Freeze the Flaky, Check the Properties: A Three-Layer Test Strategy for Agent Patches
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A flaky test is not a test. It is a slot machine that decides whether an agent patch gets accepted. I keep seeing the same loop: the agent sees one failing test, rewrites a function until that test passes, and the suite goes green. Ten minutes later the same test fails because the order of a map ch…
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- 2026-08-29 21:24 · DEV Community — AI
Freeze the Flaky, Check the Properties: A Three-Layer Test Strategy for Agent Patches