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by altdataseller 1429 days ago
Its also part of your job to be part of the solution and help fix them. Why are the tests flaky? Maybe you can spend a day and fix it? Obscure bugs - ok they are hard to reproduce, but if it was easy, they would probably outsource your job to some Indian developer
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If the test is flaky, the first thing you should do it disable it (until you can fix it), so it stops breaking the build and slowing down everyone else. A flaky test is worse than no test. I used to work at a place where people who just "re-run the build" several times until they got lucky. Eventually I just disabled those tests in one of my unrelated PRs.