How to retry failed tests using SpecFlow.MSTest

Karl Farley

March 30, 2022 16:08

Hello.

Given the announcement about retiring SpecFlow+Runner (https://specflow.org/using-specflow/the-retirement-of-specflow-runner/), it is suggested to use xRetry.SpecFlow which from reading the ReadMe, is for scenarios in SpecFlow.XUnit. following your migration instructions, we are using SpecFlow.MSTest. How do we use retry if we are using SpecFlow.MSTest please?

Thanks,

Karl.

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  Andreas Willich

  March 31, 2022 07:59

  A community member (Farum) created a version for MSTest: https://www.nuget.org/packages/NUnitRetry.SpecFlowPlugin/3.9.58

  https://github.com/farum12/NUnitRetry.SpecFlowPlugin

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  Karl Farley

  March 31, 2022 08:09

  Hello Andreas.
  
  Thanks for the quick response. From briefly looking at NUnitRetry.SpecFlowPlugin, the name and ReadMe suggests this is for NUnit (SpecFlow.NUnit) and not MSTest.
  
  Would be great if someone had an MSTestRetry.SpecFlowPlugin Nu~Get package to help with this.

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  Andreas Willich

  March 31, 2022 08:21

  Sorry, it's looks like it is too early for me.

  Yeah, it is for NUnit.

  I don't know any for MSTest then. But as the xRetry.SpecFlow and NUnitRetry is open source, it shouldn't be that hard, that you create a MSTest version by yourself.

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  Karl Farley

  May 24, 2022 09:23

  Haven't had time to look into this unfortunately. Hopefully someone else has.

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  anwesha dash

  May 24, 2022 11:49

  Karl Farley Pls let me know if any solution is there for retrying fail test case in mstest . As specrun support wont be there ,we are moving the existing specflow to mstest .  

   

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  Rami AbuGhazaleh

  May 25, 2022 06:16

  If you use Azure DevOps pipeline, the Visual Studio Test Task has rerun/retry capabilities built-in.

  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/test/vstest?view=azure-devops

  rerunFailedTests: True
  rerunType: 'basedOnTestFailureCount'
  rerunFailedTestCasesMaxLimit: '5'
  rerunMaxAttempts: '2'

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  Karl Farley

  May 25, 2022 08:31

  That looks pretty good and as it happens, we do use AzDO pipelines.

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