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In our January 2026 retrospective, we agreed that having video recordings of failed Cypress runs would be very helpful to investigate failures. We should investigate: - if / how we can enable video recording in CI, such that the videos are available in the test artifacts (we probably don’t need videos to be recorded locally) - what the performance impact of recording video would be (see also T415170) – @mahmoud.abdelsattar.wmde thought it could have a significant negative impact Documentation: [Capture Screenshots and Videos](https://docs.cypress.io/app/guides/screenshots-and-videos). See also [wdio-mediawiki configuration](https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/+/294b2b0fff/tests/selenium/wdio-mediawiki/index.js#56).

In our January 2026 retrospective, we agreed that having video recordings of failed Cypress runs would be very helpful to investigate failures. We should investigate: - if / how we can enable video recording in CI, such that the videos are available in the test artifacts (we probably don’t need videos to be recorded locally) - what the performance impact of recording video would be (see also T415170) – @mahmoud.abdelsattar.wmde thought it could have a significant negative impact Documentation: [Capture Screenshots and Videos](https://docs.cypress.io/app/guides/screenshots-and-videos). See also [wdio-mediawiki configuration](https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/+/294b2b0fff/tests/selenium/wdio-mediawiki/index.js#56). Timebox: 8 hrs

In our January 2026 retrospective, we agreed that having video recordings of failed Cypress runs would be very helpful to investigate failures. We should investigate: - if / how we can enable video recording in CI, such that the videos are available in the test artifacts (we probably don’t need videos to be recorded locally) - what the performance impact of recording video would be (see also T415170) – @mahmoud.abdelsattar.wmde thought it could have a significant negative impact Documentation: [Capture Screenshots and Videos](https://docs.cypress.io/app/guides/screenshots-and-videos). See also [wdio-mediawiki configuration](https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/+/294b2b0fff/tests/selenium/wdio-mediawiki/index.js#56). Timebox: 8 hrs