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[Idea validation]: Do you test your SaaS?

I know, startups are all about the speed and forgiveness of the first customers, who were able to extract the right value from your product, but anyway. Would you be interested in service providing you a set of standard automated checks (with monitoring/scheduled runs/etc) of the features, you've chosen? Lots of parts of SaaS are common, so my idea is to extract the most useful and use these tests as a scaffold or even milestones (in the test-first paradigm). Like you

  1. enter a URL
  2. choose needed checks
  3. enter environment variables(if needed)
    ==> you got the page with the test results, which updates on schedule(or webhooks) and link to your generated test repo.
    No need for prepared ci(like small starter-kit)(not a replacement for ci or qa-on-demand)

Would you use that service?

(Also seeing benefits to easily plug n play new testers in your team(in future))

on August 7, 2019
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    Yes, if you could simulate user actions it would be a great tool. Measuring the output might be a bit subjective though.

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    At a high level it sounds interesting for sure.
    I think it's really a question of what kinds of tests/checks can be performed and the ease that they can be setup.

    Speculating: Something like Selenium as a Service with an interactive way to record actions?