Ask HN: What should the future of web/UI testing frameworks be like?
2 by choudharism | 2 comments on Hacker News.
I've been working with web testing frameworks (Selenium and its wrappers / Cypress / Puppeteer / Playwright / others) for the last few years, but I asked myself what "frameworks of the future" should look like. I found myself not wanting things too wild or different from what we have today - just incremental improvements. Is that objectively true? What, if anything, is the next leap forward? Or are we close to them being "good enough" for the most part? My top "problems", in some shape or form, from existing products: - Be faster to complete builds - Have fewer false positives (or do accurate self-healing magic) - Be easier to get started with (or be optionally codeless like Selenium IDE) - Don't be a walled garden (what if I want to run the same logical 'test' across Playwright and Cypress) - Help me write better tests (or be difficult to write bad tests within) - Emulate mobile devices better than just viewport modification What do the HN folks think?