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Launch HN: TesterArmy (YC P26) – Agents that test web and mobile apps

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Re: Launch HN: TesterArmy (YC P26) – Agents that test web and mobile apps

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Post by AlexeyBelov »

skinfaxi wrote: post #31
okwasniewski wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately from our experience tests don’t scale as well as code. First of all, static tests are very brittle: you rely on selectors, need wait times, and can’t really test a lot of dynamic content (think AI chats/interactions). Then it’s all the infrastructure around it: solving captchas, handling auth, handling email OTP (each of our agents has access to its own inbox), spinning up simulators and handling video…

Goodness I really didn't expect such lazy copy-pasting of responses for a YC company.

Really? You didn't expect low-effort hustler-like behaviour from a YC company? :)

Re: Launch HN: TesterArmy (YC P26) – Agents that test web and mobile apps

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Post by _pdp_ »

Eridrus wrote: post #80
ed_mercer wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aside from entertainment/marketing purposes, I think UI will become useless. Why should I interact with UI when an agent can (and will) interact with it?

Because you do not know everything and information (possible inputs, actual outputs) still needs to be presented to you. Because text is not the best way to present everything. Because consistency of presentation makes it easier to absorb. Because everything is social and standardization is useful.

We started using a CRM that has no UI - the only interface is AI agent.

Frankly, the best experience I've had in a long time. I just ask the agent what I need and it does it. Populating the CRM is even easier.

Personally, again personal take, I cannot see going back to CRUD applications.

Re: Launch HN: TesterArmy (YC P26) – Agents that test web and mobile apps

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_pdp_ wrote: post #82
Eridrus wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because you do not know everything and information (possible inputs, actual outputs) still needs to be presented to you. Because text is not the best way to present everything. Because consistency of presentation makes it easier to absorb. Because everything is social and standardization is useful.

We started using a CRM that has no UI - the only interface is AI agent. Frankly, the best experience I've had in a long time. I just ask the agent what I need and it does it. Populating the CRM is even easier. Personally, again personal take, I cannot see going back to CRUD applications.

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Re: Launch HN: TesterArmy (YC P26) – Agents that test web and mobile apps

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Post by Eridrus »

_pdp_ wrote: post #82
Eridrus wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because you do not know everything and information (possible inputs, actual outputs) still needs to be presented to you. Because text is not the best way to present everything. Because consistency of presentation makes it easier to absorb. Because everything is social and standardization is useful.

We started using a CRM that has no UI - the only interface is AI agent. Frankly, the best experience I've had in a long time. I just ask the agent what I need and it does it. Populating the CRM is even easier. Personally, again personal take, I cannot see going back to CRUD applications.

I hooked up our Hubspot to Claude and also found it very valuable, but I actually found the most value there in entity linking, data cleanup and general data processing more than the UI changes.

I still had Claude make me charts because I wanted to understand what was going on though.

I'm not routinely involved in sales, but if I was I feel like there are some breakdowns I would want to see regularly.

I also want to note that my startup sells an infra product. It doesn't need a UI, but people fucking love charts, so we built them the charts and they are happier.

Re: Launch HN: TesterArmy (YC P26) – Agents that test web and mobile apps

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Post by hugorus87 »

On the mobile side, what's your strategy for state across cold starts? Agentic test runs tend to fall over the moment auth tokens expire mid-flow, because the agent has no notion of 'this state should persist across this device reboot but not that one'. Curious how you handle keychain/secure-storage in your test rigs.
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