[pytest-dev] Flaky tests

[Florian Bruhin]

* Eduardo Schettino <schettino72 at gmail.com> [2015-08-09 14:14:09 +0800]:
> I will just throw out another idea that I had about handling flaky tests.
> 
> I think it would be nice to mark a test as "flaky" and than treat it
> differently if it fails.
> 
> For example, once a test is marked as flaky you could choose to ignore
> flaky test failures and maybe report them
> as an "expect failure" or some other custom status. Or still consider it as
> failure if run on a "strict mode".

Also see this issue which proposes a separate marker for flaky tests:

https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/814

Florian

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