Codex vs TimetoTest
More pull requests. Same users.

Codex opens the pull request. TimetoTest uses your app like your users do and shows you what broke before you merge.

Different jobs in the same workflow

Codex works on the repository. TimetoTest works on the running app.

Feature
TimetoTest
Codex
Writes code and opens pull requests
TimetoTest tests the change; it does not write your features
Runs your existing test suite
TimetoTest focuses on using the app rather than running your unit tests
Tests the running app from a plain-English description
Codex can be prompted to write and run such checks itself
Signs in and uses the app like a user
Shared run record with a video of browser runs
Separate from the tool that wrote the change
When Codex wrote the change
The honest breakdown

The cloud coding agent and the testing teammate

Codex increases how many changes your team can make. TimetoTest checks each one against the app.

01

Codex (OpenAI)

Codex is OpenAI's coding agent. It runs tasks in cloud environments as well as in the terminal and editor, writes code, runs commands and tests, opens pull requests, and can review them.

It's built for working through many coding tasks in parallel, which means more pull requests reaching your team.

02

TimetoTest

TimetoTest gives your team AI teammates that test the app. Give them a staging URL and say what should work in plain English. They sign in, use it just like your users do, and show you what broke. No scripts.

On each pull request, the same agent can run the changed behavior in a sandbox and post what it found on the PR, with a report and a video of browser runs.

03

Using them together

Let Codex write and open the pull requests. Let TimetoTest check every one of them against the app before merge.

Your reviewers then start from a PR that has already been tested the way a user would use it.

The bottom line

Codex and TimetoTest

Codex already runs my tests in the cloud. Isn't that enough?

Codex runs tasks in a cloud environment, which can include your existing test suite. That tells you whether the tests you already wrote still pass. TimetoTest checks the flows nobody wrote a test for: it signs in and uses the app from a plain-English description, then shows you what broke.

Is TimetoTest a replacement for Codex?

No. Keep Codex for writing changes and opening pull requests. TimetoTest is the check on those pull requests: it runs the changed behavior against the app before anyone merges.

Codex can review pull requests. How is TimetoTest different?

Codex review reads the diff and flags likely problems. TimetoTest runs the change in a sandbox and reports what a user would actually hit, with a report and, for browser runs, a video. They catch different problems.

Why test Codex pull requests separately?

Cloud agents can open many pull requests in parallel. Each one needs someone, or something, to check that the app still works. TimetoTest does that check automatically, independent of the agent that wrote the change.

Codex opens the pull request.
TimetoTest checks it works.

Give TimetoTest your staging URL, say what should work, and watch it run.

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