Kasaya
Dev tools
browser automation
SHOW HN2020
386points
106comments
#93of 3,028 in 2020
Top 4%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
6 positive, 19 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 23 critical, out of 48 comments about the project. Thread score -0.37.
Idea: 3 for, 9 againstDesign: 2 for, 8 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 againstDocs: 0 for, 3 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Readable, intuitive syntax that QA could adopt
From 2 comments
I actually kind of really like this DSL, I think it is going to be easier for my QA team to use this, than asking them to use javascript.
swalsh on HNAll these kinds of HN comments share the same flaw: they unnecessarily detract from the work the OP has done by attacking use cases that the project never claimed to solve.…
debaserab2 on HN
Objections
DSLs become limiting and hard to maintain versus a real language
From 3 comments
All those kind of projects share the same flaw: it uses a DSL instead of an existing language, so tooling/documentation/testing/support/modules are going to be very weak, and…
BiteCode_dev on HN> With JavaScript you get method completion and debugging. a) now your QA team needs to know JavaScript b) method completion is crap when you don't know the language. c) "You can…
masukomi on HNThe other choice is that your QA teams knows this DSL tho. Which is the point: eventually most DSLs converge on the complexity of programming languages and you’re left asking:…
enjo on HN
Requires JDK and Node, unsuited to CI
From 2 comments
Looks promising but I don't want to install the JDK (and it's not practical for CI). Isn't it possible to do without with something like Puppeteer?
vincelt on HNWho is this for? It requires the JDK and Node.js to be installed, telling me that this is targeted to developers. If I'm a developer, I'm OK to use a browser automation framework…
jbob2000 on HN
Selenium already exists and is mature
From 1 comment
Test automaton guy here. Why reinvent the wheel? Selenium/WebDriver is already a standard (https://www.w3.org/TR/webdriver/). It has years of maturity. Maturity means that…
ou_ryperd on HN
Requests
Support Puppeteer or Chrome DevTools protocol instead of Selenium
From 2 comments
Looks promising but I don't want to install the JDK (and it's not practical for CI). Isn't it possible to do without with something like Puppeteer?
vincelt on HNNot yet, but someone suggested Chrome DevTools protocol. This is still in the very early stages, so we're looking into these things.
hliyan on HN
Autocomplete for elements on the page
From 2 comments
I am confused by the use of "WYSIWYG". It seems to be more a control console/REPL with Natural Language syntax. Edit: A killer feature would be autocomplete for things found on…
dariusj18 on HN> Edit: A killer feature would be autocomplete for things found on the page. Challenge accepted!
hliyan on HN
Loops support
From 1 comment
This is neat. I was just looking for something like this the other day. Does it support loops? I don't see any example like that. Basically I wanted to load a search results page…
losvedir on HN
Questions
Does it use Selenium under the hood?
From 2 comments
Does it use Selenium under the hood?
naushniki on HNYes it does...
hliyan on HN
How does it select elements without selectors?
From 1 comment
I don't see how this is a scripting language and runtime; so, maybe I'm totally missing the boat and everything below is nonsense... I think DSLs like this turn into one thing:…
rubyn00bie on HN
Alternatives named
Taiko
From 2 comments
Interesting concept, sounds promising. Have you checked taiko ? https://github.com/getgauge/taiko
subhashchy on HNThis looks great. I also want to shamelessly plug something similar I am working on, Taiko, it uses javascript and comes with a REPL that generates scripts like. ``` await…
zabil on HN
Cypress
From 1 comment
Looks cool for really simple things but wouldn't use it for anything serious. I have been using Cypress[0] the past few months and so far I've been quite pleased with it. [0]…
spectaclepiece on HN
Canopy
From 1 comment
We can do this with Canopy in F# (repl/interactive style too!): ``` //go to url url "http://lefthandedgoat.github.io/canopy/testpages/" //assert that the element with an id of…
aloisdg on HN
Selenium with Cucumber
From 2 comments
One way this can be achieved is using specflow or cucumber and then make that drive selenium or puppeteer. Probably a 10 minute job to set up some basic commands (like demoed…
mc3 on HNTest automaton guy here. Why reinvent the wheel? Selenium/WebDriver is already a standard (https://www.w3.org/TR/webdriver/). It has years of maturity. Maturity means that…
ou_ryperd on HN