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This is probably so far down the list that I would be interested to hear of any kind of testing of extensions at all for non-extension companies.

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Haven't seen this automated, but I have seen internal issues raised by folks within large orgs when their extension started breaking things. But it's only once you have 50+ to 100's of engineers working on a product, each with a subset of extensions installed, that you can rely on the cross product of engineers and their installed extensions for realistic coverage.

I've never worked on a team of more than 7 on a product, so even testing on Firefox is considered too much work for testing.

Put in dollars, it probably costs 5-10 million a year (if not more) to test extensions even haphazardly.

I feel like I could get pretty far building this, with that budget.

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