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366: Test Automation with Arnon Axelrod

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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How to Find the Root Cause of a Failure

The solutions may not be silver bullet that you can very quickly find the result, find the root cause. It can take time but you can follow a strategy that will help you get there faster. We need to try and make this failure occur as often as possible which is sometimes looks a little bit counterintuitive. So for example if something happens only let's say one out of ten of the cases in average, if we run this test let's say 50 times then it's almost very close to 100% reproducible. The chances that the bug won't happen in 50 runs if it has 10% chances to fail is very very low.

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