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Best practices for maintaining end-to-end tests

What's this blog post about?

This text discusses best practices for maintaining test suites over time, including avoiding false positives in tests, making tests easy to understand, and leveraging a unique test suite across environments. It also highlights how Datadog can help adhere to these best practices by reducing test flakiness with reliable locators and alerts, fine-tuning alerts that are resilient to environment changes, ensuring tests are easy to understand for troubleshooting, consolidating and reusing workflow steps to reduce points of maintenance, leveraging a unique test suite across environments, and integrating your test suite with CI workflows.

Company
Datadog

Date published
Dec. 23, 2022

Author(s)
Margot Lepizzera, Mallory Mooney

Word count
3035

Hacker News points
1

Language
English


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