Handling Flaky Tests at Scale: Auto Detection & Suppression

Handling Flaky Tests at Scale: Auto Detection & Suppression

摘要

This post describes the path we have taken to minimize the number of flaky tests through an approach of automated test failure detection and suppression. This is not a new problem that we are trying to solve; many companies have published articles on systems created for handling flaky tests. This article outlines how test flakiness is an increasing problem at scale and how we got it under control at Slack.