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Dev tools · May 20, 2025

Rocketship – Open-source E2E testing that's self-hostable

Hey HN. My name's Matteo and I'm currently a SWE @ Twilio. 1 day at stand-up the question came up if there was an open source solution to something like https://www.runscope.com. I found it super interesting that there was no artillery.io-like YAML/DSL solution out there. So I built one. Why i think this is cool: 1. Companies today run a ton of microservices for event-driven systems. Asserting on the ingress/egress out of a system might not be covered fully by HTTP. I've setup a plugin interface so that I can implement assertions on stuff like file buckets, DBs, queues,…

Rocketship – Open-source E2E testing that's self-hostable launched on May 20, 2025 with 26 votes, #740 of 7,905 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

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In plain words

Rocketship is an open-source, self-hostable end-to-end testing tool designed for teams testing microservices and event-driven systems. It uses a YAML/DSL approach for defining tests and features a plugin interface that allows assertions beyond HTTP, covering databases, file buckets, and message queues. Built on Temporal for orchestration and scheduling, Rocketship enables developers to define tests as workflows with individual steps as activities, providing infrastructure teams with flexible testing capabilities they can host themselves.

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From the sources

A QA testing framework for your coding agent. Contribute to rocketship-ai/rocketship development by creating an account on GitHub.

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hey HN. My name's Matteo and I'm currently a SWE @ Twilio. 1 day at stand-up the question came up if there was an open source solution to something like https://www.runscope.com. I found it super interesting that there was no artillery.io-like YAML/DSL solution out there. So I built one. Why i think…

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