TestNG retry tests that are marked as skipped with gradle-retry-plugin

[itkhanz]

Hi,
I am using TestNG with gradle, and for retrying flaky tests, I am using gradle-retry-plugin instead of the IRetryAnalayzer from TestNG.
Could you please have a look at this issue, and share your input on how to best deal with this situation:-

gradle/test-retry-gradle-plugin#290

I would like to be able to retry tests that are marked as skipped in TestNG but this is not possible at the moment with gradle-retry-plugin, so therefore I am making the configuration methods annotated with @BeforeMethod and @BeforeClass in BaseTest as failed which causes Gradle/TestNG to report the result of configuration method separately causing duplicatate total results count where the configuration method is shown as failed, and the actual test is shown as skipped.

I would really appreciate your input on dealing with this situation.