Don’t Blink! How We Got Rid of Flaky Tests
summary
The talk addresses flaky tests caused by time-dependent behavior in applications (elements that appear/disappear after seconds, background jobs, scheduled tasks). It explains approaches and techniques used to make automated tests reliable for such temporal features, including handling timing, waits, and synchronization strategies to eliminate instability.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:56Flaky test problems
- 8:12Popup notifications solution
- 11:20Background process sloth method
- 17:00On-call practice and test isolation
- 27:00Test analytics and scope
- 31:05Q&A
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