6. Failure Analysis

If your team suffers from QA and developer pain points, such as excessive Developer Rework, Flaky Tests, Developer wait-time, frequent Context Switching, limited Parallel Testing, and high Infrastructure costs… you’ve come to the right place. … ### 2. Flaky Tests: Flaky tests are automated test failures that break for no apparent reason or change to the code. This frequently occurs due to several different reasons, such as a browser crashing, a device loses connectivity, updates, etc. Many QA Teams waste considerable time re-testing failed scripts or Flaky Failures. When a team is dealing with a large automation test suite, 15%+ of the tests could fail for no real reason. Many teams have policy that requires all automated tests to be passed in order for the build to be released. This leaves QA teams combing through pointless tests for hours which only hurts output and productivity. It’s no surprise that Flaky Tests are frequently the culprit for delayed releases! … ### 3. Developer Downtime: Developer downtime occurs when developers are left waiting for test results from QA. When a developer submits a change to the application via a new commit, he can be left waiting 10 minutes or 10 hours for test results depending on the size and length of the automated tests. This is a major pain point for developers, QA, and software development teams because it holds up productivity and creates a bottleneck of information from testing. Developers can’t continue working on the same task until they get results back, or else they risk making mistakes that they will later have to correct – AKA Rework.