Playwright scripts are not getting executed on Azure DevOps

My Playwright scripts are running fine in local. However same scripts are failing in Azure DevOps pipeline with the below error:

Error: Playwright Test did not expect test.describe() to be called here. Most common reasons include:

• You are calling test.describe() in a configuration file.
• You are calling test.describe() in a file that is imported by the configuration file.
• You have two different versions of @playwright/test. This usually happens when one of the dependencies in your package.json depends on @playwright/test.

Error i am getting:

Azure pipeline yml file:

I have made sure

• I have only 1 playwright version
• all commands and locations in yml file are correct
• scripts are running fine in local

From your error message, I notice that the test file is under the path: TestCase-10459-StandarReport/tests/dashboard/alarm_count_quick_lists.

In your YAML sample, you are executing the playwright command with the file path: tests/dashboard/alarm_count_quick_lists/xxx.js The default working directory of the script task is s folder.

So the cause of the issue can be that the command execution path has issues.

Test the similar YAML sample, I can reproduce the same issue:

To solve this issue, you need to set the correct workingDirectory in the npx playwright test task.

For example:

- script: npx playwright test alarm_count_list.spec.js
  displayName: 'Run Playwright test '
  workingDirectory: $(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)/TestCase-10459-StandarReport/tests/dashboard/alarm_count_quick_lists
  env:
    CI: 'true'

In this case, npx playwright test command will find the js file in the correct path.