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Managing Test Technical Debt
10.1🔒What Is Test Technical Debt?Test technical debt accumulates when you take shortcuts: skipping test automation, ignoring flaky tests, copy-pasting test code instead of…
10.2🔒Common Forms of Test Technical Debt
10.3🔒Identifying Test Debt- Flake rate is rising: More tests pass on retry without code changes - Pipeline time is growing: Each sprint, the pipeline takes a few…
10.4🔒Managing Test Debt Across SprintsReserve 10-20% of sprint capacity for test infrastructure work. This is not optional -- it is an investment that pays dividends in velocity.
10.5🔒Prioritizing Test DebtNot all test debt is equally costly. Prioritize based on impact.
10.6🔒Paying Down Test Debt: Strategies"Leave the code better than you found it." Every time you touch a test file, make one small improvement: - Fix a test name to be more…
10.7🔒Q&ASelf-Assessment Quiz: Chapter 101. What is test technical debt, and why does it compound over time? 2. Name three signals that test debt is accumulating on your team. 3…
10.8🔒Exercises: Chapter 10[Beginner] Exercise 10.1: Audit your test suite: how many flaky tests do you have? What is your flake rate?
10.9🔒Career Translation- Reduced flaky test rate from 8% to under 1% by implementing a quarantine-fix-restore process and addressing root causes (timing…
10.10🔒Q&AInterview Depth CheckPrompt: Your CI pipeline takes 40 minutes to run. Developers have started merging without waiting for results. How do you diagnose the…