How to use checkRecursiveUpdates method in Playwright Internal

Well this is one way, but not sure if it will work for all possible locators!.

// Get a selector from a playwright locator
import { Locator } from "@playwright/test";
export function extractSelector(locator: Locator) {
    const selector = locator.toString();
    const parts = selector.split("@");
    if (parts.length !== 2) { throw Error("extractSelector: susupect that this is not a locator"); }
    if (parts[0] !== "Locator") { throw Error("extractSelector: did not find locator"); }
    return parts[1];
}

Assuming you are not running test with the --runinband flag, the simple answer is yes but it depends ????

There is a pretty comprehensive GitHub issue jest#6957 that explains certain cases of when tests are run concurrently or in parallel. But it seems to depend on a lot of edge cases where jest tries its best to determine the fastest way to run the tests given the circumstances.

To my knowledge there is no way to force jest to run in parallel.

Aside

Have you considered using playwright instead of puppeteer with jest? Playwright has their own internally built testing library called @playwright/test that is used in place of jest with a similar API. This library allows for explicitly defining test groups in a single file to run in parallel (i.e. test.describe.parallel) or serially (i.e. test.describe.serial). Or even to run all tests in parallel via a config option.

// parallel
test.describe.parallel('group', () => {
  test('runs in parallel 1', async ({ page }) => {});
  test('runs in parallel 2', async ({ page }) => {});
});

// serial
test.describe.serial('group', () => {
  test('runs first', async ({ page }) => {});
  test('runs second', async ({ page }) => {});
});

I found the error. It was because of some missing libraries need. I discovered this when I downgraded playwright to version 1.9 and ran the the code then this was the error msg:

(node:12876) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: browserType.launch: Host system is missing dependencies!

Some of the Universal C Runtime files cannot be found on the system. You can fix
that by installing Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio from:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads

Full list of missing libraries:
    vcruntime140.dll
    msvcp140.dll
Error
    at Object.captureStackTrace (D:\Projects\snkrs-play\node_modules\playwright\lib\utils\stackTrace.js:48:19)
    at Connection.sendMessageToServer (D:\Projects\snkrs-play\node_modules\playwright\lib\client\connection.js:69:48)
    at Proxy.<anonymous> (D:\Projects\snkrs-play\node_modules\playwright\lib\client\channelOwner.js:64:61)
    at D:\Projects\snkrs-play\node_modules\playwright\lib\client\browserType.js:64:67
    at BrowserType._wrapApiCall (D:\Projects\snkrs-play\node_modules\playwright\lib\client\channelOwner.js:77:34)
    at BrowserType.launch (D:\Projects\snkrs-play\node_modules\playwright\lib\client\browserType.js:55:21)
    at D:\Projects\snkrs-play\index.js:4:35
    at Object.<anonymous> (D:\Projects\snkrs-play\index.js:7:3)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1063:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1092:10)
(Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
(node:12876) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). To terminate the node process on unhandled promise rejection, use the CLI flag `--unhandled-rejections=strict` (see https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_unhandled_rejections_mode). (rejection id: 1)
(node:12876) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

A list of missing libraries was provided. After successful installments, firefox ran fine. I upgraded again to version 1.10 and firefox still works.

I played with your example for a while and I got the same errors. These are the things I found that made my example work:

It must be Linux. I know that you mentioned that you picked a Linux plan. But I found that in VS Code that part is hidden, and on the Web the default is Windows. This is important because only the Linux plan runs npm install on the server.

Make sure that you are building on the server. You can find this option in the VS Code Settings:

Make sure you set the environment variable PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH, before making the publish.

I found the error. It was because of some missing libraries need. I discovered this when I downgraded playwright to version 1.9 and ran the the code then this was the error msg:

(node:12876) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: browserType.launch: Host system is missing dependencies!

Some of the Universal C Runtime files cannot be found on the system. You can fix
that by installing Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio from:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads

Full list of missing libraries:
    vcruntime140.dll
    msvcp140.dll
Error
    at Object.captureStackTrace (D:\Projects\snkrs-play\node_modules\playwright\lib\utils\stackTrace.js:48:19)
    at Connection.sendMessageToServer (D:\Projects\snkrs-play\node_modules\playwright\lib\client\connection.js:69:48)
    at Proxy.<anonymous> (D:\Projects\snkrs-play\node_modules\playwright\lib\client\channelOwner.js:64:61)
    at D:\Projects\snkrs-play\node_modules\playwright\lib\client\browserType.js:64:67
    at BrowserType._wrapApiCall (D:\Projects\snkrs-play\node_modules\playwright\lib\client\channelOwner.js:77:34)
    at BrowserType.launch (D:\Projects\snkrs-play\node_modules\playwright\lib\client\browserType.js:55:21)
    at D:\Projects\snkrs-play\index.js:4:35
    at Object.<anonymous> (D:\Projects\snkrs-play\index.js:7:3)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1063:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1092:10)
(Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
(node:12876) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). To terminate the node process on unhandled promise rejection, use the CLI flag `--unhandled-rejections=strict` (see https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_unhandled_rejections_mode). (rejection id: 1)
(node:12876) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

A list of missing libraries was provided. After successful installments, firefox ran fine. I upgraded again to version 1.10 and firefox still works.