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Flake triage on one page

2025-07-30 · Mariana Ortega

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Flaky tests punish teams twice: once with noise, again with distrust when a real defect slips through. The template orders questions from environment drift to shared mutable state.

We include a worked example from the Pytest in CI slice where markers isolated a database fixture that was not transactional.

Readers get a blank Markdown version they can paste into Notion or GitHub wiki without extra tooling.