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

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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

Tried using something like Selenium to automate your UI testing? (Unless I'm misunderstanding you)

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.

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.

Yes, hopefully the dev will see this and tell us about some amazing RESTful API that is on it's way :)

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.

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

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.

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.

Really appreciate the feedback. This is all very helpful for me to work on.

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.

Great feedback, thanks. Will work on a more intuitive demo.

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 :)

Thank you! Will work on these ASAP.

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

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

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

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

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

This is nice - any competitors?

I have not looked at both products very much but it seems similar in some ways to https://www.rainforestqa.com/

It might feel similar, but they don't take care of the testing itself which is a major pain point. My 2 cents :)

I hadn't seen any when I built it.

This site could use some QA.

The Name field has input type="email", which causes this: http://puu.sh/8V8VE.png

Looks like they're not ready for prime-time just yet ;)

Oh the irony...

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.

Indeed. Thanks for catching this. It's been a race since launching to button things up.

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!

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.

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.

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