Ask HN: A tool to handle annoying testing related tasks?

Posted by MutedEstate45 on Monday February 10, 2025 @09:30AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I’m building an internal tool that uses a local small language model to handle tasks related to testing that we find annoying like manually creating dummy data from schemas or TypeScript definitions, setting up dummy webworkers to proxy server calls for testing, and/or mapping API dependencies for integration tests, etc.

I’m still at the early stages, but I was wondering if anyone else would find this kind of tool useful (either some aspect or all aspects) because I’m considering open sourcing it on Github when I’m done.

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Re:Ask HN: A tool to handle annoying testing related tasks? by austin-cheney on Monday February 10, 2025 @09:42AM (#43000828)

Yes, I wrote something like this for a personal application and it's life changing.

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Re:Ask HN: A tool to handle annoying testing related tasks? by MutedEstate45 on Monday February 10, 2025 @09:51AM (#43000955)

Ohhh thats encouraging! Was it also for mock data generation or did you make it handle other annoying tasks?

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Re:Ask HN: A tool to handle annoying testing related tasks? by austin-cheney on Monday February 10, 2025 @03:08PM (#43004590)

The thing I wrote was just test automation that executed in the browser, file system, and shell commands. There are excellent tools that do this, but they are all big. I only wrote my own because I wanted something that executed faster and can send test commands to other computers. Any mock data generated was generated as result of the test interactions executed.

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Re:Ask HN: A tool to handle annoying testing related tasks? by MutedEstate45 on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @01:46PM (#43016588)

Yeah ok that sounds really useful! Especially the sending test commands to other computers.

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