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Re: Hurl 4.0.0

#101
post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly that sounds like making pilots build aircraft engines. these are different disciplines that deserve to be done well. Maybe I am biased because I spent the last 10 years in gamedev, or maybe this is another push to make devs do basically everything tech related: but if a developer tells me a feature is done I always look to QA for a nod. That nod rarely comes, the feature is not done, the developer merely got…

Then your developer should learn that "done" means more than "works on their machine". The difference between devs and dedicated QA people is that devs know the dark corners of the implementation. They know the edge cases and scenarios that they struggled with getting right. That's where most testing focus has to be. QA doesn't know any of that. They can play through some scenarios that are the expected ones from the…

The devs should produce passing tests, not spend hours clicking around in their app like a QA person.

Re: Hurl 4.0.0

#102
post #48

We at Adaptive[1] extensively use hurl.dev to automate our testing. All our internal product flows are tested via hurl. It is the best thing that we have ever implemented in our org to stabilize the product. Everytime before we deploy, we run bunch of automated tests written in hurl, for onboarding, signups, critical flows etc. That are containerized and can run in parallel. We have been building internal tools aroun…

Does it support OAuth flow out of the box, or do you need hardcoded tokens for that? (I checked the docs, couldn't find anything about it)

It doesn't support that out of the box, but you you can specify or capture values for variables like tokens in the hurl tests.

https://hurl.dev/docs/manual.html#variable

https://hurl.dev/docs/capturing-response.html

Re: Hurl 4.0.0

#103
post #96
post #25

Feedback: The homepage ( https://hurl.dev/ ) doesn't really make it clear - is this an interactive tool or not? If I understand it correctly, you're supposed to save that example as a file and run 'hurl example.hurl'. It would make it easier to understand if that sample code box had a headline saying e.g. [example.hurl].

Would it be more clear if we put line numbers in Hurl file snippets (even on the home)? I like the simplicity of our docs, but I can understand that it isn't clear how to use it. By the way, that's why we have put an asciinema animation on the home page, starting with `vim my_file.hurl`

It would help a little bit, yeah.

Re: Hurl 4.0.0

#104

We at Adaptive[1] extensively use hurl.dev to automate our testing. All our internal product flows are tested via hurl. It is the best thing that we have ever implemented in our org to stabilize the product. Everytime before we deploy, we run bunch of automated tests written in hurl, for onboarding, signups, critical flows etc. That are containerized and can run in parallel. We have been building internal tools aroun…

I'm curious as to why you use this standalone tool versus a full fledged test suite.

It seems like a browser based approach (like Selenium) would be far more powerful and overall useful in a testing context.

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