Flaky Playwright Tests: Find the Cause, Fix It, Prove It's Fixed
A field guide to flaky Playwright tests, organised by the error you are staring at, with a loop that proves the fix holds.
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Flaky tests and debugging
Why end-to-end tests fail intermittently, how to find the real cause with traces and retries, and how to fix it for good.
Playwright Trace Viewer: Find Why a Test Failed in CI
Set up traces in CI, get them out of a failed job, and read them in five steps to find the real cause of a failure.
Playwright Auto-Waiting: What It Waits For and When You Still Have to Wait
Playwright waits for a lot, but not for everything. Here is the exact list, and what to do for the rest.
Playwright Retries: Configure Them, Read Them, Don't Let Them Hide Bugs
How retries work in Playwright, what 'flaky' in the report means, and a policy that keeps retries honest.