:waves: As part of &22879+, I've been finding digging up a lot of information on flakes; especially "quiet" ones that get pass on automatic retry. They don't fail a pipeline and so they can go under the radar, but they lead to longer overall pipeline times, and sometimes _do_ fail pipelines when they fail on retry. In the three months 2026-05-24 – 2026-08-24, `spec/features/projects/show/user_interactions_spec.rb` has had 602 pass-on-retry flakes, and 153 fail-on-retry (pipeline-failing) flakes. Every flake in this file started showing in 2026-07-06 (when it was created; see below) and have been steadily reporting _more_ frequently since; there are star examples (where clicking the star has no effect, the count remains `0`, don't see the unstar), and notifications examples (the dropdown opens but the `listbox-item-*` testid doesn't show up). That date coincides with c250436dd28921567fc5697616d553d858f4f5e2, which is when that file was created (an amalgamation of four different files), so quite likely they were individually flaking earlier and we just didn't notice. ## Related issues - nothing relevant I could find :( ## Active flaking examples (last event on/after 2026-08-03) Below is data collated by LLM, should it be helpful. ### `spec/features/projects/show/user_interactions_spec.rb[1:1:1:4]` - name: Projects \> Show \> User interactions Project stars when user is signed in validates un-starring a project - flake events: 172 (21 on master pipelines); active 2026-07-06 → 2026-08-17 (7 weeks) - recent weekly: 07-13: 18, 07-20: 5, 07-27: 25, 08-03: 28, 08-10: 42, 08-17: 37 - exceptions: `['Capybara::ElementNotFound','BrowserConsoleHelpers::BrowserConsoleError']`; `['Capybara::ElementNotFound']` - message sample: `Unable to find button "Unstar" that is not disabled Timeout (30s) reached while running a waiting Capybara finder. Consider using a non-waiting finder. See https://www.cloudbees.com/blog/faster-rails-tests` - message sample: `Unable to find button "Unstar" that is not disabled Timeout (30s) reached while running a waiting Capybara finder.` ### `spec/features/projects/show/user_interactions_spec.rb[1:1:1:3]` - name: Projects \> Show \> User interactions Project stars when user is signed in validates starring a project - flake events: 157 (11 on master pipelines); active 2026-07-06 → 2026-08-17 (7 weeks) - recent weekly: 07-13: 21, 07-20: 9, 07-27: 25, 08-03: 15, 08-10: 32, 08-17: 39 - exceptions: `['RSpec::Expectations::ExpectationNotMetError','BrowserConsoleHelpers::BrowserConsoleError']`; `['RSpec::Expectations::ExpectationNotMetError']` - message sample: `expected to find text "1" in "0" Timeout (30s) reached while running a waiting Capybara finder. Consider using a non-waiting finder. See https://www.cloudbees.com/blog/faster-rails-tests` - message sample: `expected to find text "1" in "0" Timeout (30s) reached while running a waiting Capybara finder.` ### `spec/features/projects/show/user_interactions_spec.rb[1:2:3:1]` - name: Projects \> Show \> User interactions Notifications custom notification settings shows notification settings checkbox - flake events: 74 (7 on master pipelines); active 2026-07-06 → 2026-08-17 (7 weeks) - recent weekly: 07-13: 19, 07-20: 1, 07-27: 11, 08-03: 9, 08-10: 15, 08-17: 8 - exceptions: `['Capybara::ElementNotFound','BrowserConsoleHelpers::BrowserConsoleError']`; `['Capybara::ElementNotFound']` - message sample: `Unable to find visible css "[data-testid='listbox-item-custom']" Timeout (30s) reached while running a waiting Capybara finder. Consider using a non-waiting finder. See https://www.cloudbees.com/blog/faster-rails-tests` - message sample: `Unable to find visible css "[data-testid='listbox-item-custom']" Timeout (30s) reached while running a waiting Capybara finder.` ### `spec/features/projects/show/user_interactions_spec.rb[1:1:1:2]` - name: Projects \> Show \> User interactions Project stars when user is signed in toggles the star - flake events: 66 (4 on master pipelines); active 2026-07-06 → 2026-08-17 (7 weeks) - recent weekly: 07-13: 10, 07-20: 5, 07-27: 15, 08-03: 13, 08-10: 5, 08-17: 5 - exceptions: `['RSpec::Expectations::ExpectationNotMetError','BrowserConsoleHelpers::BrowserConsoleError']`; `['RSpec::Expectations::ExpectationNotMetError']` - message sample: `expected to find css ".star-count" but there were no matches Timeout (30s) reached while running a waiting Capybara finder. Consider using a non-waiting finder. See https://www.cloudbees.com/blog/faster-rails-tests` - message sample: `expected to find css ".star-count" but there were no matches Timeout (30s) reached while running a waiting Capybara finder.` ### `spec/features/projects/show/user_interactions_spec.rb[1:2:2]` - name: Projects \> Show \> User interactions Notifications changes the notification setting to disabled - flake events: 65 (8 on master pipelines); active 2026-07-06 → 2026-08-17 (7 weeks) - recent weekly: 07-13: 6, 07-20: 3, 07-27: 11, 08-03: 10, 08-10: 16, 08-17: 7 - exceptions: `['Capybara::ElementNotFound','BrowserConsoleHelpers::BrowserConsoleError']`; `['Capybara::ElementNotFound']` - message sample: `Unable to find visible css "[data-testid='listbox-item-disabled']" Timeout (30s) reached while running a waiting Capybara finder. Consider using a non-waiting finder. See https://www.cloudbees.com/blog/faster-rails-tests` - message sample: `Unable to find visible css "[data-testid='listbox-item-disabled']" Timeout (30s) reached while running a waiting Capybara finder.` ### `spec/features/projects/show/user_interactions_spec.rb[1:2:1]` - name: Projects \> Show \> User interactions Notifications changes the notification setting - flake events: 59 (8 on master pipelines); active 2026-07-06 → 2026-08-17 (7 weeks) - recent weekly: 07-13: 12, 07-20: 2, 07-27: 8, 08-03: 14, 08-10: 11, 08-17: 5 - exceptions: `['Capybara::ElementNotFound','BrowserConsoleHelpers::BrowserConsoleError']`; `['Capybara::ElementNotFound']` - message sample: `Unable to find visible css "[data-testid='listbox-item-mention']" Timeout (30s) reached while running a waiting Capybara finder. Consider using a non-waiting finder. See https://www.cloudbees.com/blog/faster-rails-tests` - message sample: `Unable to find visible css "[data-testid='listbox-item-mention']" Timeout (30s) reached while running a waiting Capybara finder.` ### `spec/features/projects/show/user_interactions_spec.rb[1:1:1:1]` - name: Projects \> Show \> User interactions Project stars when user is signed in retains the star count even after a page reload - flake events: 9 (0 on master pipelines); active 2026-07-06 → 2026-08-10 (4 weeks) - recent weekly: 07-06: 1, 07-13: 2, 08-03: 3, 08-10: 3 - exceptions: `['RSpec::Expectations::ExpectationNotMetError','BrowserConsoleHelpers::BrowserConsoleError']`; `['RSpec::Expectations::ExpectationNotMetError']` - message sample: `expected to find css ".star-count" but there were no matches Timeout (30s) reached while running a waiting Capybara finder. Consider using a non-waiting finder. See https://www.cloudbees.com/blog/faster-rails-tests` - message sample: `expected to find css ".star-count" but there were no matches Timeout (30s) reached while running a waiting Capybara finder.`