[TIP] Blog post about flaky tests at Google

Bruno Oliveira nicoddemus at gmail.com
Wed Jun 8 04:50:11 PDT 2016


On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 8:39 AM Corentin Henry <corentinhenry at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for this link :)
>

I second that. :)

I'm slightly confused by the figures they provide:
>
> > about 1.5% of all test runs reporting a "flaky" result
>
> then:
>
> > Almost 16% of our tests have some level of flakiness associated with them
>


I think they are distinguishing between 1.5% of *test runs* (running all
tests) vs 16% of *individual* tests that eventually made an entire test run
to fail because they are flaky.

Cheers,
Bruno.
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