5 Reasons Your Automated Tests Fail
693Intermittent tests are a big deal. They are one of the most common problems that people hit when trying to automate the testing part of their release process. Actually though there are only 5 reasons that your tests fail intermittently, and all of them are fixable.
In this episode Dave Farley, author of best selling books "Continuous Delivery" and "Modern Software Engineering", explores the causes of intermittency in tests, and describes how to fix them.
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