Deactivate Materialize animations

[mneudert]

Description:

A lot of UI tests are using timeouts to wait for animations to complete, with varying degrees of success and unnecessary runtime increase.

There are already some places that try to deactivate animations for UI tests:

• CSS
• jQuery
• Materialize

Both CSS and jQuery should work as expected, but the Materialize does not. Probably because M.anime is not accessed from the global namespace, but passed directly to the components.

This is an attempt to change the override to work until we can for example upgrade to Materialize 2.

@matomo-org/core-reviewers I tried two CI runs to check the benefit/problems with this solution:

• CI run with lots of page.waitForTimeout removed
• CI run with the modification applied

To remove the statements I used sed -i '/waitForTimeout.*animation/d' **/*_spec.js, so I would not expect it to catch all the right places or even the most impactful ones.

Refs DEV-18077

Review

• Functional review done
• Potential edge cases thought about (behavior of the code with strange input, with strange internal state or possible interactions with other Matomo subsystems)
• Usability review done (is anything maybe unclear or think about anything that would cause people to reach out to support)
• Security review done
• Wording review done
• Code review done
• Tests were added if useful/possible
• Reviewed for breaking changes
• Developer changelog updated if needed
• Documentation added if needed
• Existing documentation updated if needed

[michalkleiner]

Seems with the timeouts removed there are screenshots in the middle of the animation. With the new override there's a few screenshots that look better and a few that look worse, so I guess we'd need to look at them one by one. In general I think this is a good approach and a change that will help speed up the UI test runs.

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