Fixed context center flaky test

[Rohit0301]

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Summary by Gitar

• Test improvements:
  • Replaced fixed timeouts with robust polling and network response waits in Playwright tests
  • Added waitForDraftPersisted helper to eliminate draft persistence races under CI load

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✅ Playwright Results — workflow succeeded

Validated commit 4a7e6706ccfb9305563afdb3af06795847238870 in Playwright run 31883622514, attempt 1.

✅ 680 passed · ❌ 0 failed · 🟡 2 flaky · ⏭️ 0 skipped · 🧰 0 lifecycle flaky

Performance

Blocking targets: ✅ met · Optimization targets: 🟡 in progress

Shard-job maxima below are not the full workflow wall time; the linked run includes build, fixture, planning, and reporting.

🕒 Full workflow signal wall (to summary) 26m 29s

⏱️ Max setup 3m 5s · max shard execution 16m 58s · max shard-job elapsed before upload 20m 28s · reporting 5s

🌐 199.81 requests/attempt · 2.66 app boots/UI scenario · 15.32% common-shard skew

Optimization targets still in progress:

• Common shard skew was 15.32% (convergence target: at most 15%).
• Application boot ratio was 2.66 per UI scenario (1937 boots / 729 scenarios; convergence target: at most 1).

Shard	Passed	Failed	Flaky	Skipped	Lifecycle failed	Lifecycle flaky
✅ Shard chromium-01	113	0	0	0	0	0
🟡 Shard chromium-02	141	0	1	0	0	0
✅ Shard chromium-03	113	0	0	0	0	0
✅ Shard chromium-04	155	0	0	0	0	0
✅ Shard data-asset-rules-01	61	0	0	0	0	0
✅ Shard domain-isolation-01	14	0	0	0	0	0
✅ Shard global-state-01	34	0	0	0	0	0
🟡 Shard ingestion-01	8	0	1	0	0	0
✅ Shard reindex-01	2	0	0	0	0	0
✅ Shard search-01	10	0	0	0	0	0
✅ Shard search-rbac-01	29	0	0	0	0	0

🟡 2 flaky test(s) (passed on retry)

• Features/ContextCenterArticles.spec.ts › Text formatting (shard chromium-02, 1 retry)
• Flow/ServiceCreationPermissions.spec.ts › User with EditAll but not Trigger cannot run a pipeline (shard ingestion-01, 1 retry)

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How to debug locally

# Download playwright-test-results-<shard> artifact and unzip
npx playwright show-trace path/to/trace.zip    # view trace

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Code Review ✅ Approved

Replaces fixed timeouts with robust polling and adds the waitForDraftPersisted helper in Playwright tests to eliminate context center test flakiness under CI load. No issues found.

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