vstest-docs VS Polly

Environment variables is probably easiest, but vstest and dotnet test support your use case via runsettings arguments - more info here: https://github.com/microsoft/vstest-docs/blob/main/docs/RunSettingsArguments.md

I've had success creating my own logger by following this guide on the vsdocs github. Nowadays you don't have to deploy the assemblies for the custom logger to the vs install folders. vstest will scan the build output directory for assemblies that match the specified pattern, *.testlogger.dll. You can also specify the path for custom test adapters either from the command line or a runsettings file using the TestAdapterPath option (this is only available since v15.1 but you mentioned you've tried the html logger and I think that's much newer than v15.1). If you get stuck with the implementation you can try referring to vstest's own loggers: htmllogger, trxlogger.

Also something that may be relevant is that newer versions of the vstest platform allow you to override runsettings options when running tests from the command line, as described here.

vstest (c#) (I like this one a lot, architecture is very well documented here: https://github.com/Microsoft/vstest-docs)

In our applications, we should wrap all requests to remote services in code that implements a retry policy that follows one of the strategies I listed earlier. If you are a .NET developer like myself, you may be familiar with the Polly library. Golang has a library called Retry, and there are numerous third-party libraries for Python and Java.

Another question that rises is, would it be better to use some HttpClient package to handle the requests, like Refit in combination with Polly. But then again, it seems Refit also uses the HttpClient factory, which was a bad thing according to the previous?

D'Oh! Sorry, not PolySharp. I meant Polly. Too many similarly-named libraries!

Everywhere I've worked with AGs, we've worked with the application team to add retry logic to help make things a bit more seamless to end users. There are libraries out there that can make this pretty easy - Polly is one that I've used a few times, but there are others.

Fallacy 1: The network is reliable. If system 2 works perfectly well, but is not accessible for service 1 due to network issues, service 2 is still unavailable. This is why timeouts, service breakers and retry policies exist. A great tool for .NET to handle common network issues is Polly, but even when using a tool like this, the network is still not completely reliable.

I see. Then I don't have any better idea right now, but I do want to suggest that if your script is mostly API calls and you want to be able to deal with failures then take a look at the polly library: https://github.com/App-vNext/Polly

Runs in containers nicely, has good integration with Kafka, RabbitMQ, gRPC, etc. for Microservices communication. Implements resiliency patterns you'd want in Microservices via Polly. Has a decent Dependency Injection framework built in by default.

It's in no way hidden. But I use Polly all the time.

Depending if the sender or the reciever is down, you can also try Polly http://www.thepollyproject.org/