[Feature]: To have 'Retries' option on UI mode GUI

[shiv-jirwankar]

🚀 Feature Request

Hello team, I have been using Playwright UI mode while developing test cases and for debugging. I always felt it would be better if we have 'Retries' option on UI mode too. Many times, especially while running tests in parallel, I have observed some tests becomes flaky. And I have to re-run them manually from UI mode GUI. So, if we have that option explicitly in place, then it would be much better.

I am not sure if we can pass the retries option via CLI when trying to launch UI mode. But it would be better if we have explicit button for that on GUI. Thanks.

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Motivation

I always felt it would be better if we had 'Retries' option on UI mode too. Many times, especially while running tests in parallel, I have observed some tests becomes flaky. And I have to re-run them manually from the UI mode GUI. So, if we have that option explicitly in place, then it would be much better.

[dgozman]

@shiv-jirwankar Could you please explain your proposed workflow in a little more details? Are you going to change the number of retries before running a specific test (or a set of tests)? Or do you want to have a fixed retries number visible in the UI mode? Have you tried to specify retries in the config instead?

[shiv-jirwankar]

Sorry for the late reply @dgozman. Yeah, a visible option on the UI would be good.

Does the retries on UI mode works when we define it in config?

[Skn0tt]

Please explain your proposed workflow in a little more details.

[pavelfeldman]

@shiv-jirwankar I understand the request, but I don't think we should normalize the retries in the UI tooling. If you are getting these flakes often, it means that you'll get them on your CI 100%. So it is best to fix them while you can.