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Cross-Repo E2E Test Breaks Caught at PR Time via Text Anchors
Keeping end-to-end tests in a separate repo hides break signals from developers. A new approach extracts textual anchors like data-testid from PR diffs and scans the test repo for matches. This static check surfaces break candidates on the PR before merge, bridging the repo boundary that execution-based tooling cannot cross.
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The idea is clever and practical, but its reliance on static text matching means dynamic selectors remain a blind spot.
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