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Pest V4 browser testing - unreliable

Hi all,

Browser testing is awesome, and very powerful. I love being able to script actions and save screenshots.

I'd love to be able to use these, maybe even in some basic CI like github workflows, but for some reason it is just incredibly unreliable for me.

I've worked through everything I can find with online guides and the LLMs etc. I pare down my browser test scripts and test adding one line at a time. I'll get some 20 line script working and then it will randomly start failing, and I'll try reducing it back to a few lines and it's still not working... very frustrating. Things like the screenshots being correct but the script exiting with auth errors, or timeouts etc.

How are people finding browser testing - is it as flaky as my experience, or is it generally reliable?