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We report our experience of using failure symptoms, such as error messages or stack traces, to identify flaky test failures in a Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline for a large industrial software system, SAP HANA. Although failure…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Gabin An , Juyeon Yoon , Thomas Bach , Jingun Hong , Shin Yoo

Regression testing is an important phase to deliver software with quality. However, flaky tests hamper the evaluation of test results and can increase costs. This is because a flaky test may pass or fail non-deterministically and to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-15 B. H. P. Camara , M. A. G. Silva , A. T. Endo , S. R. Vergilio

Flaky tests are a common problem in software testing. They produce inconsistent results when executed multiple times on the same code, invalidating the assumption that a test failure indicates a software defect. Recent work on LLM-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Alexander Berndt , Thomas Bach , Rainer Gemulla , Marcus Kessel , Sebastian Baltes

Flaky tests pose a significant issue for software testing. A test with a non-deterministic outcome may undermine the reliability of the testing process, making tests untrustworthy. Previous research has identified test order dependency as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Negar Hashemi , Amjed Tahir , Shawn Rasheed , August Shi , Rachel Blagojevic

Test flakiness is a problem that affects testing and processes that rely on it. Several factors cause or influence the flakiness of test outcomes. Test execution order, randomness and concurrency are some of the more common and well-studied…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Shawn Rasheed , Jens Dietrich , Amjed Tahir

Prior research has extensively studied flaky tests in various domains, such as web applications, mobile applications, and other open-source projects in a range of multiple programing languages, including Java, Javascript, Python, Ruby, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Tom Schroeder , Minh Phan , Yang Chen

Automated regression testing is a cornerstone of modern software development, often contributing directly to code review and Continuous Integration (CI). Yet some tests suffer from flakiness, where their outcomes vary non-deterministically.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Tao Xiao , Dong Wang , Shane McIntosh , Hideaki Hata , Yasutaka Kamei

The continuous delivery of modern software requires the execution of many automated pipeline jobs. These jobs ensure the frequent release of new software versions while detecting code problems at an early stage. For TELUS, our industrial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Henri Aïdasso , Francis Bordeleau , Ali Tizghadam

In principle, Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline failures provide valuable feedback to developers on code-related errors. In practice, however, pipeline jobs often fail intermittently due to non-deterministic tests, network outages,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Henri Aïdasso , Francis Bordeleau , Ali Tizghadam

Test flakiness is a common problem in industry, which hinders the reliability of automated build and testing workflows. Most existing research on test flakiness has primarily focused on unit and small-scale integration tests. In contrast,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Man Zhang , Chongyang Shen , Andrea Arcuri , Tao Yue

This document presents the artifact associated with the ICSE SEIP 25 paper titled On the Diagnosis of Flaky Job Failures: Understanding and Prioritizing Failure Categories. The original paper identifies and analyzes 46 distinct categories…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Henri Aïdasso

A flaky test yields inconsistent results upon repetition, posing a significant challenge to software developers. An extensive study of their presence and characteristics has been done in classical computer software but not quantum computer…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Lei Zhang , Andriy Miranskyy

Few-shot classification refers to learning a classifier for new classes given only a few examples. While a plethora of models have emerged to tackle it, we find the procedure and datasets that are used to assess their progress lacking. To…

Flaky failure triage is crucial for keeping distributed database continuous integration (CI) efficient and reliable. After a failure is observed, operators must quickly decide whether to auto-rerun the job as likely flaky or escalate it as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jun-Peng Zhu , Qizhi Wang , Yulong Zhai , Yishen Sun , Sen Chen , Kai Xu , Peng Cai , Hongming Zhang , Heng Long , Liu Tang , Qi Liu

Flaky tests, which exhibit non-deterministic pass/fail behavior for the same version of code, pose significant challenges to reliable regression testing. While large language models (LLMs) promise for automated flaky test classification,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Khondaker Tasnia Hoque , Toukir Ahammed

Few-shot learning (FSL) is an emergent paradigm of learning that attempts to learn to reason with low sample complexity to mimic the way humans learn, generalise and extrapolate from only a few seen examples. While FSL attempts to mimic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Jaron Mar , Jiamou Liu

Few-shot classification with foundation models (e.g., CLIP, DINOv2, PaLM-2) enables users to build an accurate classifier with a few labeled training samples (called support samples) for a classification task. However, an attacker could…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Yanting Wang , Wei Zou , Jinyuan Jia

Few-shot classification aims to adapt classifiers to novel classes with a few training samples. However, the insufficiency of training data may cause a biased estimation of feature distribution in a certain class. To alleviate this problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Jing Xu , Xinglin Pan , Xu Luo , Wenjie Pei , Zenglin Xu

One of the main challenges developers face in the use of continuous integration (CI) and deployment pipelines is the occurrence of intermittent job failures, which result from unexpected non-deterministic issues (e.g., flaky tests or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Henri Aïdasso , Francis Bordeleau , Ali Tizghadam

Continuous Integration (CI) is widely used to provide rapid feedback on code changes; however, CI build outcomes are not always reliable. Builds may fail intermittently due to non-deterministic factors, leading to flaky builds that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Wenhao Ge , Chen Zhang