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167 points anerli | 2 comments | | HN request time: 0.511s | source

Hey HN, Anders and Tom here - we’ve been building an end-to-end testing framework powered by visual LLM agents to replace traditional web testing.

We know there's a lot of noise about different browser agents. If you've tried any of them, you know they're slow, expensive, and inconsistent. That's why we built an agent specifically for running test cases and optimized it just for that:

- Pure vision instead of error prone "set-of-marks" system (the colorful boxes you see in browser-use for example)

- Use tiny VLM (Moondream) instead of OpenAI/Anthropic computer use for dramatically faster and cheaper execution

- Use two agents: one for planning and adapting test cases and one for executing them quickly and consistently.

The idea is the planner builds up a general plan which the executor runs. We can save this plan and re-run it with only the executor for quick, cheap, and consistent runs. When something goes wrong, it can kick back out to the planner agent and re-adjust the test.

It’s completely open source. Would love to have more people try it out and tell us how we can make it great.

Repo: https://github.com/magnitudedev/magnitude

1. jcmontx ◴[] No.43797284[source]
Does it only work for node projects? Can I run it against a Staging environment without mixing it with my project?
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2. anerli ◴[] No.43797464[source]
You can run it against any URL, not just node projects! You'll still need a skeleton node project for the actual Magnitude tests, but you could configure some other public or staging URL as the target site.