I find that as an early-stage startup founder, I’m intensely focused on building my product and getting users, which leaves little time for writing tests. If I do write them, they’re usually unit tests, but I rarely write UI tests with Selenium because they’re so brittle as CSS selectors and UI layouts change frequently.

Have you guys had a similar experience? Would you write UI tests earlier if there was a way to use AI to automate them and make them more robust?

  • founderscurve
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    1 year ago

    speaking as a startup advisor working for a VC… focus on the problem that is the biggest barrier to making money and growing… thats typically not UI.

    you’ll know when its UI, because your data will show thats the point at which the greatest drop off (leakage is) and the only option to optimise that point is with UI/X solutions.

    but i assure you, unless your business is about great UI experience, ppl are not visiting and interacting with your platform for that. i’m bias, but whatsapp’s UI sucks compared with WeChat, and yet its essential these days.