Flaky Tests: Diagnosing and Eliminating the Trust Killers

Flaky tests move to a quarantined lane immediately — still running, not blocking — with an owner and a fix-by date; quarantine without expiry is just deletion with paperwork.

Flake rate per suite on a dashboard; celebrate its decline like a feature shipped — because restored trust in CI is one.

Skipping the discipline this article describes until an incident, audit, or stalled project forces it — every practice above is cheaper adopted early than retrofitted under pressure.