The single most flake-prone test in any E2E suite is "user signs up, verifies via emailed OTP,...
The single most flake-prone test in any E2E suite is "user signs up,
verifies via emailed OTP, completes onboarding." Why? Because the email
is async, the test runner can't see it, and the bridge between the two
is a 60-line polling helper everyone writes once and nobody wants to
maintain.
Every QA engineer has written a test like this at some point: test('user receives verification...
Email is one of those things that's genuinely hard to test. It goes out through an SMTP server, lands...
If you've ever tried to write a Playwright test that covers a full sign-up → email verification →...
Here's a Playwright test that looks completely reasonable and silently lies to...
Two CI workers kick off at the same moment. Both sign up a test user, both poll the shared QA Gmail...
A fast suite is a parallel suite — and parallelism is where flakiness is born. The good news: we've...
