Ask HN: Would you be interested in POM generator for Selenium?

Post by mesadb » Mon, Jun 13, 2022, 4:24 AM UTC

lloydatkinson wrote: post #22

zirror wrote: post #17

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Yes, way more stable. At least cypress, I don't have much experience with playwright. We never had an issue regarding brittleness or stability. We do, however, get sometimes frustrated over certain API choices, like the way sessions and cookies are managed and how hard it is to keep a value throughout a test suite etc.

Quite literally every Selenium test I’ve had access to has been a total disaster. When your build pipelines fail 50/50 because of some bullshit Selenium timeout no one can reproduce that resolves itself the next run, it’s time to look at another tool. Not to mention that the Selenium port for .NET is a literal verbatim translation from Java and written by people clearly not versed in C#. The API and way the library w…

Post by mesadb » Mon, Jun 13, 2022, 4:29 AM UTC

shyn3 wrote: post #25

Get DataDog. Launch their synthetic ux monitor. Implement that for scraping and that would be great I think.

Post by mesadb » Mon, Jun 13, 2022, 4:33 AM UTC

dude01 wrote: post #12

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Aren't all E2E test frameworks flaky by default? When you're testing the end user experience that goes through multiple layers of services, I think that should be expected. Would love to learn from your experiences on any better frameworks you might have used, though!

Yeah, Selenium is pretty flakey. I've been pretty happy with https://playwright.dev . Kind of the successor of puppeteer. At least, some of the same devs went from Google to MS. Here's an example where MS has better cross-browswer support than Google.