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Broadly speaking, a flaky test indicates that the test relies on some system state that is not being appropriately controlled - the test environment is not sufficiently isolated. Higher level tests are more likely to be flaky as they rely on more state.
Flaky tests sometimes appear when a test suite is run in parallel (such as use of pytest-xdist). This can indicate a test is reliant on test ordering.
Flaky tests sometimes appear when a test suite is run in parallel (such as use of `pytest-xdist`_). This can indicate a test is reliant on test ordering.
- Perhaps a different test is failing to clean up after itself and leaving behind data which causes the flaky test to fail.
- The flaky test is reliant on data from a previous test that doesn't clean up after itself, and in parallel runs that previous test is not always present