I'm Alex, a tech lead of the Selenium project and a QA engineer. For the last 10 months, I've been working on Alumnium - a test automation library that should make my life easier and let me write less code when automating the tests. The goal is to use LLM for _automating_ so I could focus more on _testing_.
Unlike other similar projects, Alumnium can be used in existing tests without changes to test runners, reporting tools, or any other test infrastructure. This allows me to gradually migrate my test suites (mostly Selenium) and revert whenever something goes wrong (this happens a lot, to be honest).
Other major differences:
- cheap (works on low-tier models like gpt-4o-mini, costs $20 per month for 1k+ tests)
- not an AI agent (dumb enough to fail the test rather than working around to make it pass)
- fast thanks to a built-in caching
- supports both mobile (Appium) and web (Playwright, Selenium)
- supports completely local execution (Ollama)
The project is still in a very much experimental phase, but I'd be happy to get any feedback.
