Ask HN: Which E2E tool to pick? Need reliability and speed

2 points by alexbezhan 3y ago ↗ HN

I'm planning on introducing e2e test in my startup. My success criteria is high ROI. Meaning creating, running and debugging tests is fast and easy and the tests are not flaky.

I understand that those criterias can be achieved with any tool if you know how to properly architect the environment and use the tool, but to me it's a failure of a tool if it can only be properly used by the experts. I'm not an expert by any means in e2e.

So which tool sets me up for success the most by default?

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throwaway476287 3y ago ↗

It depends on your stack and app type, but I had great experience with Ghost Inspector https://ghostinspector.com/

ashishb 3y ago ↗

Depends a lot on the application tech stack. A generic tool is usually the worst idea. Further, I would recommend writing tests along the axis of minimum change.

alexbezhan 3y ago ↗

Tech stack is Node, Express, htmx, SQLite.

bradwood 3y ago ↗

Playwright is pretty good. We just moved to it from Cypress.

alexbezhan 3y ago ↗

What are the advantanges of Playwright over Cypress for you?

austin-cheney 3y ago ↗

I have written a solution for this. See my email in my profile.