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Ivan Tanev
Ivan Tanev

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Quick Tip: Simpler sharding configuration for Playwright

#playwright #githubactions #ci #testing

Playwright’s sharding docs present the following GitHub actions configuration:

strategy: fail-fast: false matrix: shardIndex: [1, 2, 3, 4] shardTotal: [4] [...] steps: - name: Run Playwright tests run: | npx playwright test \  --shard=${{ matrix.shardIndex }}/${{ matrix.shardTotal }}
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While it works, I think the following reads much better:

strategy: fail-fast: false matrix: shard: ["1/4", "2/4", "3/4", "4/4"] [...] steps: - name: Run Playwright tests run: npx playwright test --shard=${{ matrix.shard }}
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You don't even need the quotes around "1/4", you could write them naked, but I prefer to be explicit in yaml:

 shard: [1/4, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4]
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What do you think?

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