Optimize UITest category groups: split, combine, and remove Visual category

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Description of Change

Optimized UITest category groups for better parallelization, test organization, and pipeline efficiency:

Split category groups for better parallelization:

• ScrollView,SearchBar,Shape,Slider,SoftInput,Stepper,Switch,SwipeView → split into ScrollView (separate), SearchBar,Shape,Slider, and SoftInput,Stepper,Switch,SwipeView
• Label,Layout,Lifecycle,ListView → split into 4 separate runs: Label, Layout, Lifecycle, ListView
• Shadow,ViewBaseTests,Visual,WebView,Window → split and reorganized (see below)

Combined category groups for efficiency:

• SafeAreaEdges + Shadow → SafeAreaEdges,Shadow
• Lifecycle + ManualReview,Maps → Lifecycle,ManualReview,Maps
• ViewBaseTests + Window → ViewBaseTests,Window
• Cells,CheckBox,ContextActions,CustomRenderers + DatePicker,Dispatcher,DisplayAlert,DisplayPrompt,DragAndDrop → Cells,CheckBox,ContextActions,CustomRenderers,DatePicker,Dispatcher,DisplayAlert,DisplayPrompt,DragAndDrop

Removed Visual category completely:

• Deleted UITestCategories.Visual constant from UITestCategories.cs
• Reassigned all 5 tests that used Visual category to appropriate categories based on their actual functionality:
  • Issue27732 (view position shifts with shadow changes) → UITestCategories.Shadow
  • Issue24414 (shadow rendering issues) → UITestCategories.Shadow
  • Issue27730 (shadow clipping updates) → UITestCategories.Shadow
  • Issue24847 (background layer frame performance) → UITestCategories.Brush
  • Issue17884 (label text rendering) → UITestCategories.Label

Result: Total category groups optimized from 19 to 23, balancing test isolation with pipeline efficiency while eliminating the unused Visual category.

Files changed:

• eng/pipelines/common/ui-tests.yml
• src/Controls/tests/TestCases.Shared.Tests/UITestCategories.cs
• src/Controls/tests/TestCases.Shared.Tests/Tests/Issues/Issue17884.cs
• src/Controls/tests/TestCases.Shared.Tests/Tests/Issues/Issue24414.cs
• src/Controls/tests/TestCases.Shared.Tests/Tests/Issues/Issue24847.cs
• src/Controls/tests/TestCases.Shared.Tests/Tests/Issues/Issue27730.cs
• src/Controls/tests/TestCases.Shared.Tests/Tests/Issues/Issue27732.cs

Issues Fixed

N/A - Pipeline optimization

Original prompt

for the UITests can you create a PR that splits up this run

Controls ScrollView,SearchBar,Shape,Slider,SoftInput,Stepper,Switch,SwipeView

into
Controls ScrollView,SearchBar,Shape,Slider,
and
SoftInput,Stepper,Switch,SwipeView

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Pull request overview

This PR splits a single UITest category group into two separate jobs to improve parallelization and reduce test workload per job. The change is straightforward and maintains all original test categories while distributing them across two matrix runs instead of one.

Key Changes:

• Split the combined category group ScrollView,SearchBar,Shape,Slider,SoftInput,Stepper,Switch,SwipeView into two separate entries
• First group now contains: ScrollView,SearchBar,Shape,Slider
• Second group now contains: SoftInput,Stepper,Switch,SwipeView

[PureWeen]

@copilot can you move scrollview out so it runs separate

[Copilot]

@copilot can you move scrollview out so it runs separate

Done. ScrollView now runs separately in commit c5a4f15.

The category groups are now:

• ScrollView (separate run)
• SearchBar,Shape,Slider
• SoftInput,Stepper,Switch,SwipeView

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/azp run MAUI-UITests-public

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[PureWeen]

@copilot

Split up
Controls Label,Layout,Lifecycle,ListView

to all run separately

split up
Shadow,ViewBaseTests,Visual,WebView,Window

to all run separately

[Copilot]

@copilot

Split up
...

Done in commit 9a02f8a.

Split into separate runs:

• Label,Layout,Lifecycle,ListView → 4 separate entries
• Shadow,ViewBaseTests,Visual,WebView,Window → 5 separate entries

Total category groups increased from 21 to 28.

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/azp run MAUI-UITests-public

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@copilot

1. combine SafeAreaEdges and Shadow and Controls
2. Remove "Visual" completely and delete the UItestCategories.Visual from code and set all test that are set to "UItestCategories.Visual" to a different category. I trust you to guess the right one

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@copilot

1. combine SafeAreaEdges and Shadow and Controls
   ...

Done in commit 944f899.

Changes made:

1. Combined SafeAreaEdges and Shadow into single category group: SafeAreaEdges,Shadow

2. Removed Visual category completely:

   • Deleted UITestCategories.Visual from UITestCategories.cs
   • Reassigned all 5 tests to appropriate categories:
     • Issue27732 (shadow position shift) → UITestCategories.Shadow
     • Issue24414 (shadow rendering) → UITestCategories.Shadow
     • Issue27730 (shadow clipping) → UITestCategories.Shadow
     • Issue24847 (background frame) → UITestCategories.Brush
     • Issue17884 (label text rendering) → UITestCategories.Label

Total category groups reduced from 28 to 26.

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/azp run MAUI-UITests-public

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@copilot

combine Lifecycle with ManualReview,Maps
combine Window with ViewBaseTests
combine Cells,CheckBox,ContextActions,CustomRenderers with DatePicker,Dispatcher,DisplayAlert,DisplayPrompt,DragAndDrop

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@copilot

combine Lifecycle with ManualReview,Maps
...

Done in commit 973d97f.

Combined category groups:

1. Lifecycle,ManualReview,Maps
2. ViewBaseTests,Window
3. Cells,CheckBox,ContextActions,CustomRenderers,DatePicker,Dispatcher,DisplayAlert,DisplayPrompt,DragAndDrop

Total category groups reduced from 26 to 23.

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/azp run MAUI-UITests-public

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Azure Pipelines successfully started running 1 pipeline(s).