UI Auth Smoke Job (Playwright)
Audience: DevOps and release engineers maintaining the Console CI and Offline Kit pipelines.
The Playwright auth smoke job wires the Console login flow into CI and the Offline Kit pipeline. The tests exercise the Angular UI login flow against a stubbed Authority instance to verify that /config.json is discovered, DPoP proofs are minted, and error handling is surfaced when the backend rejects a request.
What the job does
- Builds the UI bundle (or consumes the artifact from the release pipeline).
- Copies the environment stub from
src/config/config.sample.jsoninto the runtime directory asconfig.jsonso the UI can bootstrap without a live gateway. - Runs
npm run test:e2e, which launches Playwright with the auth fixtures undertests/e2e/auth.spec.ts:- Validates that the Sign-in button generates an Authorization Code + PKCE redirect to
https://authority.local/connect/authorize. - Confirms the callback view shows an actionable error when the redirect is missing the pending login state.
- Validates that the Sign-in button generates an Authorization Code + PKCE redirect to
- Publishes JUnit + Playwright traces (retain-on-failure) for troubleshooting.
Pipeline integration notes
- Chromium must already be available (
npx playwright install --with-deps). - Set
PLAYWRIGHT_BASE_URLif the UI serves on a non-default host/port. - For Offline Kit packaging, bundle the Playwright browser cache under
.cache/ms-playwright/so the job runs without network access. - Failures should block release promotion; export the traces to the artifacts tab for debugging.
Source of truth
The smoke test and its fixtures live in the Console (Angular) project:
- Auth spec:
src/Web/StellaOps.Web/tests/e2e/auth.spec.ts - Environment stub:
src/Web/StellaOps.Web/src/config/config.sample.json