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HOW WE RAISED MOBILE END-TO-END TEST STABILITY TO 98%

shopify.engineering6 min read

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Shopify rebuilt its flaky mobile E2E framework around a strict builder API that requires an assertion after every action and labels escape hatches as UNSAFE_. PaddleOCR and OpenCV now locate visible text and icons the way users see them, helping raise test stability from 50% to 98% while annotated videos make failures easier to diagnose.