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Find and fix flaky tests. Instantly.

Find and fix flaky tests. Instantly.

Find and fix flaky tests. Instantly.

Our CI analytics platform detects flakiness,

quarantines tests, pinpoints root cause,
and saves developer time.
5m integration with any test framework + CI provider

Our CI analytics platform detects flakiness,

quarantines tests, pinpoints root cause,
and saves developer time.
5m integration with any test framework + CI provider

Our CI analytics platform detects flakiness, quarantines tests, pinpoints root cause,
and mitigates cost.
5m integration with any test framework + CI provider

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The Status Quo

Lost Developer Time

Flaky tests live under the radar until they can’t be ignored. Don’t wait until they truly impact productivity and stability.

Unreproducible Incidents

Flaky tests impact product stability and can cause incidents that appear undeterministic.

Frustrating Developer Experience

Flaky tests erode confidence in tests and product stability. Don’t let this spread to customers.

How hundreds of customers
recouped lost developer time and CI costs.

Recoup lost developer time & unnecessary CI costs.

The premier end-to-end solution for flaky test management.

Identify flaky tests and their impact, quarantine, and ultimately fix them.

Automated Detection & Centralized Cataloguing

BuildPulse automatically detects and catalogues flaky tests in a centralized dashboard across all of your repositories and teams.

Test Quarantining

You have other burning priorities, and

the flaky tests are already broken. Might as well save time?

BuildPulse can quarantine your tests, and track them until they’re fixed, to avoid impacting the whole organization.

You have other burning priorities, and

the flaky tests are already broken. Might as well save time?

BuildPulse can quarantine your tests, and track them until they’re fixed, to avoid impacting the whole organization.

You have other burning priorities, and

the flaky tests are already broken. Might as well save time?

BuildPulse can quarantine your tests, and track them until they’re fixed, to avoid impacting the whole organization.

Pinpoint Root Cause

Cut through noise and find relevant context on flaky test disruptions: when and how they failed, how often, traceability, and more to help pinpoint root cause.

Reports & Metrics

Track the impact of flaky test disruptions on developer time and product stability, while slicing & dicing by repository, team, service, and more.

Monorepo Support

Segment your tests by team, environment, service, or any other grouping while routing flaky tests to the right team.

Notifications

Stay on top of flaky tests with alerts, daily, and weekly digests - at the test case level all the way to repository level.

Deep Pull Request Integration

Give developers awareness and context through pull request comments when builds fail due to flaky test vs. true failures.

Track and Assign Test Ownership

Track and assign flaky tests to the right owner in your own ticketing and project management tool.

Code Coverage

Universal, granular code coverage that gates pull-requests, reports on blind spots, and surfaces product impact of flaky tests.

1,000,000+
hours saved.

1,000,000+
hours saved.

1,000,000+
hours saved.

28%
increase in release velocity.

28%
increase in release velocity.

28%
increase in release velocity.

-37%
reduction in downtime.

-37%
reduction in downtime.

-37%
reduction in downtime.

Any test framework | CI provider

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between a flaky test and a false positive?

A false positive is a test failure in your test suite due to an actual error in the code being executed, or a mismatch in what the test expects from the code.

A flaky test is when you have conflicting test results for the same code. For example, while running tests if you see that a test fails and passes, but the code hasn’t changed, then it’s a flaky test. There’s many causes of flakiness.

What is an example of a flaky test?

An example can be seen in growing test suites - when pull request builds fail for changes you haven’t made. Put differently, when you see a test pass and fail without any code change. These failed tests are flaky tests.

What are common causes of flakiness?

Broken assumptions in test automation and development process can introduce flaky tests - for example, if test data is shared between different tests whether asynchronous, high concurrency, or sequential, the results of one test can affect another. 

Poorly written test code can also be a factor. Improper polling, race conditions, improper event dependency handling, shared test data, or timeout handling for network requests or page loads. Any of these can lead to flaky test failures and test flakiness.

End-to-end tests that rely on internal API uptime can cause test flakiness and test failures.

What's the impact of flaky tests?

Flaky tests can wreck havoc on the development process - from wasted developer time from test retries, to creating bugs and product instability and missed releases, time-consuming flaky tests can grind your development process to a halt.

What is the best way to resolve or fix flaky tests?

Devops, software engineering, and software development teams will often need to compare code changes, logs, and other context across test environments from before the test instability started, and after - adding retries or reruns can also help with debugging. Test detection and test execution tooling can help automate this process as well. 

BuildPulse enables you to find, assess impact metrics, quarantine, and fix flaky tests.

What are some strategies for preventing flaky tests?

Paying attention and prioritizing flaky tests as they come up can be a good way to prevent them from becoming an issue. This is where a testing culture is important - if a flaky test case is spotted by an engineer, it should be logged right away. This, however, takes a certain level of hygiene - BuildPulse can provide monitoring so flaky tests are caught right away.

What type of tests have flaky tests?

Flaky tests can be seen across the testing process - unit tests, integration tests, end-to-end tests, UI tests, acceptance tests.

What if I don't have that many flaky tests?

Flaky tests can be stealthy - often ignored by engineers and test runs are retried, they build up until they can’t be ignored anymore. These automated tests slow down developer productivity, impact functionality, and reduce confidence in test results and test suites. Better to get ahead while it’s easy and invest in test management.

It’s also important to prevent regressions to catch flakiness early while it’s manageable.

What languages and continuous integration providers does BuildPulse work with?

BuildPulse integrates with all continuous integration providers (including GitHub Actions, BitBucket Pipelines, and more), test frameworks, and workflows.

Combat non-determinism, drive test confidence, and provide the best experience you can to your developers!

How long does implementation/integration with BuildPulse take?

Implementation/integration takes 5 minutes!

What is the difference between a flaky test and a false positive?

A false positive is a test failure in your test suite due to an actual error in the code being executed, or a mismatch in what the test expects from the code.

A flaky test is when you have conflicting test results for the same code. For example, while running tests if you see that a test fails and passes, but the code hasn’t changed, then it’s a flaky test. There’s many causes of flakiness.

What is an example of a flaky test?

An example can be seen in growing test suites - when pull request builds fail for changes you haven’t made. Put differently, when you see a test pass and fail without any code change. These failed tests are flaky tests.

What are common causes of flakiness?

Broken assumptions in test automation and development process can introduce flaky tests - for example, if test data is shared between different tests whether asynchronous, high concurrency, or sequential, the results of one test can affect another. 

Poorly written test code can also be a factor. Improper polling, race conditions, improper event dependency handling, shared test data, or timeout handling for network requests or page loads. Any of these can lead to flaky test failures and test flakiness.

End-to-end tests that rely on internal API uptime can cause test flakiness and test failures.

What's the impact of flaky tests?

Flaky tests can wreck havoc on the development process - from wasted developer time from test retries, to creating bugs and product instability and missed releases, time-consuming flaky tests can grind your development process to a halt.

What is the best way to resolve or fix flaky tests?

Devops, software engineering, and software development teams will often need to compare code changes, logs, and other context across test environments from before the test instability started, and after - adding retries or reruns can also help with debugging. Test detection and test execution tooling can help automate this process as well. 

BuildPulse enables you to find, assess impact metrics, quarantine, and fix flaky tests.

What are some strategies for preventing flaky tests?

Paying attention and prioritizing flaky tests as they come up can be a good way to prevent them from becoming an issue. This is where a testing culture is important - if a flaky test case is spotted by an engineer, it should be logged right away. This, however, takes a certain level of hygiene - BuildPulse can provide monitoring so flaky tests are caught right away.

What type of tests have flaky tests?

Flaky tests can be seen across the testing process - unit tests, integration tests, end-to-end tests, UI tests, acceptance tests.

What if I don't have that many flaky tests?

Flaky tests can be stealthy - often ignored by engineers and test runs are retried, they build up until they can’t be ignored anymore. These automated tests slow down developer productivity, impact functionality, and reduce confidence in test results and test suites. Better to get ahead while it’s easy and invest in test management.

It’s also important to prevent regressions to catch flakiness early while it’s manageable.

What languages and continuous integration providers does BuildPulse work with?

BuildPulse integrates with all continuous integration providers (including GitHub Actions, BitBucket Pipelines, and more), test frameworks, and workflows.

Combat non-determinism, drive test confidence, and provide the best experience you can to your developers!

How long does implementation/integration with BuildPulse take?

Implementation/integration takes 5 minutes!

What is the difference between a flaky test and a false positive?

A false positive is a test failure in your test suite due to an actual error in the code being executed, or a mismatch in what the test expects from the code.

A flaky test is when you have conflicting test results for the same code. For example, while running tests if you see that a test fails and passes, but the code hasn’t changed, then it’s a flaky test. There’s many causes of flakiness.

What is an example of a flaky test?

An example can be seen in growing test suites - when pull request builds fail for changes you haven’t made. Put differently, when you see a test pass and fail without any code change. These failed tests are flaky tests.

What are common causes of flakiness?

Broken assumptions in test automation and development process can introduce flaky tests - for example, if test data is shared between different tests whether asynchronous, high concurrency, or sequential, the results of one test can affect another. 

Poorly written test code can also be a factor. Improper polling, race conditions, improper event dependency handling, shared test data, or timeout handling for network requests or page loads. Any of these can lead to flaky test failures and test flakiness.

End-to-end tests that rely on internal API uptime can cause test flakiness and test failures.

What's the impact of flaky tests?

Flaky tests can wreck havoc on the development process - from wasted developer time from test retries, to creating bugs and product instability and missed releases, time-consuming flaky tests can grind your development process to a halt.

What is the best way to resolve or fix flaky tests?

Devops, software engineering, and software development teams will often need to compare code changes, logs, and other context across test environments from before the test instability started, and after - adding retries or reruns can also help with debugging. Test detection and test execution tooling can help automate this process as well. 

BuildPulse enables you to find, assess impact metrics, quarantine, and fix flaky tests.

What are some strategies for preventing flaky tests?

Paying attention and prioritizing flaky tests as they come up can be a good way to prevent them from becoming an issue. This is where a testing culture is important - if a flaky test case is spotted by an engineer, it should be logged right away. This, however, takes a certain level of hygiene - BuildPulse can provide monitoring so flaky tests are caught right away.

What type of tests have flaky tests?

Flaky tests can be seen across the testing process - unit tests, integration tests, end-to-end tests, UI tests, acceptance tests.

What if I don't have that many flaky tests?

Flaky tests can be stealthy - often ignored by engineers and test runs are retried, they build up until they can’t be ignored anymore. These automated tests slow down developer productivity, impact functionality, and reduce confidence in test results and test suites. Better to get ahead while it’s easy and invest in test management.

It’s also important to prevent regressions to catch flakiness early while it’s manageable.

What languages and continuous integration providers does BuildPulse work with?

BuildPulse integrates with all continuous integration providers (including GitHub Actions, BitBucket Pipelines, and more), test frameworks, and workflows.

Combat non-determinism, drive test confidence, and provide the best experience you can to your developers!

How long does implementation/integration with BuildPulse take?

Implementation/integration takes 5 minutes!

There's a reason why customers love us.

"Within a few days of installing BuildPulse, it had identified our flakiest tests and helped us quantify their impact.


We quickly prioritized dealing with those top offenders and our build stability shot up from 78% to 93%."

Josh Goldberg

Lead Engineer

"BuildPulse has been instrumental to our de-flaking efforts. CI for our main web repository used to be extremely reliable and frustrating.


Thanks to BuildPulse, we were able to methodically enumerate flaky tests, prioritize them in terms of disruptive potential, drive them to 0, and keep them at 0 thanks to BuildPulse's actionable daily reports."

Jonathan Unikowski

Lead Engineer

"Flaky tests were a major roadblock delaying our deploys, but BuildPulse helped us get things back on track.

I especially appreciate getting prompt support directly from the founder."

Michael Menne

CTO

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