Headless Recorder Roadmap & Survey Results
tnolet opened this issue · 4 comments
I created Puppeteer Recorder as a cool Sunday afternoon side project while working on Checkly. The project is now at 10k+ users and ~7K Github stars! Things were a little quite around the project, but that's going to change.
Checkly is growing and we want to double down on making Puppeteer Recorder the most awesome 100% open source E2E test
recorder on the planet. To be 100% transparent, we want to do this because:
- It is good for unsucking E2E test creation in general.
- It is therefore good for Checkly users.
Survey results
We ran a survey under Puppeteer Recorder users the last months.
We got ~400 responses. Here are the annotated results.
1. What are you using Puppeteer Recorder for now?
| count | % respondents | % answers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | Recording scripts for E2E testing | 256 | 64.3% | 37.4% |
| B | Recording scripts for scraping data | 161 | 40.5% | 23.5% |
| C | Recording scripts for monitoring | 98 | 24.6% | 14.3% |
| D | Recording scrips for one-off automation | 157 | 39.4% | 23% |
| E | Other (please specify) | 12 | 3% | 1.8% |
684 answers from 398 respondents.
2. If you could add one feature to Puppeteer Recorder, what would it be?
| count | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| A | Automatic cookie and authentication handling | 125 | 31.4% |
| B | Taking screenshots | 40 | 10.1% |
| C | Better click / mouse & hover handling | 113 | 28.4% |
| D | Running & debugging of scripts directly in the browser | 93 | 23.4% |
| E | Other (please specify) | 27 | 6.8% |
398 respondents
3. Which other test & script automation tools do you use?
| count | % respondents | % answers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | Cypress | 89 | 22.4% | 14.2% |
| B | Selenium / Webdriver | 183 | 46% | 29.2% |
| C | Nightwatch | 29 | 7.3% | 4.6% |
| D | Jest | 166 | 41.7% | 26.5% |
| E | Mocha | 81 | 20.4% | 12.9% |
| F | Cucumber | 39 | 9.8% | 6.2% |
| G | Other (please specify) | 40 | 10.1% | 6.4% |
627 answers from 398 respondents
4. What do you expect from a Pro version of Puppeteer Recorder?
This is an open ended question. Here is a curated overview of replies:
- better / smarter selector logic
- extract data from elements and create assertions
- video recordings
- better code output
- play the recorded script directly
- touch events
- mouse tracking
- hover tracking
- better handling of iframes, tabs and new windows
5. How would you score the current version of Puppeteer Recorder?
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 84 / 21,1%
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 148 / 37,2%
⭐️⭐️⭐️ 136 / 34,2%
⭐️⭐️ 23 / 5,8%
⭐️ 7 / 1,8%
Roadmap (work in progress)
Based on our own findings at Checkly and the survey results, we are going to start working on a new version of Puppeteer Recorder.
As always, we cannot give any hard promises on dates or features, but this is an initial sketch of what we want to achieve.
- Support Puppeteer & Playwright.
- Support Jest and Mocha test creation with assertions.
- Record and playback in the browser.
- In-screen helpers for targeting the right selectors.
- Handling of authentication scenarios.
- Export to file or 3rd party service.
How exciting! Good on you, this space has languished for too long.
Will the work be done in this repo? I'm hoping I can follow along (and maybe even join in).
@atroche currently looking into it...we might want to take a fresh start. We might want to change the name, as the focus will not be purely on Puppeteer. But then again...we have all those nice GitHub stars and some good reviews on the Google Extension Store. So please watch this space as we draw up the plan. Development will be on GitHub for sure by me and my team here in Berlin.
Yay for Playwright support!