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In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke with Trisha Gee about the challenges and importance of addressing flaky tests, their impact on developer productivity and morale, best practices for testing, and broader concepts of measuring and improving developer productivity.

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Transcript

Taming Flaky Tests: Trisha Gee on Developer Productivity and Testing Best Practices

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Taming Flaky Tests: Trisha Gee on Developer Productivity and Testing Best Practices

Engineering Culture by InfoQ