Flakey tests #7133
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This issue is for tracking flakey tests, so we can see how flakey they are.
Flakey tests are often not actually flakey, they instead revealing and edge-case bug that is caused by rare events, such as API disruption.
If a test appears to be flakey, then we simply disable it and wait for the author of the test (and therefore the feature) to investigate it. Either way, it is ideally their responsibility.
Why do we need to aggressively skip flakey tests?
Consider a test suite with 5 tests that each fail on 5% of the time. How often will the whole suite fail? Hint: it is much greater that 5x5%!
https://testing.googleblog.com/2016/05/flaky-tests-at-google-and-how-we.html
TestDoNotCreatePodsUnderStopBehavior
flakey? #7155TestMonitorProgress
takes 20s #7148TestSuccessfulJobHistoryLimit
flakey? #7132TestCounterMetric
flakey? #7120TestWorkflowTemplateRefWithShutdownAndSuspend
flakey? #7119--from
is sometimes wrong #7111TestNewOperation
might be flakey #7063TestRetriesVariableInPodSpecPatch
broken onmaster
? #5526TestResourceTemplateStopAndTerminate/ResourceTemplateStop
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