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Date Published
Author
Jason Laster
Word count
290
Language
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Summary

Replay DevTools has been making strides in helping customers debug flaky tests, exemplified by its role in assisting Metabase in identifying a race condition in their DataSelector component. By leveraging React DevTools, Replay allowed the team to discern differences between passing and failing tests, revealing a race condition during component mounting. Unlike session replay tools that only highlight slow network calls, Replay pinpoints issues at the React component level, allowing for direct problem-solving. The tool has been praised for its ability to fix flaky tests and reduce reliance on cy.wait. Recent performance updates have enhanced the tool's capabilities, improving Network Monitor performance for recordings with numerous requests, boosting Source Viewer scroll performance for large files, and advancing React DevTools performance and reliability. These updates are part of Replay's efforts to design a debugging environment faster than Chrome DevTools, despite React DevTools still having some unfinished aspects in its time travel context.