One of my engs brought up that Bazel has a ` rerun N` flag w

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One of my engs brought up that Bazel has a ` rerun N` flag which will re run tests a certain of times to help identify flaky tests I could implement this in Pytest + Pants ` force` but it might be useful for other languages Anyone got thoughts

hundreds-father-404 · Answer

yes <https github com pantsbuild pants issues 13505>

hundreds-father-404 · Answer

It would be great to have

witty-crayon-22786 · Answer

fwiw ` force` works across all languages

bitter-ability-32190 · Answer

Yeah that was why I made the post I think the idea would be to add another flag like ` force` so that all languages benefit

witty-crayon-22786 · Answer

ah got it

witty-crayon-22786 · Answer

a little bit more about the usecases would be good i think that we were envisioning the retry setting as a tool to smooth out CI this sounds more like a manually run local is it flaky tool

witty-crayon-22786 · Answer

mm a cool thing about this existing explicitly would be that it could run all attempts in parallel

bitter-ability-32190 · Answer

Re use cases I think it boils down to two settings Retry+retry behavior