Sleeping For Arbitrary Amount Of Time
^^^^^
**Definition:**

* When a test becomes fragile to network or processing congestion


**Code Example:**

.. code-block:: ruby

  Thread.sleep(4*1000);

**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 in test automation <https://www.codementor.io/@mgawinecki/anti-patterns-in-test-automation-101c6vm5jz>`_ :octicon:`file-code;1em` :octicon:`sync;1em`