Is there an easy way for me to track what tests have been disabled as
result of intermittent issues we haven't been able to fix?

On 6 September 2017 at 14:10,  <jma...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> Over the last 9 months a few of us have really watched intermittent test 
> failures almost daily and done a lot to pester people as well as fix many.  
> While there are over 420 bugs that have been fixed since the beginning of the 
> year, there are half that many (211+) which have been disabled in some form 
> (including turning off the jobs).
>
> We don't like to disable and have been pretty relaxed in recommending 
> disabling a test.  Overall we have tried to adhere to a policy of:
> * >=30 failures/week- ask for owner to look at failure and fix it, if this 
> persists for a few weeks with no real traction we would go ahead [and 
> recommend] disabling it.
> * >= 75 failures/week- ask for people to fix this in a shorter time frame and 
> recommend disabling the test in a week or so
> * >= 150 failures/week- often just disable the test
>
> This is confusing and hard to manage.  Since then we have started adjusting 
> triage queries and some teams are doing their own triage and we are ignoring 
> those bugs (while they are getting prioritized properly).
>
> What we are looking to start doing this month is adopting a simpler policy:
> * any bug that has >=200 instances in the last 30 days will be disabled
> ** this will be a manual process, so it will happen a couple times/week
>
> We expect the outcome of this to be a similar amount of disabling, just an 
> easier method for doing so.  It is very possible we might recommend disabling 
> a test before it hits the threshold- keep in mind a disabled test is easy to 
> re-enable (so feel free to disable for that one platform until you have time 
> to look at fixing it)
>
> To be clear we (and some component owners) will continue triaging bugs and 
> trying to get fixes in place as often as possible and prefer a fix, not a 
> disabled test!
>
> Please raise any concerns, otherwise we will move forward with this in the 
> coming weeks.
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