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I needed browser automation for testing, so I obviously wrote my own tool

angrykoala on March 22, 2019

Around a year ago, I decided to start using a browser automation tool to write some tests for my project front-end. While some degree of testing ...
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David J Eddy

Have you looked into Cypress.io? It is what I moved on to then Phantom when EOL. I'll take a look at what you got here and try it out.

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angrykoala

I saw it, although never really worked with it. While it looks like a better alternative than the ones I listed, back when I learnt about cypress I already had wendigo going on, and the scopes seem slightly different, wendigo is just an agnostic browser automation tool while cypress provides a whole framework for testing + CI infraestructure, plus the actions and assertions provided (at least for what I saw in the docs, it may have changed) don't look nearly as varied as what wendigo already has (obviously by now I'm completely biased so take this answer with a grain of salt)

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ItsASine (Kayla)

On the one hand, it looks cool and I want to give it a shot.

On the other hand, I've been playing too much Fallout 76 lately, so I don't want to deal with wendigos.

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Ben Halpern • Edited

Seems like a lot of fun!

Build vs buy is never cut and dry and even though there’s a lot of good reasons to buy (or install for free), diy is great too!