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Closes #1556

Problem

No product has a criterion score yet (#1143). Versus and deals still offered their persona suggestions. The scoring already skips null criteria, so every persona ranked exactly like the default. The versus verdict still named the persona's weights, which misled.

What changes

Same rule as the leaderboard in #1554, and no new text.

• Versus (VersusInteractiveScoreboard.tsx):
  • A use-case preset shows only when both models have a real score for the criterion it weighs most (versusAvailablePersonas).
  • With no criterion scored on both sides, the presets and the "Tùy chỉnh trọng số" toggle are hidden.
  • The sliders list only the criteria both sides have.
  • The result, verdict and exports read the active preset. That falls back to the default if a preset is no longer offered.
• Deals (DealFinderWorkspace.tsx):
  • A persona shows only when some product in the category has a real score for its criterion (availableDealPersonas).
  • With only the default left, the pill group is hidden and the ranking uses the default persona.
  • The scoring itself is unchanged: lean already kept the combined score where a criterion is null.

Tests

• core-rate-architecture.test.ts: availableDealPersonas (no data, a camera score, a category filter) and versusAvailablePersonas.
• E2E: the seed has no criterion scores, the same as production today. So:
  • pill-group-state: the compare presets and the deals persona group drop out of the pressed-state list. A new test checks that versus and deals show no persona group or weights toggle.
  • deals-paging: a budget step, not a persona click, restarts paging.
  • light-theme-controls: the weights-toggle contrast check is removed, since the toggle is not shown. The other scoreboard controls are still measured.
• pnpm test, tsc and eslint pass locally. E2E runs in CI.

Review

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📌 TL;DR

This PR implements a conditional rendering logic for persona presets and custom weight sliders in the "Deals" and "Compare" (Versus) views, ensuring these controls are only displayed when products have actual criterion scores that would differentiate the rankings (referencing #1556). It also updates E2E tests to reflect the new UI behavior where these controls are hidden when no scored criteria exist.

🎯 Type of Change

• 🚀 New feature
• 🐛 Bugfix
• 🧹 Refactor
• ⚡ Performance
• 📚 Documentation
• ⚙️ CI / Configuration

🔍 Changes Walkthrough

File	Summary of Changes
apps/web/e2e/deals-paging.spec.ts	Updated E2E test to interact with the budget slider (keyboard arrow) instead of a persona button, as persona buttons may no longer be present.
apps/web/e2e/light-theme-controls.spec.ts	Removed assertions for the "custom-weights" button visibility and contrast, as this control is now conditionally hidden when no criterion scores exist.
apps/web/e2e/pill-group-state.spec.ts	Updated tests to verify that persona groups and custom weight toggles are absent (count 0) on /compare and /deals pages when no products have criterion scores.
apps/web/src/components/compare/VersusInteractiveScoreboard.tsx	Added versusAvailablePersonas helper to filter presets based on shared scored criteria. Modified the component to conditionally render the persona strip and sliders only when canWeigh is true (i.e., shared criteria exist).
apps/web/src/components/deals/DealFinderWorkspace.tsx	Added availableDealPersonas helper to determine which personas are relevant based on product scores. Modified the component to hide the persona pill group entirely if only the "default" persona is available.
apps/web/src/server/rate/__tests__/core-rate-architecture.test.ts	Added unit tests for availableDealPersonas and versusAvailablePersonas to verify correct filtering logic based on product criteria scores.

📊 Architectural Flow

flowchart TD
    A[Product Data] --> B{Has Criterion Scores?}
    
    B -- No --> C[availablePersonas = ['default']]
    B -- Yes --> D[Filter Personas by Scored Criteria]
    
    C --> E[canWeigh = false]
    D --> F[canWeigh = true]
    
    E --> G[Hide Persona Strip & Sliders]
    F --> H[Show Persona Strip & Sliders]
    
    G --> I[Render UI]
    H --> I

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Deal Finder now shows scoring personas only when products in the selected category have relevant scores. The default ranking remains available and is used if a selected persona is no longer applicable.
  • Device comparisons now offer scoring presets and sliders only for criteria scored by both devices. Results, verdicts, and exports reflect the available scoring options.

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Walkthrough

Versus and Deal Finder now show persona choices only when the relevant criteria have scores. Both use the default persona when no applicable choice is available. Tests were updated to check persona availability and filter behavior.

Changes: Persona availability

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Versus persona scoring and controls apps/web/src/components/compare/VersusInteractiveScoreboard.tsx, apps/web/e2e/light-theme-controls.spec.ts, apps/web/e2e/pill-group-state.spec.ts	Versus filters presets by shared scored criteria and uses effective persona weights for results, controls, and exports. End-to-end tests check that unavailable persona controls are absent.
Deal Finder persona availability apps/web/src/components/deals/DealFinderWorkspace.tsx, apps/web/e2e/deals-paging.spec.ts, apps/web/e2e/pill-group-state.spec.ts, apps/web/src/server/rate/__tests__/core-rate-architecture.test.ts	Deal Finder filters personas by category-matched product scores and falls back to the default persona when needed. Tests cover persona availability and the paging filter interaction.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Possibly related PRs

• DOS/Rate#1550: Adds the nullable criterion-score and shared-scored-criteria helpers used by the persona availability checks.
• DOS/Rate#634: Adds the Deal Finder paging behavior checked by the updated paging test.

Suggested labels: bug, area:frontend

Suggested reviewers: dos

Merge Risk: Low · up to 376fd

The change is mergeable with follow-up coverage for scored products: persona changes resetting deal pagination and versus custom-weight slider interactions are no longer exercised end to end. No newly introduced production failure was established.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 inconclusive

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: Versus and Deals show a persona only when a criterion has a real score. It follows Conventional Commits, is one sentence, and matches the changeset and linked issue #1…
Description check		The description follows the repository template. It has a Summary-style problem and change section that explains what changed and why, a Tests section with local and CI validation, and a clear link to…
Linked Issues check		Issue #1556 has coding requirements. versusAvailablePersonas returns no use-case presets without shared real criteria and filters each preset by its lead criterion. The versus component derives `act…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changed files stay within issue #1556. The component changes implement conditional persona availability, fallback behavior, shared-criterion weighting, and effective exports. The unit tests cover …

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The title names the main change: Versus and Deals show a persona only when a criterion has a real score. It follows Conventional Commits, is one sentence, and matches the changeset and linked issue #1556. The title is 71 characters, which is acceptable.

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Explanation

The description follows the repository template. It has a Summary-style problem and change section that explains what changed and why, a Tests section with local and CI validation, and a clear link to issue #1556. The template's Checklist, Screenshots, and Notes sections are absent or not filled in. The TL;DR and walkthrough come from an automated summary block. Required checklist items such as build, lint, and docs status are not marked. These gaps are non-critical, so the description is mostly complete.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

Issue #1556 has coding requirements. versusAvailablePersonas returns no use-case presets without shared real criteria and filters each preset by its lead criterion. The versus component derives activePersona and activeWeights, falls back to default, limits sliders to shared criteria, and uses the effective values for results, verdicts, and exports. availableDealPersonas checks real criterion scores for products in the selected category. The deals component hides the persona group when only default remains and falls back to the default ranking. rankProductsForDealFinder keeps the combined score when the lean criterion is null. The supplied tests cover no-data and scored-criterion cases for both pages. The available source evidence and PR summary support the requested behavior.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The changed files stay within issue #1556. The component changes implement conditional persona availability, fallback behavior, shared-criterion weighting, and effective exports. The unit tests cover the new helpers. The E2E changes update paging and control-state checks for the intentionally hidden controls. No unrelated product behavior is identified.

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Follow-up Comments

Normalize displayed and exported weights over the shared criteria.

663-665: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Normalize displayed and exported weights over the shared criteria.

The score uses only criteria that both models have a real score for. It divides by the sum of those criteria's weights. The criteria rows, the CSV weight column, the JSON weights field, the criteriaBreakdown weightPercent values, and the comparison row labels still show the active preset's raw percentage for every criterion.

For a camera-only shared pair with the Photography preset selected, the displayed percentages for screen, performance, battery, and value do not change the score. No slider controls them.

Filtering the displayed rows to sharedCriteria leaves raw preset values for the shared criteria. Those values do not match their effective share of the score. Compute the displayed weights normalized over sharedCriteria, and use that map for the rows, CSV, JSON, breakdown, and comparison label.

Note: this behaviour predates this PR (already present at merge base 781e4a014579); the change keeps it reachable.

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Review comment at
@apps/web/src/components/compare/VersusInteractiveScoreboard.tsx around lines
663 - 665:
Normalize the active preset weights across sharedCriteria, using only criteria
with real scores from both models, and use the resulting effective-weight map
consistently for the displayed criteria rows, CSV weight column, JSON weights
field, criteriaBreakdown weightPercent values, and comparison row labels. Keep
the score calculation aligned with those normalized weights.

Cover the persona paging reset with a separate scored fixture.

22-25: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Poor tradeoff

Cover the persona paging reset with a separate scored fixture.

This PR removes the only persona-change step in apps/web/e2e/deals-paging.spec.ts. The budget and search steps still reset paging. A regression that drops persona from the paging filter key would still pass.

The persona group renders only when some product has a real criterion score. The shared seed has no scored products. apps/web/e2e/pill-group-state.spec.ts asserts that #rate-deal-personas has zero matches on /deals. Scored rows in apps/web/e2e/seed.sql would break that assertion. They would also break the no-score assertions in selector-state.spec.ts and light-theme-controls.spec.ts. Keep scored data out of the shared seed.

Add the persona-change check to a separate spec. Run it under its own Playwright config and seed, as apps/web/e2e/item-model/ does, so its scored rows do not change the data that other specs read:

test('a persona change starts again from the first page', async ({ page }) => {
  await page.goto('/deals');
  const cards = page.locator('#rate-ranked-deals > div');
  await expect(cards).toHaveCount(12);
  const more = page.locator('button[aria-controls="rate-ranked-deals"]');

  await expect(async () => {
    if ((await cards.count()) === 12) await more.click();
    await expect(cards).toHaveCount(24, { timeout: 500 });
  }).toPass();

  await page
    .locator('#rate-deal-personas button[aria-pressed="false"]')
    .first()
    .click();
  await expect(cards).toHaveCount(12);
});

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Review comment at @apps/web/e2e/deals-paging.spec.ts around lines 22 - 25:
Keep the existing budget paging-reset check in the deals paging spec, and add a
separate persona paging-reset test using scored product data. Run that test with
its own Playwright config and seed, following the isolated setup used by the
item-model tests, so the shared seed and no-score assertions remain unchanged.

Add E2E coverage for the scored versus custom-weight slider.

63-73: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Poor tradeoff

Add E2E coverage for the scored versus custom-weight slider.

The replacement test at apps/web/e2e/pill-group-state.spec.ts:63-73 asserts that the custom-weights toggle and the persona group are absent for the unscored comparison. The removed version opened the toggle, focused input[type="range"], pressed ArrowRight, and asserted that the toggle's accessible name changed to Trọng số tùy chỉnh. No other E2E spec opens that toggle or drives a versus slider. A regression in the scored slider path would therefore not fail an E2E test.

Covering this path requires a fixture in which both products share a criterion score. The current E2E comments state that no seeded product has one.

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Review comment at @apps/web/e2e/pill-group-state.spec.ts around lines 63 - 73:
Extend the E2E coverage in the pill-group state spec with a fixture where both
compared products share a criterion score, then exercise the scored comparison’s
custom-weight toggle by focusing its range input and pressing ArrowRight; verify
the toggle’s accessible name changes to “Trọng số tùy chỉnh.” Keep the existing
unscored-comparison assertions intact.

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