SE Radio 572: Gregory Kapfhammer on Flaky Tests
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How to Use Docker Containers to Test Flakiness
One of the things that I think we've not yet talked about is the isolation that you sometimes introduce into a testing process when you're using something like a virtual machine or a Docker container. It can be helpful in my experience to introduce extra kinds of isolation through VMs or through containers. You can run those on your own development workstation and you can also set it up in CI so that at various points during the testing process, you start up a fresh virtual machine or create a new Docker container instance. And even though that's a little bit more costly, it may give you more confidence that Flakiness is not going to develop when you're executing the test suite. Yeah. So
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