5.6Pipeline Configuration for Test Performance

Environment variables that affect test speed:

env:
  TEST_TIMEOUT: 30000      # 30s timeout per test (prevent hanging tests)
  RETRY_COUNT: 2           # Retry failed tests twice (handle infrastructure flakes)
  HEADLESS: true           # Run browsers in headless mode (faster)
  SLOW_MO: 0               # No artificial delay between actions
  WORKERS: 4               # Number of parallel test workers

Retry Logic

Retries should handle infrastructure flakes (network timeouts, container startup delays), not test bugs. If a test consistently needs retries to pass, it is flaky and needs fixing.

# Playwright retry configuration
- run: npx playwright test --retries=2

# Job-level retry (GitHub Actions does not support this natively;
# use reusable workflows or third-party actions)

Timeout Settings

Always set timeouts to prevent hung jobs from consuming runners:

jobs:
  unit-tests:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    timeout-minutes: 10     # Kill the job if it takes longer than 10 minutes

  browser-tests:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    timeout-minutes: 30     # Browser tests get more time