--retires does not seems to work

[kinyat]

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[ ] feature request
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Current behavior
It is currently just ignoring the --retries option

Expected/desired behavior
It should retry for a certain number of times depending on the option value

Reproduction of the problem
node ./node_modules/.bin/nightwatch --retries 3

What is the expected behavior?
It should retry 3 times

What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?
Because tests are not reliable, sometimes we need to rerun a few times to make sure it is not a false alarm

Please tell us about your environment:

• nightwatch-cucumber version:
  7.1.0

• nightwatch version:
  0.9.14

• cucumber version:
  2.0.0-rc.5

• Node.js version:
  6.10

[mucsi96]

Hi @kinyat! Thanks for reporting it! Can you provide some help with fixing it? I am busy with my university thesis

[MathiasHeld]

+1, as the nature of E2E tests is a certain instability :)
I assume --suiteRetries option fails with same root cause as --retries.

[mucsi96]

This issue is depends on CucumberJS issue: cucumber/cucumber-js#727

[mucsi96]

Currently closing it. Please reopen if the Cucumber issue is resolved

[jain-neeeraj]

hi @mucsi96 ,

Development at cucumber JS is almost completed. When is the next release planned for us?

Link to PR at cucumberJS--> cucumber/cucumber-js#1114

[mucsi96]

There's no release planned. But I can increase the peer dependency range if it still work with latest cucumberjs and do a release. This package is deprecated and not actively maintained. You should start about thinking about migrating away from it. I suggest checking nightwatch-api