the 5 kinds of flaky test i keep meeting, and what actually fixes them
Ive been the person who gets pinged when CI goes red for about six years now, first in a fintech and now in insurance. After a while you notice the flakes arent random. They come in the same handful of flavours. Heres my list, roughly in order of how often I see them. 1. Racing the UI The test clicks before the button is ready, or reads text before the request came back. The fix people reach for is a sleep. Dont. In…