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I disagree because things like flappy tests are a "smell" that could lead to discovering a deeper problem. We simply don't know ahead of time that the payoff wo

I disagree because things like flappy tests are a "smell" that could lead to discovering a deeper problem. We simply don't know ahead of time that the payoff won't be worth the effort in such a situation. If you can't explain what's wrong, that's bad.

rincebrain 11y ago
Certainly, but given that the value of the test can be nonzero even if unreliable, and you may not have time to run down why it's unreliable, it makes sense to have a mechanism to utilize it. Not ever having engineering time to investigate why it's unreliable is a (mostly) unrelated problem.