That Test isn't Flaky. It's Broken.

· will-keleher.com · Aug. 12, 2026, 4:34 p.m.
Summary
The post discusses the pitfalls of viewing test failures as non-critical "flakes" in engineering culture, emphasizing that this approach leads to an unreliable test suite. It suggests enhancing test assertions and using cron to run tests on previously passing commits to mitigate these issues.
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