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Every test restore gets a unique name and its own lifecycle: reusing one name meant each run destroyed the previous test's evidence and, worse, could collide with a restore someone was still examining. Use when an agent running recurring restore verification tests. Not for a deliberately persistent golden test VM that…
Fixes restore tests firing twice concurrently from an agent scheduler: add distributed locking or idempotent scheduling so each test runs once. Use when an agent scheduler double-fires restore tests. Not for backup product schedules overlapping.
Shows how to seed auth state once and reuse it across many e2e tests via API login plus saved storage state. Use when every test logging in through the UI makes the suite slow. Not for testing the login flow itself.
Makes workflow rollbacks safe by versioning the full bundle of workflow, prompts, and tool contracts, and testing the rollback path in staging. Use when decisions break right after a rollback. Not for bugs in the current version.
Finds the polluting test behind order-dependent failures that only appear in the full pytest suite. Use when a test passes alone but fails in the full run. Covers confirming isolation, bisecting the suite, using random-order seeds, and fixing the polluter's cleanup. Not for failures that reproduce alone.
Extracts the real error hidden behind a Cypress before-all hook failure. Use when the output says Because this error occurred during a 'before all' hook without showing the cause. Covers running the hook body standalone, adding logging, and reading browser console artifacts. Not for hook timeouts or test-body failures.
Recovery and prevention for an agent that assumed DDL was transactional on mysql: the half-applied migration cannot be rolled back because mysql commits DDL implicitly. Use when a mysql migration failed midway and left a partial schema. Not for postgres, where transactional DDL usually allows rollback.
Finds the async leak behind jest's Cannot log after tests are done flake in CI. Use when CI intermittently warns that logging happened after tests finished. Covers rerunning with --detectOpenHandles, locating the leaking timer or socket, and awaiting or cancelling the async work. Not for console noise during tests.
Debugs the Cypress automation client disconnected flake in CI. Use when runs intermittently die with The automation client disconnected. Covers rerunning with debug logging, checking container memory pressure, disabling the GPU, and pinning the browser version. Not for consistent disconnects on a single spec.
Fixes misattributed failures when one test leaks a timer that fires during another test. Use when test B fails but the fault originates in test A. Covers finding the leaked timer, fixing cleanup in the polluter, and adding leak detection. Not for genuine test B bugs.
Restores e2e coverage for dependency bumps on critical paths. Use it when a bump skipped e2e and broke a user-facing flow in production. Key trigger: the broken flow touches code paths the dependency serves, and e2e was not in the PR checks. Not for: a bump with no user-facing surface, where unit tests suffice.
Fixes cleanup added to the wrong test, leaving the polluter leaking. Use when a leak was 'fixed' in the victim but other tests still fail. Covers identifying the true polluter, moving cleanup there, and verifying the whole file. Not for leaks with no identifiable source.
Fixes misattributed failures when one test leaks a timer that fires during another test. Use when test B fails but the fault originates in test A. Covers finding the leaked timer, fixing cleanup in the polluter, and adding leak detection. Not for genuine test B bugs.
Isolates databases for parallel Cucumber scenarios so concurrent runs stop colliding. Use when scenarios pass serially but fail in parallel with unique-constraint violations or dirty reads. Not for parallel slowness or for collisions inside a single scenario.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's parallel test shards collided on ports: how to isolate - cucumber tags not filtering scenarios: how to fix - [flaky t…
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Public search query: cucumber parallel scenarios database collision: how to isolate
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Fixes test-healing agents quarantining tests that failed due to database pollution from the agent's own earlier runs. Use when quarantined tests pass on a clean database. Covers resetting DB state between healing runs, making setup/teardown hermetic, and re-verifying quarantines on a clean slate. Not for genuinely ord…
Teaches a dbt agent blast-radius control: run the model's own tests before and after, keep changes minimal, and review the diff so fixing a downstream test never breaks its upstream model. Use when a fix damages a working model. Not for changes that intentionally alter the model.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's fix for one flaky test introduced a new flake in a test that shares the same database - [my agent added a database reset to the failing test instead of finding the test that skipped its teard…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's playwright globalSetup left the database dirty: teardown fix
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - chroma persistent client "sqlite3.OperationalError: database is locked" - can parallel search include or exclude specific domains from results
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Public search query: pytest sqlalchemy.exc.OperationalError: database is locked in parallel CI runs:
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - cucumber tags not filtering scenarios: how to fix - flaky tests from parallel workers sharing ports: how to isolate - [flaky …
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: cucumber parallel scenarios database collision: how to isolate
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Fixes Mocha 'timeout of 2000ms exceeded' failures in afterEach hooks by finding the slow cleanup and speeding it up or raising the hook timeout. Use when the failure names an afterEach hook and the tests themselves pass. Not for timeouts inside the test body or in beforeEach setup.