Launch HN: DeploySentinel (YC S22) – End-to-end tests that don't flake
Hi HN, Michael and Warren here - cofounders of DeploySentinel ( https://deploysentinel.com ). We make end-to-end testing easier and more reliable. At my last job, it dawned upon me how many production incidents and unhappy customers could have been avoided with more test automation - “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”. However, it wasn’t clear that you can get prevention for just an ounce. Our teams ramped up on investment into testing, especially end-to-end tests (via spinning up a headless browser in CI and testing as an end user), but it quickly became clear that these were incredibly expensive to build and maintain, especially as test suite and application complexity grow. When we asked around other engineering teams from different companies, we consistently heard how time-intensive test maintenance was. The worst part of end to end tests is when they fail oc
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Hi HN, Michael and Warren here - cofounders of DeploySentinel ( https://deploysentinel.com ). We make end-to-end testing easier and more reliable. At my last job, it dawned upon me how many production incidents and unhappy customers could have been avoided with more tes
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- mikeshi42
- Ended
- 2022
- Source
- hackernews