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Flaky Tests: Infrastructure Failure Protection
When infrastructure issues like database outages, network problems, or CI runner failures cause a large number of tests to fail simultaneously, retrying those tests can trigger mass false flaky…
When infrastructure issues like database outages, network problems, or CI runner failures cause a
large number of tests to fail simultaneously, retrying those tests can trigger mass false flaky
detections. Infrastructure Failure Protection identifies these scenarios and excludes them from
flakiness detection.

By enabling this setting, you can set a threshold for filtering runs based on the percentage of
failed tests; if failures exceed 80%, those tests won’t be processed for flaky test detection and
you’ll see a new status in the Uploads tab indicating ‘Upload Skipped Due to Infrastructure Error’.
Read the Docs to learn more
