 100 ms sleep is gone and call sites use expect.poll.
  5. Fixed waits. 58 of the 59 waitForTimeout calls are replaced with page.clock (tooltip, popover and menu delays), waitForRender, or web-first assertions. The one left is an intentional negative check in toast.
  6. Mount bootstrap. mount no longer loads the bundle, CSS and icons a second time through load-e2e-runtime.js; the script is removed. The theme query params are now applied in ct/index.html.

Results (local, 14 cores, 10 workers)

Before After
Wall time 77.9 s 71.0 s
Summed test time 618 s 567 s

The bigger CI gain comes from the 4 shards (about 356 tests each) and from no longer oversubscribing workers.

Validation

  • pnpm --filter @siemens/ix test.spec: 465 passed.
  • pnpm --filter @siemens/ix lint: 0 errors.
  • Full test.ct run.
  • Changed CT files run with --repeat-each=3.
  • --shard=1/4 --list lists 356 tests.
  • actionlint on the workflows is clean.

Known flakes (already on main, not caused by this PR)

retries: 3 used to hide these. They reproduce on main with --repeat-each=10:

  • datetime-picker.ct.ts "picking a date does not emit dateSelect"
  • menu-about.ct.ts "renders" (30 s timeout)
  • date-input.ct.ts "Home moves focus to first day of week"

These should be fixed in a follow-up PR.

Release impact

No changeset: this is test infrastructure and CI only, with no consumer-facing change.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Tests
    • Improved component-test reliability by waiting for expected states rather than relying on fixed delays.
    • Updated timing and form-value checks across inputs, menus, overlays, and other components.
    • Added parallel test execution and combined reports when a run fails.
  • Chores
    • Updated test-page theme handling and Playwright reporting for CI.

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Core component tests now run in four CI shards, with blob reports merged into a Playwright report. Component-test setup applies theme settings from query parameters. Tests use polling, render waits, and controlled timer advances in place of fixed delays and immediate assertions.

Changes: Core test execution and reliability

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Sharded test runs and reports
packages/core/package.json, packages/core/playwright.config.ts, .github/workflows/actions/unit/action.yml, .github/workflows/build.yml, .github/workflows/pr.yml
The unit action accepts shard and report inputs. It runs test.ct by shard and runs test.spec on shard 1. The build and pull-request workflows configure four core shards and add report-merging jobs. Playwright uses CI-specific workers and reporters.
Component-test setup and helpers
packages/core/scripts/e2e/load-e2e-runtime.js, packages/core/src/tests/utils/ct/index.html, packages/core/src/tests/utils/test/index.ts, packages/core/src/tests/utils/test/page.ts
The component-test page applies theme settings from URL parameters. Test setup no longer injects the removed runtime loader. getFormValue no longer waits before reading and now accepts an optional page parameter. The focus matcher adds a direct path for negated assertions.
Asynchronous component-test assertions
packages/core/src/components/breadcrumb/test/*, packages/core/src/components/button/test/*, packages/core/src/components/chat-input/tests/*, packages/core/src/components/checkbox/tests/*, packages/core/src/components/date-input/tests/*, packages/core/src/components/datetime-input/test/*, packages/core/src/components/dropdown/test/*, packages/core/src/components/event-list/test/*, packages/core/src/components/field-wrapper/tests/*, packages/core/src/components/input/tests/*, packages/core/src/components/menu/test/*, packages/core/src/components/pane-layout/test/*, packages/core/src/components/radio/test/*, packages/core/src/components/select/test/*, packages/core/src/components/slider/test/*, packages/core/src/components/toggle/test/*
Tests replace fixed delays and immediate form-value assertions with render waits, polling assertions, or visibility checks.
Timed interaction tests
packages/core/src/components/menu-category/test/*, packages/core/src/components/menu-item/test/*, packages/core/src/components/popover/test/*, packages/core/src/components/toast/tests/*, packages/core/src/components/tooltip/test/*
Tests use Playwright clock control for menu, popover, and tooltip timing. Toast timing values and wait steps also change.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Other

Suggested reviewers: nuke-ellington

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 14495

Test execution and assertions retain two bounded risks. The change is mergeable with owner awareness of those risks.

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The title "test(core): speed up component tests" matches the main objective of PR #2927, which reduces core Playwright CT run time through worker and retry settings, four CI shards, replacing fixed waits with waitForRender and polling assertions, and removing duplicate runtime loading. It is short, uses the conventional commit style, and names the affected package and test type. It does not mention sharding or the removed load-e2e-runtime script, but those are supporting details, not the headline change.

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Review comments at @.github/workflows/actions/unit/action.yml:
- Line 65: Update the SHARD_INDEX shard 1 test block so a failure in test.spec
does not prevent test.ct from running; capture failures from both commands, then
return a failing status after both suites have run.

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- Line 199: Update the negated branch of toHaveVisibleFocus to include
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🟡 Minor · Install the clock once per test. · menu-item.ct.ts:258-261

packages/core/src/components/menu-item/test/menu-item.ct.ts:258-261
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Install the clock once per test.

expectMenuItemToHaveTooltip installs page.clock on every call. The show tooltip test calls this helper four times, so later calls install the clock after an earlier page.clock.fastForward(1000). Playwright requires install() before other clock operations. This unsupported order can make the CI test fail or stall.

Suggested fix
 async function expectMenuItemToHaveTooltip(
   page: Page,
   menuItem: Locator,
   text: string
 ) {
-  await page.clock.install();
   await menuItem.hover();
   // Default menu item tooltip delay is 1000ms
   await page.clock.fastForward(1000);
@@
   await expect(slotCustomTooltipItem).toHaveAttribute('hydrated');
   await expect(labelCustomTooltipItem).toHaveAttribute('hydrated');
 
+  await page.clock.install();
   await expectMenuItemToHaveTooltip(page, slotItem, 'Foo bar');
   await expectMenuItemToHaveTooltip(page, labelItem, 'Hello World');
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Review comment at @packages/core/src/components/menu-item/test/menu-item.ct.ts
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Remove the clock installation from expectMenuItemToHaveTooltip and install
page.clock once in the show tooltip test before its first helper call. Preserve
the existing hover, fastForward, and tooltip assertions for each menu item.

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Review comments at @packages/core/src/components/menu-item/test/menu-item.ct.ts:
- Around line 258-261: Remove the clock installation from
expectMenuItemToHaveTooltip and install page.clock once in the show tooltip test
before its first helper call. Preserve the existing hover, fastForward, and
tooltip assertions for each menu item.

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