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Stale Cucumber Tests Are Slowing Your CI Pipeline
A CI pipeline hitting 28 minutes may be due to Cucumber scenarios that haven't caught a bug in months. These tests cost compute cycles, developer attention, and erode trust. The article advises auditing tests that never fail and removing them to speed feedback and reduce flakiness.
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The advice is sound, but deleting tests without understanding coverage risks missing regressions; a better approach is to replace stale scenarios with targeted integration tests.
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