The Flickering Test
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**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:**

.. admonition:: Quality attributes

    * :octicon:`file-code;1em` -  Code Example
    * :octicon:`comment-discussion;1em` -  Cause and Effect
    * :octicon:`graph;1em` -  Frequency
    * :octicon:`sync;1em` -  Refactoring

* `Anti-Patterns - Digital Tapestry <https://digitaltapestry.net/testify/manual/AntiPatterns.html>`_
* `Unit testing Anti-patterns catalogue <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/333682/unit-testing-anti-patterns-catalogue>`_