In this episode, we spoke with Trisha Gee, lead developer advocate at Gradle, about flaky tests and the challenges of dealing with them.

Key talking points:

• What is a flaky test?
• How can they be identified?
• How can they be prevented in the future? 

Other useful resources on flaky tests: 

• Develocity’s Flaky Test Detection
• Trisha’s recent Flaky Test webinar 
• Trisha’s Blog - How Top Banks Handle Flaky Tests
• Desirable Unit Tests By Kent Beck
• Martin Fowler's Definition of a Contract Test 
• Your Tests are Failing You! (video) 
• 5 Reasons Your Automated Tests Fail (video)