chore: fix the "Add contact to group" integrationt test

playwright.config.ts

@@ -9,8 +9,10 @@ const config: PlaywrightTestConfig = {
   testDir: './ts/test/automation',
   testIgnore: '*.js',
   outputDir: './ts/test/automation/test-results',
-  retries: 1,
+  retries: process.env.PLAYWRIGHT_RETRIES_COUNT
-  repeatEach: 1,
+    ? toNumber(process.env.PLAYWRIGHT_RETRIES_COUNT)
+    : 1,
+
   workers: toNumber(process.env.PLAYWRIGHT_WORKER_COUNT) || 1,
   reportSlowTests: null,
 };

ts/test/automation/group_testing.spec.ts

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ import {
   clickOnElement,
   clickOnMatchingText,
   clickOnTestIdWithText,
-  doesTextIncludeString,
   typeIntoInput,
   waitForControlMessageWithText,
   waitForMatchingText,
@@ -70,7 +69,8 @@ sessionTestFourWindows('Add contact to group', async ([windowA, windowB, windowC
     'module-conversation__user__profile-name',
     testGroup.userName
   );
-  await doesTextIncludeString(windowD, 'control-message', 'You joined the group.');
+  const emptyStateGroupText = `You have no messages from ${testGroup.userName}. Send a message to start the conversation!`;
+  await waitForTestIdWithText(windowD, 'empty-conversation-notification', emptyStateGroupText);
 });
 
 sessionTestThreeWindows('Change group name', async ([windowA, windowB, windowC]) => {

ts/test/automation/utilities/utils.ts

@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ export async function doesTextIncludeString(window: Page, dataTestId: string, te
   if (builtSelector) {
     console.info('Text found:', text);
   } else {
-    throw new Error(`Text not found: , ${text}`);
+    throw new Error(`Text not found: "${text}"`);
   }
 }