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Automated QA and Testing with AI (https://antirez.com)

13 points by Chrisszz about 7 hours ago | 5 comments | View on ycombinator

3192875 1 minute ago |

AI written as opposed to the authentic blog when this person still was a programmer.

He'll find that no one wants the new Redis vibe coded features that have to be propped up by blog posts. When it matters, people chose real software.

wrxd about 4 hours ago |

I believe this can work if done on top of traditional testing. I would feel very uneasy to replace deterministic (ok, not always but mostly) test suites with something that is not deterministic at all

simianwords about 4 hours ago |

Scenario testing is the new word for it and I think this is a game changer.

Two of the reasons I never liked writing tests is

- they didn’t seem to usually assert much internal logic

- they would have to be maintained along with the original code

I think scenario testing is much better instead because the actual way a person uses a feature hardly changes but the internals might change a lot.

So imagine I’m making an e-commerce website. There are lots of internal mechanisms. I’ll have an agent testing all the functionalities as if it were a customer. This gives me much much more confidence while writing code because it is more uncorellated with the code.

Tomorrow I can change a lot of internals but the testing agent stays the same.

There’s something to note though: not all code is possible to be scenario tested. Like data engineering and other things where the feedback time is huge.