Every flaky test failure triggers a re-run. Every re-run burns engineer hours and CI minutes on a problem that isn't a real bug. Most teams have no idea what their flaky rate is — which is exactly why the bill keeps growing. Here's a conservative estimate of what it's costing you.
Flaky-test waste isn't a fixed cost of doing business — it's a backlog of unidentified, unquarantined tests. Detecting them, auto-quarantining the worst offenders, and giving owners the data to fix them claws most of it back.
These are estimates. BuildPulse gives you the real numbers — and the tools to fix them. Here's how it works:
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Annual waste = (engineers × re-runs per week × 52) × (minutes lost per failure ÷ 60) × (loaded hourly cost). We assume a loaded engineer cost of $170,000/year ($81.73/hour based on 2,080 working hours) — a conservative mid-market figure that includes salary, benefits, and overhead. The implied flaky rate is derived from re-run frequency against a typical CI run volume — it's an estimate, not a measurement, which is the point: real numbers require actually instrumenting your test suite. Defaults are deliberately conservative; most teams that measure find it's worse.