Use cases · Flaky tests
The flaky test nobody has time to chase down
Intermittent failures usually get quarantined or ignored, not fixed, because tracking one down takes focus nobody has spare. RepoFixer takes the ticket and does the digging.
Starts from a specific test
Point RepoFixer at the ticket for a specific failing or intermittent test, not an open-ended request to 'find flaky tests.'
Investigated, not just retried
The agent works from the ticket's context to find and address the underlying cause, rather than adding a retry or skip.
A reviewable fix
The fix lands as a PR the same way any other change does. Nothing about a flaky-test fix skips review.
Human verification still matters
A test passing a few more times isn't proof it's fixed. Your team's judgment on whether the fix actually addresses the flakiness is still the deciding factor.
Where human judgment still matters
Flakiness is rarely a single obvious bug: timing assumptions, shared state, environment differences. A fix that makes a test pass consistently in CI for a while isn't automatically the right fix. Reviewing whether the change addresses the actual cause, or just narrows the window it shows up in, is a judgment call RepoFixer leaves to your engineers.
A typical scenario
A test in the CI suite fails roughly one run in ten, and the team has taken to re-running the pipeline instead of digging in. The ticket describes the test and what's been observed; RepoFixer investigates within that context and opens a PR with a fix for the team to evaluate.
Flaky test FAQ
Got backlog work piling up? Tell us about your stack and we'll help you get a first run going.
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