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by tmcneal 3y ago
I'm not quite sure how n8n works after reading the docs, but our company Reflect provides an AI-driven approach to automation that may be similar, but for a more narrower use-case: automated end-to-end testing. You can see a video exam
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Performance and usability issues in Salesforce Lightning Web Components(reflect.run)
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Jaq – A jq clone focused on correctness, speed, and simplicity(github.com)
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Testing Salesforce with Playwright and Generative AI(zerostep.com)
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ZeroStep: Automate Playwright Tests with AI(zerostep.com)
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Launch on Thursday, Cloned by Saturday(zerostep.com)
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by tmcneal 3y ago
Done! We added the ability to use it as a fixture. Documented here: https://github.com/zerostep-ai/zerostep#playwright-fixture
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by tmcneal 3y ago
Hey HN - excited to share this with you and hopefully get some feedback. ZeroStep is a JavaScript library that adds the power of AI to Playwright tests. ZeroStep’s ai() function lets developers test a web application using simple plain-tex
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Show HN: ZeroStep – AI actions and assertions for Playwright(zerostep.com)
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by tmcneal 3y ago
Ah got it. So GPT is non-deterministic, but we somewhat handle that by having a caching layer in our AI. Basically if you make an ai() call, and we see that the page state is identical to a previous invocation of that exact AI prompt, then
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by tmcneal 3y ago
Pricing is listed on https://zerostep.com - you get 1,000 ai() calls per month for free, and then the cheapest paid plan is 2,000 ai() calls per month for $20, 4,000 for $40, etc. So basically you pay a penny per ai() call. In t
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by tmcneal 3y ago
For anyone looking to try this in an E2E testing context, we just released a library for Playwright called ZeroStep ( https://zerostep.com/ ) that lets you script AI based actions, assertions, and extractions. This is a worki
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Dadroit JSON Generator(github.com)
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by tmcneal 3y ago
Hi HN, Three years ago we launched Reflect on HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23897626 ). We're back to show you some new AI-powered features that we believe are a big step forward in the evolution in automated
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Show HN: Reflect – Create end-to-end tests using AI prompts(reflect.run)
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Show HN: Reflect – create end-to-end tests using AI prompts
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by tmcneal 4y ago
If you're a fan of Tolkien, check out MUME (Multi-user Middle Earth), a MUD that's been online since 1990: https://mume.org/ Its unofficial community site is http://elvenrunes.com/ which has hoste
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Staging is dead: The rise of preview environments(withcoherence.com)
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by tmcneal 4y ago
I feel compelled to provide a counter-point to all of the "you can't" comments here. It's possible. I started a company with my co-founder three years ago. We both were mid-thirties with kids when we started. We've
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Developer's Guide to Regression Testing(reflect.run)
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A Retool-hosted SQL database to power your apps(retool.com)
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by tmcneal 4y ago
This reminds me of the fan theory that Tom Bombadil is secretly the Witch-King of Angmar: http://www.flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/theories/bombadil.htm
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by tmcneal 4y ago
Is it possible to personalize your pitches to individual users? At our startup [1] we try to get straight to point when pitching the product and demo something that is as close as possible to how the person we're talking to would actua
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by tmcneal 5y ago
tdm is an open-source library for generating seed data for your QA and staging environments. I'm the co-founder of Reflect ( https://reflect.run ) which is a no-code tool for creating automated regression tests. We've re
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Show HN: tdm – Terraform for Test Data(github.com)
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The hidden dependencies in your regression tests(reflect.run)
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Reflect (YC S20) is hiring full-stack engineers and sales reps (US Remote)(ycombinator.com)
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by tmcneal 5y ago
I wonder if the infrastructure that's driving the browser tests is underpowered. If the browser process is dying silently or CPU is getting maxed out, it could manifest in what you're describing where it happens intermittently and
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by tmcneal 5y ago
Yes definitely, there's lots of products in the QA space trying to tackle the problem you're describing. I'm a co-founder of a no-code product in the space ( https://reflect.run ). Being no-code has the advantage of
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by tmcneal 5y ago
I'm not sure if any of these are pertinent to your tests, but these are the issues I see most often that cause flaky tests: - Hard-coded waits in your code, like "Thread.sleep(1000)". A better alternative is to replace hard-c

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