Randomized testing: Gotta Catch ‘Em All | Testμ 2025

How are true bugs uncovered and distinguished by randomized testing and flakiness due to other issues, and how should they be handled in the CI/CD pipeline?

What tools or techniques can testers use to track patterns across multiple random runs?

How can automated tools, such as property-based testing frameworks and fuzz testing tools, be effectively utilized to streamline the process of generating random inputs, executing tests, and analyzing the results?

How can teams make sure that the insights gained from randomized testing are effectively communicated to all relevant team members, including product managers and designers (to inform future development and improvement cycles)?

How can randomized testing complement, rather than replace, structured test cases?

How can testers communicate the value of randomized testing to stakeholders who want predictable results?

What practices help ensure reliability when tests involve randomness?

What strategies and tools should be employed to log key information that facilitates debugging and retains reproducibility?

What are the potential benefits of using randomized testing in early development stages, including its ability to inform design decisions and uncover architectural vulnerabilities?

How should code and architecture be designed to be more of a fit with randomized testing, making it easier to inject random inputs and observe system behavior without extensive modifications?

Beyond bug detection, what are the potential benefits of using randomized testing in early development stages, including its ability to inform design decisions and uncover architectural vulnerabilities?

What strategies help testers reproduce and debug failures that only appear in randomized runs?

What’s your approach to balancing test variety with test stability in CI/CD pipelines?

How do you effectively manage and reproduce bugs found through randomized testing, given the non-deterministic nature of the tests?