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Ask HN: Best no/low-code QA automation tool

4 points by windows2020 3y ago

There's a few out there but what I haven't found is one that can handle coordinating between two browsers (for example, to test chat functionality). It would be great if it was easy enough that Devs could make a test case before they submit their work. And better yet if Product could easily contribute cases as well.

austin-cheney 3y ago
I wrote a test automation component for executing a distributed peer-to-peer application in the browser. You could adapt it to fit your needs. All aspects of the tests are defined as a TypeScript interface so the code editor literally tells you how to complete a test object with the required properties and what the choice of values are. Here is an old video about it from Feb 2021. It’s much faster and improved now. https://prettydiff.com/share-test-automation.mp4 https://prettydiff.com/share-test-automation.mp4
james-revisoai 3y ago
It sounds crazy but combining two (e.g. cypress and selenium) can work fine especially with changed $browser config. So when I had this issue, I just did that for now, it's never needed more than 2 and been the simplest solution. Cypress I think doesn't allow multi-tabs etc (or at least at the release version in 2020 when I switched to it, didn't, and I still mentally model it that way), so I go back to selenium for this kind of thing. It's not ideal to use selenium these days, but it works ok.
2rsf 3y ago
Until a few years ago there was nothing ready out of the box and we had to build a solution ourselves. All the building blocks are available but you'll need to integrate them yourself.
solardev 3y ago
Can you just simulate that coordination with sleep timers? Test box A: =================== - Start chat - Wait 60 seconds - Send message "Blah blah ID123" - Wait 60 seconds for DOM element "Acknowledging receipt of ID123" or fail Test box B: =================== - Start chat - Wait 10 minutes for DOM element containing "ID123" - Send message "Acknowledging receipt of ID123" As for setting up the tests, I found Datadog's GUI to be pretty easy to use: https://docs.datadoghq.com/synthetics/browser_tests/?tab=requestoptions https://docs.datadoghq.com/synthetics/browser_tests/?tab=req... (it's like a homebrewed DOM selector and logic engine GUI, no coding required, but CSS and Xpath selectors are helpful).

4 points by windows2020 3y ago

austin-cheney 3y ago

I wrote a test automation component for executing a distributed peer-to-peer application in the browser. You could adapt it to fit your needs. All aspects of the tests are defined as a TypeScript interface so the code editor literally tells you how to complete a test object with the required properties and what the choice of values are. Here is an old video about it from Feb 2021. It’s much faster and improved now. https://prettydiff.com/share-test-automation.mp4 https://prettydiff.com/share-test-automation.mp4

james-revisoai 3y ago

It sounds crazy but combining two (e.g. cypress and selenium) can work fine especially with changed $browser config. So when I had this issue, I just did that for now, it's never needed more than 2 and been the simplest solution. Cypress I think doesn't allow multi-tabs etc (or at least at the release version in 2020 when I switched to it, didn't, and I still mentally model it that way), so I go back to selenium for this kind of thing. It's not ideal to use selenium these days, but it works ok.

2rsf 3y ago

Until a few years ago there was nothing ready out of the box and we had to build a solution ourselves. All the building blocks are available but you'll need to integrate them yourself.

solardev 3y ago

Can you just simulate that coordination with sleep timers? Test box A: =================== - Start chat - Wait 60 seconds - Send message "Blah blah ID123" - Wait 60 seconds for DOM element "Acknowledging receipt of ID123" or fail Test box B: =================== - Start chat - Wait 10 minutes for DOM element containing "ID123" - Send message "Acknowledging receipt of ID123" As for setting up the tests, I found Datadog's GUI to be pretty easy to use: https://docs.datadoghq.com/synthetics/browser_tests/?tab=requestoptions https://docs.datadoghq.com/synthetics/browser_tests/?tab=req... (it's like a homebrewed DOM selector and logic engine GUI, no coding required, but CSS and Xpath selectors are helpful).