diff --git a/src/commands/synthetics/utils/internal.ts b/src/commands/synthetics/utils/internal.ts
index 6b6700a28..426198932 100644
--- a/src/commands/synthetics/utils/internal.ts
+++ b/src/commands/synthetics/utils/internal.ts
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ export const hasResultPassed = (
   return result.status === 'passed'
 }
 
+/**
+ * Whether the result is of type {@link BaseResult}, i.e. it wasn't skipped.
+ */
 export const isBaseResult = (result: Result): result is BaseResult => {
   return !isResultSkippedBySelectiveRerun(result)
 }
@@ -57,6 +60,16 @@ export const hasDefinedResult = (result: Result): result is BaseResult & {result
   return !isResultSkippedBySelectiveRerun(result) && result.result !== undefined
 }
 
+/**
+ * Whether the result has a defined {@link BaseResult.result} property.
+ *
+ * This property would be undefined if the server result isn't available when polling for it,
+ * which is a known latency issue. We call such result an incomplete result.
+ */
+export const hasDefinedResult = (result: Result): result is BaseResult & {result: ServerResult} => {
+  return isBaseResult(result) && result.result !== undefined
+}
+
 /**
  * When the test is configured to be retried and the first attempt fails, `retries` is set to `0`
  * and the result is kept `in_progress` until the final result is received.