Software Design

Automated Test Suite Execution Lifecycle

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State diagram of test lifecycle: Initial to Queued, Setup, Running, choice to Passed or Failed, Retrying loop, Teardown, Reported, and Final.
State diagram of test lifecycle: Initial to Queued, Setup, Running, choice to Passed or Failed, Retrying loop, Teardown, Reported, and Final.
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What it shows

  • Explicit teardown prevents pollution across test cases.
  • Retry limits separate real regressions from flaky tests.
  • Central reporting aggregates timing and error traces.

The takeaway

Strict lifecycle boundaries and teardown hooks prevent test flakiness and state contamination in CI.

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