# End-to-end tests retry strategies

DevFeed: [End-to-end tests retry strategies](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/end-to-end-tests-retry-strategies-28041.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tech.trivago.com/post/2023-09-27-end-to-end-tests-retry-strategies/>)

Author: Giuseppe Donati Web Test Automation Engineer Not a stereotypical Italian guy; Except

Published: 2023-09-27T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Trivago](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/trivago.md>)

Topics: [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>), [Test automation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/test-automation.md>), [GitHub Actions](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github-actions.md>), [CI/CD](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cicd.md>), [Continuous Deployment (CD)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/continuous-deployment.md>), [Front end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/frontend.md>), [web applications](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-applications.md>)

Tags: [continuous-deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/continuous-deployment.md>), [core](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/core.md>), [feature](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/feature.md>), [frontend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/frontend.md>), [github-actions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github-actions.md>), [pull-requests](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pull-requests.md>), [quality-assurance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/quality-assurance.md>), [test-automation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/test-automation.md>), [tests](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tests.md>)

## AI overview

This article describes how trivago's frontend QA team uses different end-to-end test retry strategies in GitHub Actions. It explains unconditional retries for core tests, filtered retries for specific failure causes in extended tests, and manual retries for a subset of scenarios, balancing stable results, pull-request confidence, and feedback speed.

## Source excerpt

Why should you retry all tests on failure? Why not? This article will not go into details, listing pros and cons of each approach. There are already enough