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Flaky tests are like...

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Filip Hric

18th February 2025

FLAKY TESTS

Hello Reader,
I’ve been working on a project to reduce test flakes. A project that has over 1200 end-to-end tests in a fairly complex system. As I’ve been slowly trying to reach zero, a pattern emerged.

It seems like there are common themes when it comes to test flakiness. I shared some of them in my presentation at CypressConf, but lately it seems that flakiness in end-to-end tests is mostly a timing issue. A situation where test and application fall out of sync.

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Test automation tip

Cypress allows you to select only elements that are visible by utilizing :visible pseudo selector from jQuery. This can be quite useful especially when testing submission forms that tend to have hidden input fields.

 1  it(':visible elements', () => {
 2  
 3    const data = ["Filip", "Hric", "90210", "filip@filiphric.sk", "chuckN0rri$"]
 4  
 5    cy.visit('/')
 6  
 7    cy.get('input:visible').each((el, i) => {
 8      cy.wrap(el)
 9        .type(data[i])
10    })
11  
12    cy.contains('button', 'Register')
13      .should('be.enabled')
14  
15  })

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Filip Hric

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