- name
- e2e-cucumber-playwright
- description
- Write, update, or review Dify end-to-end tests under `e2e/` that use Cucumber, Gherkin, and Playwright. Use when the task involves `.feature` files, `features/step-definitions/`, `features/support/`, `DifyWorld`, scenario tags, locator/assertion choices, or E2E testing best practices for this repository.
# Dify E2E Cucumber + Playwright
Use this skill for Dify's repository-level E2E suite in `e2e/`. Use [`e2e/AGENTS.md`](../../../e2e/AGENTS.md) as the canonical package guide for local architecture and conventions, then read any feature-scoped `AGENTS.md` that owns the target area. Apply Playwright/Cucumber best practices only where they fit the current suite.
## Scope
- Use this skill for `.feature` files, Cucumber step definitions, `DifyWorld`, hooks, tags, and E2E review work under `e2e/`.
- Do not use this skill for Vitest or React Testing Library work under `web/`; use `frontend-testing` instead.
- Do not use this skill for backend test or API review tasks under `api/`.
## Read Order
1. Read [`e2e/AGENTS.md`](../../../e2e/AGENTS.md) first.
2. Read only the files directly involved in the task:
- target `.feature` files under `e2e/features/`
- related step files under `e2e/features/step-definitions/`
- `e2e/features/support/hooks.ts` and `e2e/features/support/world.ts` when session lifecycle or shared state matters
- `e2e/scripts/run-cucumber.ts` and `e2e/cucumber.config.ts` when tags or execution flow matter
3. Read [`references/playwright-best-practices.md`](references/playwright-best-practices.md) only when locator, assertion, isolation, or waiting choices are involved.
4. Read [`references/cucumber-best-practices.md`](references/cucumber-best-practices.md) only when scenario wording, step granularity, tags, or expression design are involved.
5. Re-check official Playwright or Cucumber docs with the available documentation tools before introducing a new framework pattern.
Keep this skill focused on Cucumber, Playwright, and package-level E2E guidance. Put feature-specific conventions in the owning feature's `AGENTS.md` instead of adding them here.
## Local Rules
- `e2e/` uses Cucumber for scenarios and Playwright as the browser layer.
- `DifyWorld` is the per-scenario context object. Type `this` as `DifyWorld` and use `async function`, not arrow functions.
- Keep glue organized by capability under `e2e/features/step-definitions/`; use `common/` only for broadly reusable steps.
- Treat `e2e/AGENTS.md`, `features/support/hooks.ts`, and the Cucumber configuration as the owners of current session and tag semantics. Verify them when behavior depends on session state instead of copying a tag inventory into this skill.
- Do not import Playwright Test runner patterns that bypass the current Cucumber + `DifyWorld` architecture unless the task is explicitly about changing that architecture.
- Perform the behavior under test through Playwright. APIs are allowed for setup, seed preparation, persistence polling, and cleanup, but ordinary Console JSON and representable multipart operations must use the scenario- or process-owned generated oRPC client with request and response validation enabled. Keep the setup/cleanup API identity independent from an unauthenticated or logged-out behavior browser.
- Consume generated operations directly. Do not add one-to-one API wrappers, handwritten endpoint URLs, response DTO casts, duplicate schemas, global mutable clients, or TanStack Query caching in Cucumber. Keep helpers only for real fixture construction, multi-operation orchestration, invariants, polling, derived test views, or protocol adapters.
- Keep SSE, binary, redirect-only, external-service, and readiness exceptions centralized under their protocol owner. A contract mismatch must fail and be fixed at the backend schema owner followed by regeneration; never weaken validation to make E2E pass.
## Workflow
1. Rebuild local context.
- Inspect the target feature area.
- Reuse an existing step when wording and behavior already match.
- Add a new step only for a genuinely new user action or assertion.
- Before adding several similar steps, scan the target capability for an existing domain noun that can be parameterized without hiding behavior.
- Keep edits close to the current capability folder unless the step is broadly reusable.
2. Write behavior-first scenarios.
- Describe user-observable behavior, not DOM mechanics.
- Keep each scenario focused on one workflow or outcome.
- Keep scenarios independent and re-runnable.
3. Write step definitions in the local style.
- Keep one step to one user-visible action or one assertion.
- Prefer Cucumber Expressions such as `{string}` and `{int}`.
- Use a bounded regex only when the accepted values are a small explicit domain set and Cucumber Expressions would make the Gherkin less natural.
- Do not create one-off steps for each case variant when the same domain action or outcome applies to named surfaces, modes, or resources.
- Scope locators to stable containers when the page has repeated elements.
- Avoid page-object layers or extra helper abstractions unless repeated complexity clearly justifies them.
4. Use Playwright in the local style.
- Prefer user-facing locators: `getByRole`, `getByLabel`, `getByPlaceholder`, `getByText`, then `getByTestId` for explicit contracts.
- Use web-first `expect(...)` assertions.
- Do not use `waitForTimeout`, manual polling, or raw visibility checks when a locator action or retrying assertion already expresses the behavior.
- Use `expect.poll` for API persistence, backend eventual consistency, captured browser events, or other non-DOM state; prefer locator assertions for DOM readiness and visible UI state.
- If a product element has real user-facing semantics but no accessible name, prefer fixing that accessible contract over adding a test id.
5. Validate narrowly.
- Run the narrowest tagged scenario or flow that exercises the change.
- Run the package-required static checks documented in `e2e/AGENTS.md`.
- Broaden verification only when the change affects hooks, tags, setup, or shared step semantics.
## Review Checklist
- Does the scenario describe behavior rather than implementation?
- Does it fit the current session model, tags, and `DifyWorld` usage?
- Should an existing step be reused instead of adding a new one?
- Are locators user-facing and assertions web-first?
- Does the change introduce hidden coupling across scenarios, tags, or instance state?
- Does it document or implement behavior that differs from the real hooks or configuration?
- Does setup/cleanup use the generated client directly, with any remaining helper owning more than a one-to-one endpoint forward?
- Is every raw HTTP call a documented protocol or infrastructure exception rather than an ordinary Console operation?
Lead findings with correctness, flake risk, and architecture drift.
## References
- [`references/playwright-best-practices.md`](references/playwright-best-practices.md)
- [`references/cucumber-best-practices.md`](references/cucumber-best-practices.md)
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