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QA-use-MCP: MCP for E2E testing

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@desplega.ai/qa-use-mcp
25•tarasyarema•4d ago

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tarasyarema•4d ago
Hey there, been building an MCP to help discover, automate and run E2Es automatically connected to you Cursor / Claude / Codex / etc.

Funny enough, one of the most challenging things while building it was to be able to remotely control the browser that runs locally (been using https://localtunnel.me/ for it), while making sure that it does not impact the user too much.

Also, I wondered if there's someone that is shipping CLIs with an "mcp" command, as seems that having a normal CLI for the funcionatilitie sof the MCP would make a lot of sense + with the option of running it as an MCP if the user wants to.

Have you seen this pattern?

Also, as there's a lot of buzzwording around MCPs, any of you that been using an MCP as a daily driver? For me it was the github one, specially for code search and stuff like that.

joch•1h ago
Claude code comes to mind: `claude mcp serve`
tarasyarema•1h ago
Totally! Actually self hosting the localtunnel was key to improve latency, and it was easy enough to do.

Also about the CLI thing you mention, we had cases where people did not use MCP clients, so I actually wanted to expose a way to interact with the tools directly without the need of the server running!

rgbrgb•2h ago
> This server integrates with desplega.ai

This is cool! no shade at all to desplega.ai but I would love a version of this that runs locally + does stuff like verifying no tests are flaky. I do this with a few extra steps via claude code + playwright tests. e2e tests are the best way I know for catching UI regressions but they're expensive and annoying to run, so something that looked at a PR and healed / wrote tests in the background as I work on features would be pretty cool.

Why local? Basically I'm just cost sensitive for my own projects and already have this nasty MacBook that only gets like 20% utilization.

tarasyarema•1h ago
One of the things we used is this algorithm with retries from meta: https://engineering.fb.com/2020/12/10/developer-tools/probab...

If your challenge is flakiness, this should help initially. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of work in our engine, and a custom system to handle operations that goes beyond vanilla Playwright so running it locally would be quite challenging.

agrnet•1h ago
Atleast in my industry (highly regulated), I think it would be better if these agentic e2e tools output playwright code instead of keeping it all under the hood, as no risk averse regulated company will use a QA agent which could be nondeterministic when re running the same test
tarasyarema•1h ago
As I mentioned above, a playwright won’t make the cut for many of the serious test cases we’ve seen, you need a whole system that ensures your tests are run and improved immediately. We created this project in a way that supports on-premise deployments, but you’ll need to run the whole engine and eventually use some SLMs/LLMs at different stages.

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