microsoft / microsoft/react-native-windows

Add UIA Verification of Successful New App Launch to Init Tests

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Area: Tests enhancement Workstream: Component Parity
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Description

We have runtime tests against several flavors in prebuilt projects, but do not do runtime validation that a newly created template app works successfully. We instead currently just test publish, build, and deploy.

https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/31652 adds a distinct testID to the new app screen so that we can validate via UIA that a new application has launched successfully. Our UIA testing tooling is now decoupled from E2ETest, which should make it pretty easy to extend existing init tests to add the runtime validation.

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Research direction

Start by reading the existing init tests and the UIA testing tooling mentioned in the issue. Extend the init test coverage to launch a newly created template app and verify its successful launch through UIA, using the new app screen testID described in the linked React Native pull request; done means runtime validation runs alongside publish, build, and deploy checks.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp, react-native
Domain
desktop, testing
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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