WIP: 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 testing for key workflows, including group creation, expense entry, settlement, authorization, and data handling.
  • Added PostgreSQL integration testing for expense accounting, balances, recurring expenses, and access controls.
• Bug Fixes
  • Strengthened expense access and editing checks, including restrictions for archived groups and changes to an expense’s group.
  • Corrected cleanup of recurring expenses after failed transactions.
• Documentation
  • Added guidance for running tests and safely using disposable local test databases.

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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 updates expense authorization checks and adds UI, runtime, and service changes with corresponding tests.

Changes

Testing and application validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Jest configuration and test commands jest.config.ts, jest.shared.ts, jest.integration.config.ts, package.json, tsconfig.json, .github/copilot-instructions.md	Jest now uses shared configuration for unit and integration tests. Package scripts and TypeScript settings support the test commands and configurations.
Test database setup and integration CI .env.example, scripts/test-db.ts, src/tests/helpers/testDatabase.ts, src/tests/testDatabase.test.ts, docker/test/compose.yml, .github/workflows/test-integration.yml, AGENTS.md, docs/testing-strategy.md, .gitignore	Test database URLs are separated and validated. Docker Compose and a script support database lifecycle commands. Documentation describes the safeguards, and CI runs the integration suite.
Shared test helpers and component checks src/tests/helpers/*, src/tests/setup/*, src/tests/integration/database.ts, src/tests/integration/factories.ts, src/tests/integration/trpc.ts, src/server/api/trpc.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/pages/groups.tsx, src/env.ts, src/instrumentation.ts, src/tests/currencyPreferenceStore.test.ts	Test helpers provide database factories, sessions, router and provider setup, and store cleanup. Component tests cover group creation, navigation, and settlement. The changes also update drawer semantics, the group creation action, and test-mode controls for background jobs.
Expense authorization and integration coverage src/server/api/routers/expense.ts, src/server/api/services/splitService.ts, src/tests/integration/authorization.integration.test.ts, src/tests/integration/balances.integration.test.ts, src/tests/integration/expense.integration.test.ts, src/tests/integration/recurrence.integration.test.ts	Expense writes now share permission checks for ownership and group state. Expense detail access checks creator, participant, and group membership. Integration tests cover authorization, accounting, and recurrence behavior.
Chromium browser tests playwright.config.ts, tests/e2e/*, .github/workflows/test-e2e.yml, flake.nix	Playwright config validates the local test URL and configures Chromium runs. Fixtures create and clean up database scenarios. Browser tests cover authorization, group and expense creation, settlements, and tRPC transport. CI uploads failure artifacts.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Other

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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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 79aad

This PR adds test infrastructure and tightens expense authorization. The only remaining concern is a small quoting inconsistency in the test database launcher script that has no current impact. It is safe to merge once the owner decides whether to apply the quoting fix.

Security Architecture Review

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	⚠️ Warning	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 43 files. (11 skipped:…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title identifies the main change: adding a testing harness. The “WIP” prefix is unnecessary but does not make the title misleading.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description summarizes the harness, safety guards, CI workflows, and documentation. It also lists validation commands. The Demo and Checklist sections from the template are omitted, but the descri…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	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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Review comment at @scripts/test-db.ts around lines 92 - 94:
Update the pg_ctl option string in the test database setup to pass database
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- Around line 92-94: Update the pg_ctl option string in the test database setup
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📒 Files selected for processing (54)

• .env.example
• .github/copilot-instructions.md
• .github/workflows/test-e2e.yml
• .github/workflows/test-integration.yml
• .gitignore
• AGENTS.md
• docker/test/compose.yml
• docs/testing-strategy.md
• 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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