Fix failing cypress test for range changes in chartview

[MarcusTXK]

What was expected to happen?

Currently the following frontend test cases are failing in the github CI

  1) range changes in chartview should reflect in zoom
       selecting the initial righthand and lefthand boundary:

      Timed out retrying after 30000ms
      + expected - actual

      -'[2019-12-31] [#785] ChartView: fix authors with unaccounted lines (#789): +49 -42 lines '
      +'[2019-12-20] [#46] Show total time after batch processing (#758): +43 -0 lines '
      
      at Context.eval (webpack:///./tests/chartView/chartView_zoomFeature.cy.js:270:7)

  2) range changes in chartview should reflect in zoom
       changing the righthand boundary:

      Timed out retrying after 30000ms
      + expected - actual

      -'[2019-12-31] [#785] ChartView: fix authors with unaccounted lines (#789): +49 -42 lines '
      +'[2019-12-20] [#46] Show total time after batch processing (#758): +43 -0 lines '
      
      at Context.eval (webpack:///./tests/chartView/chartView_zoomFeature.cy.js:296:7)

What actually happened? Please include a screenshot of the output.

Link to one such failing CI instance
https://github.com/reposense/RepoSense/actions/runs/7862260141/job/21464243013?pr=2078#step:10:415

[jonasongg]

Just investigating for a bit, this might be caused by the ramp shrinking as time goes on (since the until date is not set, defaults to today).

For now, I managed to fix this by setting "until" in the filters to an arbitrary time in the past before this problem arose (I chose 31/12/2023)

(adding lines 341-342 to every test that fails)

This seems to be the same problem as #2066. Let me know if this fixes the problem for you and if I should create a PR for this!

[MarcusTXK]

Hi @jonasongg, thanks for the quick investigation. I think your suggestion is a good way to solve it, works for me too. I think it is fine to just set an arbitrary time as this will prevent the issue from happening again as more time passes. Please do feel free to create a PR for this if you have the time to do so.

[ckcherry23]

Hi @jonasongg, I'd recommend prioritising the PR to fix this first as other PRs would be blocked from merging until all CI tests pass. Thank you!

[jonasongg]

@MarcusTXK @ckcherry23 just created a PR for this!