Flaky test


Flaky tests are tests that fail intermittently. This can happen if there is an underlying bug that only happens intermittently. Or it could also happen if a test is timing-dependent and affected by environmental conditions such as the speed of the machine running the test. Flaky tests should be fixed to be made non-flaky. Usually this means fixing the underlying bug, or changing the test so that it doesn’t depend on timing.

Source: https://github.com/nodejs/node/wiki/Flaky-tests