Ability to retry a specific scenario

[badeball]

Cypress offers an interface to override retry-settings per test, but this interface is lost of the Gherkin translation.

An alternative solution has been proposed here.

Personally I like the @retries:N approach. Furthermore, one could perhaps specify N for different modes with @retries(openMode=5) or similar.

This is a good first issue if anyone would like to take a stab at it. However, for any contribution I expect test coverage and a corresponding update in documentation. The implementation is the easy part and without the other components you would just be committing work to me and thus not really contributing.

[aljedaxi]

I've got an ersatz solution for anyone that needs it:

• run cypress with --reporter json
• then feed the results into the following function:

const makeSeds = s => {
  return s
    .split (/^\{/m)
    .flatMap (s => s.split (/^\}/m))
    .filter ((_, idx) => isOdd (idx + 1))
    .map (s => JSON.parse (`{${s}}`))
    .flatMap (o => o.failures?.map (f => f.title) ?? [])
    .map (scenario => `gsed -i '/Scenario: ${scenario}/i \\  @focus' cypress/integration/*.feature`
`)
}

(gsed on mac; just sed on linux)

run that code, and it'll put a @focus on top of every scenario that failed. Then you can just re-run cypress.

furthermore, you can mark only the feature files that failed using --spec