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Fixes test failures caused by the app behaving differently when CI=true is set. Use when a test passes locally but fails on CI and the app changes behavior under CI. Covers auditing CI-env-dependent code paths, making tests env-aware, and documenting the CI=true contract. Not for genuine timing flakes.
Detects why Playwright test.describe.skip (or test.skip) behaves differently in CI than locally and makes skips deterministic. Use when tests skip on a developer machine but run in CI, or vice versa. Not for tests that fail instead of skipping, or for grep filters excluding tests.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - test.only" committed by accident and CI failed silently green with 200 tests skipped: how to detect it - [agent merged a green upgrade PR that only passed because the test job was skipped - the workf…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: playwright test.describe.skip only in CI: flaky skip detection
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Detects and prevents accidentally committed test.only (or fit, fdescribe) that makes CI pass green while skipping most of the suite. Shows how to remove the committed focus flag, add a lint rule that errors on focused tests, and run the linter in CI before the test step. Use when CI is green but far fewer tests ran th…
Fixes Playwright "locator.scrollIntoViewIfNeeded: Element is not visible" that only fails on CI's smaller viewport. Covers pinning an explicit viewport in config, driving the responsive path when layouts intentionally hide the element, and scrolling inside the right container. Use when scroll or click works locally bu…
Fixes Playwright "Test timeout of 30000ms exceeded" on expect.poll that only reproduces in CI. Explains why poll loops burn the whole test timeout on slow runners, and shows how to scope timeouts, lengthen poll intervals, and verify the polled condition is reachable in CI. Use when expect.poll passes locally but exhau…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - playwright test timeout 30000ms exceeded: how to fix - playwright "A test was not run because it exceeded the timeout" sharding issue in CI
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Public search query: playwright Test timeout of 30000ms exceeded on expect.poll in CI but n
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Fixes the Playwright "A test was not run because it exceeded the timeout" sharding failure in CI. It shows how to find the shard and test that overruns, rebalance shards, and mark genuinely slow tests so one long test stops poisoning its whole shard. Use when sharded CI runs report unrun tests with this message while …
Fixes Playwright trace uploads failing with ECONNREFUSED when CI ships trace artifacts. Distinguishes a broken upload step (wrong endpoint, blocked egress, bad credentials) from a trace-recording problem, since traces are written locally and only the upload fails. Use when traces generate fine but the upload step dies…
Fixes the Playwright "strict mode violation: getByText('Submit') resolved to 2 elements" error that appears only against CI data. It shows how to scope the locator to the intended element and how to find the duplicate the CI dataset introduces. Use when a getByText locator matches one element locally but two in CI bec…
Explains the Playwright "browser has been closed" error that kills a suite mid-run in CI: the three usual causes (container OOM-killer, a fixture closing a shared browser, worker oversubscription) and how to tell them apart from CI logs. Use when tests die partway through CI with this error while passing locally. Not …
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - playwright browser has been closed mid-test: how to fix - playwright target page, context or browser has been closed - [agent…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: playwright browser has been closed error mid-suite in CI: what causes it
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Fixes the Playwright "Executable doesn't exist at ... ms-playwright cache" error in CI by installing browsers as an explicit CI step and caching the browser directory between runs. Use when CI fails before any test executes because the browser binaries are missing from the runner. Not for browser launch crashes after …
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - playwright._impl._api_types.Error: Executable doesn't exist - ImportError: cannot import name 'sync_playwright' from 'playwright'
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: playwright Executable doesn't exist at ms-playwright cache in CI: how
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Fixes Playwright "page.goto: net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED" by making CI wait for the dev web server to be listening before tests start. Covers the webServer config block, raising its startup timeout, and bind-address mismatches. Use when goto fails in CI with connection refused while local runs work because you start t…
Recovers an aborted Playwright suite after a mid-run browser crash by splitting finished from unfinished tests and re-running only the remainder. Use when a run dies with browser-closed or target-crashed errors halfway through. Not for first-test crashes (environment issue) or ordinary assertion failures.
Fixes the Playwright "locator.fill: Element is not visible" flake that shows up when a page animation has not finished in CI. It covers waiting for the element to settle, disabling animations for test runs, and picking locators that do not fight transitions. Use when fill or click actions flake in CI but pass locally …
Debugs the Playwright "waiting for getByRole('button') to be visible" timeout that only happens on CI. It walks through distinguishing a genuinely slow page from a locator that never matches in the CI environment, using traces and longer timeouts as diagnostics rather than permanent fixes. Use when a getByRole wait ti…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - playwright test timeout 30000ms exceeded: how to fix - playwright test kept timing out in CI but passed locally - the agent couldn't reproduce because it didn't know CI...
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: playwright Test timeout of 30000ms exceeded on expect.poll in CI but not
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - playwright._impl._api_types.Error: Executable doesn't exist - ImportError: cannot import name 'sync_playwright' from 'playwright'
Problem outcome: unknown