We write tests to show us when there are problems with our code.

But what if there are intermittent problems with the tests themselves?

That can be a big hassle.

In this episode, we have Gregory Capcommer and Owen Perry on the show to share their research and advice for taming flaky tests.

This is Talk Python to Me, episode 429, recorded August 10th, 2023.

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Slash Century. Owen, Gregory, welcome to Talk Python to me.

Hi, Michael. It's great to be on the show. Thank you for inviting us today.

Hi there. Thanks for having us. Really great to have you both on the show. It's going to be a

flaky episode, though, wouldn't you say? It's definitely going to be flaky. Very flaky. Looking forward to talking about flaky tests and what we can do about

them. It's one of these realities of writing lots of unit tests for real world systems, right? They

end up in weird places. So for better or for worse, I've implemented a lot of programs in Python

and many of them have test suites with flaky test cases inside of them. So I have to confess to everyone, I myself, have written programs with many flaky tests.

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