jakemmarsh

Hi HN,

We're Jake, Scott, and Akshay – the founders of walrus.ai[1]. Throughout the process of building our previous startup, we learned first-hand how important automated test coverage is to any product. At the same time, it was such a pain to implement. As we spoke to our customers, we learned that they hated writing these tests too.

So we decided to build a product that drastically simplifies how we write end-to-end tests – and that's walrus.ai.

Features:

- Easy — write tests in plain english - Fast — get results in 5 minutes - Developer-first — integrates directly with your CI/CD through an API call - Reliable — human-verified results

You can try us for free, and we'd appreciate any feedback! [email protected]

[1] https://walrus.ai

Yup, that's the unfortunate reality you can find yourself in if these things aren't taken into consideration early on.

However, that doesn't mean improvements can never be made. Sounds like it definitely still would've been worth your team learning React!

I actually address that in the post. In short, automated testing is of course useful and should be utilized whenever possible. However, a manual bug bash still allows you to:

1. catch any unknown edge cases that may not be covered by your test suite 2. allow all stakeholders in the project to see the (near) final product

Care to elaborate? Interesting to rule out all modern technology as “shitty”

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Read more at [1] below, or feel free to reach out to me at [email protected].

[1] https://monolist.co/jobs/full-stack-engineer/

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