[RFC] More robust E2E testing

[benfdking]

Background

Our extension is quite difficult to test compared to the rust code. Both the performance of the framework and the amount of investments we have made on testing our TS code mean that our test suites are essentially manual spot checks.

That has led to some little breaks and lapses. We would ideally have an E2E test suite that prevents this.

Proposal

https://medium.com/modern-mainframe/test-automation-with-playwright-for-vs-code-extensions-facilitating-the-growing-interest-in-dcc463f81efa

^ Provides a quick and dirty implementation that is likely to help the reliability. One big downside would be performance and time to merge.

Abandoned Ideas

Sections

Implementation

UX