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-# bdd2pw — CHANGELOG
-All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
-The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/),
-and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
-## [Unreleased]
-_Nothing yet._
-## [1.1.5] — 2026-05-05
-### Fixed — subject-less compact 'enters password "X"' form
-LLM produces compact verb-first input forms freely:
-```
-And enters password "Password123"
-When enters username "alice"
-And types the password "secret"
-```
-Rule 2b previously required a `${SUBJ}` prefix (`I` / `User` / `the user`).
-The compact form was hitting TODO. Rule 2b's SUBJ is now optional via
-`(?:${SUBJ}\s+)?`, so all four shapes match the same way:
-| Form | Status before 1.1.5 | Status after 1.1.5 |
-|---|---|---|
-| `I enter username "alice"` | ✅ rule 2b | ✅ rule 2b |
-| `User enters username "alice"` | ✅ rule 2b | ✅ rule 2b |
-| `the user enters username "alice"` | ✅ rule 2b | ✅ rule 2b |
-| `enters password "Password123"` | ❌ TODO | ✅ rule 2b |
-| `And enters username "alice"` | ❌ TODO | ✅ rule 2b |
-#### Why this is a one-line change
-The fix is purely the regex prefix:
-- Before: `^${SUBJ} (?:enter|enters|...) (?:the )?(.+?) ["']([^"']*)["']$`
-- After:  `^(?:${SUBJ}\s+)?(?:enter|enters|...) (?:the )?(.+?) ["']([^"']*)["']$`
-The build function is unchanged — same `fillFieldBinding(...)` flow.
-Existing rule 2a (`I enter "X" into the field`) still claims its territory
-because its pattern has `["']<value>["']` early; the subject-less compact
-form ends with the value, which only matches rule 2b's structure.
-#### Known limitation (deferred)
-The vague form `user enters valid password` (no quoted value) is still a
-TODO. Without a value, we can't generate a working `.fill()` call. A human
-has to provide the credentials. This is a generation-input gap, not a rule
-gap — adding a TODO with explanatory comment would be misleading.
-#### Tests
-- `tests/unit/stepMatcher.test.ts` +4 new tests under
-  `v1.1.5 — subject-less 'enters <field> "V"'`:
-  - subject-less `enters password "X"`
-  - subject-less `enters username "X"`
-  - regression: subject-prefixed `User enters username "X"` still matches
-  - subject-less `types the password "X"` (alt verb + article)
-#### Files
-- Modified: `src/transformers/stepMatcher.ts` (rule 2b regex prefix only).
-- Modified: `tests/unit/stepMatcher.test.ts` (+4 tests).
-## [1.1.4] — 2026-05-05
-### Fixed — article-leak in URL slugs + N5d without URL
-A run of `R-5D89B426-001.feature` on bdd2pw 1.1.3 cut failures from 6 → 2,
-but two real bugs remain:
-#### 1. English articles leak into URL regex slugs
-**Symptom:** `Then the user is redirected to a logged-in page` →
-emitted regex `/a[-_/]?logged-in/` → fails against
-`https://practicetestautomation.com/logged-in-successfully/` because the
-URL has no "a" before "logged-in".
-**Root cause:** rule 11b (and rules 10, N4, N5e) capture the page-name
-description and slugify it. The capture preserves English articles
-("a", "an", "the") if they're not stripped by the rule's `(?:the )?`
-prefix — which only handles "the".
-**Fix:** new `stripArticles(s)` helper removes leading/internal/trailing
-"a"/"an"/"the" tokens before slugifying. Applied to rules 10, 11b, N4,
-N5e — every rule that converts a description to a regex slug.
-```ts
-// Before:    "redirected to a logged-in page" → "a[-_/]?logged-in"
-// After:     "redirected to a logged-in page" → "logged-in"  ✓ matches /logged-in-successfully/
-// Before:    "remain on a login page" → "a[-_/]?login"
-// After:     "remain on a login page" → "login"  ✓
-```
-#### 2. N5d required `at "URL"` suffix
-**Symptom:** 6 TODOs for `Given the user is on the login page` (no URL).
-N5d's pattern from 1.1.3 mandated `at "URL"`. LLM produces both forms.
-**Fix:** extended N5d pattern — `at "URL"` is now optional. Both
-`Given the user is on the login page` and
-`Given the user is on the login page at "URL"` map to `goto()`.
-#### Tests
-- `tests/unit/stepMatcher.test.ts` +5 new tests across 2 describe blocks
-  (3 article-stripping cases + 2 N5d optional-URL cases).
-#### Production impact
-The 2 remaining failures from R-5D89B426-001 (`toHaveURL` timeouts on
-`/a[-_/]?logged-in/`) and the 6 TODOs (`Given the user is on the login
-page`) are both eliminated. Repin cloud-jobs-template to 1.1.4 to verify.
-#### Files
-- Modified: `src/transformers/stepMatcher.ts` (+stripArticles helper,
-  applied to rules 10/11b/N4/N5e; N5d pattern extended).
-- Modified: `tests/unit/stepMatcher.test.ts` (+5 tests).
-## [1.1.3] — 2026-05-05
-### Fixed — production failure modes from cloud-jobs run on 1.1.2
-A run of `R-5D89B426-001.feature` on bdd2pw 1.1.2 produced **6 test failures**
-across 12 scenarios (Chromium + Firefox), with three distinct root causes —
-all in synthesised locators when the POM lacked the field. 1.1.3 is a
-correctness fix release: no new dialect coverage, but the assertions we
-already emit now actually work against real pages.
-#### 1. Cross-role synthesis (button-vs-link)
-**Symptom:** `await expect(page.getByRole("button", { name: "Logout" })).toBeVisible()`
-times out because the page has `<a>Log out</a>` (a link, not a button).
-**Fix:** new helper `synthRoleNameLocator(pageVar, name)` emits
-```ts
-page.locator("a, button, [role='button'], [role='link']")
-    .filter({ hasText: new RegExp("^L\\s*o\\s*g\\s*o\\s*u\\s*t$", "i") })
-    .first()
-```
-This handles both:
-- **Role mismatch** (LLM says "button", page uses `<a>` or vice versa).
-- **Spelling variance** (LLM writes "Logout", page renders "Log out") via a
-  flexible regex with `\s*` between every character.
-Applied to N6 (visibility) and N7 (negative visibility) when synthesising.
-POM-field references stay unchanged (the picker already produces correct
-locators from the snapshot).
-#### 2. Strict-mode violations everywhere
-**Symptom:** `await expect(page.getByText("Your username is invalid")).toBeVisible()`
-fails with `strict mode violation: ... resolved to 2 elements` because the
-text appears in BOTH `<div id="error">` AND a `<b>` repeat highlight.
-**Fix:** every synthesised text locator now ends in `.first()`:
-- N5b page-level text → `getByText("X").first()`
-- N5 / N5c severity-message fallback → `getByText("V").first()`
-- N7 success / generic fallback → `getByText(desc).first()`
-- N7 error fallback → `getByRole("alert").first()`
-POM-field references untouched (POM fields are unique by construction).
-#### 3. New rules N5d + N5e — `is on page at URL` / negative redirect
-**Symptom:** 7 TODOs in BDD_REVIEW for `Given the user is on the login page
-at "URL"` (Background-style precondition with embedded URL) and 1 TODO for
-`And the user is NOT redirected away from the login page`.
-**Fix:** two new rules.
-| # | Pattern | Emits |
-|---|---|---|
-| N5d | `<subject> is/are/am on (the )? <X> page at 'URL'` | `goto()` (Background handles real navigation; this is narrative context) |
-| N5e | `<subject> is/are/am NOT redirected (away from\|from) (the )? <X> page` | `toHaveURL(<slug>)` (URL still contains page name → still on page) |
-#### Helpers (internal)
-- `flexibleNameRegex(name)` — builds `new RegExp("^X\\s*Y\\s*Z$", "i")` from
-  a descriptive name. Used by N6/N7 synthesis.
-- `synthRoleNameLocator(pageVar, name)` — cross-role + flexible text filter.
-- `synthFlexibleTextLocator(pageVar, text)` — `getByText("X").first()`.
-#### Total rule count
-26 → **30** (N5d, N5e new; N5b, N5c, N5, N6, N7 strict-mode-fixed).
-#### Tests
-Existing unit + e2e tests still pass — the synthesis changes don't affect
-test pom fixtures (POM fields are present, so synthesis branches don't fire).
-The fixes apply at runtime against real pages with non-trivial DOM.
-#### Production impact
-After 1.1.3 + repin, the same `R-5D89B426-001.feature` run that produced 6
-failures on 1.1.2 should produce 0 failures (or surface real bugs in the
-test design — neither the page nor the test was at fault for the 1.1.2
-failures, they were synthesis bugs).
-#### Files
-- Modified: `src/transformers/stepMatcher.ts` (+3 helpers, +2 rules N5d/N5e,
-  N5/N5b/N5c/N5e/N6/N7 fallbacks all updated to use helpers).
-## [1.1.2] — 2026-05-05
-### Fixed — second batch of LLM-narrative dialect gaps
-A real cloud-jobs run of `R-5D89B426-001.feature` on bdd2pw 1.1.1 produced
-**11 unmatched warnings** across 4 scenarios — six new patterns the LLM
-service is generating that 1.1.1's 22 rules don't cover. All 12 tests
-"passed" but most assertions were silent TODOs. Same false-positive issue
-as before 1.1.1 fixed it for the first batch.
-1.1.2 closes the second batch with **+4 new rules + extensions to N2/N6**.
-Total rule count: **22 → 26**.
-#### New / extended rules
-| # | Pattern | Emits |
-|---|---|---|
-| N1.5 | `[Given\|And] the <X> page is (displayed\|loaded\|shown\|visible\|present)` | `goto()` (Background-style precondition that drops the navigation verb) |
-| N2.5 | `<subject> leaves the <X> field empty (do not type anything)` | `// intentionally left empty: <X>` (subject-prefixed variant of N2) |
-| N5b | `the page (displays\|contains\|shows) [the message] 'X'` | `page.getByText("X").toBeVisible()` (page-level text assertion) |
-| N5c | `an <severity> message containing 'V' is displayed` | `toContainText("V")` against severity-aware field (error/success) |
-| N6 ext | `a Logout button is visible` (unquoted role+name) | `toBeVisible` against POM field, synthesises `getByRole` fallback |
-#### Why 4 rules + 2 extensions, not 6 fresh rules
-- N2 already handled `Leave the X field empty`; adding subject prefix
-  (`<subject> leaves`) was a small extension in front of the existing pattern.
-- N6 already handled quoted `"X"` button visibility; adding a second
-  capture branch for unquoted names reused the same build path.
-Both extensions are fully backwards-compatible — every step that matched in
-1.1.1 still matches the same way in 1.1.2.
-#### Tests
-- Extended `tests/unit/stepMatcher.test.ts` with 5 new describe blocks (~10
-  test cases) covering each new pattern + edge cases (POM field present
-  vs synthesised fallback, unquoted vs quoted, severity dispatch).
-#### Production impact
-The cloud-jobs run that surfaced these gaps was hitting:
-- `Given the login page is displayed` (Background, every scenario × 4)
-- `When the user leaves the username field empty` (TC-003)
-- `And the page displays "Logged In Successfully"` (TC-001)
-- `Then the page contains the message "X"` (Outline rows × 3)
-- `Then an error message containing "X" is displayed` (TC-002)
-- `And a Logout button is visible` (TC-001)
-After 1.1.2 + repin, all six patterns produce real assertions instead of
-silent TODOs. TC-001 → genuine end-to-end check; TC-002/3/4 → actual error
-display assertions instead of silent passes.
-#### Files
-- Modified: `src/transformers/stepMatcher.ts` (+4 rules, N2 + N6 extended).
-- Modified: `tests/unit/stepMatcher.test.ts` (+5 describe blocks).
-- Doc bump 22 → 26 across `README.md`, `docs/SCOPE.md`, `docs/STATUS.md`.
-## [1.1.1] — 2026-05-05
-### Fixed — LLM-narrative Gherkin dialect
-Real test-case-generation services (cloud-jobs-template) produce more
-verbose, subject-less Gherkin than hand-authored suites. Before 1.1.1, six
-out of nine steps in a typical TC-001 (Successful login) fell through to
-`// TODO`. Result: forms didn't get filled, Submit clicked an empty form,
-URL never changed, `toHaveURL` timed out — the test reported as failed
-honestly. Worse, the negative scenarios (TC-002/3/4) reported as **passed**
-because every assertion was a silent no-op TODO.
-1.1.1 adds **7 new step-matcher rules** plus the
-`examples/llm-narrative-login/` regression fixture (locked from a real
-production run, `j-20f3defc3044f7ec`).
-#### New rules
-| # | Pattern | Emits |
-|---|---|---|
-| N1 | `Locate the X (input)? field and (enter\|type\|fill) 'V'` | `<field>.fill("V")` via stripUiSuffix + findField |
-| N2 | `Leave the X field empty (do not type anything)` | `// intentionally left empty: <X>` (explicit comment) |
-| N3 | `Observe ...` / `Note ...` | `// observation: <X>` |
-| N4 | `URL does (not\|n't) change (to <description>)?` | `not.toHaveURL(new RegExp("<slug>"))` |
-| N5 | `... such as 'V'` / `... (e.g., 'V')` / `... indicating 'V'` / `... like 'V'` | `toContainText("V")` against error/success field |
-| N6 | `A 'X' (button\|link\|...)? is visible on the page` | `toBeVisible` against POM field, fallback to synthesised `getByRole(role, { name: 'X' })` |
-| N7 | `No 'X' (button\|...)? appears` / `No <noun> are/is displayed` | `not.toBeVisible` against POM field, fallback to synthesised role/text locator |
-`Navigate to <URL>` is already handled by rule 1 (the optional SUBJ prefix
-accepts subject-less variants); `Click the 'X' button` is already handled
-by rule 3. Both verified against the LLM fixture.
-Total rule count: **15 → 22** deterministic patterns.
-#### Helper: `findFieldByDescription`
-New module-private helper in `stepMatcher.ts`. Strips trailing UI-element
-words (`input field`, `field`, `box`, `element`, ...) from a description
-then defers to `findField` with the appropriate suffix preferences. Used
-by rules N1, N6, N7. Pure deterministic, no fuzzy matching.
-#### Per design call (4): negative assertions never drop to TODO
-For `No 'X' button appears` / `No error messages are displayed` / `A 'X' is
-visible`, when the POM has no matching field, the rule **synthesises** a
-`getByRole`/`getByText` locator from the description rather than emitting
-`// TODO`. This turns false-positive passes (silent no-op TODOs) into
-honest assertions that actually exercise the page.
-Caveat: synthesised locators can be over-permissive (e.g.
-`getByRole('button', { name: 'Log out' })` will match a logout link with
-`role="button"` aria attribute even if the page layout differs from the
-fixture). When this matters, hand-edit the spec — the rule report flags
-none of these synthesises as warnings, so they're invisible to the report.
-#### Tests
-- New e2e: `tests/e2e/llmNarrativeLogin.test.ts` — locks the
-  `examples/llm-narrative-login/` fixture as a regression. Asserts:
-  - 0 warning-level review items (every step matches a rule).
-  - All 4 scenarios produce real fills/clicks (no TODOs).
-  - The new rules emit the expected matchers (`not.toHaveURL`,
-    `toContainText`, `toBeVisible`, etc.) against the right locators.
-- Extended unit tests: `tests/unit/stepMatcher.test.ts` — one `describe`
-  block per new rule covering subject-less variants, edge cases, and
-  POM-vs-synthesised-locator branching.
-#### Files
-- New: `examples/llm-narrative-login/{login.feature, snapshot.json, README.md}`.
-- New: `tests/e2e/llmNarrativeLogin.test.ts`.
-- Modified: `src/transformers/stepMatcher.ts` (+7 rules, +stripUiSuffix,
-  +findFieldByDescription).
-- Modified: `tests/unit/stepMatcher.test.ts` (+~16 tests across 7 describe blocks).
-#### Migration notes
-Pure additive — no existing rule changed semantics. Specs that already
-matched 15 rules continue to match the same way. The 7 new rules **only**
-fire on patterns that previously produced `// TODO` warnings, so existing
-fixtures (`practice-test-login`, `cms-login`) regress to zero diff.
-If you have a cloud-jobs-template pinned to 1.1.0, bump to 1.1.1 and
-re-run any failing TC-001-style scenario — fills should now be real.
-## [1.1.0] — 2026-05-05
-### Added — `--self-healing` flag (scaffold-level integration)
-Optional integration with the local `self_healing_stage_services` pipeline
-([source](https://github.com/...)). When enabled, generated POMs register
-every locator with the offline self-heal pipeline so the model knows which
-locators each test references.
-**Scope of v1.1.0** — registration + JSONL logging only. **Action-time
-healing is v1.2** (see "Deferred" below).
-#### What `--self-healing` does
-- New CLI flag: `bdd2pw scaffold ... --self-healing` (off by default).
-  Programmatic API: `scaffold({ ..., selfHealing: true })`.
-- Plumbs `selfHealingShim: true` to `@vijaypjavvadi/pw-emit`'s
-  `emitPageObject`. Emitted POMs now wrap every locator initialiser:
-  ```ts
-  // Before (default):
-  this.usernameInput = page.getByLabel("Username");
-  // With --self-healing:
-  this.usernameInput = healOrThrow(page, {
-    preferred: page.getByLabel("Username"),
-    context: { page: "LoginPage", name: "usernameInput" },
-  });
-  ```
-- New scaffolder branch generates **`lib/heal.ts`** in the target repo —
-  a self-contained TypeScript helper that:
-  - Exports `healOrThrow(page, { preferred, context })` matching pw-emit's
-    contract.
-  - Registers every locator creation event to
-    **`artefacts/heal-events.jsonl`** for the offline self-heal pipeline
-    (`E:\EB1A_Research\self_healing_stage_services`) to consume.
-  - Optional fire-and-forget heartbeat to `${SELF_HEALING_URL}/api/v1/register`
-    when the env var is set. Best-effort — failures are silent.
-  - Honours `HEAL_DISABLE=1` for CI runs that don't want the artefact noise.
-  - Honours `HEAL_EVENTS_PATH` to override the JSONL path.
-- Patches the generated `tsconfig.json` with a path alias:
-  ```jsonc
-  "compilerOptions": {
-    "baseUrl": ".",
-    "paths": { "@platform/sdk-self-healing": ["./lib/heal"] }
-  }
-  ```
-  so the POM's `import { healOrThrow } from "@platform/sdk-self-healing"`
-  resolves to the local helper. No external SDK dependency.
-- Creates `artefacts/.gitkeep` so the JSONL output directory exists on a
-  fresh checkout.
-#### What `--self-healing` does NOT do (v1.2 scope)
-**Action-time healing.** When `await loginPage.usernameInput.click()` fails
-because the locator no longer matches, this v1.1 helper will not catch the
-failure, POST `/api/v1/heal`, and retry with the suggested locator. That
-requires a Locator-wrapping proxy that intercepts every action method
-(`.click`, `.fill`, `.check`, `.selectOption`, `.hover`, `.focus`,
-`.textContent`, `.innerText`, `.getAttribute`, `.isVisible`,
-`.waitForSelector`, ...).
-The existing self-healing SDK (`self_healing_stage_services/sdk/playwright/self_healing_page.js`)
-does this — but for *string-selector*-based test code (`page.fill('#username', ...)`).
-pw-emit's POMs use Locator objects, so the v1.2 wrapper has a different
-shape. Tracked for v1.2.
-In the meantime, the JSONL feed gives the offline self-heal pipeline visibility
-into what locators each test references, which is the v1 ranker's input
-anyway — so v1.1 is functionally useful even without action-time recovery.
-#### Files
-- New: `templates/heal.ts.tmpl` — the heal helper template.
-- Modified: `src/types.ts`, `src/cli.ts`, `src/index.ts`,
-  `src/repo/projectScaffolder.ts`.
-## [1.0.1] — 2026-05-04
-### Fixed
-- **New step-matcher rule 11a — `URL contains "X"`.** Steps like
-  `Then user redirected to dashboard (URL contains "/dashboard")` or
-  `Then URL contains "/foo?bar=baz"` now correctly emit
-  `await expect(page).toHaveURL(new RegExp("..."))`. Previously these fell
-  through to rule 11 (the greedy "redirected to ..." rule), which produced
-  a wrong assertion or dropped the step to `BDD_REVIEW.md` as a TODO.
-- The captured URL fragment is **regex-escaped** before being wrapped in
-  `new RegExp(...)`, so metacharacters like `?`, `+`, `.`, `(`, `)`, `[`, `]`
-  in URLs (query strings, encoded paths) match literally.
-- Rule order matters: 11a is tried **before** 11b (the redirect rule) because
-  11b's pattern is greedy and would otherwise swallow the parenthetical hint.
-### Tests
-- `tests/unit/stepMatcher.test.ts` — added two regression cases:
-  - Plain URL fragment (`/dashboard`) → exact `new RegExp("/dashboard")`.
-  - Fragment with regex metacharacter (`/search?q=test`) → `?` is escaped to
-    `\?` so the literal `?` matches.
-### Docs
-- Bumped rule count from 14 to 15 across `README.md`, `docs/SCOPE.md`,
-  `docs/STATUS.md`.
-## [1.0.0] — 2026-05-03
-First public npm release. Six phases shipped, two real-world fixtures locked,
-101 / 101 tests green. See [`docs/STATUS.md`](./docs/STATUS.md) for the runtime
-snapshot and [`docs/SCOPE.md`](./docs/SCOPE.md) §17 for the full
-implementation-time decisions log.
-### Headline
-`feature in → ready-to-run Playwright tests out`. Rule-based
-deterministic generation (no LLM in v1.0). CLI + HTTP service. Same code path
-through both surfaces.
-### Shipped in v1.0
-- **Phase 0** — `@vijaypjavvadi/pw-emit@1.0.0` extracted; bdd2pw consumes it as
-  a regular dep (`^1.0.0`).
-- **Phase 1a** — Gherkin parser (`@cucumber/gherkin`), repo scanner (ts-morph),
-  POM resolver (reuse / augment / create), file-snapshot discovery, locator
-  picker (priority chain + status-region special case), 14-rule step matcher,
-  emitter facade, end-to-end `scaffold()`. Locked against `practice-test-login`
-  (7/7 mapped, 0 warnings).
-- **Phase 1b** — Live browser discovery via direct `playwright.chromium.launch()`
-  (chose direct Playwright over `@playwright/mcp` for simpler in-process control).
-  Status-region visibility-filter bypass.
-- **Phase 1c** — Second real fixture `cms-login` (third-person dialect),
-  0 warnings first try. Subject-agnostic prefix locked.
-- **Phase 2** — `analyze` (dry-run) + `update-pom` (append-only AST surgery via
-  ts-morph; hard-fails on missing POM). `BDD_REVIEW.md` writer. `tsc --noEmit`
-  validator (soft-fail).
-- **Phase 3** — Express HTTP service `:4300`. Three async workers, ULID job
-  IDs, Zod request validation, Pino structured logs, archiver-streamed zip
-  artefacts. Per-job tmpdir contains blast radius for HTTP scaffold runs.
-### CLI
-```
-bdd2pw scaffold   <feature> --url <url> --page <Name> --repo <dir> [opts]
-bdd2pw analyze    <feature> --url <url> [opts]
-bdd2pw update-pom --page <Name> --url <url> --repo <dir>
-bdd2pw serve      [--port 4300]
-```
-### HTTP
-`POST /scaffold | /analyze | /update-pom` → `202 + { jobId, links }`.
-`GET /jobs/:id`, `GET /jobs/:id/artifact` (zip), `GET /jobs/:id/log`,
-`GET /healthz`, `GET /readyz`, `GET /version`.
-### Tests
-101 / 101 across 10 Vitest files. Includes a full HTTP regression that asserts
-the artefact response body starts with the ZIP magic bytes `PK\x03\x04`.
-### Distribution
-- npm: `@vijaypjavvadi/bdd2pw@1.0.0` (public, scoped, with provenance).
-- GitHub: tag-triggered `release.yml` workflow auto-publishes on `vX.Y.Z` push.
-- CI matrix: Ubuntu / macOS / Windows × Node 18 / 20 / 22.
-### Deferred to v1.1+
-- LLM fallback for vague steps (governance-routed). Real fixtures hit 100%
-  rule coverage so this was off the critical path.
-- SQLite-backed job persistence (currently in-memory `Map`).
-- Built-in `auth.setup.ts` generator. Today: bring your own `--storage-state`.
-- Multi-page navigation discovery, `playwright-bdd` runtime mode, API mocking
-  scaffolds, visual regression — all post-v1.1.
-### Earlier-phase notes (kept for history)
-#### Phase 3 — HTTP service is real
-The `POST /scaffold`, `POST /analyze`, `POST /update-pom` routes now actually do work. Same code path as the CLI; HTTP is a thin shell.
-#### What landed
-- **Workers in `src/http/routes.ts`** — three async `Promise` workers, one per `POST` endpoint. Each accepts the parsed Zod-validated body, calls the matching `scaffold()` / `analyze()` / `updatePom()` function from `src/index.ts`, and updates the in-memory job state through `running` → `completed` / `failed`.
-- **Per-job artifact dir.** `POST /scaffold` overrides the caller-provided `repo` with `<os.tmpdir()>/bdd2pw-jobs/<jobId>/`. This contains the blast radius — the HTTP user can't write outside that sandbox even if they pass an unsafe path.
-- **`streamArtifactZip()` in `src/http/artifacts.ts`** — uses `archiver` to zip the artifact dir on the fly, streaming directly to the response. Excludes `node_modules`, `.git`, `test-results`, `playwright-report`. Headers: `application/zip` + `Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="bdd2pw-<jobId>.zip"`.
-- **`GET /jobs/:id/log`** — returns a plain-text dump of the job's warnings + errors. Real per-job pino log file tailing deferred to v1.1.
-- **`GET /jobs/:id/artifact`** failure modes covered: `404 JobNotFound`, `409 ArtifactNotReady` (job still running or failed), `410 ArtifactExpired` (artifact dir already swept).
-#### Tests
-- `tests/e2e/httpWorker.test.ts` — spins up the real Express app on a random port, drives it via `fetch()`, polls for completion. 11 assertions across 4 describe blocks:
-  - `/healthz`, `/version`, `/readyz` respond correctly.
-  - `POST /scaffold` validates the body and returns 400 for malformed input (missing fields, bad URL).
-  - End-to-end: POST `/scaffold` with the practice-test-login fixture → poll `/jobs/:id` → reaches `completed` with no warnings → `GET /jobs/:id/artifact` returns a real zip (verified by the ZIP magic bytes `PK\x03\x04` at the start of the response body).
-  - `GET /jobs/:id/log` returns a text/plain dump containing the job ID and status.
-#### Out of scope for v1.0 (deferred to v1.1+)
-- **Multi-tenancy / auth** — handled at the gateway (`modern-automation-platform:3000`), bdd2pw HTTP is single-tenant per process. Same pattern as `sel2pw`.
-- **Job queue + worker pool** — current model is one Promise per job, bounded by Node's event loop. SQLite-backed queue with `p-limit` on MCP browsers lands in v1.1.
-- **Granular per-stage progress events** — workers emit `parsing` / `emitting` / `completed`, but not the full 9-stage progress chain from the architecture doc. Sufficient for the UI to show "running" → "done"; finer-grained progress is a polish task.
-- **Real per-job log file** — `GET /jobs/:id/log` currently returns warnings/errors from the in-memory record. Pino multi-stream routing per job is v1.1.
-### Phase 2 — `updatePom` ships, append-only by construction
-Replaces the `NotImplementedError` stub. **The third CLI command is now real.** Re-scanning a page that already has a Page Object merges newly-discovered locators in — without ever touching what's already there.
-#### Design choice: append-only over lock-blocks
-The original SCOPE proposed `// __BDD2PW_LOCK__` markers around generated content. Switched to **append-only via AST surgery** because:
-- No visible markers in user code (lock comments are noise in otherwise hand-readable files).
-- Stronger guarantee: enforced by construction, not by comments the user could strip.
-- No special-casing for hand-edits — if it's already there, it's preserved.
-- Smaller blast radius: bugs in updatePom can only ADD wrong things, never destroy existing code.
-Trade-off: stale fields (when the live page removes an element) are not auto-deleted. Intentional — staleness is recoverable, deletion is not.
-#### Hard rules `updatePom` enforces
-1. Never deletes any property, method, or import.
-2. Never renames anything.
-3. Never modifies any existing method body — hand-edits are preserved byte-identical.
-4. Skips field-name collisions (existing field wins).
-5. Method synthesis is opt-in and deferred to v1.1.
-6. Hard-fails if the POM file doesn't exist (suggests `scaffold` first).
-7. Hard-fails if the class name doesn't match `--page`.
-#### Implementation
-- **`updatePom()` in `src/index.ts`** — replaces the stub. Uses `ts-morph` to read the existing POM AST, computes the new-fields diff against the live scan, and uses `addProperty` + `addStatements` to splice new content into the existing class. Then `save()` writes back. No re-emit, no overwrite.
-- **`renderLocatorExpr` imported from `@vijaypjavvadi/pw-emit`** so the appended constructor lines use the same locator format as `scaffold` would.
-- Honours `--no-discovery` and `--snapshot-file` flags for offline/CI use, mirroring `scaffold`.
-- Surfaces a `BDD_REVIEW.md` with diff stats: existing/discovered/new/skipped-collisions counts.
-#### Tests
-- `tests/e2e/updatePom.test.ts` — 11 assertions across 3 describe blocks. The critical cases:
-  - **Hand-edits survive byte-identical** (the must-not-regress invariant): hand-written comments, `console.log` lines, and entire method bodies stay untouched.
-  - **Custom helper methods survive** — anything outside the discovered IR is preserved.
-  - **Existing field collisions are skipped** — if the user already declared `usernameInput` with a `#username` selector, updatePom does NOT overwrite with whatever the live snapshot would pick.
-  - **Idempotent** — second invocation in a row adds zero fields.
-  - **Hard-fail on missing class** — points at `scaffold`.
-### Phase 1c — second real-world fixture clean (selenium14/LoginCMS)
-**Validated against `selenium14/AutomationFrameworkCucumberTestNG/src/test/resources/features/LoginCMS.feature` — third-party Cucumber dialect from a real OSS Selenium codebase, against `https://cms.anhtester.com/login`.** 0 warnings, 0 errors, every step mapped.
-This fixture exercises:
-- `User navigate to Login Page for Admin "URL"` — third-person subject + bare-text + quoted URL → `goto()`
-- `user enter email "admin@example.com" password "123456"` — **compound input step** (one Gherkin step, two field/value pairs) → two `.fill()` lines emitted
-- `click Login button` — no subject prefix → `loginButton.click()`
-- `user is redirected to the Dashboard page` — third-person `is redirected to` → `toHaveURL(/Dashboard/)`
-#### Bugs fixed this round
-- **Step matcher: subject-agnostic rules.** All 13 rules now accept `I | user | User | the user | the User` as the subject prefix (was hard-coded `I`). Verb forms also accept singular AND plural conjugation (`click | clicks`, `enter | enters`, etc.). For rule 3 (click) the subject is now optional entirely (`click Login button` works without any subject).
-- **Rule 1 (navigate): handles `navigate to <text> "<URL>"`.** Previous pattern only accepted `navigate to <target>`. New pattern: `(?:.+?\s+)?["']?<target>["']?` — the optional `<text> ` prefix is consumed, the quoted URL becomes the target.
-- **Rule 11 (redirect): accepts `is redirected`.** Was `(should be |am )?redirected`; now `(should be |am |is )?redirected`.
-- **Compound input rule (2c).** New rule for `SUBJ verb FIELD1 "V1" FIELD2 "V2" [...]` — extracts every (field, value) pair via a global regex pass and emits one `.fill()` per pair. Falls back to `null` (TODO) if any field doesn't resolve, so partial matches don't produce wrong code.
-#### Type addition (small)
-- **`StepBinding.customBody?: string`** — for compound steps that produce multiple TS statements per Gherkin step. The emitter writes `customBody` verbatim instead of synthesising a single line from `pomCall`/`assertion`. Existing rules unchanged; only the new compound rule uses this path.
-#### Orchestrator bug fix
-- **Background warnings now flow into `BDD_REVIEW.md`.** Previously only scenario-step warnings were collected; Background-step warnings were silently dropped. Now surfaced under `[Background]`.
-### Phase 1b milestone — live discovery 7/7 against the real site
-**Same `practice-test-login` feature that needed a hand-authored snapshot in Phase 1a now passes 7/7 with `--url` only — bdd2pw scans the live page itself.** No snapshot file, no hand-tuning, real Chromium against `https://practicetestautomation.com/practice-test-login/`.
-#### Iteration arc (live-scan rounds)
-| Round | Pass / Fail | Root cause + fix |
-|---|---|---|
-| 1 | 4 / 3 | Scanner missed `<div id="error">` (no role/testid/aria-label) → broaden selector list to include `[id*=error i]`, `[class*=alert i]`, etc. |
-| 2 | 3 / 4 | Scanner picked up error div but field name was text-derived (`yourUsernameIsInvalid`) → step matcher's `findField("error", [...])` couldn't match it. Fix: in `synthFieldName`, when CSS id matches `STATUS_REGION_RE`, prefer id-derived name → field becomes `error`. Plus `isLikelyStatusRegion` bypasses the visibility filter (status banners are intentionally hidden until triggered). Plus implicit roles for `<button>`/`<a>`/`<input type=submit>` so picker emits `getByRole`. Plus dedup-by-locator-value (collapse `username` + `usernameInput` into one). |
-| 3 | 3 / 4 | Field name was right (`error`) but locator was wrong: picker emitted `getByText("Your username is invalid!")` not `locator("#error")`. Volatile text content was winning over the stable id. Fix: locator picker skips the `getByText` branch when element matches `STATUS_REGION_RE` — text changes per scenario, id is the stable handle. |
-| 4 | **7 / 0** | — |
-#### Bugs fixed this round
-- **`src/discovery/mcpClient.ts`:** broader selector list (`[id*=error]`, `[class*=alert]`, …); `implicitRole()` for native HTML form controls; `isLikelyStatusRegion()` visibility-filter bypass; `isVisible()` zero-size + display:none filter; tsconfig `/// <reference lib="dom" />` so the `page.evaluate()` callback type-checks.
-- **`src/transformers/locatorPicker.ts`:** new `STATUS_REGION_RE`; `synthFieldName` priority 0 = id-derived for status regions (so `<div id="error">` → `error`, not `yourUsernameIsInvalid`); `getByText` branch skipped for status regions; `dedupeLocators` now collapses by `(api, args)` identity, keeping the longer field name.
-#### What this proves
-Three of the original Phase 1a iteration rounds were **snapshot accuracy** bugs (fictional ARIA roles, fictional placeholders). With Phase 1b they're gone — the scanner sees what's actually there. The four Phase 1b rounds were rule/picker bugs surfaced by real DOM data, all fixed. Net result: a **single CLI invocation** with `--url` produces a runnable spec from a Cucumber `.feature` file with zero hand-edits, zero snapshot authoring.
-### Phase 1b — real browser-based page discovery (initial implementation, earlier this round)
-Replaces the file-snapshot-only discovery with a real Chromium-launching scanner. Hand-authoring `snapshot.json` is no longer required for the common case; pass `--url` and bdd2pw scans the live page itself.
-#### What landed
-- **`scanPageWithBrowser()`** in `src/discovery/mcpClient.ts` — uses `playwright.chromium.launch()` directly. Walks the DOM with a curated selector list (inputs, buttons, links, selects, headings, anything with `[role]` / `[data-testid]` / `[aria-label]`), extracts per-element role / accessible name / label / placeholder / testId / text / best CSS selector, and returns a flat `ElementIR[]`-shaped list. Snapshot parser handles it without changes.
-- **`playwright`** added as an `optionalDependencies` entry. Dynamic-imported in the scanner with a clear install-hint error if missing (`"npm install -D playwright && npx playwright install chromium"`).
-- **Storage state support** — pass `--storage-state <path.json>` to scan an authenticated page; passed through to `browser.newContext({ storageState })`.
-- **Headed mode** — `--headed` shows the browser window, useful for debugging snapshot accuracy.
-- **Network-idle wait with fallback** — first attempt waits 5s for network idle (catches SPAs that finish loading lazily); falls back to `domcontentloaded` if idle never settles.
-#### Removed framing
-- Dropped `@playwright/mcp` from optional dependencies. **AQ-2 resolved:** MCP is an LLM-control protocol, not a programmatic browser API. We just need one URL → one snapshot, so direct `playwright` is one fewer process and one fewer protocol layer. The file `src/discovery/mcpClient.ts` keeps its name for now (rename is cosmetic, deferred).
-#### Backward compatibility
-- `--snapshot-file <path>` still works exactly as before. The orchestrator dispatches: snapshot file present → file path; otherwise → real browser. CI runs that don't want network access keep using pinned snapshot files (e.g. `examples/practice-test-login/snapshot.json`).
-- `practiceTestLogin.test.ts` still uses the file-snapshot path so the regression test runs without network.
-#### What this fixes
-The 3-of-6 iteration rounds in Phase 1a milestone that were "snapshot accuracy" bugs (fictional ARIA roles, fictional placeholders, etc.) — those scenarios should now Just Work because the scanner sees the actual DOM.
-### Phase 1a milestone — first end-to-end green run (earlier this round)
-**The full rule-based pipeline produced a runnable Playwright spec from a real-world Cucumber `.feature` file, with zero hand-edits.** Validated against `https://practicetestautomation.com/practice-test-login/` — `npx playwright test --project=chromium` reports **7 passed (4.2s)**.
-#### Scope
-- Source feature: `examples/practice-test-login/login.feature` — 5 scenarios + 1 Scenario Outline (2 example rows) + Background = 7 generated `test()` blocks
-- Discovery source: hand-authored `examples/practice-test-login/snapshot.json` (Phase 1a fallback; real `@playwright/mcp` lands in Phase 1b)
-- Output target: `pages/login.page.ts`, `tests/login.spec.ts`, `playwright.config.ts`, `package.json`, `tsconfig.json`, `.gitignore`, `BDD_REVIEW.md`
-#### Iteration arc that got us there
-| Round | Pass / Fail | Root cause |
-|---|---|---|
-| 1 | 0 / 7 | Undeclared `loginPage` (facade emitted POM calls without instantiation) |
-| 2 | 4 / 3 | Rule 3 lost role hint; rule 8 required "the" not "an"; word-order mismatch in rule 2 |
-| 3 | 2 / 5 | Snapshot fictional ARIA roles (`role: "alert"` not on page) |
-| 4 | 1 / 6 | Snapshot fictional placeholders (`placeholder: "Username"` not on page) |
-| 5 | 6 / 1 | Rule 9 emitted `toHaveText` (exact); step said "containing" |
-| 6 | **7 / 0** | (none) |
-3 of 6 rounds were rule/code bugs. 3 were snapshot accuracy — exactly what real `@playwright/mcp` integration will eliminate (Phase 1b).
-#### Bugs fixed this round (rule + code)
-- **`emitTestFile` facade (`src/emitters/facade.ts`):** prepend `const <pageVar> = new <Class>(page);` to every test body and every hook body. Previously the spec emitted `await loginPage.goto()` without ever declaring `loginPage`.
-- **`scaffold()` orchestrator (`src/index.ts`):** synthesise a `goto(): Promise<void>` POM method that calls `await this.page.goto(<url>)` when no goto exists. Without it, rule 1 emitted `await loginPage.goto()` against a method with no body.
-- **POM file naming (`src/index.ts`):** use `pageObjectFileName` from `@vijaypjavvadi/pw-emit` instead of `${camelCase(opts.page)}.page.ts`. Was emitting `loginPage.page.ts`; now emits `login.page.ts`.
-- **Reserved field-name filter (`src/index.ts`):** `page`, `context`, `browser` are now excluded from the "missing fields" set. Previously `loginPage.page.toHaveURL(...)` made `page` look like a missing field.
-- **Step matcher rule 2b (`src/transformers/stepMatcher.ts`):** new — handles reversed word order `I enter <field> "<value>"`. Original rule expected `I enter "<value>" into <field>`.
-- **Step matcher rule 3:** captures the explicit role suffix (`button` / `link` / `icon` / `tab`) and passes only that to `findField` so "click the login button" doesn't match `testLoginHeading`.
-- **Step matcher rule 8:** accepts `the | an | a error message`, prefers `Alert > Error > Message`-suffixed fields.
-- **Step matcher rule 9a:** new — `toContainText` semantics for `containing | that contains | with text`. Must run before rule 9b (exact text equality) which now also accepts `the | an | a`.
-- **Step matcher rules 11–13:** new — redirect (`toHaveURL` regex), attribute check (`toHaveAttribute`), URL prefix/contains (`toHaveURL` anchored regex).
-- **`findField` resolution order (`src/transformers/stepMatcher.ts`):** added a suffix-constrained pass — when preferredSuffixes are provided, only consider fields with those suffixes; if exactly one matches, use it. Stops "login" from matching `testLoginHeading` when there's a `submitButton` on the same page.
-- **`synthFieldName` (`src/transformers/locatorPicker.ts`):** added `cssSelectorToName()` fallback. When no name/label/placeholder/text is available, derive the field name from the CSS id (`#username` → `usernameInput`) instead of the ugly `inputElement` placeholder.
-#### Added
-- `examples/practice-test-login/` — pinned regression fixture (login.feature + snapshot.json + README)
-- `tests/e2e/practiceTestLogin.test.ts` — 22-assertion regression test for the full pipeline. Calls `scaffold()`, reads back POM + spec, asserts every binding pattern that should have landed.
-- `vitest.config.ts` — `hookTimeout: 30_000` for E2E test cold-start reads.
-### Added — Phase 1a (initial implementation, earlier this round)
-- **Real Gherkin parser** — `src/parser/gherkinParser.ts`. Uses `@cucumber/gherkin`. Handles Background, Scenario, Scenario Outline + Examples, doc strings, data tables.
-- **Step matcher rules** — `src/transformers/stepMatcher.ts`. 10 rules covering navigation, input, click, select, check/uncheck, visibility (positive + negative), text equality, URL, error message. Falls through to a warning when no rule matches.
-- **Locator picker** — `src/transformers/locatorPicker.ts`. Priority chain `getByRole > getByLabel > getByPlaceholder > getByTestId > getByText > css > xpath`. Ambiguity flagged when rivals exist. Field-name synthesis with role-based suffixes (`usernameInput`, `signInButton`).
-- **POM resolver** — `src/transformers/pomResolver.ts`. Pure decision: REUSE / AUGMENT / CREATE based on existing fields vs referenced fields.
-- **Repo scanner** — `src/repo/repoScanner.ts`. `ts-morph`-based AST scan of `pages/*.page.ts`. Extracts class name, locator fields, methods (preserves bodies for AUGMENT mode).
-- **Project scaffolder** — `src/repo/projectScaffolder.ts`. Delegates to `@vijaypjavvadi/pw-emit`'s `emitProject()`. Idempotent.
-- **Page discovery (file-snapshot fallback)** — `src/discovery/mcpClient.ts`. Phase 1a reads a pre-captured JSON snapshot via `--snapshot-file`. Real `@playwright/mcp` integration scheduled for Phase 1b.
-- **Snapshot parser** — `src/discovery/snapshotParser.ts`. Accepts both flat-array and tree-shaped snapshots; flattens to `ElementIR[]`.
-- **Review report** — `src/reports/reviewReport.ts`. Writes `BDD_REVIEW.md` with severity sections (Errors / Warnings / Info).
-- **TSC validator** — `src/validate/tscRunner.ts`. Runs `tsc --noEmit` in the target repo, parses diagnostics into `ReviewItem`s. Soft-fails with a warning if `tsc` isn't installed.
-- **`scaffold()` end-to-end wired** — `src/index.ts`. Orchestrates: parse → scan repo → scaffold → discover → pick locators → match steps (provisional) → resolve POM → re-match against final POM → expand Scenario Outlines → emit POM + spec → tsc validate → review report.
-- **`analyze()` working** — same pipeline minus emit/validate. Returns the plan.
-- **CLI `--snapshot-file` flag** for the file-based discovery path.
-- **Example fixture** `examples/login-feature/snapshot.json` — hand-authored a11y tree for end-to-end testing.
-- **3 new unit test files**: `stepMatcher.test.ts`, `locatorPicker.test.ts`, `pomResolver.test.ts`.
-### Still stubbed (next phases)
-- `updatePom()` — needs lock-block enforcement (Phase 2)
-- Real Playwright MCP integration (Phase 1b)
-- HTTP worker that calls `scaffold()` (Phase 3)
-- LLM fallback in stepMatcher (Phase 4)
-### Added — Phase 0 (previous round)
-- Repository scaffold: package.json, tsconfig, ESLint, Prettier, Vitest, TypeDoc, MIT LICENSE
-- CI workflow (Node 18/20/22 × Ubuntu/macOS/Windows), Release workflow (tag-triggered npm publish with provenance)
-- `.changeset` config for versioning
-- `src/` skeleton: `cli.ts`, `server.ts`, `index.ts`, `types.ts`, `utils/{naming,logger}.ts`
-- Module stubs (now most replaced by Phase 1a implementations)
-- Project templates: `package.json.tmpl`, `playwright.config.ts.tmpl`, `tsconfig.json.tmpl`, `gitignore.tmpl`
-- Example fixture: `examples/login-feature/login.feature`
-- First passing unit test: `tests/unit/naming.test.ts`
-- `@vijaypjavvadi/pw-emit` consumed via `file:../pw-emit`
-- `src/emitters/facade.ts` rewritten to delegate to `pw-emit`
-### Documents
-- `README.md` — project orientation, decisions log, phasing
-- `docs/SCOPE.md` — v1.0 scope, FR/NFR, CLI + HTTP surface
-- `docs/ARCHITECTURE.md` — component diagram, sequence flows, contracts, error model
-## [0.1.0] — TBD
-Initial published placeholder. **No runtime functionality yet.** Phase 0 (extracting `@vijaypjavvadi/pw-emit` from `sel2pw`) blocks Phase 1 of this package.
+# bdd2pw — CHANGELOG
+All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
+The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/),
+and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
+## [Unreleased]
+_Nothing yet._
+## [1.1.6] — 2026-05-07
+### Fixed — subject-less 'Enter "X" in the field' fell through to TODO
+Rule 2a (Input with explicit value + field) required a `${SUBJ}` prefix
+(`I` / `User` / `the user`). Cloud-jobs-template runs against the LLM
+stack with cache OFF surfaced subject-less variants like:
+```
+When Enter 'student' in the username field
+And  Enter 'Password123' into the password field
+```
+These hit no rule and silently passed (no fill, no failure). Same fix
+shape as v1.1.5 applied to rule 2b — wrap `${SUBJ}` in
+`(?:${SUBJ}\s+)?` so all four shapes match equivalently.
+| Form | Status before 1.1.6 | Status after 1.1.6 |
+|---|---|---|
+| `I enter "alice" into the username field`   | ✅ rule 2a | ✅ rule 2a |
+| `User enters "alice" into the username field` | ✅ rule 2a | ✅ rule 2a |
+| `Enter 'alice' in the username field`         | ❌ TODO    | ✅ rule 2a |
+| `Enter "alice" into the password field`       | ❌ TODO    | ✅ rule 2a |
+### Fixed — descriptive parentheticals leaked into URL slug regexes
+Rules 10 (remains-on), 11b (redirected-to), N4 (URL doesn't change),
+and N5e (NOT redirected away) all slugify a captured page-name
+description into a URL regex. Production runs hit:
+```
+Then User is redirected to logged-in page (URL changes away from login page)
+And  user remains on login page (URL does not change away from login page)
+```
+The end-anchor `(?: page)?$` in those rules doesn't fire when the string
+ends in `)`, so the entire parenthetical was being captured as part of
+the description. Slug became
+`/logged-in[-_/]?page[-_/]?\(URL[-_/]?changes[-_/]?away.../`
+which never matches a real URL — assertion silently failed in a way that
+cucumber reported as pass-with-warning rather than actionable failure.
+Added `stripParentheticals()` helper and `cleanSlugTarget()` combiner
+that strips parentheticals + articles + trailing ` page`, applied to
+all four affected rules. Rule 11a (`(URL contains 'X')`) still runs
+first and still extracts authoritative URL fragments — only descriptive
+parentheticals fall through to the cleaned slugifier.
+### Tests
+- `tests/unit/stepMatcher.test.ts` +7 new tests under
+  `v1.1.6 — subject-less 'Enter ...'` and
+  `v1.1.6 — parenthetical prose in URL slug rules`:
+  - subject-less `Enter 'X' in the username field`
+  - subject-less `Enter "X" into the password field`
+  - regression: subject-prefixed `I enter "X" in ...` still matches
+  - rule 11b: parenthetical stripped, slug = `logged-in`
+  - rule 10: parenthetical stripped, slug = `login`
+  - rule N5e: parenthetical stripped, slug = `login`
+  - regression: rule 11a still wins for authoritative parentheticals
+### Why this matters
+Today's cloud-jobs-template runs went 14/14 → 2/8 between two
+consecutive runs of the same job because the LLM picked different
+phrasings (`in` vs `into`) and added descriptive parentheticals to
+redirect assertions. Pairing this release with TCG temperature=0 and
+re-enabled response cache should stabilise pass-rate run-to-run.
+## [1.1.5] — 2026-05-05
+### Fixed — subject-less compact 'enters password "X"' form
+LLM produces compact verb-first input forms freely:
+```
+And enters password "Password123"
+When enters username "alice"
+And types the password "secret"
+```
+Rule 2b previously required a `${SUBJ}` prefix (`I` / `User` / `the user`).
+The compact form was hitting TODO. Rule 2b's SUBJ is now optional via
+`(?:${SUBJ}\s+)?`, so all four shapes match the same way:
+| Form | Status before 1.1.5 | Status after 1.1.5 |
+|---|---|---|
+| `I enter username "alice"` | ✅ rule 2b | ✅ rule 2b |
+| `User enters username "alice"` | ✅ rule 2b | ✅ rule 2b |
+| `the user enters username "alice"` | ✅ rule 2b | ✅ rule 2b |
+| `enters password "Password123"` | ❌ TODO | ✅ rule 2b |
+| `And enters username "alice"` | ❌ TODO | ✅ rule 2b |
+#### Why this is a one-line change
+The fix is purely the regex prefix:
+- Before: `^${SUBJ} (?:enter|enters|...) (?:the )?(.+?) ["']([^"']*)["']$`
+- After:  `^(?:${SUBJ}\s+)?(?:enter|enters|...) (?:the )?(.+?) ["']([^"']*)["']$`
+The build function is unchanged — same `fillFieldBinding(...)` flow.
+Existing rule 2a (`I enter "X" into the field`) still claims its territory
+because its pattern has `["']<value>["']` early; the subject-less compact
+form ends with the value, which only matches rule 2b's structure.
+#### Known limitation (deferred)
+The vague form `user enters valid password` (no quoted value) is still a
+TODO. Without a value, we can't generate a working `.fill()` call. A human
+has to provide the credentials. This is a generation-input gap, not a rule
+gap — adding a TODO with explanatory comment would be misleading.
+#### Tests
+- `tests/unit/stepMatcher.test.ts` +4 new tests under
+  `v1.1.5 — subject-less 'enters <field> "V"'`:
+  - subject-less `enters password "X"`
+  - subject-less `enters username "X"`
+  - regression: subject-prefixed `User enters username "X"` still matches
+  - subject-less `types the password "X"` (alt verb + article)
+#### Files
+- Modified: `src/transformers/stepMatcher.ts` (rule 2b regex prefix only).
+- Modified: `tests/unit/stepMatcher.test.ts` (+4 tests).
+## [1.1.4] — 2026-05-05
+### Fixed — article-leak in URL slugs + N5d without URL
+A run of `R-5D89B426-001.feature` on bdd2pw 1.1.3 cut failures from 6 → 2,
+but two real bugs remain:
+#### 1. English articles leak into URL regex slugs
+**Symptom:** `Then the user is redirected to a logged-in page` →
+emitted regex `/a[-_/]?logged-in/` → fails against
+`https://practicetestautomation.com/logged-in-successfully/` because the
+URL has no "a" before "logged-in".
+**Root cause:** rule 11b (and rules 10, N4, N5e) capture the page-name
+description and slugify it. The capture preserves English articles
+("a", "an", "the") if they're not stripped by the rule's `(?:the )?`
+prefix — which only handles "the".
+**Fix:** new `stripArticles(s)` helper removes leading/internal/trailing
+"a"/"an"/"the" tokens before slugifying. Applied to rules 10, 11b, N4,
+N5e — every rule that converts a description to a regex slug.
+```ts
+// Before:    "redirected to a logged-in page" → "a[-_/]?logged-in"
+// After:     "redirected to a logged-in page" → "logged-in"  ✓ matches /logged-in-successfully/
+// Before:    "remain on a login page" → "a[-_/]?login"
+// After:     "remain on a login page" → "login"  ✓
+```
+#### 2. N5d required `at "URL"` suffix
+**Symptom:** 6 TODOs for `Given the user is on the login page` (no URL).
+N5d's pattern from 1.1.3 mandated `at "URL"`. LLM produces both forms.
+**Fix:** extended N5d pattern — `at "URL"` is now optional. Both
+`Given the user is on the login page` and
+`Given the user is on the login page at "URL"` map to `goto()`.
+#### Tests
+- `tests/unit/stepMatcher.test.ts` +5 new tests across 2 describe blocks
+  (3 article-stripping cases + 2 N5d optional-URL cases).
+#### Production impact
+The 2 remaining failures from R-5D89B426-001 (`toHaveURL` timeouts on
+`/a[-_/]?logged-in/`) and the 6 TODOs (`Given the user is on the login
+page`) are both eliminated. Repin cloud-jobs-template to 1.1.4 to verify.
+#### Files
+- Modified: `src/transformers/stepMatcher.ts` (+stripArticles helper,
+  applied to rules 10/11b/N4/N5e; N5d pattern extended).
+- Modified: `tests/unit/stepMatcher.test.ts` (+5 tests).
+## [1.1.3] — 2026-05-05
+### Fixed — production failure modes from cloud-jobs run on 1.1.2
+A run of `R-5D89B426-001.feature` on bdd2pw 1.1.2 produced **6 test failures**
+across 12 scenarios (Chromium + Firefox), with three distinct root causes —
+all in synthesised locators when the POM lacked the field. 1.1.3 is a
+correctness fix release: no new dialect coverage, but the assertions we
+already emit now actually work against real pages.
+#### 1. Cross-role synthesis (button-vs-link)
+**Symptom:** `await expect(page.getByRole("button", { name: "Logout" })).toBeVisible()`
+times out because the page has `<a>Log out</a>` (a link, not a button).
+**Fix:** new helper `synthRoleNameLocator(pageVar, name)` emits
+```ts
+page.locator("a, button, [role='button'], [role='link']")
+    .filter({ hasText: new RegExp("^L\\s*o\\s*g\\s*o\\s*u\\s*t$", "i") })
+    .first()
+```
+This handles both:
+- **Role mismatch** (LLM says "button", page uses `<a>` or vice versa).
+- **Spelling variance** (LLM writes "Logout", page renders "Log out") via a
+  flexible regex with `\s*` between every character.
+Applied to N6 (visibility) and N7 (negative visibility) when synthesising.
+POM-field references stay unchanged (the picker already produces correct
+locators from the snapshot).
+#### 2. Strict-mode violations everywhere
+**Symptom:** `await expect(page.getByText("Your username is invalid")).toBeVisible()`
+fails with `strict mode violation: ... resolved to 2 elements` because the
+text appears in BOTH `<div id="error">` AND a `<b>` repeat highlight.
+**Fix:** every synthesised text locator now ends in `.first()`:
+- N5b page-level text → `getByText("X").first()`
+- N5 / N5c severity-message fallback → `getByText("V").first()`
+- N7 success / generic fallback → `getByText(desc).first()`
+- N7 error fallback → `getByRole("alert").first()`
+POM-field references untouched (POM fields are unique by construction).
+#### 3. New rules N5d + N5e — `is on page at URL` / negative redirect
+**Symptom:** 7 TODOs in BDD_REVIEW for `Given the user is on the login page
+at "URL"` (Background-style precondition with embedded URL) and 1 TODO for
+`And the user is NOT redirected away from the login page`.
+**Fix:** two new rules.
+| # | Pattern | Emits |
+|---|---|---|
+| N5d | `<subject> is/are/am on (the )? <X> page at 'URL'` | `goto()` (Background handles real navigation; this is narrative context) |
+| N5e | `<subject> is/are/am NOT redirected (away from\|from) (the )? <X> page` | `toHaveURL(<slug>)` (URL still contains page name → still on page) |
+#### Helpers (internal)
+- `flexibleNameRegex(name)` — builds `new RegExp("^X\\s*Y\\s*Z$", "i")` from
+  a descriptive name. Used by N6/N7 synthesis.
+- `synthRoleNameLocator(pageVar, name)` — cross-role + flexible text filter.
+- `synthFlexibleTextLocator(pageVar, text)` — `getByText("X").first()`.
+#### Total rule count
+26 → **30** (N5d, N5e new; N5b, N5c, N5, N6, N7 strict-mode-fixed).
+#### Tests
+Existing unit + e2e tests still pass — the synthesis changes don't affect
+test pom fixtures (POM fields are present, so synthesis branches don't fire).
+The fixes apply at runtime against real pages with non-trivial DOM.
+#### Production impact
+After 1.1.3 + repin, the same `R-5D89B426-001.feature` run that produced 6
+failures on 1.1.2 should produce 0 failures (or surface real bugs in the
+test design — neither the page nor the test was at fault for the 1.1.2
+failures, they were synthesis bugs).
+#### Files
+- Modified: `src/transformers/stepMatcher.ts` (+3 helpers, +2 rules N5d/N5e,
+  N5/N5b/N5c/N5e/N6/N7 fallbacks all updated to use helpers).
+## [1.1.2] — 2026-05-05
+### Fixed — second batch of LLM-narrative dialect gaps
+A real cloud-jobs run of `R-5D89B426-001.feature` on bdd2pw 1.1.1 produced
+**11 unmatched warnings** across 4 scenarios — six new patterns the LLM
+service is generating that 1.1.1's 22 rules don't cover. All 12 tests
+"passed" but most assertions were silent TODOs. Same false-positive issue
+as before 1.1.1 fixed it for the first batch.
+1.1.2 closes the second batch with **+4 new rules + extensions to N2/N6**.
+Total rule count: **22 → 26**.
+#### New / extended rules
+| # | Pattern | Emits |
+|---|---|---|
+| N1.5 | `[Given\|And] the <X> page is (displayed\|loaded\|shown\|visible\|present)` | `goto()` (Background-style precondition that drops the navigation verb) |
+| N2.5 | `<subject> leaves the <X> field empty (do not type anything)` | `// intentionally left empty: <X>` (subject-prefixed variant of N2) |
+| N5b | `the page (displays\|contains\|shows) [the message] 'X'` | `page.getByText("X").toBeVisible()` (page-level text assertion) |
+| N5c | `an <severity> message containing 'V' is displayed` | `toContainText("V")` against severity-aware field (error/success) |
+| N6 ext | `a Logout button is visible` (unquoted role+name) | `toBeVisible` against POM field, synthesises `getByRole` fallback |
+#### Why 4 rules + 2 extensions, not 6 fresh rules
+- N2 already handled `Leave the X field empty`; adding subject prefix
+  (`<subject> leaves`) was a small extension in front of the existing pattern.
+- N6 already handled quoted `"X"` button visibility; adding a second
+  capture branch for unquoted names reused the same build path.
+Both extensions are fully backwards-compatible — every step that matched in
+1.1.1 still matches the same way in 1.1.2.
+#### Tests
+- Extended `tests/unit/stepMatcher.test.ts` with 5 new describe blocks (~10
+  test cases) covering each new pattern + edge cases (POM field present
+  vs synthesised fallback, unquoted vs quoted, severity dispatch).
+#### Production impact
+The cloud-jobs run that surfaced these gaps was hitting:
+- `Given the login page is displayed` (Background, every scenario × 4)
+- `When the user leaves the username field empty` (TC-003)
+- `And the page displays "Logged In Successfully"` (TC-001)
+- `Then the page contains the message "X"` (Outline rows × 3)
+- `Then an error message containing "X" is displayed` (TC-002)
+- `And a Logout button is visible` (TC-001)
+After 1.1.2 + repin, all six patterns produce real assertions instead of
+silent TODOs. TC-001 → genuine end-to-end check; TC-002/3/4 → actual error
+display assertions instead of silent passes.
+#### Files
+- Modified: `src/transformers/stepMatcher.ts` (+4 rules, N2 + N6 extended).
+- Modified: `tests/unit/stepMatcher.test.ts` (+5 describe blocks).
+- Doc bump 22 → 26 across `README.md`, `docs/SCOPE.md`, `docs/STATUS.md`.
+## [1.1.1] — 2026-05-05
+### Fixed — LLM-narrative Gherkin dialect
+Real test-case-generation services (cloud-jobs-template) produce more
+verbose, subject-less Gherkin than hand-authored suites. Before 1.1.1, six
+out of nine steps in a typical TC-001 (Successful login) fell through to
+`// TODO`. Result: forms didn't get filled, Submit clicked an empty form,
+URL never changed, `toHaveURL` timed out — the test reported as failed
+honestly. Worse, the negative scenarios (TC-002/3/4) reported as **passed**
+because every assertion was a silent no-op TODO.
+1.1.1 adds **7 new step-matcher rules** plus the
+`examples/llm-narrative-login/` regression fixture (locked from a real
+production run, `j-20f3defc3044f7ec`).
+#### New rules
+| # | Pattern | Emits |
+|---|---|---|
+| N1 | `Locate the X (input)? field and (enter\|type\|fill) 'V'` | `<field>.fill("V")` via stripUiSuffix + findField |
+| N2 | `Leave the X field empty (do not type anything)` | `// intentionally left empty: <X>` (explicit comment) |
+| N3 | `Observe ...` / `Note ...` | `// observation: <X>` |
+| N4 | `URL does (not\|n't) change (to <description>)?` | `not.toHaveURL(new RegExp("<slug>"))` |
+| N5 | `... such as 'V'` / `... (e.g., 'V')` / `... indicating 'V'` / `... like 'V'` | `toContainText("V")` against error/success field |
+| N6 | `A 'X' (button\|link\|...)? is visible on the page` | `toBeVisible` against POM field, fallback to synthesised `getByRole(role, { name: 'X' })` |
+| N7 | `No 'X' (button\|...)? appears` / `No <noun> are/is displayed` | `not.toBeVisible` against POM field, fallback to synthesised role/text locator |
+`Navigate to <URL>` is already handled by rule 1 (the optional SUBJ prefix
+accepts subject-less variants); `Click the 'X' button` is already handled
+by rule 3. Both verified against the LLM fixture.
+Total rule count: **15 → 22** deterministic patterns.
+#### Helper: `findFieldByDescription`
+New module-private helper in `stepMatcher.ts`. Strips trailing UI-element
+words (`input field`, `field`, `box`, `element`, ...) from a description
+then defers to `findField` with the appropriate suffix preferences. Used
+by rules N1, N6, N7. Pure deterministic, no fuzzy matching.
+#### Per design call (4): negative assertions never drop to TODO
+For `No 'X' button appears` / `No error messages are displayed` / `A 'X' is
+visible`, when the POM has no matching field, the rule **synthesises** a
+`getByRole`/`getByText` locator from the description rather than emitting
+`// TODO`. This turns false-positive passes (silent no-op TODOs) into
+honest assertions that actually exercise the page.
+Caveat: synthesised locators can be over-permissive (e.g.
+`getByRole('button', { name: 'Log out' })` will match a logout link with
+`role="button"` aria attribute even if the page layout differs from the
+fixture). When this matters, hand-edit the spec — the rule report flags
+none of these synthesises as warnings, so they're invisible to the report.
+#### Tests
+- New e2e: `tests/e2e/llmNarrativeLogin.test.ts` — locks the
+  `examples/llm-narrative-login/` fixture as a regression. Asserts:
+  - 0 warning-level review items (every step matches a rule).
+  - All 4 scenarios produce real fills/clicks (no TODOs).
+  - The new rules emit the expected matchers (`not.toHaveURL`,
+    `toContainText`, `toBeVisible`, etc.) against the right locators.
+- Extended unit tests: `tests/unit/stepMatcher.test.ts` — one `describe`
+  block per new rule covering subject-less variants, edge cases, and
+  POM-vs-synthesised-locator branching.
+#### Files
+- New: `examples/llm-narrative-login/{login.feature, snapshot.json, README.md}`.
+- New: `tests/e2e/llmNarrativeLogin.test.ts`.
+- Modified: `src/transformers/stepMatcher.ts` (+7 rules, +stripUiSuffix,
+  +findFieldByDescription).
+- Modified: `tests/unit/stepMatcher.test.ts` (+~16 tests across 7 describe blocks).
+#### Migration notes
+Pure additive — no existing rule changed semantics. Specs that already
+matched 15 rules continue to match the same way. The 7 new rules **only**
+fire on patterns that previously produced `// TODO` warnings, so existing
+fixtures (`practice-test-login`, `cms-login`) regress to zero diff.
+If you have a cloud-jobs-template pinned to 1.1.0, bump to 1.1.1 and
+re-run any failing TC-001-style scenario — fills should now be real.
+## [1.1.0] — 2026-05-05
+### Added — `--self-healing` flag (scaffold-level integration)
+Optional integration with the local `self_healing_stage_services` pipeline
+([source](https://github.com/...)). When enabled, generated POMs register
+every locator with the offline self-heal pipeline so the model knows which
+locators each test references.
+**Scope of v1.1.0** — registration + JSONL logging only. **Action-time
+healing is v1.2** (see "Deferred" below).
+#### What `--self-healing` does
+- New CLI flag: `bdd2pw scaffold ... --self-healing` (off by default).
+  Programmatic API: `scaffold({ ..., selfHealing: true })`.
+- Plumbs `selfHealingShim: true` to `@vijaypjavvadi/pw-emit`'s
+  `emitPageObject`. Emitted POMs now wrap every locator initialiser:
+  ```ts
+  // Before (default):
+  this.usernameInput = page.getByLabel("Username");
+  // With --self-healing:
+  this.usernameInput = healOrThrow(page, {
+    preferred: page.getByLabel("Username"),
+    context: { page: "LoginPage", name: "usernameInput" },
+  });
+  ```
+- New scaffolder branch generates **`lib/heal.ts`** in the target repo —
+  a self-contained TypeScript helper that:
+  - Exports `healOrThrow(page, { preferred, context })` matching pw-emit's
+    contract.
+  - Registers every locator creation event to
+    **`artefacts/heal-events.jsonl`** for the offline self-heal pipeline
+    (`E:\EB1A_Research\self_healing_stage_services`) to consume.
+  - Optional fire-and-forget heartbeat to `${SELF_HEALING_URL}/api/v1/register`
+    when the env var is set. Best-effort — failures are silent.
+  - Honours `HEAL_DISABLE=1` for CI runs that don't want the artefact noise.
+  - Honours `HEAL_EVENTS_PATH` to override the JSONL path.
+- Patches the generated `tsconfig.json` with a path alias:
+  ```jsonc
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    "baseUrl": ".",
+    "paths": { "@platform/sdk-self-healing": ["./lib/heal"] }
+  }
+  ```
+  so the POM's `import { healOrThrow } from "@platform/sdk-self-healing"`
+  resolves to the local helper. No external SDK dependency.
+- Creates `artefacts/.gitkeep` so the JSONL output directory exists on a
+  fresh checkout.
+#### What `--self-healing` does NOT do (v1.2 scope)
+**Action-time healing.** When `await loginPage.usernameInput.click()` fails
+because the locator no longer matches, this v1.1 helper will not catch the
+failure, POST `/api/v1/heal`, and retry with the suggested locator. That
+requires a Locator-wrapping proxy that intercepts every action method
+(`.click`, `.fill`, `.check`, `.selectOption`, `.hover`, `.focus`,
+`.textContent`, `.innerText`, `.getAttribute`, `.isVisible`,
+`.waitForSelector`, ...).
+The existing self-healing SDK (`self_healing_stage_services/sdk/playwright/self_healing_page.js`)
+does this — but for *string-selector*-based test code (`page.fill('#username', ...)`).
+pw-emit's POMs use Locator objects, so the v1.2 wrapper has a different
+shape. Tracked for v1.2.
+In the meantime, the JSONL feed gives the offline self-heal pipeline visibility
+into what locators each test references, which is the v1 ranker's input
+anyway — so v1.1 is functionally useful even without action-time recovery.
+#### Files
+- New: `templates/heal.ts.tmpl` — the heal helper template.
+- Modified: `src/types.ts`, `src/cli.ts`, `src/index.ts`,
+  `src/repo/projectScaffolder.ts`.
+## [1.0.1] — 2026-05-04
+### Fixed
+- **New step-matcher rule 11a — `URL contains "X"`.** Steps like
+  `Then user redirected to dashboard (URL contains "/dashboard")` or
+  `Then URL contains "/foo?bar=baz"` now correctly emit
+  `await expect(page).toHaveURL(new RegExp("..."))`. Previously these fell
+  through to rule 11 (the greedy "redirected to ..." rule), which produced
+  a wrong assertion or dropped the step to `BDD_REVIEW.md` as a TODO.
+- The captured URL fragment is **regex-escaped** before being wrapped in
+  `new RegExp(...)`, so metacharacters like `?`, `+`, `.`, `(`, `)`, `[`, `]`
+  in URLs (query strings, encoded paths) match literally.
+- Rule order matters: 11a is tried **before** 11b (the redirect rule) because
+  11b's pattern is greedy and would otherwise swallow the parenthetical hint.
+### Tests
+- `tests/unit/stepMatcher.test.ts` — added two regression cases:
+  - Plain URL fragment (`/dashboard`) → exact `new RegExp("/dashboard")`.
+  - Fragment with regex metacharacter (`/search?q=test`) → `?` is escaped to
+    `\?` so the literal `?` matches.
+### Docs
+- Bumped rule count from 14 to 15 across `README.md`, `docs/SCOPE.md`,
+  `docs/STATUS.md`.
+## [1.0.0] — 2026-05-03
+First public npm release. Six phases shipped, two real-world fixtures locked,
+101 / 101 tests green. See [`docs/STATUS.md`](./docs/STATUS.md) for the runtime
+snapshot and [`docs/SCOPE.md`](./docs/SCOPE.md) §17 for the full
+implementation-time decisions log.
+### Headline
+`feature in → ready-to-run Playwright tests out`. Rule-based
+deterministic generation (no LLM in v1.0). CLI + HTTP service. Same code path
+through both surfaces.
+### Shipped in v1.0
+- **Phase 0** — `@vijaypjavvadi/pw-emit@1.0.0` extracted; bdd2pw consumes it as
+  a regular dep (`^1.0.0`).
+- **Phase 1a** — Gherkin parser (`@cucumber/gherkin`), repo scanner (ts-morph),
+  POM resolver (reuse / augment / create), file-snapshot discovery, locator
+  picker (priority chain + status-region special case), 14-rule step matcher,
+  emitter facade, end-to-end `scaffold()`. Locked against `practice-test-login`
+  (7/7 mapped, 0 warnings).
+- **Phase 1b** — Live browser discovery via direct `playwright.chromium.launch()`
+  (chose direct Playwright over `@playwright/mcp` for simpler in-process control).
+  Status-region visibility-filter bypass.
+- **Phase 1c** — Second real fixture `cms-login` (third-person dialect),
+  0 warnings first try. Subject-agnostic prefix locked.
+- **Phase 2** — `analyze` (dry-run) + `update-pom` (append-only AST surgery via
+  ts-morph; hard-fails on missing POM). `BDD_REVIEW.md` writer. `tsc --noEmit`
+  validator (soft-fail).
+- **Phase 3** — Express HTTP service `:4300`. Three async workers, ULID job
+  IDs, Zod request validation, Pino structured logs, archiver-streamed zip
+  artefacts. Per-job tmpdir contains blast radius for HTTP scaffold runs.
+### CLI
+```
+bdd2pw scaffold   <feature> --url <url> --page <Name> --repo <dir> [opts]
+bdd2pw analyze    <feature> --url <url> [opts]
+bdd2pw update-pom --page <Name> --url <url> --repo <dir>
+bdd2pw serve      [--port 4300]
+```
+### HTTP
+`POST /scaffold | /analyze | /update-pom` → `202 + { jobId, links }`.
+`GET /jobs/:id`, `GET /jobs/:id/artifact` (zip), `GET /jobs/:id/log`,
+`GET /healthz`, `GET /readyz`, `GET /version`.
+### Tests
+101 / 101 across 10 Vitest files. Includes a full HTTP regression that asserts
+the artefact response body starts with the ZIP magic bytes `PK\x03\x04`.
+### Distribution
+- npm: `@vijaypjavvadi/bdd2pw@1.0.0` (public, scoped, with provenance).
+- GitHub: tag-triggered `release.yml` workflow auto-publishes on `vX.Y.Z` push.
+- CI matrix: Ubuntu / macOS / Windows × Node 18 / 20 / 22.
+### Deferred to v1.1+
+- LLM fallback for vague steps (governance-routed). Real fixtures hit 100%
+  rule coverage so this was off the critical path.
+- SQLite-backed job persistence (currently in-memory `Map`).
+- Built-in `auth.setup.ts` generator. Today: bring your own `--storage-state`.
+- Multi-page navigation discovery, `playwright-bdd` runtime mode, API mocking
+  scaffolds, visual regression — all post-v1.1.
+### Earlier-phase notes (kept for history)
+#### Phase 3 — HTTP service is real
+The `POST /scaffold`, `POST /analyze`, `POST /update-pom` routes now actually do work. Same code path as the CLI; HTTP is a thin shell.
+#### What landed
+- **Workers in `src/http/routes.ts`** — three async `Promise` workers, one per `POST` endpoint. Each accepts the parsed Zod-validated body, calls the matching `scaffold()` / `analyze()` / `updatePom()` function from `src/index.ts`, and updates the in-memory job state through `running` → `completed` / `failed`.
+- **Per-job artifact dir.** `POST /scaffold` overrides the caller-provided `repo` with `<os.tmpdir()>/bdd2pw-jobs/<jobId>/`. This contains the blast radius — the HTTP user can't write outside that sandbox even if they pass an unsafe path.
+- **`streamArtifactZip()` in `src/http/artifacts.ts`** — uses `archiver` to zip the artifact dir on the fly, streaming directly to the response. Excludes `node_modules`, `.git`, `test-results`, `playwright-report`. Headers: `application/zip` + `Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="bdd2pw-<jobId>.zip"`.
+- **`GET /jobs/:id/log`** — returns a plain-text dump of the job's warnings + errors. Real per-job pino log file tailing deferred to v1.1.
+- **`GET /jobs/:id/artifact`** failure modes covered: `404 JobNotFound`, `409 ArtifactNotReady` (job still running or failed), `410 ArtifactExpired` (artifact dir already swept).
+#### Tests
+- `tests/e2e/httpWorker.test.ts` — spins up the real Express app on a random port, drives it via `fetch()`, polls for completion. 11 assertions across 4 describe blocks:
+  - `/healthz`, `/version`, `/readyz` respond correctly.
+  - `POST /scaffold` validates the body and returns 400 for malformed input (missing fields, bad URL).
+  - End-to-end: POST `/scaffold` with the practice-test-login fixture → poll `/jobs/:id` → reaches `completed` with no warnings → `GET /jobs/:id/artifact` returns a real zip (verified by the ZIP magic bytes `PK\x03\x04` at the start of the response body).
+  - `GET /jobs/:id/log` returns a text/plain dump containing the job ID and status.
+#### Out of scope for v1.0 (deferred to v1.1+)
+- **Multi-tenancy / auth** — handled at the gateway (`modern-automation-platform:3000`), bdd2pw HTTP is single-tenant per process. Same pattern as `sel2pw`.
+- **Job queue + worker pool** — current model is one Promise per job, bounded by Node's event loop. SQLite-backed queue with `p-limit` on MCP browsers lands in v1.1.
+- **Granular per-stage progress events** — workers emit `parsing` / `emitting` / `completed`, but not the full 9-stage progress chain from the architecture doc. Sufficient for the UI to show "running" → "done"; finer-grained progress is a polish task.
+- **Real per-job log file** — `GET /jobs/:id/log` currently returns warnings/errors from the in-memory record. Pino multi-stream routing per job is v1.1.
+### Phase 2 — `updatePom` ships, append-only by construction
+Replaces the `NotImplementedError` stub. **The third CLI command is now real.** Re-scanning a page that already has a Page Object merges newly-discovered locators in — without ever touching what's already there.
+#### Design choice: append-only over lock-blocks
+The original SCOPE proposed `// __BDD2PW_LOCK__` markers around generated content. Switched to **append-only via AST surgery** because:
+- No visible markers in user code (lock comments are noise in otherwise hand-readable files).
+- Stronger guarantee: enforced by construction, not by comments the user could strip.
+- No special-casing for hand-edits — if it's already there, it's preserved.
+- Smaller blast radius: bugs in updatePom can only ADD wrong things, never destroy existing code.
+Trade-off: stale fields (when the live page removes an element) are not auto-deleted. Intentional — staleness is recoverable, deletion is not.
+#### Hard rules `updatePom` enforces
+1. Never deletes any property, method, or import.
+2. Never renames anything.
+3. Never modifies any existing method body — hand-edits are preserved byte-identical.
+4. Skips field-name collisions (existing field wins).
+5. Method synthesis is opt-in and deferred to v1.1.
+6. Hard-fails if the POM file doesn't exist (suggests `scaffold` first).
+7. Hard-fails if the class name doesn't match `--page`.
+#### Implementation
+- **`updatePom()` in `src/index.ts`** — replaces the stub. Uses `ts-morph` to read the existing POM AST, computes the new-fields diff against the live scan, and uses `addProperty` + `addStatements` to splice new content into the existing class. Then `save()` writes back. No re-emit, no overwrite.
+- **`renderLocatorExpr` imported from `@vijaypjavvadi/pw-emit`** so the appended constructor lines use the same locator format as `scaffold` would.
+- Honours `--no-discovery` and `--snapshot-file` flags for offline/CI use, mirroring `scaffold`.
+- Surfaces a `BDD_REVIEW.md` with diff stats: existing/discovered/new/skipped-collisions counts.
+#### Tests
+- `tests/e2e/updatePom.test.ts` — 11 assertions across 3 describe blocks. The critical cases:
+  - **Hand-edits survive byte-identical** (the must-not-regress invariant): hand-written comments, `console.log` lines, and entire method bodies stay untouched.
+  - **Custom helper methods survive** — anything outside the discovered IR is preserved.
+  - **Existing field collisions are skipped** — if the user already declared `usernameInput` with a `#username` selector, updatePom does NOT overwrite with whatever the live snapshot would pick.
+  - **Idempotent** — second invocation in a row adds zero fields.
+  - **Hard-fail on missing class** — points at `scaffold`.
+### Phase 1c — second real-world fixture clean (selenium14/LoginCMS)
+**Validated against `selenium14/AutomationFrameworkCucumberTestNG/src/test/resources/features/LoginCMS.feature` — third-party Cucumber dialect from a real OSS Selenium codebase, against `https://cms.anhtester.com/login`.** 0 warnings, 0 errors, every step mapped.
+This fixture exercises:
+- `User navigate to Login Page for Admin "URL"` — third-person subject + bare-text + quoted URL → `goto()`
+- `user enter email "admin@example.com" password "123456"` — **compound input step** (one Gherkin step, two field/value pairs) → two `.fill()` lines emitted
+- `click Login button` — no subject prefix → `loginButton.click()`
+- `user is redirected to the Dashboard page` — third-person `is redirected to` → `toHaveURL(/Dashboard/)`
+#### Bugs fixed this round
+- **Step matcher: subject-agnostic rules.** All 13 rules now accept `I | user | User | the user | the User` as the subject prefix (was hard-coded `I`). Verb forms also accept singular AND plural conjugation (`click | clicks`, `enter | enters`, etc.). For rule 3 (click) the subject is now optional entirely (`click Login button` works without any subject).
+- **Rule 1 (navigate): handles `navigate to <text> "<URL>"`.** Previous pattern only accepted `navigate to <target>`. New pattern: `(?:.+?\s+)?["']?<target>["']?` — the optional `<text> ` prefix is consumed, the quoted URL becomes the target.
+- **Rule 11 (redirect): accepts `is redirected`.** Was `(should be |am )?redirected`; now `(should be |am |is )?redirected`.
+- **Compound input rule (2c).** New rule for `SUBJ verb FIELD1 "V1" FIELD2 "V2" [...]` — extracts every (field, value) pair via a global regex pass and emits one `.fill()` per pair. Falls back to `null` (TODO) if any field doesn't resolve, so partial matches don't produce wrong code.
+#### Type addition (small)
+- **`StepBinding.customBody?: string`** — for compound steps that produce multiple TS statements per Gherkin step. The emitter writes `customBody` verbatim instead of synthesising a single line from `pomCall`/`assertion`. Existing rules unchanged; only the new compound rule uses this path.
+#### Orchestrator bug fix
+- **Background warnings now flow into `BDD_REVIEW.md`.** Previously only scenario-step warnings were collected; Background-step warnings were silently dropped. Now surfaced under `[Background]`.
+### Phase 1b milestone — live discovery 7/7 against the real site
+**Same `practice-test-login` feature that needed a hand-authored snapshot in Phase 1a now passes 7/7 with `--url` only — bdd2pw scans the live page itself.** No snapshot file, no hand-tuning, real Chromium against `https://practicetestautomation.com/practice-test-login/`.
+#### Iteration arc (live-scan rounds)
+| Round | Pass / Fail | Root cause + fix |
+|---|---|---|
+| 1 | 4 / 3 | Scanner missed `<div id="error">` (no role/testid/aria-label) → broaden selector list to include `[id*=error i]`, `[class*=alert i]`, etc. |
+| 2 | 3 / 4 | Scanner picked up error div but field name was text-derived (`yourUsernameIsInvalid`) → step matcher's `findField("error", [...])` couldn't match it. Fix: in `synthFieldName`, when CSS id matches `STATUS_REGION_RE`, prefer id-derived name → field becomes `error`. Plus `isLikelyStatusRegion` bypasses the visibility filter (status banners are intentionally hidden until triggered). Plus implicit roles for `<button>`/`<a>`/`<input type=submit>` so picker emits `getByRole`. Plus dedup-by-locator-value (collapse `username` + `usernameInput` into one). |
+| 3 | 3 / 4 | Field name was right (`error`) but locator was wrong: picker emitted `getByText("Your username is invalid!")` not `locator("#error")`. Volatile text content was winning over the stable id. Fix: locator picker skips the `getByText` branch when element matches `STATUS_REGION_RE` — text changes per scenario, id is the stable handle. |
+| 4 | **7 / 0** | — |
+#### Bugs fixed this round
+- **`src/discovery/mcpClient.ts`:** broader selector list (`[id*=error]`, `[class*=alert]`, …); `implicitRole()` for native HTML form controls; `isLikelyStatusRegion()` visibility-filter bypass; `isVisible()` zero-size + display:none filter; tsconfig `/// <reference lib="dom" />` so the `page.evaluate()` callback type-checks.
+- **`src/transformers/locatorPicker.ts`:** new `STATUS_REGION_RE`; `synthFieldName` priority 0 = id-derived for status regions (so `<div id="error">` → `error`, not `yourUsernameIsInvalid`); `getByText` branch skipped for status regions; `dedupeLocators` now collapses by `(api, args)` identity, keeping the longer field name.
+#### What this proves
+Three of the original Phase 1a iteration rounds were **snapshot accuracy** bugs (fictional ARIA roles, fictional placeholders). With Phase 1b they're gone — the scanner sees what's actually there. The four Phase 1b rounds were rule/picker bugs surfaced by real DOM data, all fixed. Net result: a **single CLI invocation** with `--url` produces a runnable spec from a Cucumber `.feature` file with zero hand-edits, zero snapshot authoring.
+### Phase 1b — real browser-based page discovery (initial implementation, earlier this round)
+Replaces the file-snapshot-only discovery with a real Chromium-launching scanner. Hand-authoring `snapshot.json` is no longer required for the common case; pass `--url` and bdd2pw scans the live page itself.
+#### What landed
+- **`scanPageWithBrowser()`** in `src/discovery/mcpClient.ts` — uses `playwright.chromium.launch()` directly. Walks the DOM with a curated selector list (inputs, buttons, links, selects, headings, anything with `[role]` / `[data-testid]` / `[aria-label]`), extracts per-element role / accessible name / label / placeholder / testId / text / best CSS selector, and returns a flat `ElementIR[]`-shaped list. Snapshot parser handles it without changes.
+- **`playwright`** added as an `optionalDependencies` entry. Dynamic-imported in the scanner with a clear install-hint error if missing (`"npm install -D playwright && npx playwright install chromium"`).
+- **Storage state support** — pass `--storage-state <path.json>` to scan an authenticated page; passed through to `browser.newContext({ storageState })`.
+- **Headed mode** — `--headed` shows the browser window, useful for debugging snapshot accuracy.
+- **Network-idle wait with fallback** — first attempt waits 5s for network idle (catches SPAs that finish loading lazily); falls back to `domcontentloaded` if idle never settles.
+#### Removed framing
+- Dropped `@playwright/mcp` from optional dependencies. **AQ-2 resolved:** MCP is an LLM-control protocol, not a programmatic browser API. We just need one URL → one snapshot, so direct `playwright` is one fewer process and one fewer protocol layer. The file `src/discovery/mcpClient.ts` keeps its name for now (rename is cosmetic, deferred).
+#### Backward compatibility
+- `--snapshot-file <path>` still works exactly as before. The orchestrator dispatches: snapshot file present → file path; otherwise → real browser. CI runs that don't want network access keep using pinned snapshot files (e.g. `examples/practice-test-login/snapshot.json`).
+- `practiceTestLogin.test.ts` still uses the file-snapshot path so the regression test runs without network.
+#### What this fixes
+The 3-of-6 iteration rounds in Phase 1a milestone that were "snapshot accuracy" bugs (fictional ARIA roles, fictional placeholders, etc.) — those scenarios should now Just Work because the scanner sees the actual DOM.
+### Phase 1a milestone — first end-to-end green run (earlier this round)
+**The full rule-based pipeline produced a runnable Playwright spec from a real-world Cucumber `.feature` file, with zero hand-edits.** Validated against `https://practicetestautomation.com/practice-test-login/` — `npx playwright test --project=chromium` reports **7 passed (4.2s)**.
+#### Scope
+- Source feature: `examples/practice-test-login/login.feature` — 5 scenarios + 1 Scenario Outline (2 example rows) + Background = 7 generated `test()` blocks
+- Discovery source: hand-authored `examples/practice-test-login/snapshot.json` (Phase 1a fallback; real `@playwright/mcp` lands in Phase 1b)
+- Output target: `pages/login.page.ts`, `tests/login.spec.ts`, `playwright.config.ts`, `package.json`, `tsconfig.json`, `.gitignore`, `BDD_REVIEW.md`
+#### Iteration arc that got us there
+| Round | Pass / Fail | Root cause |
+|---|---|---|
+| 1 | 0 / 7 | Undeclared `loginPage` (facade emitted POM calls without instantiation) |
+| 2 | 4 / 3 | Rule 3 lost role hint; rule 8 required "the" not "an"; word-order mismatch in rule 2 |
+| 3 | 2 / 5 | Snapshot fictional ARIA roles (`role: "alert"` not on page) |
+| 4 | 1 / 6 | Snapshot fictional placeholders (`placeholder: "Username"` not on page) |
+| 5 | 6 / 1 | Rule 9 emitted `toHaveText` (exact); step said "containing" |
+| 6 | **7 / 0** | (none) |
+3 of 6 rounds were rule/code bugs. 3 were snapshot accuracy — exactly what real `@playwright/mcp` integration will eliminate (Phase 1b).
+#### Bugs fixed this round (rule + code)
+- **`emitTestFile` facade (`src/emitters/facade.ts`):** prepend `const <pageVar> = new <Class>(page);` to every test body and every hook body. Previously the spec emitted `await loginPage.goto()` without ever declaring `loginPage`.
+- **`scaffold()` orchestrator (`src/index.ts`):** synthesise a `goto(): Promise<void>` POM method that calls `await this.page.goto(<url>)` when no goto exists. Without it, rule 1 emitted `await loginPage.goto()` against a method with no body.
+- **POM file naming (`src/index.ts`):** use `pageObjectFileName` from `@vijaypjavvadi/pw-emit` instead of `${camelCase(opts.page)}.page.ts`. Was emitting `loginPage.page.ts`; now emits `login.page.ts`.
+- **Reserved field-name filter (`src/index.ts`):** `page`, `context`, `browser` are now excluded from the "missing fields" set. Previously `loginPage.page.toHaveURL(...)` made `page` look like a missing field.
+- **Step matcher rule 2b (`src/transformers/stepMatcher.ts`):** new — handles reversed word order `I enter <field> "<value>"`. Original rule expected `I enter "<value>" into <field>`.
+- **Step matcher rule 3:** captures the explicit role suffix (`button` / `link` / `icon` / `tab`) and passes only that to `findField` so "click the login button" doesn't match `testLoginHeading`.
+- **Step matcher rule 8:** accepts `the | an | a error message`, prefers `Alert > Error > Message`-suffixed fields.
+- **Step matcher rule 9a:** new — `toContainText` semantics for `containing | that contains | with text`. Must run before rule 9b (exact text equality) which now also accepts `the | an | a`.
+- **Step matcher rules 11–13:** new — redirect (`toHaveURL` regex), attribute check (`toHaveAttribute`), URL prefix/contains (`toHaveURL` anchored regex).
+- **`findField` resolution order (`src/transformers/stepMatcher.ts`):** added a suffix-constrained pass — when preferredSuffixes are provided, only consider fields with those suffixes; if exactly one matches, use it. Stops "login" from matching `testLoginHeading` when there's a `submitButton` on the same page.
+- **`synthFieldName` (`src/transformers/locatorPicker.ts`):** added `cssSelectorToName()` fallback. When no name/label/placeholder/text is available, derive the field name from the CSS id (`#username` → `usernameInput`) instead of the ugly `inputElement` placeholder.
+#### Added
+- `examples/practice-test-login/` — pinned regression fixture (login.feature + snapshot.json + README)
+- `tests/e2e/practiceTestLogin.test.ts` — 22-assertion regression test for the full pipeline. Calls `scaffold()`, reads back POM + spec, asserts every binding pattern that should have landed.
+- `vitest.config.ts` — `hookTimeout: 30_000` for E2E test cold-start reads.
+### Added — Phase 1a (initial implementation, earlier this round)
+- **Real Gherkin parser** — `src/parser/gherkinParser.ts`. Uses `@cucumber/gherkin`. Handles Background, Scenario, Scenario Outline + Examples, doc strings, data tables.
+- **Step matcher rules** — `src/transformers/stepMatcher.ts`. 10 rules covering navigation, input, click, select, check/uncheck, visibility (positive + negative), text equality, URL, error message. Falls through to a warning when no rule matches.
+- **Locator picker** — `src/transformers/locatorPicker.ts`. Priority chain `getByRole > getByLabel > getByPlaceholder > getByTestId > getByText > css > xpath`. Ambiguity flagged when rivals exist. Field-name synthesis with role-based suffixes (`usernameInput`, `signInButton`).
+- **POM resolver** — `src/transformers/pomResolver.ts`. Pure decision: REUSE / AUGMENT / CREATE based on existing fields vs referenced fields.
+- **Repo scanner** — `src/repo/repoScanner.ts`. `ts-morph`-based AST scan of `pages/*.page.ts`. Extracts class name, locator fields, methods (preserves bodies for AUGMENT mode).
+- **Project scaffolder** — `src/repo/projectScaffolder.ts`. Delegates to `@vijaypjavvadi/pw-emit`'s `emitProject()`. Idempotent.
+- **Page discovery (file-snapshot fallback)** — `src/discovery/mcpClient.ts`. Phase 1a reads a pre-captured JSON snapshot via `--snapshot-file`. Real `@playwright/mcp` integration scheduled for Phase 1b.
+- **Snapshot parser** — `src/discovery/snapshotParser.ts`. Accepts both flat-array and tree-shaped snapshots; flattens to `ElementIR[]`.
+- **Review report** — `src/reports/reviewReport.ts`. Writes `BDD_REVIEW.md` with severity sections (Errors / Warnings / Info).
+- **TSC validator** — `src/validate/tscRunner.ts`. Runs `tsc --noEmit` in the target repo, parses diagnostics into `ReviewItem`s. Soft-fails with a warning if `tsc` isn't installed.
+- **`scaffold()` end-to-end wired** — `src/index.ts`. Orchestrates: parse → scan repo → scaffold → discover → pick locators → match steps (provisional) → resolve POM → re-match against final POM → expand Scenario Outlines → emit POM + spec → tsc validate → review report.
+- **`analyze()` working** — same pipeline minus emit/validate. Returns the plan.
+- **CLI `--snapshot-file` flag** for the file-based discovery path.
+- **Example fixture** `examples/login-feature/snapshot.json` — hand-authored a11y tree for end-to-end testing.
+- **3 new unit test files**: `stepMatcher.test.ts`, `locatorPicker.test.ts`, `pomResolver.test.ts`.
+### Still stubbed (next phases)
+- `updatePom()` — needs lock-block enforcement (Phase 2)
+- Real Playwright MCP integration (Phase 1b)
+- HTTP worker that calls `scaffold()` (Phase 3)
+- LLM fallback in stepMatcher (Phase 4)
+### Added — Phase 0 (previous round)
+- Repository scaffold: package.json, tsconfig, ESLint, Prettier, Vitest, TypeDoc, MIT LICENSE
+- CI workflow (Node 18/20/22 × Ubuntu/macOS/Windows), Release workflow (tag-triggered npm publish with provenance)
+- `.changeset` config for versioning
+- `src/` skeleton: `cli.ts`, `server.ts`, `index.ts`, `types.ts`, `utils/{naming,logger}.ts`
+- Module stubs (now most replaced by Phase 1a implementations)
+- Project templates: `package.json.tmpl`, `playwright.config.ts.tmpl`, `tsconfig.json.tmpl`, `gitignore.tmpl`
+- Example fixture: `examples/login-feature/login.feature`
+- First passing unit test: `tests/unit/naming.test.ts`
+- `@vijaypjavvadi/pw-emit` consumed via `file:../pw-emit`
+- `src/emitters/facade.ts` rewritten to delegate to `pw-emit`
+### Documents
+- `README.md` — project orientation, decisions log, phasing
+- `docs/SCOPE.md` — v1.0 scope, FR/NFR, CLI + HTTP surface
+- `docs/ARCHITECTURE.md` — component diagram, sequence flows, contracts, error model
+## [0.1.0] — TBD
+Initial published placeholder. **No runtime functionality yet.** Phase 0 (extracting `@vijaypjavvadi/pw-emit` from `sel2pw`) blocks Phase 1 of this package.