Jason Laster
Jason is a JS time traveler, DevTools dev, and recent dad exploring the joys of fatherhood.
Stop Triaging Your Test Suite
TestJS Summit 2023
29 min
Stop Triaging Your Test Suite
At some point, we accepted that end-to-end tests will be flaky, it’s okay to add retries, and it’s best practice to quarantine bad tests. It doesn’t have to be this way!This talk will cover the most common reasons for flaky tests, how to debug them with a time travel debugger, and how to fix them. While flaky tests are a problem that is as old as testing, it turns out that when you can capture and inspect them with Browser DevTools and retroactive console logs, they are quite fixable. And a test suite that is free of flakes runs faster, more reliably, and helps catch more issues before they reach production.