# Tests Under the Magnifying Lens

DevFeed: [Tests Under the Magnifying Lens](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/tests-under-the-magnifying-lens-2166.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//tests-under-the-magnifying-lens>)

Published: 2021-02-02T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [SoundCloud Backstage Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/soundcloud-backstage-blog.md>)

Topics: [Test coverage](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coverage.md>), [engineering-culture](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/engineering-culture.md>), [Tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tooling.md>), [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [CRUD](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/crud.md>), [data-processing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-processing.md>), [Refactoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/refactoring.md>), [Backstage](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backstage.md>), [Cypress](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cypress.md>), [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [automation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automation.md>), [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [backstage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backstage.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [devxp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devxp.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [flaky](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/flaky.md>), [frontend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/frontend.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [refactoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/refactoring.md>), [test-coverage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/test-coverage.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>), [tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tooling.md>)

## AI overview

SoundCloud describes an effort to improve testing infrastructure by aggregating test data across repositories, teams, and features. The proposed workflow treats build artifacts and test reports as data for analyzing test-suite health, retries, execution times, flakiness, pipeline costs, and developer waiting times, with the goal of guiding test fixes and refactoring.

## Source excerpt

Testing is at the heart of engineering practices at SoundCloud. We strive to build well-balanced test pyramids within our code repositories...