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6 questions in End-to-End Test Economics.

  1. End-to-End Test Economics intermediate

    A team's end-to-end suite takes ninety minutes and fails intermittently. How many end-to-end tests should there be?

    2 min answer chargebeee2eeconomicscoverage
  2. End-to-End Test Economics advanced

    An end-to-end suite of 340 tests takes four hours and fails spuriously about half the time. The team wants to parallelise it. Is that the right move?

    2 min answer testinge2eflakinessstrategy
  3. End-to-End Test Economics advanced

    An organisation has a large end-to-end test suite that is slow, flaky and blocks releases. What is the economically correct shape, and how do you get there without losing coverage?

    2 min answer test-pyramidflakye2econtract-testing
  4. End-to-End Test Economics intermediate

    End-to-end tests fail intermittently and nobody owns them. QA says the developers broke them; developers say the tests are flaky. How do you resolve this?

    2 min answer testingownershipflakinessorganisation
  5. End-to-End Test Economics advanced

    How should the number of end-to-end tests be decided, and what is the honest accounting?

    2 min answer end-to-endcostflakinessvalue
  6. End-to-End Test Economics advanced

    Your 800-test end-to-end suite takes 90 minutes and fails roughly half the time for reasons unrelated to the change. The team re-runs until green. What do you do?

    2 min answer testingreliabilitystrategy