Add testing harness

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Summary

• add isolated Jest, React Testing Library, PostgreSQL integration, and Chromium E2E harnesses
• add database safety guards, deterministic fixtures, and CI workflows
• document test commands and agent workflow

Validation

• pnpm prettier --check .
• pnpm lint
• pnpm tsgo --noEmit
• pnpm test
• pnpm test:integration
• pnpm test:e2e -- --project=chromium
• pnpm build --no-lint

WIP

• Review requested for the new harness and CI workflow design.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added automated browser-based and database integration test runs for pull requests and pushes to the main branch.
  • Added support for isolated, disposable databases for integration and end-to-end testing.

• Bug Fixes

  • Tightened expense access and editing checks, including restrictions for archived groups and unauthorized users.
  • Corrected cleanup of recurring expenses after failed transactions.

• Tests

  • Expanded coverage for expense settlement, group creation, balances, authorization, and recurring expenses.

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• src/tests/appError.test.ts
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• src/tests/inviteErrors.test.ts
• src/tests/mailer.test.ts

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📝 Walkthrough

The pull request adds separate unit, PostgreSQL integration, and Chromium browser test paths with CI workflows and database safeguards. It also changes expense authorization, test-mode behavior, and UI and service code, with new component, integration, and browser tests.

Changes: Testing and application validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Jest setup and shared test support jest.config.ts, jest.shared.ts, jest.integration.config.ts, package.json, tsconfig.json, src/tests/helpers/*, src/tests/setup/*, src/components/*/*.test.tsx	Jest now has shared unit and integration configuration. The changes add test helpers for rendering, sessions, routing, database records, translations, query clients, and store cleanup. Component tests cover settlement, navigation, and group creation.
Test database lifecycle and integration CI .env.example, src/tests/helpers/testDatabase.ts, scripts/test-db.ts, docker/test/compose.yml, src/tests/integration/database.ts, .github/workflows/test-integration.yml	The suites use validated, separate local database URLs. Docker Compose and a script manage database setup and teardown. Integration setup acquires a database lock and resets test data; CI runs the integration suite.
Integration coverage src/tests/integration/*, src/tests/testDatabase.test.ts	Integration tests cover authorization, balance calculations, expense lifecycle and settlement, and recurrence. Database URL validation also has unit tests.
Chromium browser test flow playwright.config.ts, tests/e2e/*, .github/workflows/test-e2e.yml, flake.nix	Playwright configures Chromium tests against a validated local URL. Fixtures create and remove database scenarios. Browser tests cover authorization, group and expense creation, settlements, and tRPC transport; CI uploads failure artifacts.
Test guidance and workflow support .github/copilot-instructions.md, AGENTS.md, docs/testing-strategy.md, .gitignore	The guidance describes suite selection, database safeguards, and artifact investigation. Ignore rules exclude test results, Playwright reports, and authentication files.

Application authorization and behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Expense authorization and write validation src/server/api/routers/expense.ts, src/server/api/trpc.ts, src/tests/integration/authorization.integration.test.ts	Expense write checks validate edit permission, group membership, reassignment, and archived-group status. Expense detail access checks creator, participant, and group membership. The tRPC context accepts an optional Prisma client.
Test-mode, UI, and service updates src/env.ts, src/instrumentation.ts, src/components/group/CreateGroup.tsx, src/pages/groups.tsx, src/components/ui/drawer.tsx, src/server/api/services/splitService.ts	Test mode disables background notification and cache-cleanup setup. The group creation control and drawer semantics change. Recurring-job cleanup passes the expense ID directly to cron.unschedule; reducer typing changes retain the existing aggregation behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Other · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Playwright
  participant NextjsApp
  participant E2EPrisma
  Playwright->>NextjsApp: Submit browser actions and tRPC requests
  NextjsApp->>E2EPrisma: Store group and expense records
  Playwright->>E2EPrisma: Check persisted test records

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Suggested reviewers: somsamantray

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 311e8

The mailer tests can fail before exercising email behavior. Fix the mock setup before merging.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 79aad

Expense access controls become stricter, and the default test setup separates databases and binds servers to loopback. Remaining risk concerns destructive database resets with custom connection settings: address and naming checks do not establish exclusive harness ownership. No newly introduced remote authorization bypass was established.

Retained concerns

• Low · security · inferred: The new destructive reset trusts operator-selected loopback URLs ending in _test without establishing exclusive harness ownership. Different URL ports also do not establish different underlying targets. A custom connection to an existing shared test database, or two local mappings to one target, can therefore expose unrelated application rows and cron metadata to reset. Default provisioning creates separate instances, and documentation forbids shared servers; this is a conditional configuration risk, not an established remote exploit.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The database-reset concern is bounded by operator-controlled test connection settings and the connected role's permissions. Its destructive scope includes application identities, sessions, expenses and cron metadata in the selected database. The default topology does not demonstrate exposure of production or remote databases.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — The supported conditional failure path is a custom URL selecting a shared local _test target, followed by integration reset deleting data beyond harness-owned fixtures. This requires configuration control or operator error; no unauthenticated network path to the reset was established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — HTTP procedures retain server-derived session identity. Expense writes now check persisted ownership and group membership before mutation. New CI workflows use pull_request and push events with contents: read permissions and do not reference production secrets.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Normal integration execution uses one connection, one Jest worker and an advisory lock acquired before resets. Reset itself comprises three separate destructive statements and does not revalidate lock ownership. Source establishes normal-path serialization, not atomic reset or recovery guarantees following loss of the locking session.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Bind destructive operations to a provisioned harness identity rather than URL shape alone. Keep reset and its ownership check on an explicit protected connection or transaction, and fail closed after connection loss. Enforce the production TEST_MODE prohibition independently of optional schema validation.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 20.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 5 functions across 44 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the main change: adding a testing harness. The WIP prefix is acceptable and does not obscure the purpose.
Description check		The description summarizes the harness, safety guards, fixtures, CI workflows, documentation, and validation commands. It omits the template checklist, demo section, and issue reference, but the core …
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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scripts/test-db.ts (1)

92-94: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Quote or validate database before it goes into the pg_ctl -o option string.

pg_ctl builds the server command from the -o string, and a shell parses that string. The script quotes state and the host, but it inserts cron.database_name=${database} without quotes. The _test regex already limits database to identifier characters, so this cannot be exploited today. The quoting is still inconsistent, and the safety of this code depends on a regex in a different file. Wrap database in quote() to match the other values.

Proposed fix

-          `-c shared_preload_libraries=pg_cron -c cron.database_name=${database} ` +
+          `-c shared_preload_libraries=pg_cron -c cron.database_name=${quote(database)} ` +

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Update the pg_ctl option string in the test database setup to pass database
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• .env.example
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• .github/workflows/test-e2e.yml
• .github/workflows/test-integration.yml
• .gitignore
• AGENTS.md
• docker/test/compose.yml
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• flake.nix
• jest.config.ts
• jest.integration.config.ts
• jest.shared.ts
• package.json
• playwright.config.ts
• scripts/test-db.ts
• src/components/Friend/Settleup.test.tsx
• src/components/Layout/MainLayout.test.tsx
• src/components/group/CreateGroup.test.tsx
• src/components/group/CreateGroup.tsx
• src/components/ui/drawer.tsx
• src/env.ts
• src/instrumentation.ts
• src/pages/groups.tsx
• src/server/api/routers/expense.ts
• src/server/api/services/splitService.ts
• src/server/api/trpc.ts
• src/tests/currencyPreferenceStore.test.ts
• src/tests/helpers/databaseFactories.ts
• src/tests/helpers/environment.ts
• src/tests/helpers/i18n.ts
• src/tests/helpers/queryClient.ts
• src/tests/helpers/render.tsx
• src/tests/helpers/resetStores.ts
• src/tests/helpers/router.ts
• src/tests/helpers/session.ts
• src/tests/helpers/testDatabase.ts
• src/tests/helpers/user.ts
• src/tests/integration/authorization.integration.test.ts
• src/tests/integration/balances.integration.test.ts
• src/tests/integration/database.ts
• src/tests/integration/expense.integration.test.ts
• src/tests/integration/factories.ts
• src/tests/integration/recurrence.integration.test.ts
• src/tests/integration/trpc.ts
• src/tests/setup/component.ts
• src/tests/setup/integration.ts
• src/tests/setup/unit.ts
• src/tests/testDatabase.test.ts
• tests/e2e/authorization.spec.ts
• tests/e2e/fixtures.ts
• tests/e2e/group-expense.spec.ts
• tests/e2e/settlement.spec.ts
• tests/e2e/transport.spec.ts
• tsconfig.json

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