8 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.
A spec that passes on Chromium and fails on WebKit no longer reads as flaky.
Test failure clusters are now automatically categorized as product bugs, automation bugs, or environment issues using AI.
Automatically identify tests that flip between passing and failing across runs.