7 items tagged with "flaky-tests"
How to build an automated regression testing suite, wire it into CI, and track what it produces run over run: the half most guides skip.
How to use Playwright's planner, generator, and healer agents (v1.56+), run them in CI, and track whether agent-written tests actually stay stable over time.
Test failures come in five buckets and ten proximate causes. How to tell them apart, and how grouping by error message turns a wall of red into a few fixes.
Most teams retry and move on. A systematic approach to flaky test management: flip rate detection, CI cost prioritization, and a fix-quarantine-delete framework.
Flaky tests are an invisible tax on engineering velocity. Industry data from Atlassian, Google, and Microsoft shows 13-16% of test failures are flaky. Here's how to calculate the real cost.