Phone tests: expired sign-ins, evidence, and probes that only judge what can be tapped

A saved sign-in whose session expired landed on the login page and every route its persona opened timed out; both the
desktop and the phone sign-in now see that and sign in afresh. A route that fails to open leaves its screenshot and
text, as a failed sign-in does. A target's probes stay inside what its scroller shows (a card half under the feed's
top edge was failed for the part out of sight), a failed probe names what it hit, and the element blamed for sideways
scroll is never one inside a nested clipping box, which can't widen the page. The desktop guard reads its probe sizes
as a list.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LsXgEaXee4GCU1hwYgPJXw

tests/e2e/Mobile/DesktopUnchangedTests.cs

@@ -10,14 +10,14 @@ namespace decePubClient.E2E.Mobile
 	public sealed class DesktopUnchangedTests(Browser browser)
 	{
 		const string Probe = """
-			() => Object.fromEntries(["btn", "btn btn-sm", "btn btn-xs", "input", "input input-sm"].map(classes => {
+			() => ["btn", "btn btn-sm", "btn btn-xs", "input", "input input-sm"].map(classes => {
 				const el = document.createElement(classes.startsWith("input") ? "input" : "button")
 				el.className = classes
 				document.body.append(el)
 				const height = el.getBoundingClientRect().height
 				el.remove()
-				return [classes, height]
-			}))
+				return height
+			})
 			""";
 
 		[Fact]
@@ -29,12 +29,9 @@ namespace decePubClient.E2E.Mobile
 			await Results.Cell("client.mobile.desktop", "privapub", "desktop", async () =>
 			{
 				Assert.False(await page.EvaluateAsync<bool>("() => matchMedia('(pointer: coarse)').matches"), "the desktop session has a coarse pointer");
-				var heights = await page.EvaluateAsync<Dictionary<string, double>>(Probe);
-				Assert.Equal(40, heights["btn"], 0.5);
-				Assert.Equal(32, heights["btn btn-sm"], 0.5);
-				Assert.Equal(24, heights["btn btn-xs"], 0.5);
-				Assert.Equal(40, heights["input"], 0.5);
-				Assert.Equal(32, heights["input input-sm"], 0.5);
+				// btn, btn btn-sm, btn btn-xs, input, input input-sm
+				var heights = await page.EvaluateAsync<double[]>(Probe);
+				Assert.Equal([40, 32, 24, 40, 32], heights.Select(h => Math.Round(h)).ToArray());
 				await Assertions.Expect(page.Locator("nav a.btn").First).ToBeVisibleAsync();
 				await session.AssertGuards();
 			}, page);

tests/e2e/Mobile/RouteSweepTests.cs

@@ -25,7 +25,15 @@ namespace decePubClient.E2E.Mobile
 			var route = Route.Get(slug);
 			var persona = route.Persona();
 			await using var session = route.SignedOut ? await browser.Open(phone: phone) : await SignIn.As(browser, persona, phone);
+			try
+			{
 				await route.Open(session.Page, persona);
+			}
+			catch (Exception e) when (e is not Xunit.Sdk.SkipException)
+			{
+				await SignIn.Evidence(session.Page, $"open-{phone.Key}-{slug}");
+				throw;
+			}
 			var report = await Fit.Sweep(session.Page, phone, slug, route.Screens);
 			if (!route.Gating)
 				return;

tests/e2e/Mobile/fit.js

@@ -74,6 +74,34 @@ window.__fit = (() => {
 		return box
 	}
 
+	// the part of the screen an element's clipping ancestors let through: where a tap can reach it at all
+	function clipOf(el) {
+		const box = { left: 0, top: 0, right: innerWidth, bottom: innerHeight }
+		if (style(el).position === "fixed")
+			return box
+		for (let a = el.parentElement; a && a !== document.body && a !== document.documentElement; a = a.parentElement) {
+			const s = style(a)
+			if (s.overflowX !== "visible" || s.overflowY !== "visible") {
+				const clip = a.getBoundingClientRect()
+				box.left = Math.max(box.left, clip.left)
+				box.right = Math.min(box.right, clip.right)
+				box.top = Math.max(box.top, clip.top)
+				box.bottom = Math.min(box.bottom, clip.bottom)
+			}
+			if (s.position === "fixed")
+				break
+		}
+		return box
+	}
+
+	// an element inside a nested clipping box (a sideways strip, a truncated name) doesn't widen the scroller holding it
+	function clippedWithin(el, scroller) {
+		for (let a = el.parentElement; a && a !== scroller; a = a.parentElement)
+			if (style(a).overflowX !== "visible")
+				return true
+		return false
+	}
+
 	// sideways scroll in the document or in a scroller that isn't meant to scroll sideways (data-scroll-x), with the
 	// element reaching furthest right
 	function overflow() {
@@ -88,7 +116,7 @@ window.__fit = (() => {
 			let worst = null, right = limit + 0.5
 			for (const el of scroller.querySelectorAll("*")) {
 				const r = el.getBoundingClientRect()
-				if (r.width > 0 && r.right > right && !el.closest("[data-scroll-x]")) {
+				if (r.width > 0 && r.right > right && !el.closest("[data-scroll-x]") && !clippedWithin(el, scroller)) {
 					worst = el
 					right = r.right
 				}
@@ -187,14 +215,19 @@ window.__fit = (() => {
 					small.push({ ...describe(el, own), failed: ["range"] })
 				continue
 			}
-			const failed = []
+			// a probe beyond what the scroller shows (a card half under the feed's top edge) can't be tapped there anyway
+			const clip = clipOf(el)
+			const failed = [], hit = {}
 			for (const [dx, dy, side] of [[-21, 0, "left"], [21, 0, "right"], [0, -21, "up"], [0, 21, "down"]]) {
-				const px = Math.min(innerWidth - 1, Math.max(0, x + dx)), py = Math.min(innerHeight - 1, Math.max(0, y + dy))
-				if (!reaches(el, px, py))
+				const px = Math.min(clip.right - 1, Math.max(clip.left, x + dx)), py = Math.min(clip.bottom - 1, Math.max(clip.top, y + dy))
+				if (!reaches(el, px, py)) {
 					failed.push(side)
+					const other = document.elementFromPoint(px, py)
+					hit[side] = other ? name(other) : null
+				}
 			}
 			if (failed.length > 0)
-				small.push({ ...describe(el, own), failed })
+				small.push({ ...describe(el, own), failed, hit })
 			if (text(el) && el.innerText?.trim() && parseFloat(style(el).fontSize) < 12)
 				tiny.push({ ...describe(el, own), fontSize: parseFloat(style(el).fontSize) })
 		}

tests/e2e/Support/SignIn.cs

@@ -15,9 +15,13 @@ namespace decePubClient.E2E.Support
 			{
 				var known = await browser.Open(state);
 				await known.Page.GotoAsync(Pasture.Site + "/");
+				if (!await Stale(known.Page))
+				{
 					await known.Page.Locator("article[data-uri], [data-feed-empty]").First.WaitForAsync(new() { Timeout = 30000 });
 					return known;
 				}
+				await known.DisposeAsync();
+			}
 			var session = await browser.Open();
 			await Through(session.Page, persona);
 			Directory.CreateDirectory(StateDir);
@@ -33,14 +37,44 @@ namespace decePubClient.E2E.Support
 			if (!File.Exists(state))
 				await (await As(browser, persona)).DisposeAsync();
 			var session = await browser.Open(state, phone);
+			await session.Page.GotoAsync(Pasture.Site + "/");
+			if (await Stale(session.Page))
+			{
+				// the saved sign-in has expired (the page went to /login): sign in again on a desktop and start over
+				await session.DisposeAsync();
+				await (await As(browser, persona, fresh: true)).DisposeAsync();
+				session = await browser.Open(state, phone);
+			}
+			try
+			{
 				await session.Page.GotoAsync(Pasture.Site + "/");
 				await session.Page.EvaluateAsync("() => localStorage.removeItem('FeedFilter')");
 				await session.Page.GotoAsync(Pasture.Site + "/");
 				await session.Page.Locator("article[data-uri], [data-feed-empty]").First.WaitForAsync(new() { Timeout = 30000 });
+			}
+			catch
+			{
+				await Evidence(session.Page, $"signin-{phone.Key}-{persona.UserName}");
+				throw;
+			}
 			await session.AssertPhone();
 			return session;
 		}
 
+		static async Task<bool> Stale(IPage page)
+		{
+			var until = DateTime.UtcNow.AddSeconds(15);
+			while (DateTime.UtcNow < until)
+			{
+				if (new Uri(page.Url).AbsolutePath.StartsWith("/login"))
+					return true;
+				if (await page.Locator("article[data-uri], [data-feed-empty]").CountAsync() > 0)
+					return false;
+				await page.WaitForTimeoutAsync(250);
+			}
+			return false;
+		}
+
 		public static async Task Through(IPage page, Pasture.Persona persona)
 		{
 			try