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Grokking Continuous Delivery
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Grokking Continuous Delivery

by Christie Wilson
October 2022
Intermediate to advanced
424 pages
10h 34m
English
Manning Publications
Audiobook available
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5 Dealing with noisy tests

In this chapter

  • explaining why tests are crucially important to CD
  • creating and executing a plan to go from noisy test failures to a useful signal
  • understanding what makes tests noisy
  • treating test failures as bugs
  • defining flaky tests and understanding why they are harmful
  • retrying tests appropriately

It’d be nearly impossible to have continuous delivery (CD) without tests! For a lot of folks, tests are synonymous with at least the CI side of CD, but over time some test suites seem to degrade in value. In this chapter, we’ll take a look at how to take care of noisy test suites.

Continuous delivery and tests

How do tests fit into CD? From chapter 1, CD is all about getting to a state where

  • you can safely deliver ...

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