Lana Begunova wrote a solid, extended overview of test flakiness, explaining why it occurs and what you can do to minimise it.
And if you're looking for an example, Vladislav Ogir describes how they approached Solving flaky tests related to dates — My experience.
This is a great, full-of-tips overview by Gleb Bahmutov on how to design tests to avoid flakiness, using Cypress as an example.
How can you solve test flakiness in Cypress? Gleb Bahmutov recorded several short exercises showing how to do it.
If your Cypress tests tend to fail randomly, you may want to try out these tips from Dilkushi Jayaweera.
Test Flakiness in Automation — Continued
Following the first article about test flakiness, Lana Begunova continues exploring that topic by focusing on the attitude towards them.
In relation to that, Erlon Almeida tells us more about Test Code Smell: When does your code start to smell bad?.
Cypress vs Playwright — Flakiness Analysis
Andrew Goldis shared a very interesting analysis from 100s of real test projects to determine the difference in flakiness when Cypress or Playwright were used.
Deal With Flaky APIs From Cypress Tests
And if you write API tests using Cypress, you may want to follow these tips from Gleb Bahmutov on making them more stable.
Moreover, David Ingraham shares a few pieces of advice on leveraging Helpers in Cypress — When and Where to Use Them.
Treat your flaky tests like production bugs
Here's a simple guide by Paweł Świątkowski that may come in handy when deciding on how to fight the flaky tests.
The other useful tactic to improve tests (and not only) is the Dev Box technique suggested by André Guimarães.
Four Horsemen of the Flaky Tests
If you want to avoid intermittently failing tests, you may want to listen to Eugene Truuts's example-based advice.
Additionally, Rodrigo Alves Costa gives some handy tips on how to Keep your Page Objects maintainable.
Testing Android apps for flaky network situations with Flaker
One of the questions we should ask ourselves when testing mobile apps is how they perform in different network conditions. To simulate that, Rohan Maity shows how to use Flaker on Android.
