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JetBrains IDE plugin that plays a dramatic sound effect when your tests fail — makes test failures impossible to ignore.

2024 · Creator

Faaaa Sound — JetBrains IDE Plugin

JetBrains IDE plugin that plays a dramatic sound effect when your tests fail — makes test failures impossible to ignore.

The challenge

Tests fail silently in CI-style runs. Developers tune out the red console and miss regressions until the next commit. Tiny feedback gap creates real bugs.

The result

A JetBrains plugin that plays a dramatic sound effect on every test failure — impossible to ignore, configurable per project. Tiny tool, real behavioural change.

Year
2024
Role
Creator
Stack
3 teches
Status
Published

Overview

Faaaa Sound is a JetBrains IDE plugin with a simple premise: when your tests fail, you hear a loud, dramatic "Faaaaaaah" sound. It makes ignoring a red test suite very hard.

Why

Built as a fun experiment to explore the JetBrains Plugin SDK and Kotlin coroutines in the context of IDE event listeners.

Technical Details

  • Hooks into the IntelliJ Platform's TestStatusListener extension point
  • Plays a bundled audio clip via javax.sound.sampled on test failure
  • Zero configuration — install and it works in any project with a test runner
  • Compatible with JUnit, TestNG, Pytest, and Pest (any JetBrains-native test runner)

Available On

Published on GitHub — install via the JetBrains Plugin Marketplace or as a local .zip.

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