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by zarroboogs 1030 days ago
> Every flakey test is a production failure that really happens to some users sometimes. How often is just a matter of scale.

Not really, the one I’ve seen most often is a shared resource failing - for example a Gitlab Runner not handling a new VM for a DB so tests fail etc

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Also, dirty test harness state not being cleaned up between tests/suites, and threading issues in the test code