From f29f8c34f1ccd885bcf95490bdaa3000a0479b5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thavamani Murugan <thavamanimurugan@Thavamanis-MacBook-Air.local>
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:20:03 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] fix(test): deduplicate tags when same tag appears in multiple
 scopes

Fixes: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/40368
---
 packages/playwright/src/common/test.ts |  5 +----
 tests/playwright-test/test-tag.spec.ts | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/playwright/src/common/test.ts b/packages/playwright/src/common/test.ts
index fa8d8c20032d0..7b2ae6aa806e5 100644
--- a/packages/playwright/src/common/test.ts
+++ b/packages/playwright/src/common/test.ts
@@ -303,10 +303,7 @@ export class TestCase extends Base implements reporterTypes.TestCase {
     this.parent._collectTagTitlePath(path);
     path.push(this.title);
     const titleTags = path.join(' ').match(/@[\S]+/g) || [];
-    return [
-      ...titleTags,
-      ...this._tags,
-    ];
+    return [...new Set([...titleTags, ...this._tags])];
   }
 
   _serialize(): any {
diff --git a/tests/playwright-test/test-tag.spec.ts b/tests/playwright-test/test-tag.spec.ts
index 31cc1371b4bad..9b9f5b6db451b 100644
--- a/tests/playwright-test/test-tag.spec.ts
+++ b/tests/playwright-test/test-tag.spec.ts
@@ -183,6 +183,34 @@ test('should be included in testInfo if coming from describe or global tag', asy
   expect(result.exitCode).toBe(0);
 });
 
+test('should deduplicate tags when same tag appears in both describe and test', async ({ runInlineTest }) => {
+  const result = await runInlineTest({
+    'a.test.ts': `
+    import { test, expect } from '@playwright/test';
+    test.describe('suite', { tag: '@foo' }, () => {
+      test('test', { tag: '@foo' }, async ({}, testInfo) => {
+        expect(testInfo.tags).toStrictEqual(['@foo']);
+      });
+    });
+    `,
+  });
+  expect(result.exitCode).toBe(0);
+});
+
+test('should deduplicate inline tags when same tag appears in both describe title and test title', async ({ runInlineTest }) => {
+  const result = await runInlineTest({
+    'a.test.ts': `
+    import { test, expect } from '@playwright/test';
+    test.describe('@foo suite', () => {
+      test('@foo test', async ({}, testInfo) => {
+        expect(testInfo.tags).toStrictEqual(['@foo']);
+      });
+    });
+    `,
+  });
+  expect(result.exitCode).toBe(0);
+});
+
 test('should not parse file names as tags', async ({ runInlineTest }) => {
   const result = await runInlineTest({
     'reporter.ts': `