3 posts tagged with "Flaky Tests"

Flaky tests are a common challenge in software development, often leading to unreliable test suites and wasted time debugging. They're dangerous because they can mask the real issues in your codebase, leading to a false sense of security. This erodes trust in test automation and can slow down continuous integration processes. One of the primary cause of flaky tests is race conditions, which occur when the timing of events leads to unpredictable outcomes.

Why do your tests pass locally but fail on CI with no real code changes?

Welcome to the world of flaky tests - those annoying, inconsistent tests that fail when you least expect it. Flaky tests have a way of showing up when you're least prepared for them. They pass until they don’t. Then pass again on the next rerun.

UI Automation is always challenging. Some of the reasons include

• Validation of different components and their behaviours
• Validation of structures with dynamic data
• Validation of dynamically changing content
• Validating async operations

And because of the complexity involved in automating the interactions with the components and the data associated with them, the tests are not stable, meaning that they don't fail or pass consistently. With UI Automation, unstable tests are a huge pain, because a lot of manual intervention would be required to check if it's an actual failure and identify why it failed now and not during the previous run, based on this a fix to make the test stable needs to be identified.