[DavertMik]

Motivation/Description of the PR

Found while running a real e2e suite (testomat.io, an Ember + Rails app, ~45 smoke tests) on the Obscura helper. Each fix has a test that fails before and passes after.

CDPBrowser (Obscura, Lightpanda, Chrome over CDP)

1. Visibility of inline wrappers. Obscura reports no client rects for an inline element whose children are all blocks, e.g. <a href><div class="card">…</div></a>. Chrome gives it the box of its content. seeElement/waitForVisible now treat an inline or display: contents element with an empty box as visible when one of its children is visible. Playwright handles display: contents the same way.
2. Synthetic click fires the full event sequence. click with input: 'synthetic' called only el.click(). It now fires pointerdown → mousedown → focus → pointerup → mouseup → click, with no pointer events for disabled controls. ember-power-select opens on mousedown and selects on mouseup, and Radix widgets react to pointer events. Before this change none of them could be driven.
3. Synthetic click on a wrapper hits the control under its centre. A test that clicks <li><button>New suite</button></li> dispatched on the li only, and the button's handler never ran. When the target is a non-interactive element, the click now goes to document.elementFromPoint(centre), raised to the nearest interactive ancestor inside the target, which is what a coordinate click lands on. Interactive targets (a, button, input, label, ARIA button/option/tab…) are unchanged, and the click never leaves the located element. This changes behaviour for every CDPBrowser user (event.target can now be a descendant), so it may be worth putting behind an option. I kept it always on because it matches what a real click does.
4. Traffic recording matches Playwright. Requests were added to this.requests on requestWillBeSent, so seeTraffic passed before the server had answered, and grabRecordedNetworkTraffics could hang on a request that never completes. They are now added on Network.loadingFinished, like Playwright's requestfinished. Redirect hops (redirectResponse) are recorded as well. Obscura follows redirects inside the engine and reports only the final request, so the redirect test lives in the Chrome CDP suite.

Playwright

5. waitFor* ignored role locators. buildLocatorString() returned [role="button"] for { role: 'button', text: 'Create' }, so native <button> elements and the accessible name were ignored by waitForVisible/waitForElement/waitForInvisible. It now builds internal:role=button[name="Create"i] (s when exact: true). That's the selector page.getByRole() itself produces; I checked it against getByRole(...)._selector in Playwright 1.63. It's a Playwright-internal engine. The alternative, routing role locators through getByRole() in every wait method, is a larger refactor.

Core

6. Step durations were ~0 ms. HelperStep.run() set endTime right after calling the helper method, before the returned promise settled. It now also sets endTime when the promise settles, without replacing the promise. aiTrace showed duration: 0.00s on every step because of this.

Plugins / listeners

7. aiTrace overwrote the trace on a failed Before. CodeceptJS reports test.failed for every test in the suite, so the last test that never ran overwrote the running test's trace.md. Only the running test (currentTest) writes the trace now.
8. globalTimeout crash TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'slice') on hook.finished, for a suite hook that never fired hook.started. Fixed defensively: the listener ignores the unmatched finished and clears the saved values after restoring them. Root cause not traced: fireHook classifies the hook from suite.ctx.test when it is fired, and finished runs later from the recorder, by which point that can point at a different hook.

Results

• Unit tests: 907 passing.
• CDPBrowser_obscura_test.js: 264 passing, 0 failing.
• CDPBrowser_lightpanda_test.js and CDPBrowser_chrome_test.js: 3 failing each, the #selectOption - radiogroups › baseui tests. They fail the same way on origin/4.x, so there are no new failures.
• e2e on Obscura (testomat.io beta): the labels smoke file goes from 0/4 to 4/4, and a branch flow and run/suite creation now pass.

Applicable helpers:

• Playwright
• Puppeteer
• WebDriver
• REST
• FileHelper
• Appium
• CDPBrowser / Obscura / Lightpanda

Applicable plugins:

• aiTrace

Type of change

• 🐛 Bug fix

Checklist:

• Tests have been added
• Lint checking (npx eslint on changed files)
• Local tests are passed

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