You have done everything right.
You made the economic case for automation and got the investment approved. You distributed quality checks across the SDLC instead of piling them at the end. You replaced pyramid thinking with risk-weighted coverage. You stopped reporting a coverage percentage that was lying to you.
Six months later, your engineers have started ignoring test failures.
Not because they are careless. Because ignoring test failures became the rational choice. This article is about how that happens, why it happens to teams that know better, and why it is the final form of Test Debt.
What is flakiness?
