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The scheduled refresh on 24 August took the star catalogue from 68 388 rows to
447 410 and from 820 kB to 5.4 MB. No branch in the seven-PR chain had ever seen
it -- they were all cut before -- so nothing tested the combination until the
chain landed on main. Two things broke there.

The neighbour ring named Barnard's Star, and the spec clicked it by name. The
refresh is a Gaia DR3 merge that carries the same physical star twice: Proxima
Centauri at 1.296 pc and Gaia DR3 5853498713190525696 at 1.302 pc are one star,
as are Barnard's Star at 1.824 and Gaia DR3 4472832130942575872 at 1.828. The
extra row pushed Barnard's from fourth-nearest to fifth, off a ring that shows
four. The ring is doing exactly what it says; the spec was asserting the
catalogue's contents. It now reads whichever star the ring names and follows
that one, so the next refresh cannot demote it.

Four other assertions were timing out at Playwright's default five seconds --
not because anything was wrong, but because every one of these tests boots that
catalogue and the suite boots several at once on a software rasterizer. The
heavy waits already carried explicit longer timeouts; the default now matches.
Capping the worker count would have worked too, and would have cost every run
the time whether or not the machine needed it.

npm test 607/607, npx playwright test 16/16 at the default worker count.

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End-to-end tests (Playwright)

These tests run the real Angular dev server in a real Chromium browser, covering interactions that unit/component tests (under src/**/*.spec.ts, run via npm test) can only approximate under jsdom — most importantly the galaxy↔system camera-flight transitions (real WebGPU/ WebGL2 initialization + raycaster picking) and cross-view search navigation.

Running

npm run e2e             # headless run against a freshly started dev server
npx playwright test --ui # interactive UI mode
npx playwright show-report

playwright.config.ts starts npm run start -- --port=4300 automatically and waits for it to respond before running the suite (webServer.reuseExistingServer is true outside CI, so an already-running ng serve on port 4300 is reused instead of starting a second one). Port 4300 is used instead of the Angular CLI's conventional 4200 to avoid colliding with an unrelated server a developer might already have running there.

Notes

  • The Sun (Sol) is always placed at the coordinate-system origin (x=0,y=0,z=0), which is exactly where the default galaxy-view camera looks. camera-flight.spec.ts relies on this to reliably click-select it by clicking the center of the canvas, without needing pixel-perfect knowledge of the star field's on-screen layout.
  • Data (bootstrap fetch of stars.bin/stars-index.json/bodies.json/exoplanets.json/ deepsky.json) loads asynchronously after the page loads, so tests poll (re-click/re-check) rather than assume the scene is interactive immediately after page.goto().
  • deepsky.json is the one dataset the scene treats as optional: it only feeds the decorative backdrop, so a failure to load it is logged and the star field comes up regardless.