Is the number of retries or timeout waiting for baseUrl configurable?

[tdreid]

I am using cypress/included:6.1.0 in docker-compose to run end to end tests:

When the test runner starts it will verify that a server can be reached at baseUrl. If not, it retries 3 times.

My services and web server need a little more time to start.

Can I increase the timeout and/or number of retries for this check.

Preferably, in my case I'd like a 'retry-until-success' policy, i.e. indefinite retries/wait.

I have checked the Timeouts section and the cypress.json documentation more generally. However none of those timeouts or retries seem to relate to this behavior.

Is there a setting for this?

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Incidentally I asked a similar question on Stack Overflow, before finding this forum.

[jennifer-shehane]

No, this is not configurable.

We recommend ensuring that your server is running before calling cypress run. Cypress's check on baseUrl is a final courtesy check just so you don't run through your whole test suite on a server that is not running.

For tips on ensuring your server is running before running Cypress read about booting your server in our docs: https://on.cypress.io/continuous-integration#Boot-your-server

[tdreid]

Thanks for confirming this @jennifer-shehane, as well for updating the SO. As a feature request, I hope Cypress will consider (1) adding a flag to suppress this check and/or (2) allowing the number of retries to be configurable.