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> Every flakey test is a production failure that really happens to some users sometimes No. Tests can be flakey when the code they're testing is not. Every fla
by drewcoo 3y ago
> Every flakey test is a production failure that really happens to some users sometimes
No. Tests can be flakey when the code they're testing is not. Every flakey test is not a customer problem.
Training developers to ignore flakey tests also trains them to ignore real failures. Potentially many of them. Any of those might be real customer problems.
- m3ll0 3y agoThis! Flaky tests become a customer problem when developers learn to ignore them! You gotta weed them out.