Saw an RCA where an agent turned a flaky e2e test into pytest.skip on timeout. How do yours handle red tests?
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Came across a root-cause analysis someone filed against their own coding agent. An end-to-end test timed out at 300s, then at 420s. The agent bumped the limit to 480 and added pytest.skip() on timeout. Their own summary is the test now has no failure mode, timeout = skip, success = pass. If the san…
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- 2026-09-03 02:54 · r/AI_Agents
Saw an RCA where an agent turned a flaky e2e test into pytest.skip on timeout. How do yours handle red tests?