[Mai-Saad]

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Fixes #431

Description

The e2e suite now works with the redesigned WP Rocket settings navigation (3.24-alpha) and keeps the old navigation flow for 3.23.x. Navigation items nested in collapsible groups are expanded before they are clicked, and clear cache now always goes through the admin bar, on every WP Rocket version.

Type of change

• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality).
• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue).
• Enhancement (non-breaking change which improves an existing functionality).
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as before).
• Sub-task of #(issue number)
• Chore
• Release

Detailed scenario

What was tested

Result: smoke suite passes on the new dashboard. The @smoke suite was run by the issue owner with the redesigned-dashboard build installed as new_release, and all scenarios passed with --retry 3.

• Static: npm run lint clean; tsc --noEmit adds no errors vs develop; cucumber-js --dry-run parses all scenarios with no undefined or ambiguous steps (155 scenarios / 1544 steps for the default profile; 61 for @smoke or @llcssbg or @lcp).
• New dashboard (new_release), @smoke with --retry 3: all passed (retries may have masked flaky first attempts). This exercises the group-aware navigation, enable-all / disable-all and the admin-bar clear cache on the new dashboard.
• Old dashboard, 3.23.5.1, @smoke with --retry 0 (earlier run on this branch): 26 of 28 scenarios passed. The 2 failures were not caused by this PR: "WP Rocket is installed and activated" (strict-mode violation on getByText('Database optimization process is'), since fixed by accepting running or complete) and "Roll back from the tools tab" (click timeout on a[href*="action=rocket_rollback"]). A re-run of the old version after the latest commits is still pending.
• @cpcss scenarios are excluded from test:e2e (not @cpcss): the CPCSS banner was removed in the new dashboard, so those scenarios can no longer pass. They can still be run on demand with npm run test:cpcss.
• Not run: lazy-load, ll-lcp, CDN / renewal / promo notices, Cloudflare and Sucuri pages, and the non-vacuous proof (neutering the group expansion).

How to test

Prerequisites: a WordPress site with WP Rocket 3.23.5.1 (old dashboard) and a site with the redesigned-dashboard build installed as new_release. Set the suite up against each site as usual (config/wp.config.ts).

No new scenarios were added. Existing scenarios must keep passing on both versions (--retry 0 for the strictest check; the new-dashboard smoke run used --retry 3):

1. On 3.23.5.1: node ./node_modules/@cucumber/cucumber/bin/cucumber-js -p default --retry 0 --tags "@smoke", then the lazy-load and settings-export-import features. Results must match the pre-change baseline.
2. On the new dashboard build: the same commands. Enable-all scenarios must visibly expand the Page Optimization, Backend and Tools groups. Clear cache steps must show "WP Rocket: Cache cleared." after the admin bar click (also check this on 3.23.5.1).
3. Static check on either setup: npx cucumber-js -p default --dry-run (155 scenarios, 1544 steps, no undefined steps).

Affected Features & Quality Assurance Scope

• Settings navigation used by every feature that calls I save settings, I enable option, I click on '#wpr-nav-…', enable-all-features / disable-all-features helpers (disableAllOptions / enableAllOptions), and the export/import steps (settings-export-import, roll-back, upgrading-plugin).
• Clear cache steps and helpers (I clear cache, clear wpr cache, PageUtils.clearWPRCache): the 11 scenarios that use them (lazy-load, LCP beacon, LL/LCP, visual regression, Imagify, Cloudflare).
• Tools page import and export (PageUtils.importSettings, I export data).
• Old dashboard (3.23.x) navigation is intended to be unchanged. Clear cache on 3.23.x changes from the dashboard button to the admin bar and now asserts WP Rocket: Cache cleared. in clearWPRCache too (it asserted Cache cleared. before).

Technical description

Documentation

• Sections.openNavItem(navId) (new, public): checks whether the nav item sits inside a .wpr-menuGroup. If it does, it expands the group only when aria-expanded is not already true (clicking an open trigger would close it), waits for the expansion, then clicks the item. If there is no group wrapper (old dashboard, or a top-level item), it does the same plain click as before. Group membership is read from the DOM, not from a hardcoded map, so no version check is needed for navigation. Failures inside a group throw NavGroupError, and visit() rethrows them. The old-DOM path keeps the existing swallow-and-continue behaviour.
• Sections.doesSectionExist(): for items inside a group, it checks presence (count()) instead of visibility, because collapsed items are hidden. Otherwise it keeps the isVisible() check. Without this, enable-all and disable-all would silently skip the sections hidden in collapsed groups.
• Both openNavItem and doesSectionExist first wait (up to 3 s) for #wpr-nav-dashboard to be attached, so DOM detection does not run before the nav is rendered. If the nav never renders (for example on an invalid-licence page), the wait times out and the existing behaviour applies.
• I click on '#wpr-nav-…' routes through openNavItem. Other selectors are unchanged. The rollback branch and I export data / PageUtils.importSettings use openNavItem('tools') instead of a raw click.
• Clear cache has no version check: PageUtils.clearCacheFromAdminBarAndAssert() runs gotoWpr() once, clicks the admin bar entry, and asserts WP Rocket: Cache cleared.. clearWPRCache() and the I clear cache step both call it. The old dashboard trash-button and Clear and preload flows were removed because the button no longer exists on the redesigned dashboard.
• clearCacheFromAdminBar() hovers the WP Rocket admin bar menu and clicks #wp-admin-bar-purge-all-all > a. If that does not exist, it clicks #wp-admin-bar-purge-all > a[href]. If neither exists it throws.

New dependencies

None.

Risks

• Navigation is shared by all features. A regression would affect many scenarios at once, so the old-version run must be compared against the baseline before merging.
• Race between page load and DOM detection: mitigated by the nav-ready wait described above.
• Clear cache depends on the admin bar markup (#wp-admin-bar-purge-all), which was not changed by the redesign. If an i18n plugin changes that markup, the helper throws rather than passing silently.
• No WP-CLI call is made for clear cache or navigation any more (the version gate was removed).
• Old dashboard re-run after the latest commits is still pending: see "What was tested".
• @cpcss scenarios are skipped in test:e2e until the banner is reintroduced or the feature is rewritten.

Mandatory Checklist

Code validation

• I validated all the Acceptance Criteria. If possible, provide screenshots or videos.
• I triggered all changed lines of code at least once without new errors/warnings/notices.
• I implemented built-in tests to cover the new/changed code.

Code style

• I wrote a self-explanatory code about what it does.
• I protected entry points against unexpected inputs.
• I did not introduce unnecessary complexity.
• Output messages (errors, notices, logs) are explicit enough for users to understand the issue and are actionnable.

Unticked items justification

• Acceptance criteria and changed-line triggering: smoke passes on the new dashboard, but the old-version re-run, lazy-load and the non-vacuous proof are not done yet. The owner will tick these once complete.
• Built-in tests: this issue explicitly adds no new scenarios. The existing scenarios are the test.
• Unnecessary complexity: the group-aware branch is the minimum needed to work with both DOMs. Left unticked so a reviewer can judge it.

Static checks run

• npm run lint: clean.
• npx tsc --noEmit: no new errors compared with develop (1 pre-existing baseline error).
• npx cucumber-js -p default --dry-run: 155 scenarios, 1544 steps parsed, no undefined steps.

Additional Checks

• In the case of complex code, I wrote comments to explain it.
• When possible, I prepared ways to observe the implemented system (logs, data, etc.).
• I added error handling logic when using functions that could throw errors (HTTP/API request, filesystem, etc.)

[Mai-Saad]

Note

Generated by the AI delivery pipeline (lead-reviewer · Claude Sonnet 5.5).

Review: ✅ PASS (re-review of 0ca3dc3; no blockers, old 3.23.x path unchanged)

Nice-to-haves:

• src/common/sections.ts waitForNav — the return value is not used by any caller (openNavItem, doesSectionExist), so the boolean is dead API. Also navAbsentPage skips the 3s wait on a later load of the same URL, so a nav that was absent once but renders slowly later could be missed. Low risk since a nav appearing after an absent load means a licence fix, which normally changes the URL or reloads. Consider dropping the cache or resetting it in gotoWpr.
• utils/page-utils.ts clearWPRCache — calls gotoWpr() and then clearCacheNewDashboard() calls it again on the new dashboard (double navigation). Harmless, but the isNewDashboard() check could run before the first gotoWpr() as in the step.
• utils/types.ts — the file now ends without a trailing newline; restore it.
• Follow-up ticket (acknowledged): visit() top-level swallow on the new DOM.

[Mai-Saad]

Note

Generated by the AI delivery pipeline (qa-engineer · Claude Sonnet 5.5).

QA: ⚠️ CANNOT_VERIFY on the new dashboard. To be verified by the issue owner on their remote environment.

Acceptance Criterion	Method	Result	Notes
Scenarios passing on 3.23.5.1 still pass on 3.24-alpha2	Cucumber @smoke, --retry 0	⚠️ CANNOT_VERIFY	Baseline 3.23.5.1: 26/28 pass. No valid 3.24-alpha2 run exists (see below).
Selectors depend on installed WPR version	Dry-run, code reading	⚠️ PARTIAL	All steps resolve (155 scenarios, no undefined steps). New-dashboard behaviour was never exercised.
No new scenarios	Diff review	✅ PASS	No .feature files in the diff.

Baseline (3.23.5.1) failures, 2 of 28: "WP Rocket is installed and activated" (strict-mode violation: getByText('Database optimization process is') matches 2 elements) and "Roll back from the tools tab" (click timeout on a[href*="action=rocket_rollback"]). They were not compared against develop yet, so whether they are pre-existing is unconfirmed.

Why there is no valid new-dashboard run: the 3.24-alpha2 zip used in the first attempt was built wrongly by the pipeline (nested src/ folders removed from vendor/), so the plugin fataled on CloudFlare\IpRewrite and the site became unusable. Those results (5/28 pass) say nothing about this PR. A corrected zip exists but was not run. The owner will test on their own environment.

Not run: lazy-load, ll-lcp, clear-cache paths on the new dashboard, CDN / renewal / promo notices, Cloudflare and Sucuri pages, and the non-vacuous proofs (neutering the group expansion, bad WP-CLI slug).

What to check on the new dashboard: enable-all-features expands Page Optimization, Backend and Tools; roll-back and settings-export-import reach the Tools page; after I clear cache the page shows "WP Rocket: Cache cleared." (and that text is unique on the page).

[Mai-Saad]

smoke tests passed with latest as 3.24 and previous 3.23.51

[Mai-Saad]

[jeawhanlee]

We no longer use copilot, I'm not sure how valid this instruction file is.

[jeawhanlee]

I'll prefer moving this to a new class file.