# Schnauzer UI

Schnauzer UI is a DSL for performing browser automation.
Rather than focusing on large automated test suites, Schnauzer UI helps
you write small, easy to understand test scripts.

```schnauzer_ui
# Navigate to the site
url "https://youtube.com"

# Search for Cats
locate "Search" and type "cats" and press "Enter"
```

##### When to use Schnauzer UI vs. other options (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, etc.)
Schnauzer UI is a bad choice if:
- You want to maintain a large automated test suite with reusable components.
- You have a team of full time software engineers dedicated to QA.
- Your QA and Engineering teams are able to collaborate closely to build software
  that is easy to E2E test (you have dedicated test environments, a system for test IDs for elements, etc.).
- You want to build your E2E test suites into CI/CD processes and want good tooling around doing it.

Schnauzer UI is a good choice if:
- You want to be able to easily run stand alone scripts and produce a test report.
- You want to quickly draft tests as needed instead of maintaining a large test suite.
- You want a more robust way to codify Acceptance Criteria / Bug Reproduction Steps on your tickets.
- You want to empower non-programmer QA team members to take advantage of automation.
- You want to build some automation into existing manual process.

To get started, check out the [narrative documentation](https://bcpeinhardt.github.io/schnauzerUI/)