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Flaky Tests and Concurrency Issues in Writing Tests

This chapter discusses the challenges of writing tests that are not reliable (flaky tests) and the issues related to concurrency. They explore the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) in Python, ways to detect race conditions, and techniques to manipulate the GIL switch interval. They also mention the PyTest plugin and the High Test Lakefinder plugin for finding and maintaining flaky tests.

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