yes this is what i was taking about. If there are a lots of tests that are not practical to run locally then they are bad tests no matter how useful one might think they are. only good tests are the ones that run fast. It is also a sign that code itself is bad that you are forced to write tests that interact with outside world.

For example, you can extract logic into a presention layer and write unit test for that instead of mixing ui and business logic and writing browser tests for it. there are also well known patterns for this like 'model view presenter'.

I would rather put my effort into this than trying to figure out how to run tests that launch databases, browsers, call apis , start containers ect. Everywhere i've seen these kind of tests they've contributed to "it sucks to work on this code" feeling, bad vibes is the worst thing that can happen to code