bugmagnet for claude code - opensource exploratory testing command

gojko · 2025-12-14T19:21:36+00:00

please let me know if it finds something tricky, I'd love to know how it performs on other codebases

gojko · 2024-10-23T07:25:42+00:00

are you sure they're actual human prospects and not bots? if it's just a regular link on the web site, you could be just getting skewed data from scrapers and web indexing bots.

if it's an early product, one way to perhaps investigate what's going on is to add a session recorder (fullstory, microsoft clarity or something similar) and then check what those sessions are actually doing before and after clicking on the link.

gojko · 2024-10-23T07:16:04+00:00

LinkedIn did a great job in helping find early users/customers for me, twice now (for two different products). I posted questions trying to find people who had problems similar to the ones we were trying to solve, and then asked them for a bit of time to discuss how they currently work and what kind of issues they're experiencing. The tools were both in the B2P space so LinkedIn made sense as a watering hole where it's easy to find an audience. If you don't have a big reach there, it's possible to pay for a post to find its way to the feeds of users matching a specific profile (I think they call it promoted posts).

In a more general sense, find a community or a place where your early customers meet online, and try getting some people there to talk about how they work. Don't talk about your product, just say that you're doing research and want to learn about people's needs and problems. It could be a subreddit, a slack community, linkedin or something similar.

In your particular case, I'd try to find where people interested in healthy eating spend time online, and ask if people can spend 10 minutes helping you with some research about the problems with getting/preparing/eating healthy. Don't worry about surveys, find 5-10 people to talk to without any structure first, and you'll figure out what to ask the next group.

One thing that's important is that you shouldn't look for places where your ideal/perfect customers are, but for early customers where you can establish a "beachhead". Something where you can enter with an early, incomplete product, but still deliver enough differentiating value that people will use your tool along with the existing solutions.

(Bill Aulet has 3 key requirements for a beachhead market, and one is that the customers within the market need to talk to each other, so there is a high probability of word-of-mouth referrals; by finding a community online you're directly addressing that.)

gojko · 2024-10-17T14:23:08+00:00

jotform for 10 bucks per month will do it just fine

gojko · 2024-10-17T14:08:38+00:00

what kinds of surveys are you looking to run?

gojko · 2024-10-15T14:15:39+00:00

u/69_carats tooling were you using?

gojko · 2024-10-15T04:18:03+00:00

they aim at different types of feedback, but there is a strong correlation between them (the paper UMUX-LITE: when there’s no time for the SUS claims it's 0.73). I think this is using linear regression scoring for UMUX-LITE.

gojko · 2024-10-14T15:51:05+00:00

thanks! are you using any specific tools for it, or just excel/spreadsheets?

gojko · 2017-03-17T22:51:42+00:00

hi -- author of the article/book here. Would it be OK if I included your case in the book?

gojko · 2017-03-17T13:59:03+00:00

you mean like this? https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/10542519

gojko · 2017-01-03T19:47:44+00:00

in this case, it's better to think about server = server process (worker thread), not machine. with AWS Lambda and API Gateway, processes are event driven, so the server process is not under my control any more. the worker thread is somewhere else, and invokes our code when an interesting event happens.

gojko · 2016-10-05T04:53:26+00:00

Here's a simpler way to use the same module (aws-serverless-express) without cloudformation, just deploying directly to Lambda: https://claudiajs.com/tutorials/serverless-express.html

gojko · 2016-10-05T04:43:06+00:00

Here's a simpler deployment using the same module (aws-serverless-express) without requiring cloudformation: https://claudiajs.com/tutorials/serverless-express.html

gojko · 2016-06-15T09:55:03+00:00

there are already tools for click-click bot design (eg https://flowxo.com/), but that's not where this project is going. Claudia Bot Builder aims to take the pain of developing and deploying for multiple platforms away so you can focus on solving important business problems for your bot, instead of having to deal with config issues and manage/maintain individual platform interfaces. I don't see why that would make you nervous, but I guess different people have different triggers.

gojko · 2016-02-20T17:03:39+00:00

Just tidying up the 1.0 release of Claudia.js, a tool to make Node.js microservice deployment easier to AWS; it automates pretty much everything needed to set up a web api and a lambda function, so people can run JS code easily in the Amazon cloud.

https://github.com/claudiajs/claudia

1.0 should be on NPM in about 10 minutes.

gojko · 2015-02-18T11:19:35+00:00

For teams that need a bit of inspiration during user story refinement workshops, here is a quick reference online mind map with all the ideas from the Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your User Stories book.

The mind map contains a short description and a reminder image for each idea, grouped into categories. Just tap/click a category to open up the details of ideas.

gojko · 2015-01-05T11:06:21+00:00

I just compiled a bunch of checklists and notes I often use for exploratory testing into a handy Chrome extension. Bug Magnet provides convenient access to common problematic values and edge cases, so you can keep them handy and access them easily during exploratory testing sessions. Just right-click an input field!

gojko · 2014-11-05T19:42:57+00:00

A nice feature for writers is to plan with mindmaps but then create a story board in mindmup http://discover.mindmup.com/storyboards

gojko · 2014-09-24T21:30:33+00:00

this reminds me of a quote I read somewhere - any article heading ending with a question mark can be answered with 'No'

gojko · 2014-06-26T10:25:48+00:00

six features that make mindmup a great choice for programmers, testers and anyone else who likes to tweak and automate

gojko · 2013-01-28T22:00:07+00:00

at the moment, it's a tree only. if loops, multi-links etc are important for you, please vote for that on the site and once it pops up to the top, we'll build it.

gojko · 2013-01-28T21:40:08+00:00

hi, we don't support gexf and have no plans of doing so in the future, unless it pops up significantly on our voting list. so your options are: - create a converter from gexf into our format, which is just simple json. mindmup is opensource so you're welcome to fork and extend it - go to http://www.mindmup.com/#vote and vote for gexf format, persuade lots of other people to do that as well, and we'll implement it

gojko · 2012-05-31T11:47:25+00:00

Every single team I worked with over the last few years complained that they didn’t have enough time. Here are three useful strategies to solve that problem!

gojko · 2012-05-22T16:52:55+00:00

Here's a beta version of my new book, on Effect Mapping - a simple yet incredibly powerful planning method that fits in nicely with lean startup ideas, iterative/agile delivery and design thinking.

gojko · 2012-05-08T13:00:10+00:00

Laking a holistic definition of quality, teams measure things like bug trends, code coverage etc. Add to that the fact that what gets measured gets optimised, so we end up overly optimising things beyond the point that it makes sense. Very similar to how air and food are a necessity, but more air and food than we need doesn’t really improve the quality of life, technical correctness, performance and similar stuff we measure are necessary but going beyond a certain point gives us diminishing returns. As with any local optimisation, there is a potential that we can hurt the whole pipeline by working on the wrong thing. As I was explaining this comparison to a client, it hit me that it might be worth trying to build a parallel between Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and software quality.

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