The Flickering Test

Definition:

• A test which just occasionally fails, and is generally due to race conditions within the test. Typically occurs when testing something that is asynchronous. Possibly a superset of the Wait and See and The Sleeper anti-patterns.

References:

Quality attributes

• - Code Example

• - Cause and Effect

• - Frequency

• - Refactoring

• Anti-Patterns - Digital Tapestry

• Unit testing Anti-patterns catalogue