Your test suite passes locally.
CI fails.
You rerun the pipeline.
Now everything is green.
You change absolutely nothing.
Your test suite passes locally. CI fails. You rerun the pipeline. Now everything is green. You...
Your test suite passes locally.
CI fails.
You rerun the pipeline.
Now everything is green.
You change absolutely nothing.

Flaky tests aren't random — they're deterministic bugs you haven't found the trigger for yet. This...

The failure starts small A test that passes 200 times and fails once does not feel urgent....

You've fixed your locators. You've switched to web-first assertions. Your tests still fail...

Flaky tests quietly drain engineering teams. You hit re-run, the test passes, and move on — but that...

You know this feeling. A test passes locally, fails in CI, you rerun it, it passes again. Somewhere a...

A flaky test is an annoyance to a human and a catastrophe to an agent. The human re-runs it and moves on. The agent reads the…