Why can I tell a test is flaky but never find out why?
Szansa
Detecting that a test is flaky is mostly solved; several tools do it reliably across reruns. Diagnosing the specific root cause is not. LLMs evaluated on real-world flaky test datasets achieve F1 scores above 0.88 for detection but drop below 0.57 on the same inputs when asked to identify root cause. The few automated repair tools only handle order-dependent or implementation-dependent flakiness and fail on resource contention, async timing, and environment drift. Developers spend hours reading logs and adding print statements, then watch the failure refuse to reproduce locally.
Dlaczego to ważne
Root cause attribution is the missing step that turns a flakiness detector from a dashboard metric into a tool that actually reduces CI time.
Jak oceniam szansę
Wskaźnik Szansy to mój własny odczyt, a nie pomiar: jak bardzo boli, jak często daje się we znaki i jak niewiele istnieje dziś, by to rozwiązać. Wyższy wynik oznacza, że uważam problem za bardziej warty zbudowania.
Ile bólu sprawia, gdy się pojawia.
Jak często ludzie faktycznie na to trafiają.
Jak mało dobrych narzędzi istnieje dla tego dziś.
Więcej problemów wartych rozwiązania
Dlaczego oprogramowanie, od którego jesteśmy najbardziej zależni, jest najgorsze w użyciu?
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