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Show HN: Root Cause – A tool for debugging Puppeteer and Playwright tests

42 points by inglor 6y ago

inglor 6y ago
Hey, I'm Benjamin and I'm one of the authors of this (foss) tool. You can check out the GitHub repo here https://github.com/testimio/root-cause https://github.com/testimio/root-cause We'd love (developer) feedback on this. This is the first (big'ish) open source tool that Testim makes.
- inglor 6y ago
  tl;dr Root Cause is a new open-source Node.js library, to help you visualize and troubleshoot your E2E Puppeteer & Playwright tests. Check out our interactive demo: https://github.com/testimio/root-cause-interactive-demo/ https://github.com/testimio/root-cause-interactive-demo/ At Testim.io - we see the automation projects of thousands of companies and run millions of e2e tests weekly. We saw that it's very hard to debug end to end tests and it's a common reason companies abandon e2e tests. We wrote "Root Cause" for the community in order to use our expertise from Testim to engage and promote puppeteer and playwright and in order to get better community feedback regarding what we see in tests. Basically - currently most of the industry does manual QA and we wanted to encourage (in our small way) automation.
henil2911 6y ago
I think you should include the github link on the homepage too.
- inglor 6y ago
  Thanks for the suggestion, there is a GitHub link going there that looks like the GitHub logo. I take it that isn't clear enough so I will ask the website team (btw: cool they built a landing page for an OS project for us!) to add a more prominent button.
ivanchaz 6y ago
Wow. I actually happen to work in a company where I have to maintain tons of scrapers and end up creating similar tool like this (scraper tend to fail for whatever reason and sometimes, the error tends to be very cryptic on what exactly the root cause of it). Good luck with the project and have fun :)
- inglor 6y ago
  Would love your feedback and to know how you commonly debug your scrapers to know what other features to add :]
offtop5 6y ago
Good call making it AGPL so Amazon can't host it and call it their own. Definitely looks like a cool tool
- wdb 6y ago
  Has that happened before?
  - offtop5 6y ago
    https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252476279/With-friends-like-AWS-who-needs-an-open-source-business https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252476279/With-friends-l... There was one specific case I can't find right now, where Amazon literally took an open source project host it on top of AWS and then shipped it without even acknowledging the original Creator in any real capacity.
nicomeemes 6y ago
Thank you for sharing this. Looks like an awesome tool.

42 points by inglor 6y ago

Hey, I'm Benjamin and I'm one of the authors of this (foss) tool. You can check out the GitHub repo here https://github.com/testimio/root-cause https://github.com/testimio/root-cause We'd love (developer) feedback on this. This is the first (big'ish) open source tool that Testim makes.

inglor 6y ago
tl;dr Root Cause is a new open-source Node.js library, to help you visualize and troubleshoot your E2E Puppeteer & Playwright tests. Check out our interactive demo: https://github.com/testimio/root-cause-interactive-demo/ https://github.com/testimio/root-cause-interactive-demo/ At Testim.io - we see the automation projects of thousands of companies and run millions of e2e tests weekly. We saw that it's very hard to debug end to end tests and it's a common reason companies abandon e2e tests. We wrote "Root Cause" for the community in order to use our expertise from Testim to engage and promote puppeteer and playwright and in order to get better community feedback regarding what we see in tests. Basically - currently most of the industry does manual QA and we wanted to encourage (in our small way) automation.

henil2911 6y ago

I think you should include the github link on the homepage too.

inglor 6y ago
Thanks for the suggestion, there is a GitHub link going there that looks like the GitHub logo. I take it that isn't clear enough so I will ask the website team (btw: cool they built a landing page for an OS project for us!) to add a more prominent button.

ivanchaz 6y ago

Wow. I actually happen to work in a company where I have to maintain tons of scrapers and end up creating similar tool like this (scraper tend to fail for whatever reason and sometimes, the error tends to be very cryptic on what exactly the root cause of it). Good luck with the project and have fun :)

inglor 6y ago
Would love your feedback and to know how you commonly debug your scrapers to know what other features to add :]

offtop5 6y ago

Good call making it AGPL so Amazon can't host it and call it their own. Definitely looks like a cool tool

wdb 6y ago
Has that happened before?
- offtop5 6y ago
  https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252476279/With-friends-like-AWS-who-needs-an-open-source-business https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252476279/With-friends-l... There was one specific case I can't find right now, where Amazon literally took an open source project host it on top of AWS and then shipped it without even acknowledging the original Creator in any real capacity.

nicomeemes 6y ago

Thank you for sharing this. Looks like an awesome tool.