Apr 17 · 4 min read · A flaky test is a test that produces different results — pass or fail — when run against the same code. No one touched the source. No dependency changed. Yet the test failed, your build went red, and someone on your team had to stop what they were do...
Join discussionNov 13, 2025 · 5 min read · If you're new to Playwright or test automation, you've probably heard about "flaky tests." Maybe you're even dealing with them now. Simply means the tests that pass sometimes and fail other times, even though nothing changed in your code. Flaky tests...
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Oct 14, 2025 · 12 min read · Introduction Every automation engineer has been there. Your test script runs perfectly on your machine, passes all code reviews, and works flawlessly in staging. Then it hits production and fails with the dreaded message: "No such element: Unable to ...
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Sep 8, 2025 · 10 min read · After noticing a spike in failing Jest builds, I decided to investigate and found that slow and flaky tests were the main culprits. In this article, I go through some tips I discovered for making slow or flaky tests faster and more reliable. There ar...
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Jul 28, 2025 · 7 min read · Introduction Flaky tests represent one of the most insidious problems in QA automation, undermining team confidence and slowing development velocity. These tests exhibit non-deterministic behavior, passing and failing intermittently without any chang...
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Jul 17, 2025 · 7 min read · In software development and automated testing, consistency really matters. One of the most frustrating barriers that developers and QA engineers encounter is a little something we call flaky tests: tests that pass or fail at random times with no chan...
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Mar 28, 2025 · 2 min read · One of the hardest parts of debugging and fixing flaky RSpec tests is reproducing the failure reliably, or even reproducing it at all. Several years ago, an experiment at my company produced the marsh_grass gem. This gem provides several tools for de...
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Dec 8, 2024 · 5 min read · Testing map-based applications can be different from testing regular apps, but it doesn't have to be difficult. In this article, I will show you how to use MapGrab, a library designed to make testing map apps easier. I'll provide tips on configuring ...
Join discussionNov 8, 2023 · 9 min read · 1: Prefer explicit waits Waits are one of the most common reasons for flaky tests. An automated test typically consists of a series of steps that must be executed in order one after the other. The app the test is attempting to control, however, often...
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