293: The best ways to deal with flaky tests (with Gradle's Trisha Gee)

In this episode, we spoke with Trisha Gee, lead developer advocate at Gradle, about flaky tests and the challenges of dealing with them.

Key talking points:

• What is a flaky test?
• How can they be identified?
• How can they be prevented in the future? 

Other useful resources on flaky tests: 

• Develocity’s Flaky Test Detection
• Trisha’s recent Flaky Test webinar 
• Trisha’s Blog - How Top Banks Handle Flaky Tests
• Desirable Unit Tests By Kent Beck
• Martin Fowler's Definition of a Contract Test 
• Your Tests are Failing You! (video) 
• 5 Reasons Your Automated Tests Fail (video)