▲ | silversmith 7 days ago | |
Came here to comment this. Most of the flakey tests are badly written, some warn you about bugs you don't yet understand. Couple years ago I helped to bring a project back on track. They had a notoriously flakey part of test suite, turned out to be caused by a race condition. And a very puzzling case of occasional data corruption - also, turns out, caused by the same race condition. | ||
▲ | MoreQARespect 6 days ago | parent [-] | |
I tend to find that those bugs are in the extreme minority. Most flakiness ends up being a bug in the test or nondeterminism exhibited by the code which users dont actually care about. |