"Previous failure in test files that were not rerun" persists even though the failing test file was rerun

[IgnusG]

Description

The output of the watch mode is very confusing and more often than not unhelpful. I usually have to rerun the whole command since I'm never sure if the tests passed or not.

I was getting 2 failed tests. So I went ahead and fixed one but the other error was showing only a previously failed so I quit the command and rerun it since I didn't want to scroll to when it first failed (I think this could also be improved).

I got the error and fixed it, after which the output was a weird number of passed tests and 1 previous failure that was not rerun (even though there wasn't else failing to my knowledge).

I rerun the whole command again and finally got the correct number of passing tests with no failures.

I'm not sure if this is intended or if I'm just thinking about the numbers incorrectly.

Config

Copy the relevant section from package.json:

{
  "ava": {
     "require": [
         "esm",
         "./setup-test-env.js"
     ]
  }
}

setup-test-env.js

import browserEnv from 'browser-env';
browserEnv(['window', 'document']);

Environment

Node.js v10.5.0
linux 4.20.13-arch1-1-ARCH
ava 1.3.1

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[IgnusG]

I was using jest in a previous project and it has a watchAll option which disables its "smart" change tracking and reruns all tests anytime anything changes.

I was quite happy with this behavior. Used it quite often for smaller test suites when I just want to see all green or a complete list of every failure from every test.

Maybe ava could make use of something similar?

[IgnusG]

This works really well: npx sane ava
sane is just a file watcher I picked randomly from the registry

[novemberborn]

I think there's a bug with the "previous failure in test files that were not rerun". I've also noticed it showing even though I resolved all failures.

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Did you know you could press r + enter and AVA reruns all test files?

[IgnusG]

Yeah, knew that. It's just 2 more key presses than I would prefer :)

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[novemberborn]

Duplicate of #2040.