internal: (studio) skip cancelling studio on watched:file:changed

[mschile]

• Closes https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress-services/issues/10875

Additional details

• Skipped calling studioStore.cancel() when the cloud studio is requested
• Fixed an issue where rerun was getting called twice due to watched:filed:changed being listened to twice. Depending on timing, this would lead to weird behavior where logs were duplicated on the reporter (it appeared there were two event managers running)

Steps to test

• Verify saving in the cloud studio doesn't cancel studio but still reruns the test
• Verify modifying the spec on the file system doesn't cancel studio but still reruns the test

How has the user experience changed?

studio_save.mov

PR Tasks

• Have tests been added/updated?
• [n/a] Has a PR for user-facing changes been opened in cypress-documentation?
• [n/a] Have API changes been updated in the type definitions?

[Copilot]

Pull Request Overview

This PR updates the runner’s event handling to avoid cancelling studio when a file change should only trigger a rerun, and adds an end-to-end test for the cloud studio scenario.

• Skip calling studioStore.cancel() on watched:file:changed when studio (local or cloud) is active
• Remove the generic rerun binding array and explicitly bind only runner:restart and the custom watched:file:changed handler
• Add a Cypress test to verify cloud studio remains open after spec file changes

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 2 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

File	Description
packages/app/src/runner/event-manager.ts	Conditional studioStore.cancel() and explicit rerun event binding
packages/app/cypress/e2e/studio/studio-cloud.cy.ts	New test for cloud studio behavior on spec file changes

Comments suppressed due to low confidence (2)

packages/app/cypress/e2e/studio/studio-cloud.cy.ts:209

• [nitpick] The test description says 'exits studio mode' but the assertion checks that the studio panel remains visible. Consider renaming it to 'does not exit studio mode...' or similar to match the behavior.

it('exits studio mode if the spec is changed on the file system', () => {

packages/app/src/runner/event-manager.ts:161

• Add a test case covering the scenario when LOCAL_STUDIO_PATH is set (local studio) to ensure that studioStore.cancel() is correctly skipped for local studio as well.

if (!Cypress.env('LOCAL_STUDIO_PATH') && !Cypress.env('ENABLE_CLOUD_STUDIO')) {

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Branch Review	mschile/studio/skip_studio_cancel_on_file_changed
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Commit	5a32613f57: update test title
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