Ability to retry a data provider in case of failures

[krmahadevan]

TestNG Version

Note: only the latest version is supported

7.6.1

Expected behavior

The data provider is retried automatically

Actual behavior

No generic mechanism to retry a data provider without doing it at a per data provider level.

Is the issue reproducible on runner?

• Shell
• Maven
• Gradle
• Ant
• Eclipse
• IntelliJ
• NetBeans

Test case sample

Please, share the test case (as small as possible) which shows the issue

No testcase, since this is a new requirement. For more details please take a look at this user post https://groups.google.com/g/testng-users/c/7Q40qIPcOLc/m/W7ibgBW2AQAJ

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[baflQA]

@krmahadevan thanks for bringing it into GitHub.
Do You have any implementation ideas on how to approach this task?

[krmahadevan]

@krmahadevan thanks for bringing it into GitHub.

Do You have any implementation ideas on how to approach this task?

@baflQA
An working on the PR for this. Should be done in a few hours.

The implementation would be similar to how we use retry analyser for test methods so that one can have different retry implementations for different data providers.

[baflQA]

You are amazing @krmahadevan ! Can't wait for the next release.
Thank You for all Your work.