showtime repro on the trace of a test that fails on purpose: "signs in and greets the user" types an e-mail
address, a password and an API token into a sign-in page, clicks Sign in, and expects the heading to say
"Welcome, Ada!". The page says "Welcome back, Ada". The film shows the title card (the test, login.spec.js:6,
FAILED), each step on the trace's own screenshots with a cursor and the target boxed, then the failing step slowed
down: the source line, expected against received with the difference marked, the error, and the page's console
error. Narrated with a local voice and captioned. repro.md is the summary to paste into the issue.
The test, its page and its trace are the fixtures in skills/showtime/tests/fixtures/repro/ (login.spec.js,
app/index.html, trace.zip); every value typed into them is a made-up test value.
| File | What it is |
|---|---|
repro.mp4 |
the film, 1920x1080, 30 fps, 33.6 s, H.264 + AAC, -14.0 LUFS, -1.6 dBTP, 8.3 MB |
poster.jpg |
the film's poster, the failing step |
repro.md |
the Markdown for the issue: the steps, the failure, the console errors and the re-run commands |
repro.srt |
the captions |
script.md |
every line the film shows or speaks, as repro wrote it before the render |
credits.txt |
the music credit |
How it was made#
# writes script.md, then stops
showtime repro trace.zip --out repro-out
# after reading script.md: narrate, check, render, qa
showtime repro --yes repro-out
From a test command instead of a trace: showtime repro -- npx playwright test login.spec.js runs the test with
--trace retain-on-failure added and films the failing trace. The --yes call took 2 min 30 s on a 6-core Intel Mac.
What the film does not show#
- Typed values. The three fields a value was typed into are covered on every screenshot, and the captions say how many characters went in ("Type 16 characters into the 'Email' field"), never what they were.
- Paths, query strings and secrets. The test opens the page with a session id in its query string; the film
and
repro.mdshowapp/index.htmlonly. Paths on the machine are shortened to the file name; auth headers,NAME=valuesecrets and e-mail addresses are masked in every line, and--redact <regex>masks more. - Screenshots are otherwise shown as they were captured: use a test account, and watch the film before you post it.
Checks#
showtime qaon the film: WARN with one finding: the read-back heard the name "Ada" as "eta" at 27.3 s (the captions say "Ada"). Loudness and true peak pass.
Guide: references/workflows/repro.md.
Credits#
- Music: "The space is big" by Komiku (CC0), from the album "Little Cat In The Big Wide Space", picked from showtime's music catalog for this test. A courtesy credit; CC0 needs none.
- Voice:
af_heart, a local Kokoro voice.
Full credits: credits.txt.