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[MEX] Enable Cypress video recording for browser tests on retry
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Breaking from T416574: [MEX] [M5] [SPIKE] Investigate enabling Cypress video recording for browser tests into a subtask

As a developer
I don't want CI performance to decrease unnecessarily but I want to be able to debug why a test didn't pass
So that I can actually fix the test

A/C

  • Cypress video recording does not run the first time the test happens
  • When a Cypress test is retried, the video recording option is enabled

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karapayneWMDE created this task.May 6 2026, 1:12 PM
karapayneWMDE moved this task from Incoming to Ready for Task Time (Story Writing) on the Wikidata-Omega board.
karapayneWMDE mentioned this in T416574: [MEX] [M5] [SPIKE] Investigate enabling Cypress video recording for browser tests.May 6 2026, 1:26 PM
Arian_Bozorg subscribed.May 12 2026, 9:25 AM

Story writing notes: the ticket will be declined if the task isn't possible

Arian_Bozorg moved this task from Ready for Task Time (Story Writing) to The Backlog on the Wikidata-Omega board.May 12 2026, 9:27 AM
ArthurTaylor closed this task as Declined.Jun 9 2026, 10:44 AM

Had a quick look at the cypress issue tracker, and this seems to be a) a common problem and b) not a problem that cypress are interested in solving:

https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/16377
https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/16672
https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/16681
https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/27653

The suggested workarounds are to delete the videos for successful runs (which we already do), or use Playwright instead. Declining this task for now as something that cypress simply doesn't make possible.

ArthurTaylor edited projects, added: Wikidata-Omega (The Board); removed: Wikidata-Omega.Jun 9 2026, 10:45 AM
ArthurTaylor moved this task from new to the board to Ready for Tech Verification on the Wikidata-Omega (The Board) board.
karapayneWMDE edited projects, added: Wikidata-Omega (Completed Tasks); removed: Wikidata-Omega (The Board).Thu, Jul 16, 9:02 AM
karapayneWMDE moved this task from Newly completed tasks to 2026 Q2 on the Wikidata-Omega (Completed Tasks) board.
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