Google Testing Blog: My Selenium Tests Aren't Stable!
The underlying message: When your tests are flaky, do some root cause analysis to understand why they're flaky. It's very seldom because you're uncovered a bug in the test framework. In order for this sort of analysis and test-stability improvement work to be done effectively, you may well need support and help from your team. If you're working on your own, or in a small team, this may not be too hard. On a large project, it may be harder. I've had some success when a person or two is set aside from delivering functionality to work on making the tests more stable. The short-term pain of not having that extra pair of hands focusing on writing production code is more than made up for by the long-term benefit of a stable and effective suite of end-to-end tests that only fail when there's a real issue to be addressed.
