Thanks, I'll double check, but I think we do this now. In looking at the history of test failures, those failures are indeed less common, but still plenty of false positives of other types. Most persistent recent failures are the WebDriver timing out when loading a URL, which has never happened while manual testing or when being used by end users, so not sure what's going on there.

In any case, if the Playwright API encourages better idioms for writing tests that avoids these pitfalls, that would be cool because I deal with a lot of work term students that aren't adept at this kind of stuff so that would save a lot of headaches.

This is more likely when the system is loaded / shared e.g. a CI Vm.

It’s instructive to watch a screencast / recording of UI tests, because you don’t necessary intuit how spazzy and fast the harness will perform its interactions.