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Ask HN: What do you think about No Code Browser Visual Testing?

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Hey HN,

I’ve launched Superadmin recently and am looking to collect feedback from the community on a no code tool to make testing easier. Superadmin gives developers no code tools to make visual testing easier. It brings all of the browsers ready to render your pages and run your automations in different devices and configurations.

We are engineers and have used various tools from homegrown at Google to others like Selenium and newer ones. We always found it a pain and time consuming to setup. We decided to make a solution that’s easy and requires no code! Using a browser extension to build WYSIWG style tests that allow you to automatically run point and click operations in a browser. We’re looking to build more tools around making visual testing easier. Check is out at:

http://Superadmin.so

I would appreciate your feedback on the product and website!

FE contractor here with hundreds of hours writing selenium & cypress tests. The main issue is not automating the browser, the main issue is getting the data access & service mocks right.

I hardly ever had an application that could be testet against a dev/prod DB - you will always need to setup special test cases with a certain dataset for a particular case - especially for those nasty corner cases for which you write your tests for. I've worked in projects where we created special testing REST endpoints to load/unload scenarios into the DB, and also on other projects using browser mocks. In both cases, this is the work that requires the most amount of time.

Thanks for your feedback! For broad testing we definitely understand there has to be some time spent setting up good testing environments. Running a staging environment suited to being tested to catch regressions is usually not quick.

But it can be effective to run the same tests across one type of environment, such as staging tests against a staging environment. This will catch many regressions, and with more work setting up good scenarios cover large parts of an application. Do you find any value in making it easier to do testing?

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