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Podcast: Test & Code
Episode: 50: Flaky Tests and How to Deal with Them
Description: Anthony Shaw joins Brian to discuss flaky tests and flaky test suites.
What are flaky tests?
Is it the same as fragile tests?
Why are they bad?
How do we deal with them?
What causes flakiness?
How can we fix them?
How can we avoid them?
Proactively rooting out flakiness
Test design
GUI tests
Sharing solutions
Special Guest: Anthony Shaw.Links:Dropbox article on flaky testsMicrosoft article on flaky testspytest-rerunfailures: a py.test plugin that re-runs failed tests up to -n times to eliminate flakey failurespytest-randomly: Pytest plugin to randomly order tests and control...