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Gleb Khmyznikov 5759a62d4a [UITests][Keyboard Manager] UI tests for new keyboard manager. (#50059)
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tests for the unified editor -->

## Summary of the Pull Request

Closes: #40662

Adds a new `Microsoft.PowerToys.UITest.Next` end-to-end suite for
Keyboard Manager and hardens the unified editor behavior uncovered while
exercising it on Windows 10, Windows 11, x64, and ARM64.

The Keyboard Manager suite executes 32 test cases covering:

- Unified editor create, edit, save, enable/disable, delete, restart
persistence, missing-profile recovery, validation, and special actions.
- Single-key, key-to-shortcut, shortcut-to-shortcut, shortcut-to-key,
disabled-key, and app-specific remapping.
- Modifier ordering and release behavior, including Alt+Tab and Alt+F4
targets.
- Real keyboard behavior through Windows Notepad and Calculator fixtures
rather than synthetic input windows.

The PR also adds 26 managed unit tests around settings normalization,
profile reconciliation, metadata ownership, active-state changes, and
canonical modifier ordering.

## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments

### Keyboard Manager UI tests

Adds `src/modules/keyboardmanager/Tests/KeyboardManager.UITests` as a
Microsoft Testing Platform executable using `UITestAutomation.Next` and
winappcli.

The suite includes:

- `KeyboardManager.Editor.CreateEditPersistDelete`
  - Creates and edits mappings.
- Verifies native profile and editor metadata persistence across
restarts.
- Exercises active-state toggling, row deletion, and missing
native-profile recovery.
- `KeyboardManager.Editor.InputAndValidation`
- Covers key recording, dropdown input, keyboard navigation,
cancellation, and app-specific validation.
- `KeyboardManager.Editor.ActionPersistence`
- Covers Open URL, Open app, and Insert text actions and verifies
canonical readback after restart.
- Parameterized runtime tests for key/shortcut combinations, disabled
targets, app-specific mappings, modifier release order, Alt+Tab, and
Alt+F4.

The test support code provides:

- A shared cross-process fixture lock and isolated Keyboard Manager
settings scope.
- Real Notepad documents with exact window/document ownership and
cleanup.
- Win10/Win11-aware Calculator window ownership for Alt+F4 assertions.
- A low-level keyboard event recorder that validates injected
key-down/key-up sequences and flags.
- Authoritative persisted JSON assertions instead of relying only on
transient UI state.

### Keyboard Manager correctness fixes found by the suite

The tests exposed product races and persistence issues that are fixed in
the same PR:

- Native profile JSON is written through checked same-directory atomic
replacement instead of a truncation-prone direct write.
- Editor metadata and native mappings are normalized and reconciled per
profile.
- Create, edit, delete, and active-state mutations commit metadata and
native state transactionally under a cross-process lock.
- Startup reconciliation preserves inactive metadata owned by other
profiles and repairs legacy/profileless settings.
- Native Boolean return values use one-byte marshaling to match the C++
ABI.
- Modifier keys and serialized targets are canonicalized consistently.
- Unit-test initialization no longer starts real settings
synchronization.

### CI stability hardening

The editor workflows use coordinate-free UIA invocation for command
buttons and authoritative-signal retries for idempotent row
interactions. Window fixtures bind exact top-level HWNDs and distinguish
the Win10 Calculator `ApplicationFrameWindow` from its child content
window.

The child-specific `UITestAutomation.Next` updates add or improve:

- `WindowShowWatcher` lifecycle handling used by the Keyboard Manager
window fixtures.
- Exact HWND foreground, close, and process-tree cleanup helpers
required by the Win10/Win11 tests.

### Pipeline workflow

Adds the internal `ui-tests-pipeline-ci` skill and Azure DevOps helper
used during stabilization:

- Uses an existing Azure CLI session plus Azure DevOps REST APIs without
per-call authentication prompts.
- Supports paged branch/build discovery, preview and queue operations,
exact-SHA reconciliation, stage retry/cancel, logs, test results,
artifacts, and direct result-attachment downloads.
- Uses build-scoped one-shot completion monitoring and retains the
three-run stabilization guardrail.

## Validation Steps Performed

### Azure DevOps UI Test Automation

Final verification build: 
-
https://microsoft.visualstudio.com/Dart/_build/results?buildId=155512681&view=results
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https://microsoft.visualstudio.com/Dart/_build/results?buildId=155525972&view=results

## Reviewer guide

Suggested review order:

1. `src/modules/keyboardmanager/Tests/KeyboardManager.UITests/` -
intended workflows and assertions.
2. `KeyboardManagerEditorUI/Settings/SettingsManager.cs` and
`Pages/MainPage.xaml.cs` - transaction and reconciliation ownership.
3. `common/MappingConfiguration.cpp` and
`Interop/KeyboardManagerInterop.cs` - native persistence and ABI fixes.
4. `src/common/UITestAutomation.Next/WindowControl.cs` and
`WindowShowWatcher.cs` - child-specific window lifecycle hardening.
5. `.github/skills/ui-tests-pipeline-ci/` - internal Azure CLI/REST
stabilization workflow.

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