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import { test, expect, Page } from '@playwright/test';
/**
* Journey tests for SchoolCompare, run against the staging environment as the
* gate before promotion to production. They assert stable data invariants
* (results exist, key UI renders) rather than exact numbers, so routine data
* refreshes don't break the pipeline.
*/
async function searchByName(page: Page, query: string) {
await page.goto('/');
const searchInput = page.getByPlaceholder('School name or postcode').first();
await searchInput.fill(query);
await searchInput.press('Enter');
await page.waitForURL(/search=|postcode=/);
}
function schoolLinks(page: Page) {
return page.locator('a[href^="/school/"]');
}
/**
* Two URNs guaranteed to be pure-primary (same phase). The compare page's
* phase tabs split all-through schools (which carry KS4 data) onto the
* secondary tab, so picking two arbitrary "primary" search hits can land
* them on different tabs where only the active one renders. Selecting via
* the API by exact phase keeps both on the same tab. Data-invariant: uses
* whatever primaries the environment holds.
*/
async function twoPrimaryUrns(page: Page): Promise<[string, string]> {
const res = await page.request.get('/api/schools?search=primary&per_page=50');
expect(res.ok()).toBeTruthy();
const body = await res.json();
const urns: string[] = (body.schools ?? [])
.filter((s: { phase?: string; rwm_expected_pct?: number | null }) =>
s.phase === 'Primary' && s.rwm_expected_pct != null,
)
.map((s: { urn: number }) => String(s.urn));
expect(urns.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(2);
return [urns[0], urns[1]];
}
async function twoSecondaryUrns(page: Page): Promise<[string, string]> {
const res = await page.request.get('/api/schools?search=school&per_page=100');
expect(res.ok()).toBeTruthy();
const body = await res.json();
const urns: string[] = (body.schools ?? [])
.filter((s: { phase?: string; attainment_8_score?: number | null }) =>
s.phase === 'Secondary' && s.attainment_8_score != null,
)
.map((s: { urn: number }) => String(s.urn));
expect(urns.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(2);
return [urns[0], urns[1]];
}
test('home page loads with hero search', async ({ page }) => {
await page.goto('/');
await expect(page.locator('h1').first()).toBeVisible();
await expect(page.getByPlaceholder('School name or postcode').first()).toBeVisible();
});
test('home hero offers a "use my location" shortcut beside the search box', async ({ page }) => {
await page.goto('/');
// The geolocation shortcut lives inside the hero search card, right under the
// search input — not in a separate strip further down the page.
const searchInput = page.getByPlaceholder('School name or postcode').first();
await expect(searchInput).toBeVisible();
const nearMe = page.getByRole('button', { name: /use my location/i });
await expect(nearMe).toBeVisible();
});
/*
* The landing page's claims must match the product and the data.
*
* Every failure this group guards against is silent: a hardcoded fallback that
* renders as if it were live, a number that contradicts a constant elsewhere in
* the codebase, illustrative copy that reads as fact. None of them throw, none
* fail a build, and none show up in a unit test.
*/
test('the coverage figure is live, not the hardcoded fallback', async ({ page }) => {
const info = await (await page.request.get('/api/data-info')).json();
test.skip(info.status !== 'loaded', 'environment has no data loaded');
const expected: number = info.unique_schools;
expect(expected).toBeGreaterThan(0);
await page.goto('/');
const body = await page.locator('body').innerText();
// The real count, formatted as the page formats it.
expect(body).toContain(expected.toLocaleString('en-GB'));
// The fallback that used to render in its place. `total_schools` is not a
// field this API returns, so reading it yielded undefined and the "24,000+"
// floor was shown on every request while the database held far more.
expect(body).not.toContain('24,000+');
});
test('the landing page states the real comparison limit', async ({ page }) => {
await page.goto('/');
const body = await page.locator('body').innerText();
// MAX_SCHOOLS in context/ComparisonProvider.tsx is 5. The hero used to
// promise three while a card lower on the same page promised five.
expect(body).toMatch(/five schools/i);
expect(body).not.toMatch(/three schools/i);
});
test('the landing page invents no data about real schools', async ({ page }) => {
await page.goto('/');
const preview = page.locator('table, [class*="comparePreview"]').first();
const body = await page.locator('body').innerText();
// The compare preview's columns carried two real school names beside
// invented results and invented Ofsted grades.
expect(body).not.toMatch(/Our Lady Queen of Heaven|St Mary's Catholic Primary/i);
await expect(preview).toContainText(/School A/);
});
test('the home page has a real title', async ({ page }) => {
await page.goto('/');
// It was the bare string "Home" — the browser tab, the bookmark and the
// search result all read that.
expect(await page.title()).not.toBe('Home');
expect(await page.title()).toMatch(/schoolcompare/i);
});
test('the site states its independence and never claims to be official', async ({ page }) => {
await page.goto('/');
// Carried in the footer, so it appears on every page rather than only here.
await expect(
page.getByText(/an independent site\.\s*not affiliated with the department for education/i)
).toBeVisible();
/*
* Describing the DATA as official is accurate and appears throughout
* ("official DfE figures", "the official figure isn't in"). Describing the
* SITE as official is not: schoolcompare republishes government data, it is
* not a government service. The difference is the grammatical subject, so
* this looks for text that opens with "Official" as a standalone label —
* the shape a value-prop title or heading takes, and the shape the old
* "Official & trusted" took.
*/
const claims = await page.evaluate(() =>
[...document.querySelectorAll('body *')]
.flatMap(el => [...el.childNodes]
.filter(n => n.nodeType === 3)
.map(n => (n.textContent ?? '').trim()))
.filter(t => /^Official\b/i.test(t) && !/^Official\s+(DfE|data|figures)/i.test(t))
);
expect(claims, `text presenting the site itself as official: ${claims.join(' | ')}`).toEqual([]);
});
test('the landing bands share one vertical rhythm', async ({ page }) => {
await page.goto('/');
const gaps = await page.evaluate(() => {
const landing = document.querySelector('main div[class*="landing"]');
if (!landing) return null;
const kids = [...landing.children].map(el => el.getBoundingClientRect());
const out: number[] = [];
for (let i = 1; i < kids.length; i++) out.push(Math.round(kids[i].top - kids[i - 1].bottom));
return out;
});
expect(gaps).not.toBeNull();
expect(gaps!.length).toBeGreaterThan(1);
// Every band gap comes from the page container's single `gap`, so they are
// identical. They used to be 24 / 32 / 24 / 16 / 48 / 32px — each band set
// its own margin, and the page read as a stack of unrelated strips.
expect(new Set(gaps!).size).toBe(1);
});
/*
* The hero artwork. Every assertion here covers a failure that renders as a
* perfectly valid page: a path that 404s leaves an empty box, a crop that
* stops switching silently decapitates the subject, and a format negotiation
* that regresses just serves a bigger file.
*/
function heroImageState(page: Page) {
return page.evaluate(() => {
const img = document.querySelector('[class*="heroArt"] img') as HTMLImageElement | null;
if (!img) return null;
return {
// naturalWidth is 0 for an image that failed to load, whatever the src says.
loaded: img.complete && img.naturalWidth > 0,
file: img.currentSrc.split('/').pop() ?? '',
};
});
}
test('the hero artwork loads, and switches crop rather than cropping its subject', async ({ page }) => {
await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1440, height: 900 });
await page.goto('/');
const wide = await heroImageState(page);
expect(wide).not.toBeNull();
expect(wide!.loaded).toBe(true);
expect(wide!.file).toContain('hero-wide');
/*
* Below the one-column breakpoint the slot becomes a band up to 4.9:1. The
* desktop frame centre-cropped to that shape loses the schoolhouse, which is
* how the previous hero failed on phones — so <picture> must switch to the
* pre-cropped band file, not merely to a smaller version of the same frame.
*/
await page.setViewportSize({ width: 390, height: 844 });
await page.goto('/');
const band = await heroImageState(page);
expect(band!.loaded).toBe(true);
expect(band!.file).toContain('hero-band');
});
test('the hero artwork is served in a modern format', async ({ page }) => {
await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1440, height: 900 });
await page.goto('/');
const state = await heroImageState(page);
// The JPEG exists only as the <img> fallback. Chromium takes AVIF, so seeing
// the fallback here means the <source> negotiation broke — which costs about
// 24kB extra on the LCP element and nothing visible.
expect(state!.file).toMatch(/\.(avif|webp)$/);
});
test('the hero artwork is dimmed for the dark theme', async ({ browser }) => {
const filterFor = async (colorScheme: 'light' | 'dark') => {
const ctx = await browser.newContext({ colorScheme });
const p = await ctx.newPage();
await p.goto('/');
const value = await p.evaluate(() => {
const img = document.querySelector('[class*="heroArt"] img');
return img ? getComputedStyle(img).filter : 'missing';
});
await ctx.close();
return value;
};
// The artwork is a fixed raster, so it cannot be re-graded per theme the way
// the drawn hero was. Undimmed it is the brightest object on a near-black
// page and out-shouts the H1 and the search box — the exact regression the
// drawn version shipped with.
expect(await filterFor('light')).toBe('none');
expect(await filterFor('dark')).toMatch(/brightness/);
});
test('searching by name returns school results', async ({ page }) => {
await searchByName(page, 'primary');
await expect(schoolLinks(page).first()).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
expect(await schoolLinks(page).count()).toBeGreaterThan(1);
});
test('searching by postcode returns nearby schools', async ({ page }) => {
await searchByName(page, 'B1 1BB');
await expect(schoolLinks(page).first()).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
});
test('a report-card school shows a Report Card badge in search results, not its old grade', async ({ page }) => {
// List/map badges keyed off ofsted_grade (the carried-forward legacy grade)
// and never reached the report-card branch, so report-card schools were
// labelled by their old grade (e.g. "Outstanding · 2021"). The list now
// carries ofsted_rc_date and the badge treats a report card as winning.
const RC_URN = 138690; // Barclay Primary — has a Nov-2025+ report card
const res = await page.request.get(`/api/schools?search=Barclay%20Primary&page_size=5`);
expect(res.ok()).toBeTruthy();
const barclay = ((await res.json()).schools ?? []).find(
(s: { urn: number }) => s.urn === RC_URN,
);
// Hard assertions, not test.skip: if the backend stops exposing
// ofsted_rc_date for this report-card school, that IS the regression this
// test exists to catch, so it must fail loudly rather than skip.
expect(barclay, 'Barclay must appear in the search results').toBeTruthy();
expect(
barclay.ofsted_rc_date,
'the list must expose ofsted_rc_date for a report-card school',
).toBeTruthy();
await searchByName(page, 'Barclay Primary');
// The Barclay row must be present…
await expect(page.locator(`a[href*="${RC_URN}"]`).first()).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
// …badged as a Report Card, not its carried-forward "Outstanding" grade.
await expect(page.getByText(/Report Card ·/).first()).toBeVisible();
});
test('school detail page renders name and performance data', async ({ page }) => {
await searchByName(page, 'primary');
const firstSchool = schoolLinks(page).first();
await expect(firstSchool).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
await firstSchool.click();
await page.waitForURL(/\/school\//);
await expect(page.locator('h1').first()).toBeVisible();
// The detail page renders at least one *visible* chart canvas. Plain
// .first() is wrong here: the admissions card stacks its year/trend views
// in one grid cell and keeps the inactive view's canvas visibility:hidden
// by design, and that canvas comes first in the DOM.
await expect(page.locator('canvas:visible').first()).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
});
test('school detail page shows GIAS identity/contact details and drops the unwired Phonics section', async ({ page }) => {
const [urn] = await twoPrimaryUrns(page);
const res = await page.request.get(`/api/schools/${urn}`);
expect(res.ok()).toBeTruthy();
const info = (await res.json()).school_info;
await page.goto(`/school/${urn}`);
await expect(page.locator('h1').first()).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
// Phonics, SEN-type breakdown and average class size were never populated by
// the backend — the sections have been removed, so the Phonics section (its
// own #phonics anchor) must no longer exist.
await expect(page.locator('#phonics')).toHaveCount(0);
// Newly surfaced GIAS/location fields render when the record carries them.
const ageMatch = String(info.age_range ?? '').match(/^\s*(\d+)\s*[-–]\s*(\d+)\s*$/);
if (ageMatch) {
await expect(page.getByText(`Ages ${ageMatch[1]}–${ageMatch[2]}`).first()).toBeVisible();
}
if (info.telephone) {
await expect(page.locator('a[href^="tel:"]').first()).toBeVisible();
}
if (info.parliamentary_constituency) {
await expect(page.getByText('Constituency:').first()).toBeVisible();
}
});
test('header details collapse behind a "Show all details" toggle on mobile', async ({ page }) => {
await page.setViewportSize({ width: 390, height: 844 });
const [urn] = await twoPrimaryUrns(page);
await page.goto(`/school/${urn}`);
await expect(page.locator('h1').first()).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
// Collapsed by default on mobile/tablet …
const details = page.locator('#school-header-details');
await expect(details).toBeHidden();
const toggle = page.getByRole('button', { name: /show all details/i });
await expect(toggle).toBeVisible();
// … and the link reveals them (label flips to "Hide details").
await toggle.click();
await expect(details).toBeVisible();
await expect(page.getByRole('button', { name: /hide details/i })).toBeVisible();
});
test('a report-card school shows its report card, dated to the report-card inspection', async ({ page }) => {
// Detail views detected report cards via `framework`, which the API never
// sets to "ReportCard" — so report-card schools rendered as legacy ratings
// dated to a pre-Nov-2025 inspection. Detection now keys off the report_card
// object and dates it with rc_inspection_date.
const RC_URN = 138690; // Barclay Primary — has a Nov-2025+ report card
const res = await page.request.get(`/api/schools/${RC_URN}`);
expect(res.ok()).toBeTruthy();
const ofsted = (await res.json()).ofsted;
test.skip(
!ofsted?.report_card || Object.keys(ofsted.report_card).length === 0,
'precondition: chosen URN must currently have a report card',
);
const rcYear = new Date(ofsted.rc_inspection_date).getFullYear();
const legacyYear = new Date(ofsted.inspection_date).getFullYear();
await page.goto(`/school/${RC_URN}`);
const ofstedSection = page.locator('#ofsted');
// Detection fixed: rendered as a Report Card, not a legacy "Ofsted Rating".
await expect(ofstedSection.getByText('Ofsted Report Card')).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
// Dating fixed: dated to the report-card inspection, never the legacy one.
await expect(ofstedSection.getByText(new RegExp(`Inspected .*${rcYear}`))).toBeVisible();
if (legacyYear !== rcYear) {
await expect(ofstedSection.getByText(new RegExp(`Inspected .*${legacyYear}`))).toHaveCount(0);
}
});
test('an all-through school shows BOTH its KS2 SATs and its GCSE results, not just one phase', async ({ page }) => {
// All-through schools carry both KS2 and KS4 data in the same yearly rows.
// The detail view used to flip them to isSecondary and render GCSE-only,
// hiding the primary phase. It now renders both phases and labels the school
// "All-through".
const AT_URN = 137306; // Hessle High School and Penshurst Primary — all-through
const res = await page.request.get(`/api/schools/${AT_URN}`);
expect(res.ok()).toBeTruthy();
const detail = await res.json();
const rows: Array<{ rwm_expected_pct: number | null; attainment_8_score: number | null }> =
detail.yearly_data ?? [];
const hasKS2 = rows.some((r) => r.rwm_expected_pct != null);
const hasKS4 = rows.some((r) => r.attainment_8_score != null);
test.skip(
(detail.school_info?.phase ?? '').toLowerCase() !== 'all-through' || !hasKS2 || !hasKS4,
'precondition: chosen URN must currently be all-through with both KS2 and KS4 results',
);
await page.goto(`/school/${AT_URN}`);
await expect(page.locator('h1').first()).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
// Labelled as all-through in the hero meta.
await expect(page.getByText(/All-through/i).first()).toBeVisible();
// The combined results section carries both phases.
const results = page.locator('#results');
await expect(results.getByText(/SATs & GCSE Results/)).toBeVisible();
await expect(results.getByRole('heading', { name: /Primary.*KS2 SATs/ })).toBeVisible(); // KS2 block
await expect(results.getByRole('heading', { name: /Secondary.*GCSEs/ })).toBeVisible(); // KS4 block
});
test('a special school is not shown as failing against the mainstream England average', async ({ page }) => {
// Special schools sit the same tests but very few pupils reach the mainstream
// "expected standard", so a "0.0% · −62 pts below England average" rendering
// portrays them as failing against a benchmark that doesn't fit. The results
// section drops the England comparison and explains the context instead.
const SP_URN = 101099; // Greenmead School — a community special school
const res = await page.request.get(`/api/schools/${SP_URN}`);
expect(res.ok()).toBeTruthy();
const detail = await res.json();
test.skip(
!/special|pupil referral|alternative provision/i.test(detail.school_info?.school_type ?? ''),
'precondition: chosen URN must currently be a special school',
);
await page.goto(`/school/${SP_URN}`);
const results = page.locator('#results');
// The special-school context note is shown…
await expect(results.getByText(/This is a special school/i)).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
// …and the mainstream England-average comparison is dropped entirely.
await expect(results.getByText(/England avg/i)).toHaveCount(0);
});
test('school with no performance data still gets a working detail page', async ({ page }) => {
// Schools without KS2/KS4 results (special post-16 institutions, sixth-form
// centres, PRUs) used to 500 in the API — NaN GIAS fields broke JSON
// serialization — which the frontend rendered as a 404 on every such SEO
// landing page. Find one via the search API (year === null marks "no
// performance rows") and assert its page renders.
const candidates: number[] = [];
for (const q of ['post 16', 'specialist college', 'sixth form']) {
const resp = await page.request.get(
`/api/schools?search=${encodeURIComponent(q)}&per_page=20`
);
if (!resp.ok()) continue;
const body = await resp.json();
for (const s of body.schools ?? []) {
if (s.year === null && s.urn) candidates.push(s.urn);
}
if (candidates.length) break;
}
test.skip(candidates.length === 0, 'no results-less school in this dataset');
const detail = await page.request.get(`/api/schools/${candidates[0]}`);
expect(detail.status(), 'detail API must not 500 for a results-less school').toBe(200);
await page.goto(`/school/${candidates[0]}`);
await page.waitForURL(/\/school\/\d+-/); // redirected to canonical slug
await expect(page.locator('h1').first()).toBeVisible();
});
test('school hero map opens fullscreen on mobile without the Fullscreen API', async ({ page }) => {
// iOS Safari has no Element.requestFullscreen; the map must fall back to a
// CSS overlay. Simulate that by removing the API before any page script runs.
await page.setViewportSize({ width: 390, height: 844 });
await page.addInitScript(() => {
// @ts-expect-error deliberate API removal
delete Element.prototype.requestFullscreen;
});
await searchByName(page, 'primary');
const firstSchool = schoolLinks(page).first();
await expect(firstSchool).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
await firstSchool.click();
await page.waitForURL(/\/school\//);
const openMap = page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Open full map' });
await expect(openMap).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
await openMap.click();
const closeMap = page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Close map' });
await expect(closeMap).toBeVisible();
await closeMap.click();
await expect(openMap).toBeVisible();
});
test('results map fullscreen falls back to an overlay on iOS', async ({ page }) => {
// Same iOS gap as the hero map: no Element.requestFullscreen, so the results
// map's fullscreen button must fall back to a CSS overlay.
await page.setViewportSize({ width: 390, height: 844 });
await page.addInitScript(() => {
// @ts-expect-error deliberate API removal
delete Element.prototype.requestFullscreen;
});
await searchByName(page, 'B1 1BB');
await expect(schoolLinks(page).first()).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
// Switch to the map view, then open the map fullscreen.
await page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Map', exact: true }).click();
const openFs = page.getByRole('button', { name: 'View map fullscreen' });
await expect(openFs).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
await openFs.click();
// The button flips to its exit state once the overlay is up.
const exitFs = page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Exit fullscreen' });
await expect(exitFs).toBeVisible();
await exitFs.click();
await expect(openFs).toBeVisible();
});
test('comparing two schools shows the parent-first sections side by side', async ({ page }) => {
// Two same-phase (pure primary) schools so both stay on one tab.
const [urn0, urn1] = await twoPrimaryUrns(page);
await page.goto(`/compare?urns=${urn0},${urn1}`);
// Both schools' detail links should render in the comparison view
await expect(page.locator(`a[href*="${urn0}"]`).first()).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
await expect(page.locator(`a[href*="${urn1}"]`).first()).toBeVisible();
// The parent-first sections render in order (data-invariant: headings only)
for (const heading of [
'At a glance',
'Ofsted inspection',
/How (children|students) do academically/,
'Who goes there',
'Explore trends',
]) {
await expect(
page.getByRole('heading', { name: heading }).first(),
).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
}
// Every number gets an anchor: at least one England-average tick or label
await expect(page.getByText(/England \d+/).first()).toBeVisible();
// Desktop: the sticky school bar shares the sections' grid template
// (200px label rail + one column per school) so chips align with the
// columns they label.
const barTemplate = await page
.locator('[aria-label="Schools in this comparison"]')
.evaluate((el) => getComputedStyle(el).gridTemplateColumns);
expect(barTemplate).toMatch(/^200px /);
// ...and its label rail carries the comparison caption.
await expect(page.getByText(/^\d+ (primary|secondary) schools?$/)).toBeVisible();
// Ofsted linkout goes to the school's provider page, never a report deep-link
const ofstedLink = page.getByRole('link', { name: /Ofsted page/i }).first();
await expect(ofstedLink).toBeVisible();
expect(await ofstedLink.getAttribute('href')).toMatch(
/reports\.ofsted\.gov\.uk\/provider\/21\/\d+/
);
// A school never shows both an overall-grade badge AND report-card detail:
// "Report card" implies "no overall grade is given" copy is present too.
const reportCards = await page.getByText('Report card', { exact: true }).count();
if (reportCards > 0) {
await expect(page.getByText(/no overall grade/i).first()).toBeVisible();
}
});
test('comparing two secondary schools renders the secondary sections', async ({ page }) => {
const [urn0, urn1] = await twoSecondaryUrns(page);
await page.goto(`/compare?urns=${urn0},${urn1}`);
await expect(page.locator(`a[href*="${urn0}"]`).first()).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
// The parent-first sections must render — this page was completely blank
// for all-secondary baskets (expert review must-fix #1).
await expect(page.getByRole('heading', { name: 'At a glance' }).first()).toBeVisible({
timeout: 15_000,
});
await expect(page.getByRole('heading', { name: 'Ofsted inspection' }).first()).toBeVisible();
// A KS4 measure proves the secondary academics variant rendered.
await expect(page.getByText(/Attainment 8/i).first()).toBeVisible();
await expect(page.getByText(/No primary schools in your comparison/)).toHaveCount(0);
// The admissions template must be phase-aware: the primaries' distance
// copy ("non-faith primaries") must never appear on a secondary comparison
// (expert sign-off must-fix M3).
await expect(page.getByText(/non-faith primaries/)).toHaveCount(0);
});
test('opening a different compare link after a previous comparison still renders', async ({ page }) => {
// Regression: the first visit stores a basket in localStorage; opening a
// link for a DIFFERENT school set then raced a stale fetch for the stored
// basket against the new SSR data, blanking every section (including the
// trends chart) until a hard refresh.
const [s0, s1] = await twoSecondaryUrns(page);
const [p0, p1] = await twoPrimaryUrns(page);
await page.goto(`/compare?urns=${s0},${s1}`);
await expect(page.getByRole('heading', { name: 'At a glance' }).first()).toBeVisible({
timeout: 15_000,
});
await page.goto(`/compare?urns=${p0},${p1}`);
await expect(page.getByRole('heading', { name: 'At a glance' }).first()).toBeVisible({
timeout: 15_000,
});
// Give any straggling stale response time to land, then confirm the new
// comparison is still on screen.
await page.waitForTimeout(1500);
await expect(page.getByRole('heading', { name: 'At a glance' }).first()).toBeVisible();
await expect(page.getByRole('heading', { name: 'Explore trends' }).first()).toBeVisible();
await expect(page.locator(`a[href*="${p0}"]`).first()).toBeVisible();
});
test('compare chart on mobile shows school chips with tap-to-focus', async ({ page }) => {
await page.setViewportSize({ width: 390, height: 844 });
await searchByName(page, 'primary');
await expect(schoolLinks(page).first()).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
const hrefs = await schoolLinks(page).evaluateAll((links) =>
links.map((l) => (l as HTMLAnchorElement).getAttribute('href') || '')
);
const urns = [...new Set(hrefs.map((h) => h.match(/\/school\/(\d+)/)?.[1]).filter(Boolean))];
// Compare three schools, not two: a "primary" search can return all-through
// schools that classify as secondary, and the chips only appear for the
// active phase. With three schools across two phases, the auto-selected
// majority phase always holds ≥2, so the chip legend is guaranteed to render.
expect(urns.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(3);
await page.goto(`/compare?urns=${urns[0]},${urns[1]},${urns[2]}`);
// Mobile is measure-first: the At a glance section stacks all active-phase
// schools inside one flow — no horizontal swiping between school columns.
await expect(
page.getByRole('heading', { name: 'At a glance' }),
).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
const body = page.locator('body');
const bodyOverflowsX = await body.evaluate(
(el) => el.scrollWidth > el.clientWidth + 1,
);
expect(bodyOverflowsX).toBe(false);
// The sticky school bar must pin *below* the sticky site header, not at
// top:0 where the header covers it and the selected schools are hidden.
// Assert the sticky offset directly (robust — no scroll timing needed).
const barTop = await page
.locator('[class*="schoolBar"]')
.first()
.evaluate((el) => parseFloat(getComputedStyle(el).top));
const headerHeight = await page
.locator('[class*="header"]')
.first()
.evaluate((el) => el.getBoundingClientRect().height);
expect(barTop).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(headerHeight - 1);
// The trends chart still renders (inside the Explore trends section)…
const chartCanvas = page.locator('canvas:visible').first();
await expect(chartCanvas).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
// …at a real height, not the squashed ~150px Chart.js fallback that
// appears when the container lacks a definite height.
const chartBox = await chartCanvas.boundingBox();
expect(chartBox && chartBox.height).toBeGreaterThan(220);
// …with the mobile chart legend chips and tap-to-focus behaviour intact.
const chipGroup = page.getByRole('group', { name: /highlight a school/i });
const chips = chipGroup.getByRole('button');
await expect(chips.first()).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
expect(await chips.count()).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(2);
// Tapping a chip focuses that school's line; tapping again releases it.
await chips.first().click();
await expect(chips.first()).toHaveAttribute('aria-pressed', 'true');
await chips.first().click();
await expect(chips.first()).toHaveAttribute('aria-pressed', 'false');
});
test('admissions guide renders its key milestones', async ({ page }) => {
// Static content page — assert the guide loads and the load-bearing
// milestones parents rely on are present (dates are statutory, so these
// strings are stable invariants, not data-refresh-sensitive).
await page.goto('/admissions');
await expect(page.getByRole('heading', { name: /School Admissions Guide/i })).toBeVisible();
await expect(page.getByRole('heading', { name: /Primary school admissions/i })).toBeVisible();
await expect(page.getByRole('heading', { name: /Secondary school admissions/i })).toBeVisible();
// National Offer Day is the milestone the whole guide builds toward.
await expect(page.getByText(/National Offer Day/i).first()).toBeVisible();
});
test('rankings page loads a populated table', async ({ page }) => {
await page.goto('/rankings');
await expect(page.getByRole('heading', { name: /rankings/i }).first()).toBeVisible();
const rows = page.locator('table tbody tr');
await expect(rows.first()).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
expect(await rows.count()).toBeGreaterThan(5);
});
test('rankings stay populated after picking a specific year', async ({ page }) => {
// Years are academic-year codes (e.g. 201819); the API must accept them
// as the `year` query param rather than rejecting with a 422.
await page.goto('/rankings');
const yearSelect = page.locator('#year-select');
await expect(yearSelect).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
// Pick the last option — the most recent explicit year. The default view
// already proved this year has rows, so an empty table after selecting it
// can only mean the year param was rejected. (The oldest year is no good
// here: staging doesn't always carry the full data history.)
const yearValue = await yearSelect.locator('option').last().getAttribute('value');
expect(yearValue).toBeTruthy();
await yearSelect.selectOption(yearValue!);
await page.waitForURL(/year=/);
const rows = page.locator('table tbody tr');
await expect(rows.first()).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
expect(await rows.count()).toBeGreaterThan(5);
});
test('compare metric-help popover stays within the mobile viewport', async ({ page }) => {
await page.setViewportSize({ width: 390, height: 844 });
const [urn0, urn1] = await twoPrimaryUrns(page);
await page.goto(`/compare?urns=${urn0},${urn1}`);
await expect(
page.getByRole('heading', { name: 'At a glance' }),
).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
// The metric-help triggers are the circled-"?" buttons in the row labels.
// "More information" is InfoPopover's default accessible name.
const help = page.getByRole('button', { name: 'More information' }).first();
await expect(help).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
await help.click();
const tip = page.getByRole('tooltip');
await expect(tip).toBeVisible();
// The whole bubble must sit inside the viewport — the original bug pushed it
// off the right edge with no way to scroll to it.
const box = await tip.boundingBox();
const width = page.viewportSize()!.width;
expect(box).not.toBeNull();
expect(box!.x).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(0);
expect(box!.x + box!.width).toBeLessThanOrEqual(width);
// And the page must not have gained a horizontal scrollbar from the bubble.
const bodyOverflowsX = await page
.locator('body')
.evaluate((el) => el.scrollWidth > el.clientWidth + 1);
expect(bodyOverflowsX).toBe(false);
});
/**
* The following two journeys cover the server/client split of the detail page.
* The sections are now React Server Components composed in the route and passed
* through a client shell; these assert that the two halves still meet correctly
* in a real browser, which no unit test can prove.
*/
test('admissions year/trend toggle still switches views after the server/client split', async ({ page }) => {
// Find a school with at least two years carrying an offer rate — the toggle
// only appears then. Data-invariant: uses whatever the environment holds.
const res = await page.request.get('/api/schools?search=primary&per_page=50');
expect(res.ok()).toBeTruthy();
const candidates: number[] = ((await res.json()).schools ?? []).map((s: { urn: number }) => s.urn);
let target: number | null = null;
for (const urn of candidates.slice(0, 12)) {
const detail = await page.request.get(`/api/schools/${urn}`);
if (!detail.ok()) continue;
const history = (await detail.json()).admissions_history ?? [];
const withRate = history.filter(
(h: { first_preference_offer_pct?: number | null }) => h.first_preference_offer_pct != null,
);
if (withRate.length >= 2) { target = urn; break; }
}
test.skip(target === null, 'no school in this environment has 2+ years of admissions offer data');
await page.goto(`/school/${target}`);
await expect(page.locator('#admissions')).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
const yearBtn = page.getByRole('button', { name: 'This year' });
const trendBtn = page.getByRole('button', { name: /-year trend$/ });
await expect(yearBtn).toHaveAttribute('aria-pressed', 'true');
// The toggle is the one client island inside an otherwise server-rendered
// section: clicking it must swap the two server-rendered views.
await trendBtn.click();
await expect(trendBtn).toHaveAttribute('aria-pressed', 'true');
await expect(yearBtn).toHaveAttribute('aria-pressed', 'false');
await yearBtn.click();
await expect(yearBtn).toHaveAttribute('aria-pressed', 'true');
});
test('sticky section nav jumps to server-rendered sections', async ({ page }) => {
const [urn] = await twoPrimaryUrns(page);
await page.goto(`/school/${urn}`);
await expect(page.locator('h1').first()).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
// The nav is client-rendered from a server-computed list, while the sections
// themselves are server-rendered. Every link must resolve to a real section:
// the scroll-spy finds them with document.getElementById, so a mismatch
// between the two halves would dead-end here.
const navLinks = page.locator('nav a[href^="#"]');
const count = await navLinks.count();
expect(count).toBeGreaterThan(0);
for (let i = 0; i < count; i++) {
const href = await navLinks.nth(i).getAttribute('href');
expect(href).toBeTruthy();
await expect(page.locator(href!)).toHaveCount(1);
}
// And following one actually moves the page.
const before = await page.evaluate(() => window.scrollY);
await navLinks.last().click();
await page.waitForTimeout(600);
const after = await page.evaluate(() => window.scrollY);
expect(after).toBeGreaterThan(before);
});
/**
* Brand surface. The identity work replaced a favicon-only asset set that
* broke iOS home-screen icons, Android PWA installs, and every link preview.
* These are silent failures — nothing on the page looks wrong — so they need
* a gate.
*/
/**
* Chart benchmark markers, against whatever they actually overlap.
*
* The national-average marker shipped as var(--brand) on both templates —
* identical to the bar fill it sits on, so it measured 1.00:1 wherever it
* crossed a bar and was visible only for schools BELOW the benchmark.
*
* The WCAG journey below never saw it, and could not have: it composites
* backgrounds by walking the ANCESTOR chain, while these markers are
* absolutely positioned over a SIBLING. Ancestor-walking is structurally blind
* to overlap. This test asks the stacking order instead —
* document.elementsFromPoint returns what is genuinely beneath a point — which
* is the same question a reader's eye asks.
*/
const MARKER_PROBE = `(() => {
const ps = c => { const m=(c||'').match(/[\\d.]+/g); if(!m) return null;
const a=m.map(Number); return {r:a[0],g:a[1],b:a[2],a:m.length>3?a[3]:1}; };
const ov = (f,b) => ({r:f.r*f.a+b.r*(1-f.a), g:f.g*f.a+b.g*(1-f.a), b:f.b*f.a+b.b*(1-f.a), a:1});
const L = c => { const f=v=>{v/=255; return v<=0.03928?v/12.92:Math.pow((v+.055)/1.055,2.4);};
return .2126*f(c.r)+.7152*f(c.g)+.0722*f(c.b); };
const RT = (a,b) => { const x=L(a),y=L(b); return (Math.max(x,y)+.05)/(Math.min(x,y)+.05); };
const markers = [...document.querySelectorAll('[class*="natTick"], [class*="NatLine"]')]
.filter(el => el.getBoundingClientRect().width > 0);
const out = { count: markers.length, failures: [], unmeasured: 0 };
for (const el of markers) {
/*
* Scroll it in first. elementsFromPoint takes VIEWPORT coordinates and
* returns an empty stack for anything off-screen — and these markers sit
* well down the page. Without this the backdrop silently defaults to
* white, which makes a teal-on-teal marker look like teal-on-white and
* pass. 'instant' because globals.css sets scroll-behavior: smooth on
* html, and a smooth scroll would still be moving when we measure.
*/
el.scrollIntoView({ block: 'center', behavior: 'instant' });
const r = el.getBoundingClientRect();
const cx = r.left + r.width / 2, cy = r.top + r.height / 2;
const own = ps(getComputedStyle(el).backgroundColor);
const edge = ps((getComputedStyle(el).boxShadow.match(/rgba?\\([^)]*\\)/) || [])[0] || '');
if (!own) continue;
// What is genuinely underneath, by stacking order rather than by ancestry.
const stack = document.elementsFromPoint(cx, cy);
if (stack.length === 0) { out.unmeasured++; continue; } // never assume white
let backdrop = null;
for (const under of stack) {
if (under === el || el.contains(under)) continue;
const c = ps(getComputedStyle(under).backgroundColor);
if (c && c.a > 0.9) { backdrop = c; break; }
}
if (!backdrop) { out.unmeasured++; continue; }
// A knockout marker only needs ONE of its two parts to separate.
const best = Math.max(RT(ov(own, backdrop), backdrop),
edge ? RT(ov(edge, backdrop), backdrop) : 0);
if (best < 3) {
out.failures.push((el.className || '?').toString().split(' ')[0] +
' ' + best.toFixed(2) + ':1 over rgb(' +
[backdrop.r, backdrop.g, backdrop.b].map(Math.round).join(',') + ')');
}
}
return out;
})()`;
async function firstSchoolLink(page: Page, query: string): Promise<string> {
await page.goto(`/?search=${encodeURIComponent(query)}`);
const link = schoolLinks(page).first();
await expect(link).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
return (await link.getAttribute('href'))!;
}
for (const scheme of ['light', 'dark'] as const) {
test(`chart benchmark markers stay visible in the ${scheme} theme`, async ({ browser }) => {
const context = await browser.newContext({ colorScheme: scheme });
const page = await context.newPage();
const failures: string[] = [];
// One primary (SATs bars) and one secondary (Attainment 8 bar) — the two
// templates carry separate implementations of the same marker.
for (const query of ['primary', 'academy']) {
const href = await firstSchoolLink(page, query);
await page.goto(href);
await expect(page.locator('h1').first()).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
await page.waitForTimeout(900); // bar widths animate in from an effect
const res = (await page.evaluate(MARKER_PROBE)) as
{ count: number; failures: string[]; unmeasured: number };
test.skip(res.count === 0 && query === 'primary',
'no benchmark markers rendered — environment has no national averages');
// A marker we could not resolve a backdrop for is a hole in the check,
// not a pass. Fail loudly rather than quietly measuring nothing.
expect(res.unmeasured,
`${href}: ${res.unmeasured} of ${res.count} markers had no resolvable backdrop`).toBe(0);
failures.push(...res.failures.map(f => `${href} → ${f}`));
}
await context.close();
expect(failures, `benchmark markers under 3:1 in ${scheme}:\n ${failures.join('\n ')}`).toEqual([]);
});
}
test('the brand asset set is complete and served', async ({ page }) => {
const response = await page.goto('/');
expect(response?.ok()).toBe(true);
// The share card: without it, every link pasted into a chat renders bare.
const ogImage = page.locator('meta[property="og:image"]');
await expect(ogImage).toHaveCount(1);
const ogUrl = await ogImage.getAttribute('content');
expect(ogUrl).toBeTruthy();
// metadataBase pins canonical URLs to the production host, which is correct
// for prod but means the absolute URL points off-environment on staging.
// Fetch the path against whichever environment we're actually testing.
const og = await page.request.get(new URL(ogUrl!).pathname + new URL(ogUrl!).search);
expect(og.ok()).toBe(true);
expect(og.headers()['content-type']).toContain('image/png');
/*
* iOS ignores SVG touch icons, so this must be a real raster.
*
* Read the href off the page rather than hardcoding a path. The route moved
* when the generated app/apple-icon.tsx became a static app/apple-icon.png:
* a generated icon is served at /apple-icon, a static one at /apple-icon.png
* with a content hash. This test kept asking for /apple-icon and got a 404 —
* reporting a missing icon while the icon was present and correctly linked.
*/
const appleLink = page.locator('link[rel="apple-touch-icon"]');
await expect(appleLink).toHaveCount(1);
const appleHref = await appleLink.getAttribute('href');
expect(appleHref).toBeTruthy();
const apple = await page.request.get(appleHref!);
expect(apple.ok(), `apple touch icon at ${appleHref} should be served`).toBe(true);
expect(apple.headers()['content-type']).toContain('image/png');
// Android needs a maskable PNG or the install prompt has no icon.
for (const icon of ['/icon-192.png', '/icon-512.png', '/icon-maskable-512.png']) {
const res = await page.request.get(icon);
expect(res.ok(), `${icon} should be served`).toBe(true);
}
});
test('theme colour matches the page background in both themes', async ({ browser }) => {
// A mismatch here paints a stripe of the wrong colour across the top of the
// screen on mobile. Previously the dark themeColor was declared with no dark
// styling behind it at all.
for (const colorScheme of ['light', 'dark'] as const) {
const context = await browser.newContext({ colorScheme });
const page = await context.newPage();
await page.goto('/');
const declared = await page
.locator(`meta[name="theme-color"][media*="${colorScheme}"]`)
.getAttribute('content');
expect(declared, `theme-color declared for ${colorScheme}`).toBeTruthy();
const painted = await page.evaluate(() =>
getComputedStyle(document.documentElement).getPropertyValue('--bg-primary').trim()
);
expect(painted.toLowerCase()).toBe(declared!.toLowerCase());
await context.close();
}
});
test('the dark theme actually repaints the page', async ({ browser }) => {
// Guards the token layer: if a component reintroduces a hardcoded colour,
// the surface below stays light while everything around it flips.
const read = async (colorScheme: 'light' | 'dark') => {
const context = await browser.newContext({ colorScheme });
const page = await context.newPage();
await page.goto('/');
await expect(page.locator('h1').first()).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
const values = await page.evaluate(() => {
const s = getComputedStyle(document.body);
return { bg: s.backgroundColor, fg: s.color };
});
await context.close();
return values;
};
const light = await read('light');
const dark = await read('dark');
expect(dark.bg).not.toBe(light.bg);
expect(dark.fg).not.toBe(light.fg);
});
/**
* Typography and palette integrity.
*
* The identity PR shipped with every font-family silently falling back to
* Times: the font variables landed on <body> while the tokens referencing
* them were declared on :root, so --font-display computed to the
* guaranteed-invalid value. Nothing threw, no test failed, and the build was
* green — the only symptom was visual. These assertions make that class of
* failure loud.
*/
test('the brand typefaces actually load and apply', async ({ page }) => {
await page.goto('/');
await expect(page.locator('h1').first()).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
const fonts = await page.evaluate(() => {
const root = getComputedStyle(document.documentElement);
// Only the FIRST family in the stack is the one actually asked for; the
// rest are fallbacks and always end in a generic like sans-serif.
const first = (el: Element) =>
getComputedStyle(el).fontFamily.split(',')[0].replace(/["']/g, '').trim();
const headings = [...document.querySelectorAll('h1, h2')].map(first);
return {
body: first(document.body),
headings,
bodyStack: getComputedStyle(document.body).fontFamily,
displayToken: root.getPropertyValue('--font-display').trim(),
uiToken: root.getPropertyValue('--font-ui').trim(),
proseToken: root.getPropertyValue('--font-prose').trim(),
};
});
// An empty token means the var() chain broke, which is the exact failure
// mode this guards — the computed font-family would look plausible either
// way, because an invalid font-family just inherits.
expect(fonts.displayToken, '--font-display resolved').not.toBe('');
expect(fonts.uiToken, '--font-ui resolved').not.toBe('');
expect(fonts.proseToken, '--font-prose resolved').not.toBe('');
// Inter carries body copy, every control and every figure; Manrope carries
// headings and key messaging. Both must actually resolve, not merely be
// named in a stack that never loads.
expect(fonts.body, 'body uses Inter').toBe('Inter');
expect(fonts.headings.length, 'the page has headings to check').toBeGreaterThan(0);
expect(fonts.headings, 'at least one heading uses Manrope').toContain('Manrope');
// The Times fallback is the specific failure that shipped once. Match the
// family name only — a stack legitimately ends in sans-serif, so anchoring
// on /serif$/ would flag a perfectly healthy page.
expect(fonts.bodyStack).not.toMatch(/\bTimes\b/);
});
/**
* The wordmark is the one piece of brand chrome a user reads on every page,
* and it is set as two spans so "compare" can take the brand colour. A
* refactor that drops the second span, or reverts the lowercase styling,
* changes the brand without failing anything else.
*/
test('the header carries the schoolcompare lockup', async ({ page }) => {
await page.goto('/');
const home = page.getByRole('banner').getByRole('link', { name: /schoolcompare home/i });
await expect(home).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
// Assert on rendered text rather than CSS-module class names, which are
// hashed at build time and change on any unrelated edit.
await expect(home).toHaveText(/^\s*schoolcompare\s*$/);
/*
* The mark is raster artwork, not an inline SVG — it has been since the
* supplied logo replaced the reconstruction, and this locator went on
* looking for an <svg> that no longer exists.
*
* Assert on naturalWidth rather than visibility: a <picture> whose sources
* all 404 still lays out and still passes toBeVisible(), so the weaker
* assertion would go green on a broken lockup.
*/
const mark = home.locator('img').first();
await expect(mark).toBeVisible();
const markState = await mark.evaluate((el: HTMLImageElement) => ({
loaded: el.complete && el.naturalWidth > 0,
src: el.currentSrc,
}));
expect(markState.loaded, `header mark failed to load: ${markState.src}`).toBe(true);
});
test('no visible text falls back to the browser default black', async ({ page }) => {
// Form controls don't inherit colour from their parent, so a missing
// declaration renders pure black — subtle in light mode, invisible in dark.
await page.goto('/');
await expect(page.locator('h1').first()).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
const blacks = await page.evaluate(() =>
[...document.querySelectorAll('body *')]
.filter((el) => {
const r = el.getBoundingClientRect();
if (r.width < 2 || r.height < 2) return false;
if (el.closest('.leaflet-tile-pane')) return false;
return getComputedStyle(el).color === 'rgb(0, 0, 0)';
})
.map((el) => el.tagName.toLowerCase() + '.' + (el.getAttribute('class') || '').split(' ')[0])
.slice(0, 10)
);
expect(blacks, `elements rendering pure black: ${blacks.join(', ')}`).toEqual([]);
});
test('rendered colours all come from the token palette', async ({ page }) => {
// Turns the manual design audit into a gate: anything painted with a colour
// the token layer doesn't define has escaped the system, and will not
// follow the dark theme.
await page.goto('/rankings');
await expect(page.locator('table, [class*="rankings"]').first()).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
const strays = await page.evaluate(() => {
const root = getComputedStyle(document.documentElement);
const palette = new Set<string>();
for (const sheet of document.styleSheets) {
let rules: CSSRuleList;
try { rules = sheet.cssRules; } catch { continue; }
for (const rule of rules) {
const r = rule as CSSStyleRule;
if (r.selectorText !== ':root' || !r.style) continue;
for (const prop of r.style) {
if (!prop.startsWith('--')) continue;
const v = root.getPropertyValue(prop).trim();
if (v) palette.add(v.toLowerCase());
}
}
}
const norm = (c: string) => {
const d = document.createElement('div');
d.style.color = c;
document.body.appendChild(d);
const v = getComputedStyle(d).color;
d.remove();
return v;
};
const allowed = new Set([...palette].filter((v) => /^#|^rgb/.test(v)).map(norm));
const found: string[] = [];
for (const el of document.querySelectorAll('body *')) {
const box = el.getBoundingClientRect();
if (box.width < 2 || box.height < 2) continue;
if (el.closest('.leaflet-tile-pane')) continue; // OSM tiles are imagery, not palette
const s = getComputedStyle(el);
const checks: Array<[string, string]> = [['color', s.color]];
if (s.backgroundColor !== 'rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)') checks.push(['background', s.backgroundColor]);
for (const [prop, value] of checks) {
if (!value || value.startsWith('rgba(') || allowed.has(value)) continue;
const cls = (el.getAttribute('class') || '(none)').split(' ')[0];
const entry = `${value} as ${prop} on ${cls}`;
if (!found.includes(entry)) found.push(entry);
}
}
return found.slice(0, 12);
});
expect(strays, `off-palette colours: ${strays.join('; ')}`).toEqual([]);
});
/**
* Contrast, in both themes.
*
* The status hues were originally specced against --bg-primary, but they are
* used as chip text on their own tint, which sits on darker surfaces — so the
* real ratios were 3.85–4.44:1, under AA, on every school row and result card.
* The page ground is the easy case; the tinted chip is the one that fails.
*
* Waits for transitions to settle before measuring: several components carry
* `transition: color`, and reading mid-transition reports colours that were
* never on screen at rest.
*/
const CONTRAST_PROBE = `(() => {
const ps = c => { const m=(c||'').match(/[\\d.]+/g); if(!m) return null;
const a=m.map(Number); return {r:a[0],g:a[1],b:a[2],a:m.length>3?a[3]:1}; };
const ov = (f,b) => ({r:f.r*f.a+b.r*(1-f.a), g:f.g*f.a+b.g*(1-f.a), b:f.b*f.a+b.b*(1-f.a), a:1});
const L = c => { const f=v=>{v/=255; return v<=0.03928?v/12.92:Math.pow((v+.055)/1.055,2.4);};
return .2126*f(c.r)+.7152*f(c.g)+.0722*f(c.b); };
const RT = (a,b) => { const x=L(a),y=L(b); return (Math.max(x,y)+.05)/(Math.min(x,y)+.05); };
const BG = el => { const ls=[]; let n=el;
while(n && n!==document.documentElement){ const c=ps(getComputedStyle(n).backgroundColor);
if(c && c.a>0){ ls.push(c); if(c.a===1) break; } n=n.parentElement; }
const base = ps(getComputedStyle(document.documentElement).backgroundColor)||{r:255,g:255,b:255,a:1};
let acc = ls.length && ls[ls.length-1].a===1 ? ls.pop() : base;
for(let i=ls.length-1;i>=0;i--) acc=ov(ls[i],acc); return acc; };
const out=[], seen=new Set();
for (const el of document.querySelectorAll('body *')) {
if (el.closest('.leaflet-container')) continue;
const r=el.getBoundingClientRect(), s=getComputedStyle(el);
if (r.width<2 || r.height<2 || s.visibility==='hidden' || s.opacity==='0') continue;
if (![...el.childNodes].some(n=>n.nodeType===3 && n.textContent.trim().length>1)) continue;
const fc=ps(s.color), bc=BG(el); if(!fc||!bc) continue;
const fg = fc.a<1?ov(fc,bc):fc, ratio=RT(fg,bc);
const px=parseFloat(s.fontSize), bold=parseInt(s.fontWeight,10)>=700;
const need=(px>=24||(px>=18.66&&bold))?3:4.5;
if (ratio >= need) continue;
const key=(el.getAttribute('class')||'')+s.color;
if (seen.has(key)) continue; seen.add(key);
out.push(((el.getAttribute('class')||'?').split(' ')[0])+' '+ratio.toFixed(2)+':1 (needs '+need+
') '+s.color+' on rgb('+Math.round(bc.r)+','+Math.round(bc.g)+','+Math.round(bc.b)+') "'+
el.textContent.trim().slice(0,28)+'"');
}
return out.slice(0, 12);
})()`;
for (const scheme of ['light', 'dark'] as const) {
test(`text meets WCAG AA in the ${scheme} theme`, async ({ browser }) => {
const context = await browser.newContext({ colorScheme: scheme });
const page = await context.newPage();
const failures: string[] = [];
for (const path of ['/', '/rankings', '/admissions']) {
await page.goto(path);
await expect(page.locator('h1, h2').first()).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
// Let `transition: color` settle — the longest in the app is 0.4s.
await page.waitForTimeout(700);
const found = (await page.evaluate(CONTRAST_PROBE)) as string[];
failures.push(...found.map((f) => `${path} → ${f}`));
}
await context.close();
expect(failures, `AA failures in ${scheme}:\n ${failures.join('\n ')}`).toEqual([]);
});
}
// ── Last distance offered ────────────────────────────────────────────────
//
// Coverage is partial by nature: only 57 local authorities publish cut-off
// distances at all, and staging may not yet hold the extract. These tests
// therefore locate a school that HAS a figure and assert the invariants that
// make it safe to show, rather than asserting any particular school has one.
/** URNs known to be in the collected cut-off dataset, spread across LAs so a
* single council's data gap cannot skip the whole check. */
const CUTOFF_CANDIDATE_URNS = [
139837, 100010, 100011, 100028, 100029, 130342, // Camden
100458, 135587, // Islington (banded)
101099, 100553, 102574, 100769, // mixed
];
async function schoolWithCutoff(page: Page) {
for (const urn of CUTOFF_CANDIDATE_URNS) {
const res = await page.request.get(`/api/schools/${urn}`);
if (!res.ok()) continue;
const body = await res.json();
if (body?.admission_distance?.distance_m == null) continue;
return { urn, distance: body.admission_distance, phase: body.school_info?.phase };
}
return null;
}
test('a published cut-off distance is shown with the year it belongs to', async ({ page }) => {
const found = await schoolWithCutoff(page);
test.skip(found === null, 'no school in the sample has a published cut-off distance yet');
await page.goto(`/school/${found!.urn}`);
await expect(page.locator('h1').first()).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
const label = page.getByText(/Last distance offered/).first();
await expect(label).toBeVisible();
// The year is the difference between a fact and a floating number: a cut-off
// is the outcome of one admissions round and means nothing without it.
await expect(label).toContainText(`September ${found!.distance.year}`);
// And the figure itself, in the unit councils publish in.
await expect(page.getByText(/\d+(\.\d+)? (miles|m)\b/).first()).toBeVisible();
});
test('a cut-off distance is never shown without saying it is not a catchment', async ({ page }) => {
const found = await schoolWithCutoff(page);
test.skip(found === null, 'no school in the sample has a published cut-off distance yet');
await page.goto(`/school/${found!.urn}`);
await expect(page.locator('h1').first()).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
await expect(page.getByText(/not a fixed catchment/)).toBeVisible();
// The old secondary template asserted "distance cut-off data is not
// available for this school" on every page, including ones whose council
// does publish it. Showing both at once would be a flat contradiction.
await expect(page.getByText(/has not published a cut-off distance/)).toHaveCount(0);
// A banded school's figure is the widest of several routes, and must say so.
if ((found!.distance.route_count ?? 1) > 1) {
await expect(page.getByText(/admission routes at this school/)).toBeVisible();
}
});
test('a cut-off distance opens the Admissions section in the sticky nav', async ({ page }) => {
// buildNavItems and the section composers gate on the same condition; when
// they drift the nav links to an anchor that was never rendered.
const found = await schoolWithCutoff(page);
test.skip(found === null, 'no school in the sample has a published cut-off distance yet');
await page.goto(`/school/${found!.urn}`);
await expect(page.locator('h1').first()).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
await expect(page.locator('#admissions')).toHaveCount(1);
});
test('no school page shows an implausible cut-off distance', async ({ page }) => {
// The source carries transcription errors up to 533 miles, filtered in
// stg_school_distance. This asserts the filter is actually reaching the API,
// because a visibly absurd figure on a live page is the failure that would
// cost the site its credibility.
let checked = 0;
for (const urn of CUTOFF_CANDIDATE_URNS) {
const res = await page.request.get(`/api/schools/${urn}`);
if (!res.ok()) continue;
const d = (await res.json())?.admission_distance;
if (d?.distance_m == null) continue;
checked += 1;
expect(d.distance_m, `URN ${urn} cut-off outside the plausibility band`)
.toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(25);
expect(d.distance_m, `URN ${urn} cut-off outside the plausibility band`)
.toBeLessThanOrEqual(25000);
}
test.skip(checked === 0, 'no cut-off distances available to check yet');
});
// ── The Distance view, map and postcode check ────────────────────────────
test('the public API serves the latest cut-off only', async ({ page }) => {
/*
* Earlier years are held back as a paid feature. This endpoint is public and
* unauthenticated, so withholding them in the UI alone would be decoration:
* anyone could read the history out of the network tab. The mart still holds
* every year — this asserts what leaves the process, not what was collected.
*/
let checked = 0;
for (const urn of CUTOFF_CANDIDATE_URNS) {
const res = await page.request.get(`/api/schools/${urn}`);
if (!res.ok()) continue;
const body = await res.json();
if (body?.admission_distance?.distance_m == null) continue;
checked += 1;
expect(body, `URN ${urn} still exposes a cut-off history`)
.not.toHaveProperty('admission_distance_history');
}
test.skip(checked === 0, 'no cut-off distances available to check yet');
});
test('a school page shows no year-by-year cut-off record', async ({ page }) => {
const found = await schoolWithCutoff(page);
test.skip(found === null, 'no school in the sample has a published cut-off yet');
await page.goto(`/school/${found!.urn}`);
await expect(page.locator('#admissions')).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
// The render side of the same rule, so a future component cannot put the
// history back without the API.
await expect(page.getByText(/Last distance offered, by year/)).toHaveCount(0);
await expect(page.getByText(/too few to read as a trend/)).toHaveCount(0);
await expect(page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Distance' })).toHaveCount(0);
});
test('the postcode check answers for the published year, and names it', async ({ page }) => {
const found = await schoolWithCutoff(page);
test.skip(found === null, 'no school in the sample has a published cut-off yet');
await page.goto(`/school/${found!.urn}`);
const section = page.locator('#distance');
// Needs coordinates as well as a figure; not every school has both.
test.skip(await section.count() === 0, 'this school has no distance section');
await expect(section).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
await page.getByLabel('Your postcode').fill('SW1A 1AA');
await page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Check' }).click();
const result = page.getByRole('status');
const error = page.getByRole('alert');
await expect(result.or(error)).toBeVisible({ timeout: 20_000 });
if (await result.isVisible()) {
// A verdict without its year is a number a parent cannot place.
await expect(result).toContainText(new RegExp(`September ${found!.distance.year}`));
await expect(result).toContainText(/inside|beyond|too close/);
// Both figures in the sentence must be in the same unit. The verdict used
// to render the home distance in metres and the cut-off in miles — "69 m
// away — inside the September 2026 cut-off of 0.17 miles" — which asks the
// reader to convert between units to check a comparison already made for
// them. Miles throughout: the unit councils publish and quote.
const headline = (await result.textContent()) ?? '';
const verdictLine = headline.split('.')[0];
expect(verdictLine, `verdict mixes units: ${verdictLine}`).not.toMatch(/\d\s?m\b/);
expect((verdictLine.match(/miles/g) ?? []).length,
`verdict should quote two figures in miles: ${verdictLine}`).toBe(2);
}
});
test('the postcode check states its limits before it is used', async ({ page }) => {
const found = await schoolWithCutoff(page);
test.skip(found === null, 'no school in the sample has a published cut-off yet');
await page.goto(`/school/${found!.urn}`);
const section = page.locator('#distance');
test.skip(await section.count() === 0, 'this school has no distance section');
await expect(section).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
const caveat = page.getByText(/Distance is the last criterion applied/);
await expect(caveat).toBeVisible();
await expect(caveat).toContainText(/not a catchment boundary/);
await expect(caveat).toContainText(/walking route/);
await expect(caveat).toHaveCount(1);
});
test('the distance section never scrolls the page sideways', async ({ page }) => {
const found = await schoolWithCutoff(page);
test.skip(found === null, 'no school in the sample has a published cut-off yet');
await page.setViewportSize({ width: 390, height: 844 });
await page.goto(`/school/${found!.urn}`);
const section = page.locator('#distance');
test.skip(await section.count() === 0, 'this school has no distance section');
await expect(section).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
const overflow = await page.evaluate(() =>
document.documentElement.scrollWidth - document.documentElement.clientWidth);
expect(overflow, 'page must not scroll horizontally').toBeLessThanOrEqual(1);
});
test('no single section dominates the height of a school page', async ({ page }) => {
/*
* The admissions views are stacked in one grid cell so switching them never
* shifts layout, which means the card is sized by its TALLEST view while the
* hidden ones keep their box. A distance view carrying a chart, a table and a
* map was added there and measured 1402px against the tile grid's 316px; the
* DEFAULT view rendered as four tiles adrift in ~1080px of blank card, and
* Admissions alone came to half the height of every section on the page
* (1503px against 526px for the next largest).
*
* Measuring the card's internals cannot catch it: the tile grid is
* `flex: 1`, so it absorbs the stretch and every box still looks full. What
* a reader actually sees is one section wildly out of proportion with its
* neighbours, so that is what this asserts.
*/
const found = await schoolWithCutoff(page);
test.skip(found === null, 'no school in the sample has 2+ published cut-off years yet');
await page.goto(`/school/${found!.urn}`);
await expect(page.locator('#admissions')).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
await page.waitForTimeout(1200); // charts settle, and they carry real height
const sections = await page.evaluate(() =>
[...document.querySelectorAll('section[id]')]
.map((s) => ({ id: s.id, h: Math.round(s.getBoundingClientRect().height) }))
.filter((s) => s.h > 0));
expect(sections.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(3);
const heights = sections.map((s) => s.h).sort((a, b) => a - b);
const median = heights[Math.floor(heights.length / 2)];
const worst = sections.reduce((a, b) => (a.h > b.h ? a : b));
// Generous: a rich section may fairly run to twice a plain one. Nearly three
// times over is the shape of a layout fault, not of denser content.
expect(
worst.h / median,
`#${worst.id} is ${worst.h}px against a ${median}px median: `
+ sections.map((s) => `${s.id}=${s.h}`).join(', '),
).toBeLessThan(2.5);
});
/*
* England-only corpus.
*
* GIAS ships the whole UK plus overseas and offshore establishments, none of
* which carry comparable DfE performance data. dim_school and dim_location
* exclude them (vars.non_england_school_type_codes in dbt_project.yml), which
* keeps them out of the site, the filter lists and the sitemap together.
*
* These assert the published surface, not the warehouse: the dbt test
* assert_england_only_schools guards the marts, and these guard what the
* environment actually serves once the marts have been rebuilt.
*/
const WELSH_AUTHORITIES = [
'Blaenau Gwent', 'Bridgend', 'Caerphilly', 'Cardiff', 'Carmarthenshire',
'Ceredigion', 'Conwy', 'Denbighshire', 'Flintshire', 'Gwynedd',
'Isle of Anglesey', 'Merthyr Tydfil', 'Monmouthshire', 'Neath Port Talbot',
'Newport', 'Pembrokeshire', 'Powys', 'Rhondda Cynon Taf', 'Swansea',
'Torfaen', 'Vale of Glamorgan', 'Wrexham',
];
const NON_ENGLAND_AUTHORITIES = [
'BFPO Overseas Establishments', 'Fieldwork Overseas Establishments',
'Gibraltar Overseas Establishments', 'Guernsey Offshore Establishments',
'Isle of Man Offshore Establishments', 'Jersey Offshore Establishments',
'Scotland Offshore Establishments',
];
const NON_ENGLAND_TYPES = [
'Welsh establishment', 'Offshore schools',
"Service children's education", 'British schools overseas',
];
test('the local authority filter offers no Welsh or overseas authority', async ({ page }) => {
const res = await page.request.get('/api/filters');
expect(res.ok()).toBeTruthy();
const { local_authorities: las } = await res.json();
expect(Array.isArray(las)).toBeTruthy();
// Guards against the list being empty, which would pass the check below
// for the wrong reason.
expect(las.length).toBeGreaterThan(100);
const leaked = [...WELSH_AUTHORITIES, ...NON_ENGLAND_AUTHORITIES]
.filter((la) => las.includes(la));
expect(leaked, `non-England authorities still offered: ${leaked.join(', ')}`)
.toEqual([]);
});
test('the school type filter offers no non-England establishment type', async ({ page }) => {
const res = await page.request.get('/api/filters');
expect(res.ok()).toBeTruthy();
const { school_types: types } = await res.json();
expect(Array.isArray(types)).toBeTruthy();
expect(types.length).toBeGreaterThan(10);
const leaked = NON_ENGLAND_TYPES.filter((t) => types.includes(t));
expect(leaked, `non-England types still offered: ${leaked.join(', ')}`)
.toEqual([]);
});
test('searching a Welsh authority by name returns no schools', async ({ page }) => {
// Cardiff held 144 Welsh establishments and nothing else, so the authority
// should now be absent from the corpus entirely rather than merely thinned.
const res = await page.request.get('/api/schools?local_authority=Cardiff&page_size=1');
expect(res.ok()).toBeTruthy();
const body = await res.json();
expect(body.total ?? (body.schools ?? []).length).toBe(0);
});
test('a Welsh school URL 404s while an English one still resolves', async ({ page }) => {
// Paired on purpose: the Welsh assertion alone would also pass if the whole
// site were down, which is the failure this test most needs to distinguish.
const english = await page.request.get('/api/schools?search=primary&per_page=1');
expect(english.ok()).toBeTruthy();
const [first] = (await english.json()).schools ?? [];
expect(first, 'no English school available to compare against').toBeTruthy();
const good = await page.goto(`/school/${first.urn}-x`);
expect(good?.status(), 'an English school should still resolve').toBeLessThan(400);
// Adamsdown Primary School, Cardiff — a Welsh establishment (URN 401559).
const welsh = await page.goto('/school/401559-adamsdown-primary-school');
expect(welsh?.status(), 'a Welsh school should no longer resolve').toBe(404);
});
test('the sitemap submits no Welsh or overseas school', async ({ page }) => {
const res = await page.request.get('/sitemap.xml');
expect(res.ok()).toBeTruthy();
const xml = await res.text();
const urlCount = (xml.match(/<url>/g) ?? []).length;
expect(urlCount, 'sitemap looks empty or truncated').toBeGreaterThan(1000);
// 401559 (Cardiff) and 402426 (ACT Schools, Cardiff) were both submitted
// before the England-only filter landed.
expect(xml).not.toContain('/school/401559');
expect(xml).not.toContain('/school/402426');
});
/*
* Canonical URLs (spec 2026-08-20, W1).
*
* Every indexable route declares exactly one canonical, on the www host, with
* no query string. The homepage's eleven search params filter a result set
* rather than making a new document, so they all collapse onto "/".
*/
const CANONICAL_ROUTES: Array<[string, string]> = [
['/', 'https://www.schoolcompare.co.uk/'],
['/rankings', 'https://www.schoolcompare.co.uk/rankings'],
['/admissions', 'https://www.schoolcompare.co.uk/admissions'],
];
for (const [path, expected] of CANONICAL_ROUTES) {
test(`${path} declares exactly one canonical, on the www host`, async ({ page }) => {
await page.goto(path);
const hrefs = await page.locator('link[rel="canonical"]').evaluateAll(
(els) => els.map((e) => e.getAttribute('href')));
expect(hrefs, `${path} should declare one canonical`).toHaveLength(1);
expect(hrefs[0]).toBe(expected);
});
}
test('a filtered homepage still canonicalises to the bare root', async ({ page }) => {
await page.goto('/?search=primary&phase=primary&sort=name&page=2');
const href = await page.locator('link[rel="canonical"]').first()
.getAttribute('href');
expect(href).toBe('https://www.schoolcompare.co.uk/');
});
test('a school page canonicalises to its own slug on the www host', async ({ page }) => {
const res = await page.request.get('/api/schools?search=primary&per_page=1');
expect(res.ok()).toBeTruthy();
const [first] = (await res.json()).schools ?? [];
expect(first, 'no school available').toBeTruthy();
await page.goto(`/school/${first.urn}-x`);
const href = await page.locator('link[rel="canonical"]').first()
.getAttribute('href');
expect(href).toMatch(/^https:\/\/www\.schoolcompare\.co\.uk\/school\/\d+-/);
});
test('a bare /compare is indexable, a parameterised one is not', async ({ page }) => {
await page.goto('/compare');
await expect(page.locator('meta[name="robots"]')).toHaveCount(0);
const [a, b] = await twoPrimaryUrns(page);
await page.goto(`/compare?urns=${a},${b}`);
const robots = await page.locator('meta[name="robots"]').first()
.getAttribute('content');
expect(robots).toContain('noindex');
expect(robots).toContain('follow');
// noindex but follow: the links out to each school page still count, so the
// canonical must still be present and point at the bare path.
const canonical = await page.locator('link[rel="canonical"]').first()
.getAttribute('href');
expect(canonical).toBe('https://www.schoolcompare.co.uk/compare');
});