Testing · Senior · Question 18 of 75

Why are automatic retries in CI dangerous if used without monitoring?

✓Correct answer: They hide real race conditions in the product that users will hit
2They double the cost of every test
3Retries disable traces

Explanation

Track flaky tests (passed on retry) as a metric and treat each one as a bug.

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