In this webinar — hosted by Sumeet Mandloi, Engineering Director @ Dow Jones (Wall Street Journal), and Eran Barlev (Sr. Customer Success Engineer @ Applitools) — you’ll learn how you can easily avoid front-end bugs and visual regressions, as well as substantially increase coverage, by adding automated visual testing to your existing automated test suite.

In addition, Mr. Mandloi shared real-life tips on how to run automated visual testing at scale, with implementation examples from Dow Jones.

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As a genre, fantasy is often looked down upon by fans and writers of science fiction. There are some who argue that the worlds created by JRR Tolkien were influenced by the events of the early twentieth century. No matter how you interpret his works, one of the central themes of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings that remains timeless is that if you come into possession of and use something powerful, like an all-powerful magic ring, you should be prepared for the harm it can cause.

Before we get too carried away with Tolkien references, this post is about visual UI testing, not hobbits. Similar to Tolkien’s central theme, the goal of this post is to inform you that any time you use visual UI testing, you should consider the broader issues it involves. Specifically, this post explores the reasons why developers who use visual testing need to think about more than simply testing the parts of a web app that they can see. It’s the things you cannot see that will trip you up, not the things you can see. Many of these unseen page elements have very little to do with the application itself or its underlying code, but are caused by the display technologies that are used to present the application to users.

This post explains how the hardware and software technologies that are designed to make displayed content look better will cause your visual tests to fail. We also offer Applitools Eyes as a solution that can help you avoid these problems and their consequences.

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Every morning just before we leave our house me and my 7 y/o daughter love to spend a few minutes playing the spot-it game located on the last page of our local newspaper. She always spots all the differences before me and it makes her day knowing that she won (Plus it makes my day seeing her glow, knowing that her day started on the right foot).

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As front end developers, our job is to present visual information that looks good and gives users cues to help them understand content quickly. Even a static, text-only web page is more than a collection of words. The page has a title that appears at the top. The title may be bold or in a large font size. In the body of the text, words are grouped into sentences that end with periods, and related sentences are grouped into paragraphs. Certain words in a sentence may be emphasized with bolding, underlining, or italics. These examples barely scratch the surface of the many, minute details of visual web page design.

These components may seem basic and unimportant, but for many people, accessing and reading text on a web page is difficult. For example, individuals with visual impairments often struggle to read the text. When we think of visual impairment, most of us automatically picture a person who is blind, but there are many other types of visual impairment to consider, including color blindness, low vision, sight problems caused by degenerative disorders, etc. The range of disabilities and handicaps our users may have extends far beyond the visual category to include hearing, cognitive, motor, and other types of issues. Therefore, making sure your website or application is accessible rises to the utmost importance. 

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Applitools closes out an incredible month of June by taking visual UI testing to the Selenium Conference in Bengaluru, India. 

From June 28-30, 2018, Applitools is sponsoring and participating at SeleniumConf India in Bengaluru (@seleniumconf).

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Applitools is a 2018 Red Herring Top 100 North America Winner

Red Herring Top 100 recognized the most promising privately-held companies in North America, and Applitools was recognized for its Application Visual Management market expansion leveraging AI Powered Visual UI Testing. 

It’s always an honor to be recognized for your hard work. So when the 2018 Red Herring Top 100 North America Awards were announced, and Applitools was included, we were both excited and humbled to be included on this prestigious list alongside some amazing and innovative growth companies.

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In the days before web applications, programmers wrote applications for a specific platform and used that platform’s native development environment and user interface controls. Before the application’s final release, a tester would check that the application was ready. Some testers wrote elaborate documents that described complicated scenarios they performed on the software manually. Other, more adventurous testers used fancy tools that were the quality assurance version of Microsoft’s Word and Excel macro recorders. A tester would record a series of actions on the software under test. These steps were recorded in a high-level language in which the tester could edit the code and add test conditions that would verify that the actual results of the test matched the expected results. Each time a test was run, a report was generated that showed which conditions had been passed or failed.

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Award program recognizes the leaders in the software development space, and this year, Applitools brings visual UI testing to the community. 

Recently, SD Times, the leading monthly magazine for Software and Development Managers, DevOps teams, Test & QA professionals and CIO’s announced their annual SD Times 100 awards, and Applitools was named a “Best in Show” for the software testing category.

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It’s not often that software testing makes the news, but when it does, it’s usually because something within the test automation has gone spectacularly wrong. At 8:05 AM on January 13, 2018, the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency sent out a false missile alert. While there is much that is still unclear regarding exactly what happened, most reports agree that an internal test was treated as a real event. According to The Washington Post, part of the problem may have been caused by a human operator who chose the “Missile alert” instead of the “Test missile alert” from an application menu.

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Applitools heads to Test Automation Day to speak on visual UI testing. 

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