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Notes from the green path.
On flaky tests, deploy gates, and suites teams actually trust. Also available by RSS.
Jun 2026Fixing a flaky test without reaching for retryA retry hides the flake instead of removing it. Here is the order I work through before I let a test run twice.→May 2026What belongs in a smoke suite, and what does notA smoke suite that takes fifteen minutes is not a smoke suite. Deciding what earns a place is mostly about what a deploy is allowed to break.→