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A missing piece of our toolchain is a good approach to end-to-end testing.

I suggested incorporating Cypress, but Bryan suggested Playwright instead:

• https://playwright.dev/

The AC for this issue is:

• There is an example of how to do end2end tests (using Playwright) starting with our demo-spring-react-example repo.

The "right" way to do this seems to have something to do with "TestContainers", which have something to do with Docker.

This is everything I know right now.

The PR: https://github.com/brownfield-team/kanban-populator/pull/36/files has some improvements to the error handling for useBackend.

Please consider making these changes in the dsre codebase also.

It would be helpful to have a simple smoke test to build on

https://github.com/ucsb-cs156/demo-spring-react-example/blob/main/.github/workflows/40-check-production-build.yml

that checks whether the home page loads successfully. It doesn't even need to log in—which is part of the biggest challenge with setting up integration testing. Just needs to see if the entire mvn spring-boot:run can load without crashing, including building and launching the frontend.

A simple test that the "brand" and "navbar" are present would catch errors where the database fails to load, because there are errors in entities and repository files (that are not caught at compile time, and may not be caught by unit tests.)