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Launch HN: Speedscale (YC S20) – Automatically create tests from actual traffic

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Re: Launch HN: Speedscale (YC S20) – Automatically create tests from actual traffic

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Post by kahrensdd »

pixiemaster wrote: post #19

does it work for gameserver-style multi-client websocket communication?

One of our early inspirations was a video game company that would replay recorded gameplay against new builds of a game server. And our proxy assembles each request and response in the order they were received, even if they go with different user sessions. For the alpha we are focused on API type calls over HTTP/S, but websocket implementation is definitely something we are tracking.

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Post by nunez »

kahrensdd wrote: post #7

For a little background story on the satellite antenna. I was building a monitoring device driver for an Antenna Control Unit (ACU). It's like a 4 rack-unit computer with special hardware for talking to the antenna motors (azimuth, elevation and polarization). After sending it a command, the device froze up, so we rebooted it. The CMOS battery was dead so when it came back up the date was wrong, but I did not notice.…

Dead CMOS batteries suck.

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Post by techdragon »

I love the look of this, I cant even remember all the times I’ve run across applications out in the wild that were built without any thought about testing until long after the original devs are gone. All you have is production traffic and reverse engineering. It’s a real pain, and I would love to have more tools to attack this problem when it comes up.

So how open is that alpha? I’d really love to try this out.

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Post by kahrensdd »

billyhoffman wrote: post #25

Congratulations on the launch Ken! Ken worked as a top SE at New Relic and has been involved in the Atlanta Web Performance meetup for many years. It was a wonderful surprise to see you all on HN

Thank you Billy, we are very excited to be making progress with Speedscale. I miss seeing you and the rest of the crew from the ATL Web Performance meetup.

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Post by jameslk »

I had a similar idea, but from the frontend. I think it would solve a few edge cases where frontend logic is needed to complete full state-based interactions. But I think there's now some solutions out there for this. Good to see some traction here though, since automated testing and regression testing is still a very difficult and manual thing to set up and keep updated. Lots of opportunity to make it less painful.

Re: Launch HN: Speedscale (YC S20) – Automatically create tests from actual traffic

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Post by kahrensdd »

techdragon wrote: post #26

I love the look of this, I cant even remember all the times I’ve run across applications out in the wild that were built without any thought about testing until long after the original devs are gone. All you have is production traffic and reverse engineering. It’s a real pain, and I would love to have more tools to attack this problem when it comes up. So how open is that alpha? I’d really love to try this out.

Reverse engineering protocols has morphed from a hobby to a full time job. I've spent a lot of time going through logs, looking at data and knowing that I am not looking at the TCP level request and response. So we are trying to solve that problem. :)

Please send a note to hello@speedscale.com so we can get the details of your environment and determine if it is a fit for our alpha.

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