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Retries hiding a real bug

A checkout test fails about 5% of the time and always passes on retry. Logs show two requests sometimes save the cart in the wrong order. What should you do?

A.Treat it as a likely product race condition: capture evidence, raise a bug and add a focused test that reproduces the orderingB.Increase retries to 3 so the build stays greenC.Add a 2 second sleep between the requests in the testD.Mark the test as skipped

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