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Add flow chart for automated quarantine of e2e tests and promotion to blocking

Sanad Liaquat requested to merge shl-add-test-failure-decision-tree into main

Why is this change being made?

  • We need a flow diagram to visualize the process or automatically creating an MR for quarantining a test and promotion to blocking bucket.
  • Update docs for when a quarantine MR is created, SET is mentioned on the failure issue.
  • Minor addition to criteria for promotion to blocking.

Related Issue: gitlab-org/quality/quality-engineering/team-tasks#2544 (closed)

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Commits

  • Add test failure flow chart
Edited by Sanad Liaquat

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