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by ankitdce 1694 days ago
That is a fair argument. Not all organizations have the bandwidth to measure and manage stability of builds. Some companies build internal tools / dev productivity team for this purpose. There are always right intentions to comment out the flaky test with the mindset of coming back to it, but it is also a very low priority item in most cases when you have to ship new features.

Fixing flaky tests can very commonly take longer than writing new tests.