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Merge pull request #5166 from Alexays/ci/smoke-test #7

Merge pull request #5166 from Alexays/ci/smoke-test

Merge pull request #5166 from Alexays/ci/smoke-test #7

Workflow file for this run

name: smoke
# Launch the real Waybar binary inside a headless sway compositor and verify it
# starts, renders, and matches a reference screenshot. Complements the unit
# tests and build jobs, which never actually run the bar.
on: [push, pull_request]
concurrency:
group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
cancel-in-progress: true
jobs:
smoke:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v6
- name: Install dependencies
run: |
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y \
sway grim imagemagick fonts-dejavu-core \
meson ninja-build g++ pkg-config scdoc wayland-protocols \
gobject-introspection libdbusmenu-gtk3-dev libevdev-dev libfmt-dev \
libgirepository1.0-dev libgtk-3-dev libgtkmm-3.0-dev libinput-dev \
libjsoncpp-dev libmpdclient-dev libnl-3-dev libnl-genl-3-dev \
libpulse-dev libsigc++-2.0-dev libspdlog-dev libwayland-dev \
upower libxkbregistry-dev libxkbcommon-dev
- name: Build & install Waybar
run: |
meson setup build -Dman-pages=disabled
ninja -C build
sudo ninja -C build install
# --- Level 1: smoke with real modules ---
- name: Smoke — real modules load without crashing
run: ./test/smoke/run.sh test/smoke/modules-config.jsonc
# --- Level 1 + 2: launch deterministic config and screenshot ---
- name: Launch + screenshot (deterministic config)
run: ./test/smoke/run.sh test/smoke/config.jsonc test/smoke/style.css bar.png
# --- Level 2: the bar actually rendered something ---
- name: Check the bar is not blank
run: |
sd=$(convert bar.png -crop 1920x30+0+0 +repage -colorspace Gray \
-format '%[fx:standard_deviation]' info:)
echo "bar strip stddev = $sd"
awk "BEGIN{ exit !($sd > 0.01) }" || {
echo "::error::the top bar strip looks blank — Waybar rendered nothing"
exit 1
}
# --- Level 3: golden comparison against the committed reference ---
- name: Compare against reference screenshot
run: |
if [ -f test/smoke/reference.png ]; then
ae=$(compare -metric AE -fuzz 8% test/smoke/reference.png bar.png diff.png 2>&1 || true)
ae=$(printf '%s' "$ae" | grep -oE '^[0-9]+' || echo 0)
echo "differing pixels (fuzz 8%): $ae"
if [ "$ae" -gt 800 ]; then
echo "::error::visual regression: $ae pixels differ from the reference (threshold 800). See the 'diff.png' artifact."
exit 1
fi
echo "✓ within tolerance"
else
echo "::warning::No reference image yet. Download the 'waybar-screenshot' artifact from this run and commit bar.png as test/smoke/reference.png to enable golden comparison."
fi
- name: Upload screenshots
uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
if: always()
with:
name: waybar-screenshot
path: |
bar.png
diff.png
if-no-files-found: warn