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Re:Launch HN: Codeparrot (YC W23) – Automated API testing us... by pcthrowaway on Friday March 17, 2023 @09:38PM (#35205185)
> For example, suppose a startup has an Express app that made downstream requests to Postgres, Redis, Kafka, other REST APIs, etc

And besides network calls network-bound requests, what about reading from sqlite, files, and interprocess communication.

What about ZeroMQ over UDP? A remote time service. Pulling from a git repo.

No really, I'm asking because I'm trying to figure out how to deal with all this in my tests right now, and I honestly have no idea. But I doubt Codeparrot is going to be able to intercept and intelligently mock everything.

Re:Launch HN: Codeparrot (YC W23) – Automated API testing us... by vedant_ag on Saturday March 18, 2023 @10:08PM (#35215283)
> What about ZeroMQ over UDP? A remote time service. Pulling from a git repo. > > No really, I'm asking because I'm trying to figure out how to deal with all this in my tests right now, and I honestly have no idea. But I doubt Codeparrot is going to be able to intercept and intelligently mock everything.

In theory, *everything* can be recorded and replayed; that's the magic of patching-in at the application layer. *Any* function call can be recorded, and, replayed.

In practice, we support whatever is demanded by our customers. If people are ready to pay for something, we are happy to build support for it.