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It makes your tests more robust. Generally you don’t want tests that are too sensitive to external state since they will fail spuriously and become useless.

• brigadier132 2y ago
  Of course your tests shouldn't be sensitive to external state. Why would other tests running affect your test?
  • viraptor 2y ago
    They shouldn't. But they do. We're not perfectly spherical developers and we all make mistakes. Sometimes it's also extremely tricky to figure out what state is leaking, especially is it's an access race issue and happens only for some tests and very rarely. If you haven't seen that happening, you just need to work on larger projects.
    • brigadier132 2y ago
      I've worked at several large companies. In our e2e tests we did not create isolated dbs per test. If the test failed because of other tests running that's a bug in the test and that person would get automatically @mentioned on slack and they would have to fix the build.