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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Articles tagged CI.
Playwright Sharding: Split Your Suite Across CI Machines
Workers, fullyParallel and shards are three different knobs. When to use each, with complete GitHub Actions and GitLab CI configs.
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 Environment Variables: baseURL, Secrets and Several Environments
One config for local, staging and production runs, with secrets that never land in the repo or the test file.
Playwright in GitLab CI: Docker Image, Reports and Parallel Jobs
A complete .gitlab-ci.yml for Playwright, with the image, caching, test reports and sharding explained line by line.
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.
Playwright Reporters: HTML, JUnit, Blob and Writing Your Own
What each built-in Playwright reporter is for, how to combine them, and a short custom reporter that posts a run summary where you need it.