ensure compatibility pytest plugins

[eleanorjboyd]

Explore top pytest plugins and ensure compatibility with testing infrastructure. See this list for inspiration, specifically focused on ones that would impact our testing infrastructure, naming etc. https://pythontest.com/top-pytest-plugins/

For the community, please comment if there is a plugin you use that doesn't work and I can take a look as part of this effort.

[github-actions]

Thanks for the feature request! We are going to give the community 60 days from when this issue was created to provide 7 👍 upvotes on the opening comment to gauge general interest in this idea. If there's enough upvotes then we will consider this feature request in our future planning. If there's unfortunately not enough upvotes then we will close this issue.

[eleanorjboyd]

started thread with pytest-rerunfailures here: pytest-dev/pytest-rerunfailures#280