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SE Radio 572: Gregory Kapfhammer on Flaky Tests

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The Role of Time in Flaky Tests

In his experience, it has both been a problem in my test suite and also a problem inMy program. For example, there have been cases when I was building applications that had a significant web user interface. And for those systems, sometimes my test cases were flaky because parts of the web user interface didn't appear fast enough or according to some timeline by the test case. It's not only issues about timing; it's also about the date and the time modeled from the perspective of both the program and the test suite.

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