Playwright - test runs infinite if assertion fails

Question

I've encountered a problem with one of the workspaces - Playwright & Visual Studio code.

When Playwright starts a test/process and the test fails - the process is not cancelled.

At the same time, I've opened the same project on the second computer I use. It works fine. After an assertion failure, the test fails and the report opens.

I also have problems on the 1st workstation with positive output - because even if the test passes, the execution time is very long compared to the other workstation.

There are the screenshots: playwright trace viewer running test

Expected:

• Test process should be processed correctly on failure. Return failure information.
• Report should open after failing
• Reduction in execution time (?) The difference between workspaces is now (33s to 5 seconds)

I've tried multiple times reinstalling the VS code with node and playwright. I've deleted the app data files... and nothing helps at all

I'm getting the same result on a freshly opened project, so it's probably not something to do with my code.

Answer 1

I have the same issue with my tests going into infinite retry and/or rerunning continuously till I forcefully stop it. This started when I upgraded Playwright to the latest 1.42.0 version. It also exists in the 1.42.1 version. To solve this I had to downgrade to version 1.41.2

"@playwright/test": "^1.41.2",

I am unsure what caused this but yeah, downgrading makes it work again.