Circle Internet Services Inc., a continuous integration and delivery platform for DevOps teams, today announced the launch of Test Insights, a new feature that extends the platform’s Insights dashboard that allows teams to meaningfully react to test performance.

Test Insights provides greater visibility into the testing process to allow teams to rapidly identify and recover from failed or flaky tests and thus enable higher accuracy in overall analytics.

“Using Test Insights, teams save more of their most valuable resource — time — by addressing code failures faster, pinpointing the source of bugs or threats more quickly, and more accurately forecasting trends and patterns for complete workflow optimization,” said Apurva Joshi, chief product officer of CircleCI.

According to data collected by CircleCI, the average failed workflow can waste around 30 minutes of a team’s time. And CircleCI has identified more than 4,000 flaky tests per day, meaning that its users could save more than 2,000 wasted hours per day, collectively, by eliminating those test failures.

Flaky test detection operates by detecting unpredictable behavior – thus creating circumstances that could cause them to throw false positives or false negatives – and then flags them proactively.

It also detects the longest-running and most failed tests to allow DevOps engineering teams to focus on the worst offenders first and then get back to developing sooner. Test Insights also provides longitudinal analysis to deliver a way to see behavioral changes over time in test behavior and performance in order to diagnose efficiency issues faster.

Finally, it provides the ability to make actionable improvements on trends at the organization, workflow-level and job-level by sorting for mean run time for metrics such as recovery, throughput and duration, such as over 24-hour, seven-day and 30-day time windows.

“By helping teams identify and resolve issues with failed and flaky tests, CircleCI enables developers to spend more time innovating and creating quality software and less time troubleshooting,” said Rachel Stephens, senior analyst at RedMonk. “This can help customers increase the speed, accuracy and efficiency of their deployments.”

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