a chrome extension as a more accessible interface for shortest

[amk-dev]

• chrome sidebar
• create / manage tests from the sidebar, no writing code required ?
• can deploy the selected tests to shortest to run in ci
• no dependency on any codebase, come to a webpage, write tests for it, run it whenever you want

these are not designs, i just put some text in a screenshot to make the point.

here's a realworld screenshot from a chrome extension i'm working on

[slavingia]

Interesting idea though I'd rather it be part of the codebase and run on every pr automatically via CI

[amk-dev]

got it.

thinking out loud on this idea,

1. user downloads the extension
2. goes to any website that they'd like (eg: staging.their-product.com)
   1. write tests for the website
   2. they can come to the extension and rerun the tests whenever they want, ( the same tests can be run in multiple websites, (eg: testing.their-product.com / their-product.com)) )
   3. or they can push them to shortest cloud
      1. when you save the tests to shortest cloud, you'll get a testsuiteID / slug
      2. which you can use to run the tests from your CI
         1. something like shortest run your-testsuite-slug, which would trigger the tests in the cloud
         2. or if you want to run them in the github actions for eg: pull the tests from shortest cloud and run them in your environment, shortest run your-testsuite-slug --local

this way may be shortest cloud can be monetized.

• small startups might like this, because a lot of them do manual testing when releasing.
• no bandwidth from engineering needed ( apart from setting up a ci workflow, may be we can write a shortest github action that makes this easy )

also the scope is kinda big, and some unknowns are there. but i can give it a go if you're seeing some potential in this

[slavingia]

IMO not worth working on until the main code package has traction!

[amk-dev]

yeah yeah. makes sense