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The Judgment Behind Retries

When retries heal flakiness and when they hide real bugs, plus the right scope and visibility for a retry policy.

Difficulty
Medium
Format
Quiz
Points
150
Estimate
9 min

// MISSION BRIEF

Your Mission

Auto-retry is a painkiller: it can mask a symptom you should be treating. This quiz is about the judgment, retrying at the smallest useful scope, keeping retries visible, quarantining chronic flakes, and never letting a blanket rerun ship an intermittent product bug.

// FIRST CONTACT

Battle teaser

Automatically retrying failed tests in CI is a double-edged sword because:

  1. ARetries never cost any time
  2. BIt can hide genuine flakiness and intermittent product bugs by turning red into green; use retries with visibility, not as a silencer
  3. CRetries are never acceptable under any circumstance
  4. DRetries always fix flakiness for good
Answers, scoring, hints, and the full battle stay sealed.

// SKILL TAGS

test-automationretriesflakinessci