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Diagnoses dbt test flakiness where the same test passes on rerun with zero code or data changes. Use when a test flips between pass and fail across identical runs. Not for tests that fail consistently on real bad data.
Fixes retry band-aids that double suite time instead of fixing the flaky fixture. Use when test-level retries were added over an unstable test database. Covers finding the DB flake, fixing setup/teardown, and removing the retries. Not for retries around genuinely external services.
Fixes nondeterministic eval comparisons by pinning random seeds, running each variant multiple times, and comparing distributions instead of single runs. Use when an agent's A/B eval conclusions flip between runs or seeds differ across compared runs. Not for deterministic unit-test flakes, which are a test-isolation p…
A guide to catching classification confidence drift after prompt changes, in the business-apis-integrations category: golden-set regression suites, prompt change control, and drift metrics. Use when prompt edits degrade classification, confidence scores shift unexpectedly, or when managing prompt iterations. Not for p…
Fixes retry band-aids that double suite time instead of fixing the flaky fixture. Use when test-level retries were added over an unstable test database. Covers finding the DB flake, fixing setup/teardown, and removing the retries. Not for retries around genuinely external services.
Detects tests that fail on every first attempt but appear green because a retry loop eventually passes them, using per-attempt logging and a first-attempt-failure gate. Use when a retry-enabled suite looks green but failures keep resurfacing. Not for suites without retries or genuinely flaky tests.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent loop detected: re-running the same failing test without code changes - Coding agent retry loop on a failing tool call: classify errors, bound retries, require idempotency, detect no progress
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's retry loop hid a consistently failing test: how to detect
Problem outcome: unknown
Detects and prevents accidentally committed test.only (or fit, fdescribe) that makes CI pass green while skipping most of the suite. Shows how to remove the committed focus flag, add a lint rule that errors on focused tests, and run the linter in CI before the test step. Use when CI is green but far fewer tests ran th…
Scopes an agent's test runs to affected tests via changed-file mapping and runner-native selection, reserving full runs for nightly or pre-merge. Use when an agent runs thousands of tests for a small change. Not for release validation where the full suite is genuinely required.
Stops agents from reverting good fixes on a single flaky failure by requiring repeated runs and a two-signal revert policy. Use when an agent undoes its own fix after one red run. Not for fixes that fail consistently on every run.
Verifies a supposedly fixed flaky test with a consecutive-green-run streak (20 to 50 runs) under CI conditions before accepting the fix. Use when an agent claims a flake is healed, or when writing acceptance criteria for healing agents. Not for deterministic break/fix verification.
Captures the failing shuffle seed from a pytest-randomly run so a "Falsifying example" failure that vanishes on rerun becomes reproducible. It shows how to read the seed from CI output, pin it with --randomly-seed, and tell test-order dependence apart from a Hypothesis shrinking artifact. Use when a pytest failure app…
A runtime-baselining playbook: without a recorded history of each test's duration, every timing failure looks like noise and real regressions slip through. Use when timing failures get dismissed as flakes with no data to judge them against. Not for one-off slowness with an obvious environmental cause.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent marked a test flaky after one green rerun - what minimum evidence is needed before calling it a flake - [agent quarantined 40 tests as flaky in one run - the quarantine threshold was too aggres…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent marked a flaky test as fixed after one green run: how to verify
Problem outcome: unknown
A triage correction for polluter/victim mislabeling: when a test fails only in suite context, the broken test is usually the one that ran before it and leaked state, not the one that failed. Use when an agent quarantined or labeled the failing test as flaky while the real defect sits in an earlier passing test. Not fo…
Covers test data cleanup strategies after e2e runs: API-driven teardown, seeded markers, and transaction rollback. Use when test data leaks between runs or suites depend on execution order. Not for unit test fixtures.
Describes how to measure test suite reliability over time with rolling pass rates, flake rates, and time-to-green. Use when you want a reliability dashboard or SLA for your suite. Not for diagnosing one broken build.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - how to measure test suite reliability over time - how to measure flake rate per test over time - [my agent "fixed" a flaky te…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: how to measure test suite reliability over time
Problem outcome: unknown
Describes how to measure test suite reliability over time with rolling pass rates, flake rates, and time-to-green. Use when you want a reliability dashboard or SLA for your suite. Not for diagnosing one broken build.
Shows how to build a flaky test heatmap that visualizes failure patterns across tests and builds. Use when you need to see which tests flake and when, to prioritize fixes. Not for measuring overall suite reliability trends; that is a separate dashboard.
Recovers a test suite gutted by an agent that quarantined dozens of tests in one run with an overly aggressive threshold. Use it when quarantine removed a large share of coverage at once and the suite now passes green without meaning it. Not for surgical quarantines of a few genuinely flaky tests, and not for slow-sui…
Shows how to catch a performance regression hiding inside flake labels by comparing failing-run durations against the test's historical baseline. Use when timeouts are auto-labeled flaky but failing runs are consistently slower than passing ones. Not for genuine network-timeout flakes, tests with no timing history, or…