#flaky-tests

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.

When 200 tests fail in CI, there are rarely 200 problems. A guide to test failure types, what causes each, and how to cluster by root cause.

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.