diff --git a/lib/test_suite.py b/lib/test_suite.py
index 5c8831a3..44b51301 100644
--- a/lib/test_suite.py
+++ b/lib/test_suite.py
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ class TestSuite:
     server for this suite, the client program to execute individual
     tests and other suite properties. The server is started once per
     suite."""
+
+    RETRIES_COUNT = 3
+
     def get_multirun_conf(self, suite_path):
         conf_name = self.ini.get('config', None)
         if conf_name is None:
@@ -91,7 +94,7 @@ def __init__(self, suite_path, args):
         self.args = args
         self.tests = []
         self.ini = {}
-        self.fragile = {'retries': 0, 'tests': {}}
+        self.fragile = {'retries': self.RETRIES_COUNT, 'tests': {}}
         self.suite_path = suite_path
         self.ini["core"] = "tarantool"
 
@@ -128,7 +131,7 @@ def __init__(self, suite_path, args):
         if config.has_option("default", "fragile"):
             fragiles = config.get("default", "fragile")
             try:
-                self.fragile = json.loads(fragiles)
+                self.fragile.update(json.loads(fragiles))
                 if 'tests' not in self.fragile:
                     raise RuntimeError(
                         "Key 'tests' absent in 'fragile' json: {}"
@@ -288,7 +291,7 @@ def is_parallel(self):
         return self.ini['is_parallel']
 
     def fragile_retries(self):
-        return self.fragile.get('retries', 0)
+        return self.fragile['retries']
 
     def show_reproduce_content(self):
         return self.ini['show_reproduce_content']
diff --git a/lib/worker.py b/lib/worker.py
index 57c95e0c..eb47efd5 100644
--- a/lib/worker.py
+++ b/lib/worker.py
@@ -350,20 +350,25 @@ def run_loop(self, task_queue, result_queue):
                                   'defined in suite.ini but this functionality '
                                   'is dropped' % testname)
                 )
-            retries_left = self.suite.fragile_retries()
+            retries_left = self.suite.RETRIES_COUNT
+            if testname in self.suite.fragile['tests']:
+                retries_left = self.suite.fragile_retries()
             # let's run till short_status became 'pass'
             while short_status in (None, 'fail') and retries_left >= 0:
                 self.restart_server()
                 # print message only after some fails occurred
                 if short_status == 'fail':
-                    color_stdout(
-                        'Test "%s", conf: "%s"\n'
-                        '\tfrom "fragile" list failed, rerunning ...\n'
-                        % (task_id[0], task_id[1]), schema='error')
+                    if testname not in self.suite.fragile['tests']:
+                        color_stdout(
+                            'Test "%s", conf: "%s"\n\tfailed, rerunning ...\n'
+                            % (task_id[0], task_id[1]), schema='error')
+                    else:
+                        color_stdout(
+                            'Test "%s", conf: "%s"\n'
+                            '\tfrom "fragile" list failed, rerunning ...\n'
+                            % (task_id[0], task_id[1]), schema='error')
                 # run task and save the result to short_status
                 short_status, duration = self.run_task(task_id)
-                if testname not in self.suite.fragile['tests']:
-                    break
                 retries_left = retries_left - 1
 
             result_queue.put(self.wrap_result(task_id, short_status, duration))