Our tests keep failing randomly on cloud grids, which is frustrating and slows down CI/CD. I want to know the best practices or platforms that help reduce test flakiness.
A lot of our flakiness turned out to be environment-related. Once we moved our Selenium tests to LambdaTest and started using stable browser versions consistently, random failures dropped noticeably. The environment felt more predictable compared to what we had earlier.
One thing that really helped was switching from hard waits to proper explicit waits in our tests. Combined with LambdaTest’s stable sessions and better logging, it became much easier to tell whether a failure was a real bug or just timing-related noise
We also leaned on LambdaTest’s built-in retry capabilities for flaky tests. Instead of re-running entire pipelines, we let individual failed tests retry automatically. That alone reduced false negatives in CI quite a bit and kept developers from chasing ghost bugs. If you’re dealing with flaky tests, this flaky test tutorial is a good place to start.