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Ask HN: Which E2E tool to pick? Need reliability and speed

I'm planning on introducing e2e test in my startup. My success criteria is high ROI. Meaning creating, running and debugging tests is fast and easy and the tests are not flaky.

I understand that those criterias can be achieved with any tool if you know how to properly architect the environment and use the tool, but to me it's a failure of a tool if it can only be properly used by the experts. I'm not an expert by any means in e2e.

So which tool sets me up for success the most by default?

( 7 comments | 2 points | on HN )
Re:Ask HN: Which E2E tool to pick? Need reliability and speed by throwaway476287 on Thursday March 16, 2023 @04:26AM (#35179534)
It depends on your stack and app type, but I had great experience with Ghost Inspector https://ghostinspector.com/
Re:Ask HN: Which E2E tool to pick? Need reliability and speed by ashishb on Thursday March 16, 2023 @04:28AM (#35179541)
Depends a lot on the application tech stack. A generic tool is usually the worst idea. Further, I would recommend writing tests along the axis of minimum change.
Re:Ask HN: Which E2E tool to pick? Need reliability and speed by alexbezhan on Thursday March 16, 2023 @04:40AM (#35179603)
Tech stack is Node, Express, htmx, SQLite.
Re:Ask HN: Which E2E tool to pick? Need reliability and speed by bradwood on Thursday March 16, 2023 @04:34AM (#35179571)
Playwright is pretty good. We just moved to it from Cypress.
Re:Ask HN: Which E2E tool to pick? Need reliability and speed by alexbezhan on Thursday March 16, 2023 @04:43AM (#35179618)
What are the advantanges of Playwright over Cypress for you?
Re:Ask HN: Which E2E tool to pick? Need reliability and speed by bradwood on Friday March 17, 2023 @05:09PM (#35202938)
faster, mainly
Re:Ask HN: Which E2E tool to pick? Need reliability and speed by austin-cheney on Thursday March 16, 2023 @05:26AM (#35179823)
I have written a solution for this. See my email in my profile.