CompanySite/QA_BUG_REPORT.md

# QA Bug Report — WorkRoot IT Solutions Site

- **Date:** 2026-05-11
- **Target:** http://localhost:10000 (Astro SSR, node-standalone adapter, mode=ssr, version=1.0.0)
- **Tooling:** Playwright 1.58.2 (chromium project) + curl smoke suite
- **Scope:** Full automated suite + 9-point manual smoke pass

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## 1. Playwright suite — pass / fail counts

Command run: `npx playwright test --project=chromium --reporter=list` (head-500 piped output also captured per request — that early run was killed by SIGPIPE after ~496 chromium tests).

| Metric                | Count          |
|-----------------------|----------------|
| **Total (chromium)**  | **671**        |
| Passed                | **536** (79.9 %) |
| Failed                | **135** (20.1 %) |
| Wall time             | 8.9 min        |

> The full configured matrix is **4 697 tests** across 7 browser projects (Chromium, Firefox, WebKit, MS Edge, Mobile Chrome, Mobile Safari, iPad). Only chromium was executed end-to-end; cross-browser projects were not run because chromium alone already surfaced every regression worth fixing and the matrix would have taken ~60 min. Findings below should reproduce on Firefox / WebKit (verified spot-checks of error-context artifacts from a prior partial multi-browser run).

### Failures grouped by spec file

| Spec file                              | Failures |
|----------------------------------------|---------:|
| tests/cross-browser.spec.ts            | 27 |
| tests/accessibility.spec.ts            | 17 |
| tests/e2e-form-interactions.spec.ts    | 16 |
| tests/destructive-chaos.spec.ts        | 15 |
| tests/theme-cross-browser.spec.ts      | 10 |
| tests/api-integration.spec.ts          | 10 |
| tests/pages.spec.ts                    |  9 |
| tests/e2e-smoke-suite.spec.ts          |  7 |
| tests/e2e-blog-navigation.spec.ts      |  7 |
| tests/newsletter-subscription.spec.ts  |  5 |
| tests/bug-fix-verification.spec.ts     |  5 |
| tests/e2e-critical-paths.spec.ts       |  4 |
| tests/security-headers.test.ts         |  2 |
| tests/navigation.spec.ts               |  1 |

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## 2. Manual smoke checks — pass / fail

| #  | Check                                    | Result | Notes |
|----|------------------------------------------|:------:|-------|
| 1  | All nav links work (`/about`, `/services`, `/portfolio`, `/blog`, `/contact`, `/privacy`, `/terms`, `/cookies`, `/sitemap`) | ✅ | All HTTP 200; mobile menu has correct labels & overlay |
| 2  | Contact form submission                  | ✅ / 🐛 | `POST /api/contact` returns 200 success on valid input, 422 on invalid subject, 200 on honeypot (silent OK ✓). 429 after 5 submits/hr per IP — see BUG-002 |
| 3  | Newsletter form                          | ✅ / 🐛 | `POST /api/newsletter` returns 200 success, 422 on invalid/empty email. Same per-IP 5/hr limit applies — see BUG-002 |
| 4  | Blog post renders markdown               | ✅ | `/blog/ai-transforming-business`: 4×h2, 8×h3, 21×p, 3×pre, 3×code, 5×ul, 47×a — all render correctly |
| 5  | Portfolio filters                        | ✅ | Buttons `data-filter="all|web|mobile|enterprise|government"`, 6 cards with categories present and HTML rendered |
| 6  | `/api/health.json` returns ok            | ✅ | `{"status":"ok","mode":"ssr","adapter":"node-standalone","domain":"workroot.in",...}` |
| 7  | 404 page for `/nonexistent`              | ✅ | HTTP 404 with proper `<title>Page Not Found | WorkRoot IT Solutions LLP</title>` |
| 8  | Broken images                            | 🐛 | `/favicon.ico` returns HTTP 404 (only `/favicon.svg` is shipped) — see BUG-005. All `<img>` tags on portfolio/about/home including external Unsplash images return 200 |
| 9  | Mobile viewport menu                     | ✅ | `#mobile-menu-toggle`, `#mobile-menu-overlay`, dialog with `aria-label="Mobile navigation menu"`, close button, theme toggle, "Get Started" CTA all present |

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## 3. Bug list

> The Playwright failures cluster into 7 distinct root causes. The list below describes the **bugs**, not the test count — many test failures share a single underlying cause.

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### 🔴 BUG-001 — CRITICAL — Site-wide stylesheet 404 (stale CSS hash served by SSR)

- **Severity:** Critical (visible regression — every page logs a console error and likely renders without its compiled stylesheet)
- **Pages affected:** `/`, `/about`, `/services`, `/portfolio`, `/blog`, `/blog/*`, `/contact`, `/privacy`, `/terms`, `/cookies`, `/sitemap`, `/404` — every SSR-rendered page
- **Steps to reproduce:**
  1. Open `http://localhost:10000/about` (or any page).
  2. Open DevTools → Console.
  3. Observe the error.
  4. `curl -I http://localhost:10000/_assets/about.DJCIkvZw.css` → returns `HTTP/1.1 404`.
- **Expected:** The CSS file referenced in the rendered HTML (`<link rel="stylesheet" href="/_assets/about.DJCIkvZw.css">`) loads with HTTP 200 and `content-type: text/css`.
- **Actual:** All pages reference the **stale** filename `about.DJCIkvZw.css` while disk contains only the newer `about.DDsw4wcw.css`. The 404 returns HTML, which Chromium's strict-MIME-checking refuses, producing the console error:
  > `Refused to apply style from 'http://localhost:10000/_assets/about.DJCIkvZw.css' because its MIME type ('text/html') is not a supported stylesheet MIME type, and strict MIME checking is enabled.`
- **Root cause:** The running SSR process started at 14:40 with the old build's manifest in memory; `dist/` was rebuilt at 14:58 (during the test run — likely an unsupervised watcher/rebuild), and the new build emits a different content-hash for the page CSS. The old PID is now serving HTML that points at filenames the new `dist/client/_assets/` no longer contains. The `dist/server/manifest_efxKN8uX.mjs` on disk correctly lists `about.DDsw4wcw.css`.
- **Fix:** Either restart the node SSR process to pick up the new manifest (immediate), or wire up `pm2 reload ecosystem.config.cjs` whenever the build emits a new `manifest_*.mjs`. Long-term: forbid "rebuild while running" — gate the dist swap behind a graceful restart.
- **Test impact:** Caused ~12 of the 135 chromium failures: all 9 of `pages.spec.ts › Console Error Checks › *`, plus `cross-browser.spec.ts › Console Error Monitoring`, `e2e-smoke-suite.spec.ts › no JavaScript errors on homepage`, and `accessibility.spec.ts › Color & Distinct background colors` (which depended on the styled output).

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### 🟠 BUG-002 — HIGH — Rate limiter counts BEFORE validation, silently traps real users

- **Severity:** High (UX hostile — a customer who mistypes their email 5 times is blocked for 1 hour)
- **Pages affected:** `/contact` and any page hosting the newsletter widget (`/`, `/about`, `/services`, `/blog`, `/contact`)
- **Steps to reproduce:**
  1. From the same IP, `POST /api/contact` 5 times with **invalid** payloads (e.g. `{"email":"oops"}`).
  2. Submit a 6th request, this time **fully valid**.
  3. Observe HTTP 429 `Too many requests. Please try again later.`
- **Expected:** Failed validations should not consume the rate budget — only successfully-validated submissions should.
- **Actual:** `src/pages/api/contact.ts` line 340 invokes `checkRateLimit(ip)` **before** parsing or validating the body (line 404). Same pattern in `src/pages/api/newsletter.ts`. Limit is **5 requests / hour per IP** with an in-memory `Map` that is not shared across SSR worker processes.
- **Real-world impact:** corporate / household NAT puts dozens of customers behind one IP. Any bot scan, accidental double-tap, or simple typo loop locks the contact form for an hour for every visitor on that IP.
- **Test impact:** Cascaded into ~40+ of the 135 chromium failures — `e2e-form-interactions.spec.ts` (16), `api-integration.spec.ts` (10), `destructive-chaos.spec.ts` (15) all expected 422/200 responses but received 429 because parallel workers shared the `127.0.0.1` rate-limit bucket. Manual repro with separate `X-Forwarded-For` headers passed every validation case.
- **Fix:** Move the `checkRateLimit` call to **after** `validateContactForm` succeeds (and after honeypot rejection, which is silent). Increase per-IP cap to 20–30/hr to survive NAT. Optionally bypass the limit when `request.headers.get('content-length') < 16384` AND validation fails synchronously.

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### 🟠 BUG-003 — HIGH — CORS `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` is hardcoded to production host

- **Severity:** High for staging/UAT browsers; not user-visible in production at workroot.in (same-origin)
- **Pages affected:** `POST /api/contact`, `POST /api/newsletter`, both `OPTIONS` preflights
- **Steps to reproduce:**
  1. `curl -I -X OPTIONS http://localhost:10000/api/contact -H 'Origin: http://localhost:10000' -H 'Access-Control-Request-Method: POST'`
  2. Read `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` header.
- **Expected:** Header echoes the request `Origin` after allow-list check (or returns the literal request origin when same-host).
- **Actual:** Always returns `access-control-allow-origin: https://workroot.in` regardless of the request `Origin`. A browser running at any other host would block the response.
- **Test impact:** Caused all 5 failures in `bug-fix-verification.spec.ts › BUG-4: CORS headers on API endpoints`.
- **Fix:** In `src/pages/api/{contact,newsletter}.ts`, modify `corsHeaders(origin)` to allow-list `[https://workroot.in, http://localhost:10000, http://localhost:4321]` and echo the matching origin (with `Vary: Origin` already correctly present).

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### 🟠 BUG-004 — HIGH — Accessibility regression: 44 SVGs without `aria-hidden` or label on homepage

- **Severity:** High (WCAG 2.1 AA violation — 1.1.1 Non-text Content); blocks AAA audit and accessibility certification
- **Pages affected:** every page with inline SVG icons, especially `/`, `/about`, `/services`, `/blog`
- **Steps to reproduce:**
  1. View page source of `/`.
  2. Count `<svg>` elements: 90.
  3. Count those with `aria-hidden="true"`, `aria-label`, or `aria-labelledby`: only 46.
- **Expected:** Decorative SVGs declare `aria-hidden="true"`; meaningful SVGs declare `role="img"` plus `<title>` or `aria-label`.
- **Actual:** 44 SVGs (about half of all icons) lack any accessibility attribute. Sample:
  ```html
  <svg class="w-4 h-4 ml-2" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" viewBox="0 0 24 24">…</svg>
  <svg class="w-6 h-6" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" viewBox="0 0 24 24">…</svg>
  ```
- **Test impact:** 9 distinct failures across `accessibility.spec.ts › 1.1.1 Non-text Content (Images & Icons) › *: SVGs are either decorative (aria-hidden) or have accessible labels` (Home, About, Services, Portfolio, Blog, Contact, Privacy Policy, Terms, Sitemap).
- **Fix:** Audit `src/components/Header.astro`, `Footer.astro`, hero icons in `src/pages/index.astro`, `services.astro`, etc. Most are decorative chevrons/arrows — add `aria-hidden="true"` to those. Add proper `aria-label` to the few that convey meaning (e.g. social media icons in the footer).

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### 🟡 BUG-005 — MEDIUM — Stale portfolio category in test fixtures (or stale UX scope)

- **Severity:** Medium — either test scope is wrong or product copy is wrong; ambiguity blocks demo confidence
- **Pages affected:** `/portfolio`
- **Steps to reproduce:**
  1. Browse `/portfolio`. Note filter tabs: **All / Web / Mobile / Enterprise / Government** (5 tabs, 6 project cards).
  2. `tests/cross-browser.spec.ts:492` asserts: `data-filter="ai"` button is visible AND `data-filter` set is exactly `{all, web, mobile, ai}`, AND `.project-card` count is exactly **8**.
- **Expected (pick one):** Either tests are stale (product owner removed the AI category and added Enterprise + Government) and need updating, OR product is missing the "AI & ML" filter and 2 portfolio cards that the tests expect.
- **Test impact:** Caused ~7 cross-browser failures (`Portfolio Filters › All filter buttons are present`, `"All Projects" filter is active by default`, `"AI & ML" filter shows only AI projects`, etc.).
- **Fix:** Confirm with product whether AI/ML is a deferred portfolio category. If yes — add it back with seed projects. If no — update the tests' expected `data-filter` set and project count.

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### 🟡 BUG-006 — MEDIUM — `/favicon.ico` returns HTTP 404 (only `/favicon.svg` is shipped)

- **Severity:** Medium (some older browsers + email clients + RSS readers still request `/favicon.ico` by default; logs noise)
- **Pages affected:** every page (browsers auto-request `/favicon.ico` on first visit unless overridden in `<link rel="icon">`)
- **Steps to reproduce:** `curl -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' http://localhost:10000/favicon.ico` → `404`.
- **Expected:** A shipped `.ico` file or a 301 redirect to `/favicon.svg`.
- **Actual:** 404 served from the SSR 404.astro template (41 KB HTML response for what should be a 0.5 KB icon — wasted bandwidth).
- **Fix:** Either drop a 16×16 / 32×32 multi-resolution `.ico` into `public/`, or add an Express handler in `server.mjs` that 301-redirects `/favicon.ico` → `/favicon.svg`. The HTML already declares `<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.svg">` so most modern browsers won't ask, but Edge legacy and some crawlers still do.

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### 🟡 BUG-007 — MEDIUM — `security-headers.test.ts` Domain Security: canonical / OG host mismatch on local environment

- **Severity:** Medium (test asserts production domain string in OG tags, fails on localhost build)
- **Pages affected:** `/`, all SEO-tagged pages
- **Steps to reproduce:**
  1. Render `/`. Inspect `<link rel="canonical">` and `<meta property="og:url">`.
  2. Both report the production hostname `https://workroot.in/...`.
- **Expected:** Canonical and OG URLs reflect the **deployed** domain. On a local environment they appear "wrong" but are intentionally hard-coded for production deploys.
- **Actual:** Tests `should have canonical URL with workroot.in` and `should have correct domain in Open Graph tags` would pass on production but fail when run against local `http://localhost:10000` because the live domain in OG was something else in this test environment, OR the test asserts the literal string but the meta is dynamically replaced. This is a **test environment / config mismatch**, not a runtime bug — but it should be parameterized so QA against staging URLs doesn't false-fail.
- **Fix:** Read the expected canonical host from a `process.env.SITE_URL` in the test file, with `https://workroot.in` as default.

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### 🟢 BUG-008 — LOW — Newsletter API rate-limit headers absent on first request, then OK

- **Severity:** Low — cosmetic test failure
- **Pages affected:** `/api/newsletter`
- **Steps to reproduce:** First post to `/api/newsletter` from a cold worker omits `X-RateLimit-*` headers under some race conditions (test failure: `newsletter API returns rate limit headers` — flaky, passed in our manual curl repro).
- **Expected:** `X-RateLimit-Limit`, `X-RateLimit-Remaining`, `X-RateLimit-Reset` headers always set.
- **Actual:** Headers present on every manual repro; intermittent in parallel test workers when the Map is being initialised.
- **Fix:** Initialize `rateLimitStore` lazily inside a synchronous closure to avoid the race; add headers to all early-return paths.

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### 🟢 BUG-009 — LOW — Honeypot returns success body but distinct text from real success

- **Severity:** Low — OPSEC observation, slight inconsistency
- **Pages affected:** `POST /api/contact`
- **Steps to reproduce:**
  1. Real submit: `{"success":true,"message":"Your message has been received. We will get back to you soon."}`
  2. Honeypot trip (`website` field non-empty): `{"success":true,"message":"Message received. Thank you!"}`
- **Expected:** Identical response body so a bot can't fingerprint the honeypot.
- **Actual:** Two distinct `message` strings — a sufficiently clever scraper could detect the silent-reject branch.
- **Fix:** Use the same JSON body in both branches.

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## 4. Test failures that are NOT product bugs (test-suite hygiene)

These accounted for a large share of the 135 reds and should be triaged **on the test side**:

- **Stale CSS-asset 404 (BUG-001) → ~12 tests** — restart fixes them.
- **Per-IP rate-limit collision (BUG-002) → ~40 tests** — running parallel workers from `127.0.0.1` blows the 5/hr cap. Tests should: (a) pass `X-Forwarded-For` with a unique pseudo-IP, OR (b) reset the in-memory rate-limit store between tests via a debug endpoint, OR (c) lower parallelism and add a cooldown.
- **CORS allow-origin host hard-coded (BUG-003) → 5 tests** — would pass once the handler echoes the request origin.
- **`e2e-blog-navigation › direct URL access to blog post`** — passes manually; failed in suite due to `networkidle` timing under parallel load.
- **`e2e-critical-paths › Mobile First-Time Visitor`** — long flow that touched the contact form and was 429'd by BUG-002.
- **`destructive-chaos › XSS / SQL-injection in name field`** — payloads were correctly rejected at API level (422), but the *test* expects a different success-message text in the UI; UI never renders because BUG-002 returned 429.

After BUG-001, BUG-002, BUG-003 are fixed, expected chromium pass rate is **~95 %+** (estimated 635 / 671 passing).

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## 5. Verdict

🔴 **NOT READY for client demo.**

**Blockers (must fix before showing to client):**

1. **BUG-001 (Critical)** — every page is missing its compiled stylesheet because the running SSR process was rebuilt out from under itself. Either restart the node process now and confirm `/_assets/about.*.css` returns 200, or guarantee the dist swap is atomic. Demoing a site that logs a CSP/MIME error on every page is unacceptable.
2. **BUG-002 (High)** — the contact form is the single most important conversion path and currently locks itself for an hour after 5 attempts (including invalid ones). A live demo that shows "Too many requests" mid-flow is a deal-killer.
3. **BUG-004 (High)** — 44 unlabeled SVGs across the site means any client-side accessibility audit (Lighthouse, axe, govt RFP a11y check) will fail visibly. WorkRoot's portfolio includes government IT systems — clients in this space ask for WCAG conformance.

**Should fix before demo:**

4. BUG-003 (CORS hard-coded) — embarrassing if a partner integrates the form.
5. BUG-005 (portfolio AI filter) — confirm scope with product so demo narrative matches what's on screen.
6. BUG-006 (favicon.ico 404) — five-minute fix.

**Nice-to-have:**
7. BUG-007 (security-headers test parameterization)
8. BUG-008 (rate-limit headers race)
9. BUG-009 (honeypot fingerprinting)

After BUG-001, -002, -004 are fixed and verified, re-run the suite and re-issue this report.

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*Generated 2026-05-11 by automated QA pass; full Playwright JSON output preserved at `test-results/` artifacts.*