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Stop adding more tests. Your goal is fewer surprises after merge. Slow tests kill speed. Teams skip tests when they take too long. Coverage drops where you need it most.
Focus on three things:
- Catch high risks before merge.
- Keep feedback fast.
- Make failures easy to fix.
Keep your merge gate boring. Run tests tied to merge risk. Move slow tests to nightly runs. Fast feedback belongs near the code change.
Flaky tests kill trust. AI makes this worse. AI finds patterns in noise. It gives confident answers to wrong data. Fix the signal first.
Use these rules:
- Capture logs and screenshots.
- Tag owners for failures.
- Quarantine flaky tests.
- Stop blind retries.
Do not rewrite your whole suite.
- Group tests by speed and risk.
- Remove duplicate tests.
- Fix the top flaky ones.
- Agree on what ready means.
Better coverage starts with cleaner signals. Trust the feedback. Stop fighting the tools.