Automatically Rerun Flaky Pytest Cases With Bounded Retry Rules Before Intermittent Failures Block Merges With Pytest Rerunfailures

---
name: "Automatically rerun flaky pytest cases with bounded retry rules before intermittent failures block merges with pytest-rerunfailures"
slug: "automatically-rerun-flaky-pytest-cases-with-bounded-retry-rules-before-intermittent-failures-block-merges-with-pytest-rerunfailures"
description: "Add controlled retries to pytest runs so agents can contain flaky tests and report final failures without rerunning whole suites by hand."
github_stars: 458
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-rerunfailures"
author: "pytest-dev"
publisher_type: "organization"
category: "CI/CD Integrations"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "pytest-dev/pytest-rerunfailures"
  github_stars: 458
  npm_package: "pytest-rerunfailures"
---

# Automatically rerun flaky pytest cases with bounded retry rules before intermittent failures block merges with pytest-rerunfailures

Add controlled retries to pytest runs so agents can contain flaky tests and report final failures without rerunning whole suites by hand.

## Prerequisites

Python, pytest, and the pytest-rerunfailures plugin

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- $ pip install pytest-rerunfailures

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- :target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytest-rerunfailures/
- You will need the following prerequisites in order to use pytest-rerunfailures:
- Python 3.10+ or PyPy3

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- ------------
- pytest 8.1 or newer
- This plugin can recover from a hard crash with the following optional

- Source: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-rerunfailures
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pytest-dev/pytest-rerunfailures/HEAD/README.rst

## Documentation

- https://pytest-rerunfailures.readthedocs.io/stable/

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/automatically-rerun-flaky-pytest-cases-with-bounded-retry-rules-before-intermittent-failures-block-merges-with-pytest-rerunfailures/)