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Re:Spark joy by running fewer tests by twic on Friday June 12, 2020 @03:27AM (#23496925)
We had exactly this at an old job. A flaky browser test that turned out to be due to some misuse of thread local storage, so occasionally users would see data for another user.

Once we tracked that down, we took flaky tests much more seriously.

Re:Spark joy by running fewer tests by nitrogen on Friday June 12, 2020 @04:08AM (#23497124)
When thread-local and request-local aren't the same thing...