## Problem
The browser journey editor stacked two **always-on** advisory cards
between the toolbar and the first step:
- *"This journey does not verify anything"* — no `assert` step in the
journey
- *"No test attributes found in this recording"* — no step produced a
`test_attribute` locator candidate
Both derived their visibility from the journey's own content, and both
conditions are the normal case for a real recording — so they rendered
on every visit to every affected journey. Each was dismissible, but
dismissal lived in a local `ref(false)`, so it died on remount: authors
closed the same two cards on every visit and still began reading their
steps two cards down the page.
## Change
One warning badge in the Steps toolbar — a warning icon and a count, no
prose:
- **Hover** names it ("1 suggestion for this journey"), from the same
string as the trigger's `aria-label` so the two cannot drift.
- **Click** opens a popover with each suggestion in full, separated by
rules, plus a footer stating that suggestions never block saving or
running.
- **Never opens on its own**, on any render.
- **No dismiss.** The chip costs no vertical space, so suppressing it
buys nothing — and a suggestion that can be waved away is one an author
never has to actually decline. A suggestion leaves when the condition
behind it is resolved.
A zero-assertion journey remains accepted with a warning; nothing here
blocks a save.
Transient banners are deliberately untouched — replay
running/passed/failed/stopped, incognito, pre-flight, recorder error.
They appear because something just happened, and a replay result that
does not announce itself is a worse product.
## Implementation
| File | |
|---|---|
| `web/src/utils/synthetics/journeySuggestions.ts` | new — pure
derivation over the steps; one small producer per rule; carries i18n
**keys** rather than text, so it needs neither Vue nor `useI18n` and a
rule is testable without mounting anything |
| `web/src/components/synthetics/journey/JourneySuggestions.vue` | new —
chip, tooltip, popover; presentation only |
| `web/src/components/synthetics/journey/BrowserJourney.vue` | computes
the suggestions, renders the chip in the toolbar, appends the offered
assertion |
| `ZeroAssertionNotice.vue`, `TestIdMisconfiguredNotice.vue` (+ specs) |
deleted — each was a visibility computation plus a card, and both halves
now have better homes |
Adding a future advisory is one producer and no template change.
Placement note: this lives in `utils/synthetics/` rather than a
composable because it holds no state and touches no reactivity — the
same split `deriveLocatorKind.ts` and `locatorStability.ts` already use
for derivations consumed by these components.
## Tests
- **17** on the derivation — both rules, empty journey, navigate-only
journey, empty candidate list, a test attribute outranked *within* a
step, both conditions at once in stable order, and that the offered
assertion is empty (`element_visible` with no selector/locator) rather
than guessed.
- **15** on the component — no chip at zero, count only and no prose,
pluralization, closed on mount, opens on click, tooltip suppressed while
open, action emits and closes, separators between suggestions.
- **5** on the `BrowserJourney` wiring — old hooks gone, suggestions
handed down, nothing offered when `readonly`, the assertion appended to
the tail with prior step order and ids intact, and the suggestion
dropping once the parent commits.
Two things the tests caught that review would not have:
1. Resolving the last suggestion unmounts the popover but not the
component holding its `open` flag — so a panel left open came *back*
open the next time a suggestion appeared. Regression test written,
confirmed failing, then fixed.
2. One component block runs against the **real** `OPopover` and `OBadge`
instead of a stub. `OBadge` declares `inheritAttrs: false` and the
popover trigger is `as-child` — precisely the pairing that silently
drops a click handler and leaves a chip that looks correct and does
nothing. Every other test stubs the popover and would not see it.
## Accessibility
`⚠ 1` has an accessible name of "1", so the trigger's `aria-label` is
load-bearing and carries the full count string. Child-mode tooltips are
pointer-only, so a keyboard user's path is that label plus the popover
they open with Enter.
Accepted trade-off, stated plainly: the old cards carried
`role="status"` and were announced on appearance. Nothing is announced
now — that announcement is what this change exists to suppress.
## Verification
- `npx vitest run src/components/synthetics src/utils/synthetics
src/views/synthetics` — 1147 passed, 58 files
- `npm run type-check` — clean
- `npm run lint` — clean for every touched file (the repo's pre-existing
`eslint.config.js` / `vitest.config.ts` findings are unchanged and
present on `main`)
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