exclude /renew and /upgrade URLs from broken link validation

Author: hanna-meda

src/support/steps/broken-links.ts

@@ -57,7 +57,13 @@ Then('WP Rocket settings links are not broken', async function (this: ICustomWor
     }
 
     // Normalize and filter URLs
-    const normalizedUrls = normalizeUrls(allHrefs, basePageUrl);
+    let normalizedUrls = normalizeUrls(allHrefs, basePageUrl);
+
+    // Exclude URLs that may trigger transactional side effects
+    const skipPatterns = [/\/renew\//i, /\/upgrade\//i];
+    normalizedUrls = new Set(
+        Array.from(normalizedUrls).filter(url => !skipPatterns.some(pattern => pattern.test(url)))
+    );
 
     // Warn if no valid URLs found to validate
     if (normalizedUrls.size === 0) {

utils/helpers.ts

@@ -651,10 +651,19 @@ export const normalizeUrls = (
  * @param {string} currentHost - Current host to distinguish internal from external URLs
  * @return {Promise<string[]>} - Array of broken link strings in format "STATUS: url"
  */
-export const validateLinks = async (page: Page, urls: Set<string>, currentHost: string): Promise<string[]> => {
+export const validateLinks = async (
+    page: Page,
+    urls: Set<string>,
+    currentHost: string,
+    skipPatterns: RegExp[] = []
+): Promise<string[]> => {
     const brokenLinks: string[] = [];
 
     for (const url of urls) {
+        // Skip URLs matching any skip pattern
+        if (skipPatterns.some(pattern => pattern.test(url))) {
+            continue;
+        }
         try {
             const response = await page.request.get(url, { maxRedirects: 5, timeout: 30000 });
             const status = response.status();