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Flake it till you make it - how to handle flaky tests

The Stack Overflow Podcast

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Detecting Flaky Test Cases as Developers

Sometimes the test may be flaky, but then it might not manifest as a failure for a very long time. So one of the things that you do is simply rerun those test cases repeatedly. Another thing that I have found helpful in addition is to like, if possible, randomly order the execution of my test suite. And so then I don't get stuck in a situation where I have to quarantine a test case or delete a test case.

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