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End to End Tests #3478

# Produce a build of element-web with this version of react-sdk
# and any matching branches of element-web and js-sdk, output it
# as an artifact and run end-to-end tests.
name: End to End Tests
on:
# CRON to run all Projects at 6am UTC
schedule:
- cron: "0 6 * * *"
pull_request: {}
merge_group:
types: [checks_requested]
push:
branches: [develop, master]
repository_dispatch:
types: [element-web-notify]
# support triggering from other workflows
workflow_call:
inputs:
skip:
type: boolean
required: false
default: false
description: "A boolean to skip the playwright check itself while still creating the passing check. Useful when only running in Merge Queues."
matrix-js-sdk-sha:
type: string
required: false
description: "The Git SHA of matrix-js-sdk to build against. By default, will use a matching branch name if it exists, or develop."
concurrency:
group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}-${{ github.event_name }}
cancel-in-progress: true
env:
# fetchdep.sh needs to know our PR number
PR_NUMBER: ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}
# Use 6 runners in the default case, but 4 when running on a schedule where we run all 5 projects (20 runners total)
NUM_RUNNERS: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 4 || 6 }}
permissions: {} # No permissions required
jobs:
build:
name: "Build Element-Web"
runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
if: inputs.skip != true
outputs:
num-runners: ${{ env.NUM_RUNNERS }}
runners-matrix: ${{ steps.runner-vars.outputs.matrix }}
steps:
- name: Checkout code
uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
repository: element-hq/element-web
- uses: actions/setup-node@v4
with:
cache: "yarn"
node-version: "lts/*"
- name: Fetch layered build
id: layered_build
env:
# tell layered.sh to check out the right sha of the JS-SDK & EW, if they were given one
JS_SDK_GITHUB_BASE_REF: ${{ inputs.matrix-js-sdk-sha }}
run: |
scripts/layered.sh
JSSDK_SHA=$(git -C matrix-js-sdk rev-parse --short=12 HEAD)
VECTOR_SHA=$(git rev-parse --short=12 HEAD)
echo "VERSION=$VECTOR_SHA--js-$JSSDK_SHA" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
- name: Copy config
run: cp element.io/develop/config.json config.json
- name: Build
env:
CI_PACKAGE: true
VERSION: "${{ steps.layered_build.outputs.VERSION }}"
run: |
yarn build
- name: Upload Artifact
uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
with:
name: webapp
path: webapp
retention-days: 1
- name: Calculate runner variables
id: runner-vars
uses: actions/github-script@v7
with:
script: |
const numRunners = parseInt(process.env.NUM_RUNNERS, 10);
const matrix = Array.from({ length: numRunners }, (_, i) => i + 1);
core.setOutput("matrix", JSON.stringify(matrix));
playwright:
name: "Run Tests [${{ matrix.project }}] ${{ matrix.runner }}/${{ needs.build.outputs.num-runners }}"
needs: build
if: inputs.skip != true
runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
permissions:
actions: read
issues: read
pull-requests: read
strategy:
fail-fast: false
matrix:
# Run multiple instances in parallel to speed up the tests
runner: ${{ fromJSON(needs.build.outputs.runners-matrix) }}
project:
- Chrome
- Firefox
- WebKit
isCron:
- ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' }}
# Skip the Firefox & Safari runs unless this was a cron trigger
exclude:
- isCron: false
project: Firefox
- isCron: false
project: WebKit
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
persist-credentials: false
repository: element-hq/element-web
- name: 📥 Download artifact
uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
with:
name: webapp
path: webapp
- uses: actions/setup-node@v4
with:
cache: "yarn"
cache-dependency-path: yarn.lock
node-version: "lts/*"
- name: Install dependencies
run: yarn install --frozen-lockfile
- name: Get installed Playwright version
id: playwright
run: echo "version=$(yarn list --pattern @playwright/test --depth=0 --json --non-interactive --no-progress | jq -r '.data.trees[].name')" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
- name: Cache playwright binaries
uses: actions/cache@v4
id: playwright-cache
with:
path: |
~/.cache/ms-playwright
key: ${{ runner.os }}-playwright-${{ steps.playwright.outputs.version }}
- name: Install Playwright browsers
if: steps.playwright-cache.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
run: yarn playwright install --with-deps --no-shell
- name: Install system dependencies for WebKit
# Some WebKit dependencies seem to lay outside the cache and will need to be installed separately
if: matrix.project == 'WebKit' && steps.playwright-cache.outputs.cache-hit == 'true'
run: yarn playwright install-deps webkit
# We skip tests tagged with @mergequeue when running on PRs, but run them in MQ and everywhere else
- name: Run Playwright tests
run: |
yarn playwright test \
--shard "${{ matrix.runner }}/${{ needs.build.outputs.num-runners }}" \
--project="${{ matrix.project }}" \
${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' && '--grep-invert @mergequeue' || '' }}
- name: Upload blob report to GitHub Actions Artifacts
if: always()
uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
with:
name: all-blob-reports-${{ matrix.project }}-${{ matrix.runner }}
path: blob-report
retention-days: 1
complete:
name: end-to-end-tests
needs: playwright
if: always()
runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
if: inputs.skip != true
with:
persist-credentials: false
repository: element-hq/element-web
- uses: actions/setup-node@v4
if: inputs.skip != true
with:
cache: "yarn"
node-version: "lts/*"
- name: Install dependencies
if: inputs.skip != true
run: yarn install --frozen-lockfile
- name: Download blob reports from GitHub Actions Artifacts
if: inputs.skip != true
uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
with:
pattern: all-blob-reports-*
path: all-blob-reports
merge-multiple: true
- name: Merge into HTML Report
if: inputs.skip != true
run: yarn playwright merge-reports --reporter=html,./playwright/flaky-reporter.ts,./playwright/stale-screenshot-reporter.ts ./all-blob-reports
env:
# Only pass creds to the flaky-reporter on main branch runs
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ github.ref_name == 'develop' && secrets.ELEMENT_BOT_TOKEN || '' }}
# Upload the HTML report even if one of our reporters fails, this can happen when stale screenshots are detected
- name: Upload HTML report
if: always() && inputs.skip != true
uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
with:
name: html-report
path: playwright-report
retention-days: 14
- if: needs.playwright.result != 'skipped' && needs.playwright.result != 'success'
run: exit 1