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Flake it till you make it - how to handle flaky tests
There is a ton of great research to be found on Prof. Kapfhammer's website, including:
- Flaky Tests: Finding and fixing unpredictable and harmful test cases
- Database Testing: Automatically testing relational database schemas
- Web Testing: Detecting and repairing poor responsive web page layout
We've written a bit about how Stack Overflow is upping its unit testing game and how you can evaluate multiple assertions in a single test.
Thanks to our lifeboat badge winner of the week, Survivor, for answering the question: Is it possible to find out if a value exists twice in an arraylist?