Automatically rerun flaky pytest cases with bounded retry rules before intermittent failures block merges with pytest-rerunfailures

Add controlled retries to pytest runs so agents can contain flaky tests and report final failures without rerunning whole suites by hand.

Prerequisites

Python, pytest, and the pytest-rerunfailures plugin

Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:

• $ pip install pytest-rerunfailures

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

• :target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytest-rerunfailures/
• You will need the following prerequisites in order to use pytest-rerunfailures:
• Python 3.10+ or PyPy3

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

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• pytest 8.1 or newer

• This plugin can recover from a hard crash with the following optional

• Source: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-rerunfailures

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pytest-dev/pytest-rerunfailures/HEAD/README.rst

Documentation

• https://pytest-rerunfailures.readthedocs.io/stable/

Source

• Agent Skill Exchange