Docker and CI/CD · Senior · Question 37 of 75
What is the risk of automatically retrying failed tests in CI?
- ✓Correct answer: Real race conditions get hidden behind green builds
- 2Retried tests always pass, even when broken
- 3Retries are not supported by most CI systems
Explanation
Retries are useful as a stopgap, but track which tests needed them and fix or quarantine those. Intermittent failures are often real concurrency bugs.