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As with most statistical phenomena, there is a long tail of test failures. That is to say, a relatively high number of tests which will have a very occasional failure. These failures are extremely hard to diagnose due to their rare nature. They can come from infrastructure problems, rare timing race conditions, cosmic rays, etc. Quarantining these tests would likely be ineffective because they would end up staying in the quarantine for too long. Instead, we can use the Develocity test retry feature to help with these. Rather than our existing permissive and broad application of the retries, we can use a stricter and more targeted approach.

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