Company
Date Published
Author
Margot Lepizzera, Mallory Mooney
Word count
3035
Language
English
Hacker News points
1

Summary

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.