The cost of a browser test nobody trusts

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A flaky test costs more than another CI run. Someone has to decide whether to investigate, retry or merge. When that decision becomes guesswork, the suite stops being a useful release signal.

Start with your own evidence. For a few representative failures, record the original error, time spent investigating, whether the failure repeated and what actually fixed it. Keep infrastructure errors, test-data problems and failed product assertions separate. An industry-wide percentage cannot tell you which of those problems your team has.

The same applies when evaluating a new tool. Compare how quickly you understand a failure, not just how quickly the first test becomes green.

Zerocheck keeps the test revision, failing step, screenshots and attempts together. A pass after a supported transient retry stays labeled flaky; assertion failures are not retried. That gives the reviewer a result to inspect, while the team still owns the diagnosis.

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