Testing · Middle · Question 65 of 75

What should you do with a flaky test you can't fix right away?

✓Correct answer: Quarantine it (skip with a ticket and owner) and fix the root cause soon, instead of rerunning CI until green
2Increase all timeouts to 60 s
3Delete it without a trace

Explanation

A suite that is often red “for no reason” teaches people to ignore failures, including real ones.

Further reading

Martin Fowler: Eradicating Non-Determinism in Tests ↗

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