Reliability

When a flaky test is really a product signal

When a flaky test is really a product signal

When a flaky test is really a product signal

Intermittent failures often reveal timing, state, and recovery problems your users already experience.

Intermittent failures often reveal timing, state, and recovery problems your users already experience.

Priya Iyer

5 min

FIELD NOTE

Release evidence should reduce the cost of interpretation without hiding uncertainty, context, or the need for human judgment.

A flaky test can be a weak test, but it can also expose an unstable boundary in the product. Start by preserving the complete trace, compare the application state across retries, and classify whether the variance belongs to the test, the environment, or the user experience.

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