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Show HN: OverLook.io – Get your non-technical friends involved in QA and Testing

29 points by MrMike 12y ago

sandwell 12y ago
This looks good. For the integrated plan, which tools can it integrate with?
- MrMike 12y ago
  Looking for user feedback to drive the integration priority. Drop me a line - hello@overlook.io
xmpir 12y ago
This is nice - any competitors?
- fbernier 12y ago
  I have not looked at both products very much but it seems similar in some ways to https://www.rainforestqa.com/ https://www.rainforestqa.com/
  - jipiboily 12y ago
    It might feel similar, but they don't take care of the testing itself which is a major pain point. My 2 cents :)
- MrMike 12y ago
  I hadn't seen any when I built it.
phelm 12y ago
This looks great, however I currently have hundreds of manual tests in a spreadsheet. I need to be able to import the tests from a column of the spreadsheet rather than hand type / copy & paste each test in
- Infinitesimus 12y ago
  Tried using something like Selenium to automate your UI testing? (Unless I'm misunderstanding you)
  - phelm 12y ago
    We are in the process of automating the regression tests. Until that is complete there is a significant amount of manual testing still to do. My point was that although this tool looks like it would help a lot, I have not found any way to import my current manual test descriptions, so I would have to copy & paste them in one by one (although I suppose I could automate that ) To the devs, it would be great to be able to import something like a simple CSV with my test descriptions.
    - lambtron 12y ago
      Hi phelm, We offer QA/integration testing as a service here at www.rainforestqa.com and currently support many paying customers. We also can import tests from various sources (testlink, spreadsheets, etc.) to make it as easy as possible to get immediate coverage with Rainforest. Send me a note at andy@rainforestqa.com if you're interested and want to learn more.
- sandwell 12y ago
  Yes, hopefully the dev will see this and tell us about some amazing RESTful API that is on it's way :)
- MrMike 12y ago
  Do you have a few min to chat about your needs? Would love to expose the APIs that make sense for you to automate this.
joshcrowder 12y ago
It seems very dev focused. I tried the demo out and it took me awhile to figure out what I needed to do. The Question should be larger and have more information about what I should do
- raimondious 12y ago
  My thoughts exactly. I'm a dev and I still stared at the demo for a while before I could tell what was Overlook and what was the site I was testing. Maybe this could be fixed by more specific/explanatory questions, but I think it definitely needs better visual cues as well.
  - sandwell 12y ago
    It really helped me to see a screenshot of the "tester" interface, I didn't quite get it until I saw that. It's behind one of the "try a live demo" links.
- MrMike 12y ago
  Really appreciate the feedback. This is all very helpful for me to work on.
Serow225 12y ago
In mobile safari, the fixed header gets messed up when you scroll, the lower third part of the text gets cut off. Good luck! :)
- MrMike 12y ago
  Yea... I went with web-first since that's what I needed. Mobile-happy is on the way.
notduncansmith 12y ago
This site could use some QA. The Name field has input type="email", which causes this: http://puu.sh/8V8VE.png http://puu.sh/8V8VE.png Looks like they're not ready for prime-time just yet ;)
- SimpleXYZ 12y ago
  Oh the irony...
- nacs 12y ago
  Seems the email on name field has been fixed but found another issue. If you leave the email field blank and hit submit you get a plain JSON response that says '{ "errors": [ "Missing Details" ] }' instead of an HTML page or better yet, denying the form submission till its filled.
- MrMike 12y ago
  Indeed. Thanks for catching this. It's been a race since launching to button things up.
  - notduncansmith 12y ago
    Congrats on launching by the way. You've probably heard the old Reid Hoffman quote about launch dates. Site looks really good, best of luck!
sabhiram 12y ago
Some feedback: 1. (I think) that all .price-box elements should have the same height, the pricing page makes me do a double take when I scroll to the bottom. 2. In your "Create Test Plan" screenshot, you should change "Timmy Jones"'s icon to be different from your own ("Team" section) later in the page I had a similar idea around allowing any and all people to participate in integration testing. If you think about it, having "experienced" testers is probably not a good thing for your tests :)
- MrMike 12y ago
  Thank you! Will work on these ASAP.
pessimizer 12y ago
Nice naming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym
- MrMike 12y ago
  =)
rpedela 12y ago
Please get rid of the giant pop-up banner begging for my email address. I immediately thought "this website is a waste of my time" when I saw it. I know you are looking for feedback so I continued looking at the website, but if I hadn't then I would have just left. The idea does seem to have potential, but the marketing text is way too verbose and it is more about the feature list than the value it provides.
- MrMike 12y ago
  I'd always wanted to try ExitMonitor (or equivalent services) from a pure optimization standpoint. So far it hasn't proved out to be worth it, and the annoying factor certainly overpowers the lift it provides.
nacs 12y ago
I tried the demo and found it wasn't very intuitive. My eyes were repeatedly drawn to the massive wall of text and input boxes in the lower frame while the top frame referred to me in the 3rd person ("User should be able to enter the number", "User will put the lotion in the basket", etc). If I didn't already know what the site was attempting to do, I wouldn't have done anything with the top frame since it seemed to make impersonal statements than actually telling me what to do. If the goal is for non-technical people to use that testing interface it needs to be much more clear as to what they should do and give better feedback when they do what they're supposed to.
- MrMike 12y ago
  Great feedback, thanks. Will work on a more intuitive demo.

29 points by MrMike 12y ago

sandwell 12y ago

This looks good. For the integrated plan, which tools can it integrate with?

MrMike 12y ago
Looking for user feedback to drive the integration priority. Drop me a line - hello@overlook.io

xmpir 12y ago

This is nice - any competitors?

fbernier 12y ago
I have not looked at both products very much but it seems similar in some ways to https://www.rainforestqa.com/ https://www.rainforestqa.com/
- jipiboily 12y ago
  It might feel similar, but they don't take care of the testing itself which is a major pain point. My 2 cents :)
MrMike 12y ago
I hadn't seen any when I built it.

phelm 12y ago

This looks great, however I currently have hundreds of manual tests in a spreadsheet. I need to be able to import the tests from a column of the spreadsheet rather than hand type / copy & paste each test in

Infinitesimus 12y ago
Tried using something like Selenium to automate your UI testing? (Unless I'm misunderstanding you)
- phelm 12y ago
  We are in the process of automating the regression tests. Until that is complete there is a significant amount of manual testing still to do. My point was that although this tool looks like it would help a lot, I have not found any way to import my current manual test descriptions, so I would have to copy & paste them in one by one (although I suppose I could automate that ) To the devs, it would be great to be able to import something like a simple CSV with my test descriptions.
  - lambtron 12y ago
    Hi phelm, We offer QA/integration testing as a service here at www.rainforestqa.com and currently support many paying customers. We also can import tests from various sources (testlink, spreadsheets, etc.) to make it as easy as possible to get immediate coverage with Rainforest. Send me a note at andy@rainforestqa.com if you're interested and want to learn more.
sandwell 12y ago
Yes, hopefully the dev will see this and tell us about some amazing RESTful API that is on it's way :)
MrMike 12y ago
Do you have a few min to chat about your needs? Would love to expose the APIs that make sense for you to automate this.

joshcrowder 12y ago

It seems very dev focused. I tried the demo out and it took me awhile to figure out what I needed to do. The Question should be larger and have more information about what I should do

raimondious 12y ago
My thoughts exactly. I'm a dev and I still stared at the demo for a while before I could tell what was Overlook and what was the site I was testing. Maybe this could be fixed by more specific/explanatory questions, but I think it definitely needs better visual cues as well.
- sandwell 12y ago
  It really helped me to see a screenshot of the "tester" interface, I didn't quite get it until I saw that. It's behind one of the "try a live demo" links.
MrMike 12y ago
Really appreciate the feedback. This is all very helpful for me to work on.

Serow225 12y ago

In mobile safari, the fixed header gets messed up when you scroll, the lower third part of the text gets cut off. Good luck! :)

MrMike 12y ago
Yea... I went with web-first since that's what I needed. Mobile-happy is on the way.

notduncansmith 12y ago

This site could use some QA. The Name field has input type="email", which causes this: http://puu.sh/8V8VE.png http://puu.sh/8V8VE.png Looks like they're not ready for prime-time just yet ;)

SimpleXYZ 12y ago
Oh the irony...
nacs 12y ago
Seems the email on name field has been fixed but found another issue. If you leave the email field blank and hit submit you get a plain JSON response that says '{ "errors": [ "Missing Details" ] }' instead of an HTML page or better yet, denying the form submission till its filled.
MrMike 12y ago
Indeed. Thanks for catching this. It's been a race since launching to button things up.
- notduncansmith 12y ago
  Congrats on launching by the way. You've probably heard the old Reid Hoffman quote about launch dates. Site looks really good, best of luck!

sabhiram 12y ago

Some feedback: 1. (I think) that all .price-box elements should have the same height, the pricing page makes me do a double take when I scroll to the bottom. 2. In your "Create Test Plan" screenshot, you should change "Timmy Jones"'s icon to be different from your own ("Team" section) later in the page I had a similar idea around allowing any and all people to participate in integration testing. If you think about it, having "experienced" testers is probably not a good thing for your tests :)

MrMike 12y ago
Thank you! Will work on these ASAP.

pessimizer 12y ago

Nice naming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym

MrMike 12y ago
=)

rpedela 12y ago

Please get rid of the giant pop-up banner begging for my email address. I immediately thought "this website is a waste of my time" when I saw it. I know you are looking for feedback so I continued looking at the website, but if I hadn't then I would have just left. The idea does seem to have potential, but the marketing text is way too verbose and it is more about the feature list than the value it provides.

MrMike 12y ago
I'd always wanted to try ExitMonitor (or equivalent services) from a pure optimization standpoint. So far it hasn't proved out to be worth it, and the annoying factor certainly overpowers the lift it provides.

nacs 12y ago

I tried the demo and found it wasn't very intuitive. My eyes were repeatedly drawn to the massive wall of text and input boxes in the lower frame while the top frame referred to me in the 3rd person ("User should be able to enter the number", "User will put the lotion in the basket", etc). If I didn't already know what the site was attempting to do, I wouldn't have done anything with the top frame since it seemed to make impersonal statements than actually telling me what to do. If the goal is for non-technical people to use that testing interface it needs to be much more clear as to what they should do and give better feedback when they do what they're supposed to.

MrMike 12y ago
Great feedback, thanks. Will work on a more intuitive demo.