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darillposted in #help-playwright
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darill
darill

Is there a way how to limit number of workers for one test file? I have a test set which I run on 3 browsers in parallel using multiple workers. However now I need to add a test which cannot be run at multiple instances at the same time. It is fine to run it multiple times sequentialy.

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skorp32
skorp32

Limit number of workers for only one file

not possible as far as I know

skorp32
skorp32

it's not even configurable per project basis, you basically need to run npx playwright test ... twice; good thing though that you can merge reports into a single one so it wouldn't look like you ran two commnds

d3333333

I'd be curious if this might work, Taking a guess... but if you have muiltiple spec files have everything to run fully parrallel, but in the one spec file you put in:

test.describe.configure({ mode: 'serial' });

Might be me but serial implies one at a time, making sure i'm not smoking crack i look up "opposite of serial" lookie there parallel popped up 🙂

https://playwright.dev/docs/test-retries#serial-mode

darill
darill

I tried it, but it only ensures that tests in the describe block are run in a sequence. However the block of tests will still run in multiple projects at the same time 😞

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