[lifeisstillgood]

Cucumber and related "natural language tests" were supposed to do this - allow non-programmers to program tests.

Turns out everyone who writes a cucumber test is a programmer writing their own unit tests or a whole batch for everyone else.

I do think there is mileage in wufoo / VWO style webstie testing - record a series of macros and replay them each day against the site - let people know when something changes / does not work. ie a regular scheduled sign up with specific credit card then a cancellation - test that the whole sign up / email thing is still working.

[ericclemmons]

I started working on exactly your last suggestion. We have employees that were doing this, I said it was a waste of time, they said to have some of our devs in India do it.

Instead, I created "Amir" which is effectively a Selenium/CasperJS runner performing pre-recorded tasks each day and checking for outliers. Once it fails, emails go out.