Recall the strongest first responses to flaky-test objections and diagnosis moments.
Objection handler This test is flaky, so rerun it until it passes. The team is under merge pressure and wants a green build. Your line Let's capture the failure signature first, then decide whether to rerun, quarantine, or fix. A flaky red build is still evidence. Rerunning first destroys the most useful evidence: timing, data state, logs, and dependency signals. The response preserves the signal without denying delivery pressure. It creates a small investigation step before the evidence disappears. Compare Retry versus quarantine: which protects trust? Retries can be useful inside a designed resilience strategy, but blind retries are not…
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