discussion: Testing suite with Puppeteer for UX

[Nandos0804]

I’d like to ask about adding an automated testing suite for the web-ide using Puppeteer.

I put together a small proof of concept here: https://github.com/Nandos0804/web-ide-test

Registrazione.schermo.2026-04-08.alle.22.25.26.mov

The idea would be to cover basic user flows (loading the IDE, editing/running Csound code, checking output) and eventually integrate it into CI.
WDYT?

[hlolli]

I like it, I've worked with puppeteer in the past, even just a basic assertion would be very helpful it it was in the workflows

[Nandos0804]

Should this be a subproject of web-ide, or a separate repository to avoid technical debt and extra maintenance?

nit: I was thinking that, to catch regressions, we could create a test user with a collection of CSDs tailored for performance testing, and read output of csound in the console modal for test assertion.

[hlolli]

I would suggest subdirectory with its own package.json. Because it would be most useful to run in workflow in this repository. We can easily disable a workflow or an action if there's an issue we aren't easily able to debug.

[hlolli]

And I'd have it in its own workflow.yaml file, this could be triggerable and/or PRs for master / develop.

[Nandos0804]

Forgot to mention: this would also streamline issue checking. I tested it using #55
by prompting Claude to create a test for that issue, and it generated a valid test.