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2 · Senior QA judgment
Flaky automation and CI triage
16 min · Module 14
Flakes burn trust. Senior QA separates: product bug, env issue, test anti-pattern (sleep, brittle XPath, shared mutable data), and infra noise.
In the Lab, prefer stable data-testid / id selectors, unique ticket subjects, and explicit waits for slow create on buggy releases.
Example / notes
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
# Anti-flake pattern for Lab create ticket under slow_create:
# WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.url_contains("/lab/app/tickets/"))Practice in Lab: /lab/app/