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Cursor: Triangulate a Flaky Test Without Guessing
A disciplined protocol for finding the real cause of a flaky test instead of adding retries and moving on.
Use case
Use the next time a test fails 1 in 20 runs in CI and you are tempted to add jest.retryTimes and move on.
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