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The e2e suite never installed or uninstalled an app, and never touched a webview. It also under-reported its own coverage badly.

New tests (emulator + iOS simulator)

install / uninstall — uninstall playground, assert it is gone from apps list, install the release build from local disk, then assert every field apps list and apps install report today. A dropped appName or versionCode now fails here instead of shipping. The artifact (.apk / .zip) is downloaded from the playground releases and cached under its version; PLAYGROUND_VERSION is a single shared constant.

webview — tap into the playground webview screen, then exercise list, url, title, eval, content, query, wait, goto, back, forward, reload, plus negative paths for an unknown webview id and an unknown device.

not-inspectable app — launches the system settings app and asserts webview list fails on a build the agent cannot attach to. It sits in its own describe with its own setup: webview list reads the foreground app, so folding it into the playground group would break that group's shared state.

Two things the device taught the tests:

  • goto / back / forward return before the navigation commits, and wait --state load can observe the outgoing page's load event — so url assertions poll rather than sleep.
  • The app restores its last webview url between launches, so setup navigates back to the sample page instead of assuming a fresh one.

Fixes

  • Daemon coverage was being thrown away. Device commands run inside the daemon, which was still alive when go tool covdata read the counter directory — a -cover binary only writes counters when it exits. The Makefile now stops the daemon before the suites (so the one they spawn inherits GOCOVERDIR) and again afterwards (so it flushes).
  • test:ios ran --project=simulator, making it a silent duplicate of test:simulator and leaving real-device coverage unreachable. The two are now one honest test:ios-simulator, and the Makefile runs it instead of the commented-out pair.

Coverage

No product code changed.

before after
total 26.3% 43.1%
commands 25.1% 53%+
server 31.7% 52.6%
devices 15.7% 28.7%

commands/webview.go 0% → 9 of 10 functions at 100% (the holdout needs a device type that isn't WebViewable). commands/apps.go 0% → 44–86%. devices/{android,ios}_webview.go 0% → 74.6%.

Roughly 13 points of that jump is measurement that was being lost, not new testing.

Test plan

  • make test-e2e green end to end, exit 0
  • emulator: 42 passed
  • iOS simulator: 41 passed
  • new describes run correctly in isolation (-g "cannot be inspected"), confirming they are order-independent
  • npx tsc --noEmit clean for every touched file
  • needs a booted emulator and simulator with the playground app reachable

Note: the Settings-related Android tests are flaky independent of this branch — unmodified main produced 1, 2, then 3 failures across three consecutive runs, varying which tests fail. They use fixed sleep() waits against a slow emulator. Not addressed here.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Tests
    • Expanded Android and iOS coverage for app installation, uninstallation, metadata, WebView interactions, error handling, and inaccessible apps.
    • Added validation for app and WebView response formats.
    • Replaced fixed test delays with readiness polling to improve reliability.
    • Improved test setup and cleanup, including playground app artifact management, device settings cleanup, and guaranteed daemon shutdown.
    • Renamed the iOS simulator test command for clearer usage.

The e2e suite never installed or uninstalled an app, and never touched a
webview. It also reported far less coverage than it actually had: device
commands run inside the daemon, and the daemon was still alive when
`go tool covdata` read the counter directory, so none of its work counted.

Tests, one group per platform against the playground app:

- install and uninstall: uninstall, assert the package is gone from
  `apps list`, install the release build from disk, then assert every
  field `apps list` and `apps install` report today, so a dropped
  `appName` or `versionCode` fails here instead of shipping.
- webview: tap into the playground webview screen, then list, url,
  title, eval, content, query, wait, goto, back, forward and reload,
  plus negative paths for an unknown webview id and an unknown device.
- a separate group launches the system settings app and asserts
  `webview list` fails on a build the agent cannot attach to. It owns
  its setup, since `webview list` reads the foreground app and would
  otherwise break the state the playground group sets up once.

`goto`, `back` and `forward` return before the navigation commits, and
`wait --state load` can observe the outgoing page's load event, so url
assertions poll instead of sleeping. The app restores its last webview
url between launches, so the setup navigates back to the sample page
rather than assuming a fresh one.

Fixes:

- Makefile stops the daemon before the suites, so the one they spawn
  inherits GOCOVERDIR, and again afterwards, so it exits cleanly and
  flushes its counters before covdata reads them.
- `test:ios` ran `--project=simulator`, which made it a silent duplicate
  of `test:simulator` and left real-device coverage unreachable. The two
  are now one honest `test:ios-simulator`, and the Makefile runs it
  instead of the commented-out pair.

Coverage: 26.3% -> 43.1% overall, with no change to the product code.
commands/webview.go 0% -> 9 of 10 functions at 100%, commands/apps.go
0% -> 44-86%, devices/{android,ios}_webview.go 0% -> 74.6%.
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The E2E suite adds shared response and WebView validation, playground artifact management, polling-based readiness checks, expanded Android and iOS coverage, and daemon cleanup through an exit trap.

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Mobile E2E test improvements

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared test contracts and utilities
test/types.ts, test/shapes.ts, test/webview.ts, test/poll.ts
Added typed app and WebView contracts, runtime shape assertions, UI-tree helpers, WebView fixtures, and polling utilities.
Playground artifacts and test runner
test/playground.ts, test/package.json, Makefile
Added cached Android and iOS playground downloads, renamed the iOS simulator script, and added exit-trap daemon cleanup with coverage flushing.
Android readiness and WebView coverage
test/android.spec.ts
Replaced fixed delays with polling, serialized playground and WebView suites, added WebView command coverage, and improved cleanup and error handling.
iOS simulator playground and WebView coverage
test/simulator.spec.ts
Added playground installation, app metadata validation, WebView navigation and error tests, polling-based setup, typed app helpers, and Settings teardown.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Other

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sequenceDiagram
  participant E2ETests
  participant MobileCLI
  participant DeviceOrSimulator
  E2ETests->>MobileCLI: request app or WebView operation
  MobileCLI->>DeviceOrSimulator: inspect or execute operation
  DeviceOrSimulator-->>MobileCLI: return device response
  MobileCLI-->>E2ETests: return validated result or original error
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WebView E2E failures can be misreported as a missing playground menu after the polling timeout, obscuring device or response failures and slowing diagnosis. The issue is localized but should be corrected for reliable test failures.

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test/android.spec.ts (1)

688-689: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

webViewCommandError parses stdout without checking that it holds JSON. Both copies default stdout to '' and pass it straight to JSON.parse. When the command fails without emitting an envelope, for example on the 180-second execFileSync timeout or a missing binary, the helper throws Unexpected end of JSON input and discards the real cause.

  • test/android.spec.ts#L688-L689: throw an error that includes the original failure when stdout is empty, before calling JSON.parse.
  • test/simulator.spec.ts#L900-L901: apply the same guard, or consume a single shared helper as described in the duplication comment.
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In `@test/android.spec.ts` around lines 688 - 689, Update webViewCommandError in
test/android.spec.ts at lines 688-689 and test/simulator.spec.ts at lines
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command failure before calling JSON.parse; apply the same guard in both
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485-489: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Terminate Settings after this group.

The terminateApp helper exists and terminates the specified bundle. Add cleanup so later groups do not inherit Settings in the foreground.

♻️ Proposed fix
 				test.beforeAll(async () => {
 					if (!simulatorId) return;
 					launchApp(simulatorId, IOS_SETTINGS_BUNDLE_ID);
 					await sleep(3000);
 				});
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+				test.afterAll(() => {
+					if (!simulatorId) return;
+					terminateApp(simulatorId, IOS_SETTINGS_BUNDLE_ID);
+				});
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Inline comments:
In `@Makefile`:
- Around line 30-38: Update the Make recipe containing the mobile Playwright
suites so daemon cleanup is guaranteed even when a suite fails. Group the suite
commands in one shell and add an EXIT trap that runs
GOCOVERDIR=$(CURDIR)/test/coverage ./mobilecli daemon stop while preserving the
original suite exit status; keep the existing suite order and coverage behavior.

In `@test/android.spec.ts`:
- Line 320: Update the tests in the webview-related groups so each test performs
its own required install and navigation setup, using beforeEach where
appropriate; do not rely on preceding tests for device state. Retain
test.describe.serial only to preserve retry behavior, not as a prerequisite
mechanism, so --grep and single-test execution remain independent.
- Around line 445-450: Update the webview-on-uninspectable-app test group to
skip execution when deviceType is 'real', while retaining the existing emulator
behavior. After launching SETTINGS_PACKAGE in the group’s setup, clear the
Settings task during teardown so the physical device is not left modified.

In `@test/webview.ts`:
- Around line 7-9: Replace the live mobilewright.dev URLs in WEBVIEW_SAMPLE_URL
and WEBVIEW_DONE_URL with URLs served by a controlled local test fixture or
playground artifact, and derive both navigation targets from that fixture while
preserving WEBVIEW_DONE_NAME and the existing test flow.

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In `@test/android.spec.ts`:
- Around line 688-689: Update webViewCommandError in test/android.spec.ts at
lines 688-689 and test/simulator.spec.ts at lines 900-901 to detect empty stdout
and throw an error that preserves the original command failure before calling
JSON.parse; apply the same guard in both locations or reuse one shared helper,
while retaining envelope parsing for non-empty stdout.

In `@test/simulator.spec.ts`:
- Around line 485-489: Update the test group’s lifecycle in test.beforeAll
around launchApp to add cleanup that calls the existing terminateApp helper for
IOS_SETTINGS_BUNDLE_ID after the group completes, ensuring later groups do not
inherit Settings in the foreground.

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Make each test establish its own device state. All four groups share mutable state: the listing test requires the preceding install, and the webview back, forward, and reload tests require earlier navigation. The checked-in configuration runs one worker with no retries and no full parallelism, but --grep or single-test execution can run a dependent test without its prerequisites. test.describe.serial can preserve order and group retries, but it does not make isolated tests independent. Move the install and navigation setup into each test or a suitable beforeEach; use serial mode only as retry protection.

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using beforeEach where appropriate; do not rely on preceding tests for device
state. Retain test.describe.serial only to preserve retry behavior, not as a
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export const WEBVIEW_SAMPLE_URL = 'https://mobilewright.dev/samples/webview/?source=webview';
export const WEBVIEW_DONE_NAME = 'mobilecli';
export const WEBVIEW_DONE_URL = `https://mobilewright.dev/samples/webview/?done=${WEBVIEW_DONE_NAME}`;

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Remove the live website dependency from the WebView tests.

WEBVIEW_SAMPLE_URL and WEBVIEW_DONE_URL depend on mobilewright.dev. DNS, network, TLS, or content deployment failures can fail these suites when the CLI is correct. Serve a controlled fixture from the test environment or playground artifact, and derive the navigation URLs from that fixture.

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in WEBVIEW_SAMPLE_URL and WEBVIEW_DONE_URL with URLs served by a controlled
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from that fixture while preserving WEBVIEW_DONE_NAME and the existing test flow.

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Source: Learnings

The android settings tests slept for a fixed 3 to 5 seconds and then
asserted. On a slow emulator that guess was wrong often enough that
unmodified main failed 1, 2 and 3 of them across three consecutive runs.

test/poll.ts reads the device up to ten times, a second apart, and
returns as soon as it agrees. Applied to every place that was sleeping
on a guess: waiting for an app to reach the foreground, for the launcher
to come back, for text to appear on screen, for the playground menu to
draw, and for a webview to be reported.

That made the suite both stable and faster: the emulator project went
from about 1.1 minutes to 34 seconds, and it exposed a real race the
fixed sleeps had been papering over, where a webview is listed before
its page has a title. The webview setup now settles the page before any
test reads it.

Review fixes:

- The Makefile ran the suites as separate recipe lines, so a failing
  suite skipped the daemon stop and lost its counters. They now run in
  one shell under an EXIT trap.
- webViewCommandError parsed stdout as json unconditionally, so a
  timeout or a missing binary surfaced as "Unexpected end of JSON input"
  instead of the real failure. Empty stdout now rethrows the original.
- The uninspectable-app group skips real devices and clears the settings
  task afterwards on android, and terminates settings on ios, so neither
  leaves a device in that state.
- The two groups that walk a device through an ordered sequence are
  marked serial, so a failure retries the group rather than one step out
  of context.

Not taken: replacing the mobilewright.dev sample page with a local
fixture. The playground app hardcodes that url and loads it itself, so
the dependency exists with or without these tests.
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Pushed 73738cc addressing the review, plus the flaky-sleep problem this PR's description flagged.

Flaky sleeps — fixed

New test/poll.ts reads the device up to ten times, a second apart, returning as soon as it agrees. Replaces every fixed sleep that was a guess: app reaching the foreground, launcher coming back, text appearing on screen, playground menu drawing, webview being reported.

Stable and faster — the emulator project went from ~1.1min to 34s, and three consecutive make test-e2e runs are green. It also exposed a real race the sleeps had been hiding: a webview is listed before its page has a title, so the webview setup now settles the page before any test reads it.

Review comments

  • Makefile daemon cleanup on failure — fixed. The suites now run in one shell under an EXIT trap, so a failing suite still stops the daemon and flushes its counters.
  • webViewCommandError parses stdout unconditionally — fixed. Empty stdout rethrows the original error instead of surfacing Unexpected end of JSON input.
  • Uninspectable-app group leaves Settings in the foreground — fixed on both platforms: android skips real devices and clears the settings task in afterAll, ios terminates Settings.
  • Tests relying on preceding tests for state — the two groups that genuinely walk an ordered sequence (uninstall→install, goto→back→forward) are now test.describe.serial, so a failure retries the group as a unit. Making each step re-establish the whole chain would mean re-navigating for every assertion without catching anything more. The group that did have a real ordering bug — the uninspectable-app test — was already split into its own describe with its own setup, and runs correctly in isolation.
  • Live mobilewright.dev URLs — not taken. The playground app hardcodes that URL and loads it itself on opening the webview screen; the tests observe it rather than choose it. A local fixture would not remove the network dependency, only hide it behind a second source of truth.

make test-e2e green end to end, exit 0. Coverage 43.1%.

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- Around line 698-699: Update hasWebViewButton and both platform helpers around
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Rethrow UI dump and response errors from hasWebViewButton.

findWebViewButton throws the expected missing-button error, but dumpUI can also throw on command, transport, JSON, envelope, or response-shape failures. Both helpers convert these failures to false, so polling can hide the cause and report only playground menu never appeared after its timeout. Catch only the missing-button error and rethrow all other errors in both platform helpers.

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both platform helpers around findWebViewButton and dumpUI so only the expected
missing-button error is converted to false; rethrow command, transport, JSON,
envelope, response-shape, and other unexpected errors to preserve their
diagnostics.

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