--- title: How We Handle Flaky Tests in Gradle | daily.dev description: Gradle's developer productivity team shares their three-pronged approach to managing flaky tests: automatically retrying failed tests using the Test Retry... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-handle-flaky-tests-in-gradle-mfcw4kejm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How We Handle Flaky Tests in Gradle | daily.dev og:description: Gradle's developer productivity team shares their three-pronged approach to managing flaky tests: automatically retrying failed tests using the Test Retry... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-handle-flaky-tests-in-gradle-mfcw4kejm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/MfCw4kejM.png og:image:alt: How We Handle Flaky Tests in Gradle og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How We Handle Flaky Tests in Gradle **[Gradle Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/gradle-blog)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Gradle's developer productivity team shares their three-pronged approach to managing flaky tests: automatically retrying failed tests using the Test Retry Gradle plugin (reducing flakiness failures by ~90%), quarantining persistently flaky tests with a custom @Flaky annotation so they run in a nightly job instead of blocking CI, and conducting weekly reviews plus periodic 'flaky fix-it day' hackathons to actually fix root causes. The post also covers equivalent tools for Maven, JUnit, and Bazel, and highlights Gradle Enterprise's flaky test detection dashboard for tracking trends and history. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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