You hit the nail on the head, using your own words. > selective retry on failures This is why your test suite passes, not because of an avoidance of outdated

You hit the nail on the head, using your own words. > selective retry on failures This is why your test suite passes, not because of an avoidance of outdated tech or poor practices. You rerun your flaky tests until they pass. That’s bad engineering, and the definition of non-determinism.