Hercules by TestZeus

Hey ProductHunt Community!👋

I’m Robin, and I’m building TestZeus Hercules with my cofounder Shriyansh. Today is personal for us because we’re not “testing adjacent.” We are testers.

Shriyansh and I both started our careers in QA. We’ve lived the grind: late-night release crunches, brittle scripts breaking for the 17th time, test plans that never keep up, and that sinking feeling when quality becomes the bottleneck, not because the team doesn’t care, but because the system is stacked against them.
And somewhere along the way, we started imagining a different world: A world where you could write tests in plain English, press run, and they’d just…EXECUTE!

❌ No frameworks to wrangle.
❌ No endless glue code.
❌ No “update 42 locators because a button moved 6 pixels.”

That obsession is what became TestZeus Hercules — the world’s first open-source AI testing agent.

🟦 What is TestZeus Hercules?
Hercules is an autonomous testing agent that can take your intent (requirements / steps / scenarios) and run end-to-end tests like a real tester, navigating the app, interacting with the UI, validating outcomes, and reporting what happened.
It’s open source because we believe the future of testing should be transparent, inspectable, and community-driven, not locked behind black boxes.

🟦 The problem (the one we personally felt)
Testing today is :
🔴 Slow (humans + tooling overhead)
🔴 Brittle (scripts snap when UI changes)
🔴 Maintenance-heavy (more time fixing tests than finding bugs)
🔴 Hard to scale (quality becomes a tax on shipping)

Most “automation” still demands you write code first… and then spend your life maintaining it.

🟦 The solution :
Hercules flips the workflow:
-Describe what you want to validate in natural language
-Hercules executes it autonomously
-You get clear results + evidence, without turning QA into a full-time scripting job
Think: a digital tester that works at warp speed ⚡

🟦 Features :
✅ Open-source testing agent (inspectable + extendable)
✅ Natural-language driven execution
✅ End-to-end UI automation (acts like a user)
✅ Action + observation trace (so you can see what it did and why)
✅ Execution reports with pass/fail outcomes and context
✅ Designed to be repeatable without becoming a maintenance monster

🟦 Why it’s different?
Most tools are either :
🔹 script-first (powerful, but heavy + fragile), or
🔹 copilot-ish (helps you write tests, but still leaves you owning the maintenance)
Hercules is agent-first. Not “help me write automation.”
But “run the test for me autonomously and show me what you observed.”

🟦 Who it’s for?
🔹 QA teams and engineers who want faster releases with fewer flaky headaches
🔹 Startups that need quality without building a massive QA org
🔹 Builders who’d rather extend an open agent than adopt another black box

🟦 Ask :
We’d love your feedback - especially from people who’ve been in the trenches:
If you could wave a wand, what part of testing disappears first: writing tests, running them, or debugging failures? Where should Hercules go next to earn a permanent spot in your workflow?

Thanks for checking out TestZeus Hercules 💫
From two ex-QA folks: we’re building the thing we wish we had back then.⚡