GuyStore - Test Suite Build Details

Symptom: Every test file reported "The type or namespace name 'Fact' could not be found."

Root cause: No using Xunit; in any test file.

Fix: Added GlobalUsings.cs with global using Xunit; to each project - one file eliminates the import from every test class.

Symptom: Integration tests threw InvalidOperationException on first DB access.

Root cause: The WebApplicationFactory attempted to remove only the SQL Server DbContextOptions descriptor and add InMemory, but EF Core 9 still saw both providers registered.

Fix: Made Program.cs fully environment-aware (see above). The factory only needs builder.UseEnvironment("Testing") - no patching of ConfigureServices required.

Symptom: Integration tests for the shop index returned an empty product list even though seeding succeeded.

Root cause: Guid.NewGuid() was called inside the AddDbContext lambda, so every new DbContext instance received a different database name - seeded data was in DB "X" while the controller queried DB "Y".

Fix: Captured the name once outside the lambda: var testDbName = "GuyStoreTestDb_" + Guid.NewGuid(); … opt.UseInMemoryDatabase(testDbName);

Symptom: Test ordering mattered - if test A logged in, test B (which expected to be unauthenticated) saw an auth cookie.

Root cause: All tests in a class shared one _client field; cookies accumulated across tests.

Fix: Each test calls FreshClient() which creates a new HttpClient from the factory per test, with an isolated cookie jar.

Symptom: E2E tests failed intermittently when re-run shortly after a previous run - the previous Kestrel instance hadn't fully released port 5099.

Root cause: PlaywrightFixture had a hardcoded port.

Fix: Changed to http://127.0.0.1:0 (OS picks a free port) and read the actual port back via IServerAddressesFeature.

Symptom: Every E2E test timed out with "waiting for Locator(input[name='Email'])". The server started, but no page rendered the expected HTML.

Root cause: PlaywrightFixture creates a new WebApplication inside the test process. Without ApplicationName = "GuyStore" in WebApplicationOptions, ASP.NET Core's MVC view engine used the test assembly name (GuyStore.Tests.E2E) to locate precompiled Razor views. It couldn't find them in GuyStore.dll, so every route rendered an error page.

Fix: Added ApplicationName = "GuyStore" to WebApplicationOptions. This tells the view engine to look for compiled views in GuyStore.dll, not the test DLL.

Symptom: After the ApplicationName fix, tests progressed but timed out trying to click button[type='submit']. Playwright reported the element "not visible".

Root cause: The layout's navbar contains Bootstrap dropdown menus for the theme switcher (and logout). These menus include button[type='submit'] elements that appear before the login/checkout buttons in DOM order. Bootstrap dropdowns are hidden by default (display: none), so page.ClickAsync("button[type='submit']") found the hidden dropdown button first and tried (and failed) to click it.

Fix: Changed all login/checkout button selectors to button.btn-primary[type='submit']. The main action buttons use the Bootstrap btn-primary class; the dropdown theme/logout buttons use dropdown-item, so this selector is unambiguous.

Symptom: Shop_ProductDetail_ShowsProductInfo asserted Assert.Contains("Add to Cart", html) but the page showed "Login to Order" instead.

Root cause: The Shop Detail view conditionally renders Add to Cart only when the user is authenticated. Unauthenticated visitors see Login to Order. The test navigated as an unauthenticated user.

Fix: Assert.True(html.Contains("Add to Cart") || html.Contains("Login to Order"))

Symptom: SwitchToDark timed out trying to click a hidden <input type="hidden" name="theme" value="dark">. SwitchToCorporate failed with cookie null because page.GotoAsync("/Theme/Switch?theme=corporate") issued a GET, but the controller action is [HttpPost] only (405 returned, no cookie set).

Root cause: Both theme switch tests tried to interact with elements inside Bootstrap dropdowns (hidden by default). The locator input[name='theme'][value='dark'] matched the hidden field, and CountAsync() > 0 returned true - so the test tried to click the hidden input rather than falling through to the else branch.

Fix: Both tests now submit the theme form directly via JavaScript - bypassing the hidden dropdown - and use RunAndWaitForNavigationAsync to correctly wait for the POST → redirect → page-load sequence before reading cookies.

await page.RunAndWaitForNavigationAsync(async () =>
    await page.EvaluateAsync(
        "document.querySelector(\"input[name='theme'][value='dark']\").closest('form').submit()"),
    new PageRunAndWaitForNavigationOptions { WaitUntil = WaitUntilState.NetworkIdle });

Symptom: After switching to the JS form-submit approach, SwitchToCorporate passed but SwitchToDark failed with Assert.NotNull() - cookie is null even in isolation (no prior tests interfering).

Root cause: form.submit() triggers a navigation asynchronously. Playwright's EvaluateAsync returns as soon as the JavaScript expression returns (i.e. immediately after calling submit(), not after the navigation completes). If the subsequent WaitForLoadStateAsync(NetworkIdle) fires before the navigation has started, it sees the page as already idle and returns immediately - before the POST response and its Set-Cookie header have been processed.

Why corporate didn't hit this race: Corporate test runs first in a fresh context; the timing happened to be forgiving. Dark runs second (or in isolation) where the race consistently fires.

Fix: RunAndWaitForNavigationAsync starts listening for a navigation event before the trigger fires, so it reliably waits for the full POST → 302 → GET cycle to complete before the test reads cookies.

Symptom: Logout_AuthenticatedUser_RedirectsToHome timed out - Playwright found the logout button in the user dropdown but it was invisible (display: none on the closed dropdown menu).

Root cause: The Sign Out button is inside a .dropdown-menu that is only visible when the user clicks the dropdown toggle.

Fix: Bypass visibility by submitting the logout form via JavaScript. The form already contains the rendered __RequestVerificationToken hidden field, so the anti-forgery check passes.

await page.EvaluateAsync("document.querySelector(\"form[action*='Logout']\").submit()");

File: wwwroot/js/voice-camera.js — recognition.onend handler and startVoice() function.

Symptom: After taking a photo via voice command, the browser console reported "InvalidStateError: recognition has already started" on the keep-alive restart attempt.

Root cause: When a photo was captured, capturePhoto() called stopVoice(), which set isListening = false and called recognition.stop(). However, iOS Safari (and some desktop browsers) also fires onend independently when recognition auto-stops after detecting a result. If onend fired while isListening was still true (race condition between the auto-stop and the manual stop from the capture), the handler called recognition.start() on the same object while its internal state machine was still in the "ending" phase — not yet idle — throwing InvalidStateError. Even without the race, calling start() immediately inside onend is inherently unsafe because the browser has not fully torn down the session at the point onend fires.

Fix — two-part change:

1. recognition.onend: Replaced the immediate recognition.start() call with a setTimeout(startVoice, 150). The 150 ms gap lets the browser fully close the previous session before a new one is opened. An early-return guard (if (!isListening) return) ensures no restart happens after a photo capture has already set isListening = false.

// Before (broken)
recognition.onend = () => {
    if (isListening) recognition.start(); // keep alive
};

// After (fixed)
recognition.onend = () => {
    if (!isListening) return;
    setTimeout(startVoice, 150); // fresh instance avoids InvalidStateError
};

2. startVoice(): Before creating a new SpeechRecognition instance, any existing instance has its onend handler nulled out first, then stopped. Nulling onend is the critical step — without it, calling recognition.stop() inside startVoice() would fire onend → startVoice → stop() again, creating an infinite restart loop.

// Added at the top of startVoice(), before new SpeechRecognition()
if (recognition) { recognition.onend = null; recognition.stop(); recognition = null; }

Together these changes guarantee that recognition.start() is always called on a brand-new, never-started instance with no lingering state from a previous session.

File: Views/VoiceFeature/Translate.cshtml — both the source-language and target-language <select> loops.

Symptom: Build error: "The tag helper 'option' must not have C# in the element's attribute declaration area."

Root cause: A C# variable was placed directly in the attribute list of an <option> element — <option value="@l.Code" @selected> — which is not legal in a Razor view that has tag helpers active. The Razor parser treats option as a tag helper and rejects bare C# expressions inside the opening tag.

Fix: Use the selected attribute with a null-conditional expression. Razor omits the attribute entirely when the value is null, so no selected="" is rendered for non-matching options:

<!-- Before (broken) -->
@{
    var selected = l.Code == "zh-TW" ? "selected" : "";
}
<option value="@l.Code" @selected>@l.NativeName — @l.Name</option>

<!-- After (fixed) -->
<option value="@l.Code" selected="@(l.Code == "zh-TW" ? "selected" : null)">@l.NativeName — @l.Name</option>

Warning 1 — NU1603: QuestPDF version mismatch (all 4 projects)

Symptom: Every project in the solution emitted:

warning NU1603: GuyStore depends on QuestPDF (>= 2024.10.5) but QuestPDF 2024.10.5 was not found.
QuestPDF 2024.12.0 was resolved instead.

Root cause: GuyStore.csproj pinned QuestPDF to an exact minimum of 2024.10.5, but that version is no longer available on NuGet; the lowest available release in the 2024.x family is now 2024.12.0. NuGet resolved to the nearest available version but logged the mismatch as a warning. All three test projects inherited the same warning transitively.

Fix: Updated the version reference in GuyStore.csproj to match exactly what NuGet resolved:

<!-- Before -->
<PackageReference Include="QuestPDF" Version="2024.10.5" />

<!-- After -->
<PackageReference Include="QuestPDF" Version="2024.12.0" />

Warning 2 — CS0612: RunAndWaitForNavigationAsync is obsolete (20 call sites, 6 E2E test files)

Symptom: 20 CS0612 warnings across the E2E project:

warning CS0612: 'IPage.RunAndWaitForNavigationAsync(Func<Task>, PageRunAndWaitForNavigationOptions?)' is obsolete

Affected files: ReviewTests.cs (3), DiscountTests.cs (5), AddressTests.cs (3), Stage2Tests.cs (2), ThemeTests.cs (2), InvoiceTests.cs (3), Stage3Tests.cs (2).

Root cause: IPage.RunAndWaitForNavigationAsync was deprecated in Microsoft.Playwright 1.26+. The method still compiles and runs, but Playwright marks it [Obsolete] in favour of a simpler sequential pattern.

Fix: Replaced every call with the equivalent two-step sequence — trigger the action first, then wait for the page to reach NetworkIdle:

// Before (obsolete) — click + navigation bundled
await page.RunAndWaitForNavigationAsync(
    () => page.ClickAsync("button[type='submit']"),
    new PageRunAndWaitForNavigationOptions { WaitUntil = WaitUntilState.NetworkIdle });

// After — equivalent, no obsolete API
await page.ClickAsync("button[type='submit']");
await page.WaitForLoadStateAsync(LoadState.NetworkIdle);

For the two EvaluateAsync (JS form-submit) variants in ThemeTests.cs and Stage2Tests.cs:

// Before
await page.RunAndWaitForNavigationAsync(async () =>
    await page.EvaluateAsync("document.querySelector(...).closest('form').submit()"),
    new PageRunAndWaitForNavigationOptions { WaitUntil = WaitUntilState.NetworkIdle });

// After
await page.EvaluateAsync("document.querySelector(...).closest('form').submit()");
await page.WaitForLoadStateAsync(LoadState.NetworkIdle);

Result after both fixes:

Build succeeded.
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