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6 questions in Flaky Test Management.

  1. Flaky Test Management intermediate

    A CI pipeline runs 2,400 tests in 18 minutes and fails about one run in four for reasons unrelated to the change. To stop the interruptions, the team enables automatic retry: any failing test is re-run twice, and the build is green if it passes on any attempt. What happens over the following six months?

    3 min answer flaky-testsciretriessignal-loss
  2. Flaky Test Management intermediate

    A suite has persistent flaky tests. Why is tolerating them worse than deleting them, and what policy works?

    2 min answer flakinesstrustquarantinepolicy
  3. Flaky Test Management intermediate

    A team's CI suite fails roughly one run in three for reasons unrelated to the change. Everyone reruns until green. How do you recover the situation?

    2 min answer testingflakinesscisignal
  4. Flaky Test Management intermediate

    A test suite has a 4% flake rate. The team re-runs failed builds. What is the actual cost, and what policy fixes it?

    2 min answer browserstackflakytrustpolicy
  5. Flaky Test Management intermediate

    Write the policy for handling flaky tests. What are the rules?

    2 min answer testingcipolicy
  6. Flaky Test Management intermediate

    Your test quarantine has grown to 140 tests over a year. What has gone wrong and how do you recover?

    2 min answer testingflakinessquarantinequality