Plugin E2E: Ideas and improvements

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Which areas does this feature request relate to

• [ ] Create Plugin
• [ ] Sign Plugin
• [X] Plugin E2E
• [ ] Documentation

The purpose of this issue is to list ideas for new features and things that can be improved in the plugin-e2e and the surrounding tooling package.

These are ideas, not something we have committed to deliver.

• [x] Installation: Include plugin-e2e templates in create-plugin scaffolding
• [ ] CI: Add workflow that runs e2e tests in the main branch against latest Grafana dev image nightly
• [ ] Apps: Improve the story around testing scenes dashboards
• [x] DataSources: Allow backend data source plugins to verify that the data frames returned by QueryData is in a format that can be used to create alert rules
• [ ] DataSources: Make it possible to test expressions (panelEditPage|explorePage.addExpression method)
• [ ] DataSources: Verify that the pre-configured dashboards are "working"
• [ ] DataSources: Enable panel data assertion on more visualisations (only table panel today)
• [ ] Panels: Investigate if it's possible to find regressions in viz rendering with e2e tests
• [ ] Plugins: Read plugin.json file from repo and provide it as a typed fixture (useful to have access to plugin id, routes etc in the test code)
• [ ] Plugins: Make it easier (add methods) to add transformations

Alternatives

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Are you interested in contributing the solution?

• [X] Yes
• [ ] No