Fixing flaky Playwright visual regression tests
If you're facing flaky visual tests, check out Chris Boakes' tips on how to address that, with examples in Playwright.
Don't Let Flaky Tests Destroy Your App
While we can't completely avoid flaky tests, we can control how we respond to them. Here's some good advice from Leonardo Booth on what to do.
In that context, Manish Saini reminds us about the Essential CI Triggers for Your Test Automation Pipeline.
Flaky Tests are Not the Problem
I think flaky tests can actually be more useful than non-flaky tests.
This is an intriguing point of view from Grunet. Curious why? Read about the arguments.
How to handle Cypress flaky tests
If you're dealing with flaky Cypress tests, here are some tips by Balaji Kumarasamy on what you can do to improve them.
Balaji also wrote a similar guide on How to handle Playwright flaky tests.
Improper use of Timeouts and Test Flakiness
Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath shares his learnings on fixing flaky tests on the Android platform by tweaking timeouts — a solution that can also be applied in other test automation solutions.
Handling Flaky Tests in LLM-powered Applications
With more and more apps using LLM, it's important to know how to design stable tests for them. Tomas Fernandez explains in detail how to achieve that.
3 Hacks to Crush Test Flakiness
Omri Bashan gives a few tips on building effective feedback loops in order to address flaky tests.
It may also help to realise that Better Feedback Makes for Faster Reviews, as advised by Google's engineers Felipe Sodré and Adam Bender.
Proven Strategies to Minimize End-To-End Test Flakiness
Are your tests flaky? They can fail for various reasons and Dennis Martinez explains several ways of solving them.
Also, Stefan Dirnstorfer says it may be worth doing something about Failing with grace: A tester's guide to error culture.
One Technique for Fixing/Preventing Flaky Tests
"(...) «increasing delays between actions» and «adding the await keyword where needed» are among the popular solutions for fixing flakiness."
Andrey Enin shows an interesting example of addressing this concern in automated web UI tests.
Furthermore, Michał Rudzki shows a simple example to warn against Using random or favourite numbers — Laziness in tests that can cost you dearly.
How to Avoid Flaky Tests in Playwright
Playwright has quite a few features that help reduce test flakiness, but that might not be enough by itself. Antonello Zanini shows what more you can do.
And here's a handy overview of Playwright's auto-wait is simple and superb by Cerosh Jacob.
