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

3 points by MutedEstate45 1 year ago | 4 comments

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.

austin-cheney 1 year ago |

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

MutedEstate45 1 year ago | |

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

austin-cheney 1 year ago | | |

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.