redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester

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ExTester: Your Essential UI Testing Companion for Visual Studio Code Extensions! Seamlessly execute UI tests with Selenium WebDriver, ensuring robustness and reliability in your extension development journey. Simplify UI testing for your VS Code extensions and elevate the quality of your user interface effortlessly.

Stars: 326
Forks: 88
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 40
Avg merge: 7h 27m
Merged PRs (30d): 71

Dominant language: TypeScript
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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40 open issues indexed

Support retrieving all Quick Pick items (including hidden ones) Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#2289 · Opened Mar 3, 2026
To be able to resize the vscode window Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#2240 · Opened Feb 5, 2026
Replace mocha with vitest Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#2174 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 5, 2025
Copilot testing Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#2115 · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 15, 2025
`Screenshots` doesn't exist Open

bug question

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#2073 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 18, 2025
DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#2072 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 18, 2025
openResources won't work in Linux without sudo privileges. Open

bug question

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#2050 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 28, 2025
vscode-extension-tester Fails to Launch VS Code – ChromeDriver Crash on Windows Open

bug question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#2049 · Opened Aug 25, 2025
Add support for getting the `detail` of a `QuickPickItem` Open

enhancement good-first-issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#2030 · 7 reactions · Opened Jul 30, 2025
EXTENSION_DEV_PATH appears to have no effect on run-tests Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#2023 · 8 comments · Opened Jul 22, 2025
Support Environmental Variables (ExTester Runner) Open

enhancement extension

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#1996 · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 5, 2025
Add support for executing Debugger (ExTester Runner) Open

enhancement extension

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#1995 · Opened Jul 5, 2025
Support custom run scripts or command (ExTester Runner) Open

enhancement extension

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#1994 · Opened Jul 5, 2025
Improve processing of parametrized tests (ExTester Runner) Open

enhancement extension

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#1993 · Opened Jul 5, 2025
Support running individual describes/it blocks (ExTester Runner) Open

enhancement extension

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#1992 · Opened Jul 5, 2025
Add search/filter bar to Test Explorer (ExTester Runner) Open

enhancement extension

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#1991 · Opened Jul 5, 2025
Support for Mocha Interface Options (ExTester Runner) Open

enhancement extension

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#1990 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 5, 2025
Ability to run each test suite in a different VS Code instance Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#1939 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 19, 2025
get tooltip of tab Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#1892 · Opened May 22, 2025
Getting error SessionNotCreatedError: session not created: probably user data directory is already in use, please specify a unique value for --user-data-dir argument, or don't use --user-data-dir when browser Open

bug question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#1840 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 10, 2025
Expose more configuration for selenium-webdriver ServiceBuilder Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#1787 · 6 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 28, 2025
Add support for additional code-completion fields such as `detail` and `documentation` Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#1650 · Opened Nov 27, 2024
code action support Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#1532 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 17, 2024
Support testing of web-based VS Code instances (code-server) Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#1344 · Opened Jun 10, 2024
Provide an interactive CLI as option for extest binary Open

enhancement good-first-issue

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#1280 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 26, 2024
Implement Custom Hover property Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#1248 · Opened Apr 9, 2024
Improve stack trace upon test failure Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#1226 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 1, 2024
How to get the hover help of a selected text in text editor Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#1152 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 26, 2024
Comparision with vscode-test-cli Open

enhancement good-first-issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#1113 · Opened Feb 6, 2024
Revise GitHub Wiki pages Open

enhancement good-first-issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 15/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#1021 · Opened Nov 28, 2023
Remove dynamic import from TextView Open

enhancement

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#889 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 31, 2023
Make vscode-extension-tester architecture more flexible Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#886 · Opened Jul 30, 2023
Provide a method to check whether an extension is activated Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#854 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 14, 2023
Clarify how extest should be executed in documentation Open

enhancement good-first-issue

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#761 · 3 comments · Opened May 11, 2023
Clarify support for VSCode in a browser Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#757 · Opened May 9, 2023
Retrieve iframe console logs Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#650 · Opened Mar 1, 2023
Running E2E tests that rely on mocking certain logic Open

enhancement question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#613 · Opened Jan 31, 2023
Provide method to open VS Code without workspace or folder Open

enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#525 · Opened Oct 21, 2022
How to provide vscode-style authentication via API Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#518 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 29, 2022
Support for quick actions menu Open

enhancement good-first-issue

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

redhat-developer/vscode-extension-tester#429 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 17, 2022

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