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Infrastructure: Retire the legacy Windows Jest Storybook smoke harness #4254
Description
Goal
Select and execute the disposition of the legacy Windows Jest Storybook smoke harness. Parent: #4275.
Status - 2026-10-01
Completed delivery milestone: retired. PR #4294 removed the harness and its app-local integration. The original regression-parity preconditions are preserved as the separate open follow-up #4347; they are not claimed complete by this closure.
Delivered decision and mechanics
- Decision: retire, implemented by the merged Infrastructure: land the public desktop driver #4294 change on August 31, 2026, and confirmed by the September 3 issue status update.
- Removed
apps/storybook/windows-tests, the Windows Jest configuration, related app-local lifecycle scripts, and Storybook's@react-native-windows/automationdependency. - Replaced the competing Storybook paths with the shared native Desktop Driver/Storybook CLI. PR Infrastructure: add native desktop driver providers #4306 made this replacement Appium-independent.
- Documented the supported workflow and exact owned application/helper lifecycle.
The old Storybook WinAppDriver version/port-conflict requirements no longer apply. The separate FluentTester apps/E2E jobs are not part of this retirement.
Follow-up
#4347 owns replacement coverage for all ten original delayed focus-survival cases, the Button real-Tab movement case, and reconciliation of the old visibility/Callout status checks.
PRs #4313/#4314/#4320 add named WDIO focus and FocusZone cases, but current main does not contain the original ten-case, minimum-three-second post-activation survival cohort. Hosted pointer/keyboard skips do not satisfy regression parity.
#4344 tracks the native catalog exclusions that block ordinary Accordion/Callout traversal. #4349 owns authoritative CI qualification/promotion.
Evidence
- Retirement/public-driver PR #4294
- Native-provider PR #4306
- Current Storybook manifest/scripts
- Supported Storybook workflow
- Original regression: PR #4208, commit
4777e54fee2eab72af36d3bfac58e618ed0ad634.
Activity
[-]Decide the disposition of the Windows Jest smoke harness[/-][+]Infrastructure: Decide the disposition of the Windows Jest smoke harness[/+]JasonVMo commentedon Sep 3, 2026
Status update - 2026-09-03
Decision: Retire. PR #4294 removed
apps/storybook/windows-tests, its Jestconfiguration, app-local lifecycle scripts, and the
@react-native-windows/automationdependency. PR #4306 then made thereplacement path fully Appium-independent by adding source-built native
Windows/Win32 providers with exact application ownership, cancellation, input
recovery, and terminal failure reporting.
The old WinAppDriver version and port-conflict requirements are therefore
obsolete. The issue remains open because the retirement precondition that
matters is not complete: the ten focus-crash cases plus the focus-movement case
must be ported to native portable plans, preserve the three-second
post-activation survival check, run in Windows Fabric CI, and remain
unquarantined. The removal is done; regression-coverage parity is the remaining
outcome.
[-]Infrastructure: Decide the disposition of the Windows Jest smoke harness[/-][+]Infrastructure: Retire the legacy Windows Jest Storybook smoke harness[/+]JasonVMo commentedon Oct 1, 2026
Retirement is implemented by #4294. Closing that delivered milestone; the unfinished ten delayed focus-survival cases, Button Tab movement, and original visibility/status parity are preserved in #4347, with native catalog crashes separately tracked in #4344.