Education: Flake

Number of posts: 13

Live Webcast | Flaky Test Management with Cypress

Register Tired of battling flaky tests? Join us Wednesday, May 19th at 2:00pm EDT/11:00am PDT to find out how to focus your efforts with test-writing best practices, how to understand different types of flake, and the many ways in which Cypress can help you eliminate flake for good. Your We…

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When Can The Test Blink?

Let's take a page where a loading element is displayed while the application is fetching the data from the server. If the test is observing the loading element to make sure it disappears, can the loading be too fast? Can the test runner "blink" and miss the element?…

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Retry, Rerun, Repeat

> If at first you don't succeed, then dust yourself off and try again.                                                                                          - American R&B singer Aaliyah (1979-2001) The modern Internet is built on retries. Software and hardware failures are normal and…

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When Can the Test Submit a Form?

In this blog post we continue exploring flaky tests and how to fix them. We will look at the situation when a page submits a form and then continues to interact with the page, which causes a problem. Tip: you can find all existing similar posts under the tag Flake [https://cypress.io/blog/tag/flake…

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