fix(frontend): Improve flakiness issues (#12617)

* small improvements to reduce flakiness

* disable throtteling to fix flaking tests

.github/workflows/frontend.yaml

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ env:
   INVENTREE_STATIC_ROOT: /home/runner/work/InvenTree/test_inventree_static
   INVENTREE_BACKUP_DIR: /home/runner/work/InvenTree/test_inventree_backup
   INVENTREE_SITE_URL: http://localhost:8000
+  INVENTREE_LOGIN_ATTEMPTS: 25
 
 permissions:
   contents: read

src/frontend/tests/pages/pui_transfer.spec.ts

@@ -108,10 +108,16 @@ test('Transfer Order - Calendar', async ({ browser }) => {
   await navigate(page, 'stock/location/index/transfer-orders');
   await activateCalendarView(page);
 
-  // Export calendar data
+  // Export calendar data - assert on download instead of notification
   await page.getByLabel('calendar-export-data').click();
-  await page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Export', exact: true }).click();
+
-  await page.getByText('Process completed successfully').waitFor();
+  const [download] = await Promise.all([
+    page.waitForEvent('download'),
+    page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Export', exact: true }).click()
+  ]);
+  expect(download.suggestedFilename()).toMatch(
+    /InvenTree_TransferOrder.*\.csv$/i
+  );
 
   // Required because we downloaded a file
   await page.context().close();

src/frontend/tests/pui_forms.spec.ts

@@ -14,12 +14,7 @@ import { setSettingState } from './settings';
 
 // Test hover form action in related fields
 test('Forms - Hover', async ({ browser }) => {
-  const page = await doCachedLogin(browser, {
+  // Patch user settings to ensure we can see "extra model info" on hover; done before load to avoid flakiness
-    user: stevenuser,
-    url: 'purchasing/index/purchaseorders'
-  });
-
-  // Patch user settings to ensure we can see "extra model info" on hover
   const api = await createApi({
     username: stevenuser.username,
     password: stevenuser.testcred
@@ -33,6 +28,11 @@ test('Forms - Hover', async ({ browser }) => {
 
   expect(response.status()).toBe(200);
 
+  const page = await doCachedLogin(browser, {
+    user: stevenuser,
+    url: 'purchasing/index/purchaseorders'
+  });
+
   await page
     .getByRole('button', { name: 'action-button-add-purchase-' })
     .click();

src/frontend/tests/pui_settings.spec.ts

@@ -368,17 +368,17 @@ test('Settings - Admin - Background Tasks', async ({ browser }) => {
 });
 
 test('Settings - Admin - Barcode History', async ({ browser }) => {
-  // Login with admin credentials
+  // Ensure that the "save scans" setting is enabled; done before first load of test to reduce flakiness
-  const page = await doCachedLogin(browser, {
-    user: adminuser
-  });
-
-  // Ensure that the "save scans" setting is enabled
   await setSettingState({
     setting: 'BARCODE_STORE_RESULTS',
     value: true
   });
 
+  // Login with admin credentials
+  const page = await doCachedLogin(browser, {
+    user: adminuser
+  });
+
   // Scan some barcodes (via API calls)
   const barcodes = ['ABC1234', 'XYZ5678', 'QRS9012'];
   const api = await createApi({});