2 years ago

The ability to drill down into so-called “flaky” test problems prior to software deployment is among the new features https://circleci.com/?utm_content=inline-mention has released for its new https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/insights-tests/ tool that is part of its continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. While using CircleCI’s Insights dashboard for CI/CD analytics in the past — as well as with any other testing process — users have very often faced difficulties with flaky test results during the development process, the company said. These flaky results involve random test failures with no apparent indication of why they failed. The developer, for example, runs the same test on the same code and might inexplicably get five fails and five passes.

CircleCI’s ongoing development of its testing and debugging tools will continue to involve bringing observability into test performance, Gebregziabher said.