Kanika Pandey — APAC Regional Director @ Applitools

Applitools brings visual UI testing to the Australian Testing Days event in Sydney this Friday, and Applitools’ APAC Regional Director Kanika Pandey will present her talk: “Black Swans – The Rise and Fall of Automation”. 

On August 24, 2018, the Applitools team is sponsoring and speaking at Australian Testing Days Conference in Sydney, Australia (@AussieTesters).

What is Australian Testing Days? 

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Gil Tayar, Sr. Architect and Evangelist @ Applitools

“You don’t get a second chance to make a first impression!
Join me for this hands-on session, where I will take existing tests and add to them visual testing capabilities that will allow you to test what your app looks like, and not only how it behaves. I promise: all this goodness – in just 8 lines of code!”

– Gil Tayar, Sr. Architect & Evangelist

Learn how to implement visual testing in your existing test suite, so you can increase coverage and ensure your app’s UI is bug-free when it’s released to the wild.

Watch this hands-on session with Gil Tayar right here.

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Why is Jira so hard to use for bug tracking? This seems to be a continual refrain heard on the web. “Jira isn’t suited for Agile development”. “Jira is complex and bloated”. “People cram too much information into Jira”. Another common complaint is that Jira tickets are simply unmanageable.

Organizing JIRA tickets pic.twitter.com/2YeDNc7tcf

— Mike Herchel (@mikeherchel) October 2, 2017

But love it or hate it, Atlassian Jira is very popular for bug tracking and can be found within many software development organizations worldwide. If your workplace is one of the many that uses Jira, you might want to consider using Applitools Eyes to make your visual user interface (UI) testing easier.

First, some background: Applitools Eyes lets you automate visual UI testing of your web and mobile application front end. Using Applitools Eyes ensures that your application’s UI is displayed consistently and accurately across any device, browser, or viewport. Atlassian Jira manages your development workflow, task tracking, issue management, and reporting.

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Until the late 1960s, no one thought computers needed a user interface (UI), and the UIs that did exist were expensive and primitive. At the time, these UIs were being used by the military for air defense systems, were built as academic research projects, or were used as props in science fiction movies.

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All organizations that build software realize that testing is an integral part of the software development process. Like many important tasks and processes, it is not fun. When we are assigned testing tasks, we regard them as an unwanted burden. 

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Many people think of GitHub as a niche website that hosts open-source projects. In June 2018, that niche website with a mere 28 million users got more media attention than Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC). Somehow, a site that provides free services was so valuable that Microsoft acquired them for $7.5 billion US dollars.

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The QA team is the last frontier before your customers get their hands on your latest product version. Assuming your testing team has already completed smoke testing, integration tests, functional tests, end-to-end tests, acceptance tests and performance tests (not necessarily in that order) there’s still one piece of the puzzle: visual UI testing of your app front end.

The way many companies visually test their applications using image comparison tools. Some of these are free and some are paid. But in either case, these tools are not always reliable and often deliver false-positives (false alarms) that only frustrate both frontend developers and testers, and ultimately making you ship software late.

How Does Image Comparison Work?

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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, my seven-year-old daughter and I 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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