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If you are like me, the mobile app development world broadsided you. 

Visual UI testing is more than just testing your app on Desktop browsers and Mobile emulators. In fact, you can do more with Visual UI testing to run your tests over physical mobile devices. Visual UI testing compares the visually-rendered output of an application against itself in older iterations. Users call this type of test […]

The Problem One of the biggest hurdles to successful automated testing is making sure that when your tests fail, they’re legitimate failures. Getting false positives is a slippery slope that can easily lead to a death knell for any testing initiative. This holds true in automated visual testing with common issues like elements being offset […]

It is probably safe to assume that any developers reading this article are already testing their applications. At the bare minimum, you’re testing the feature you’re working on as you develop it and checking that it works with any existing code. Many of you are probably using some form of automated functional testing as well. […]

The Problem There is a stark misconception in the industry when it comes to visual testing. Namely that it is hard to automate. Even noted automaters in the field share this misconception, which can be seen by this quote. “Visual testing, something that is very difficult to automate.” – Richard Bradshaw (@FriendlyTester) [source] As a […]

What is a design system? Who would use it, and for what benefit? In May 2020, Applitools had the pleasure of hosting Tyler Krupicka from Intuit for an hour-long webinar discussing design systems and testability. Tyler works at Intuit, a 9,400 employee company headquartered in Mountain View, California, that specializes in accounting and tax preparation […]

Ready For a Challenge? If you are up for a challenge and enjoy learning new skills, join the world’s best quality engineers between now until June 30th to compete in the industry’s first next generation cross browser, cross device, and cross operating system hackathon. Focused on the use of Visual AI and Ultrafast Grid, this virtual […]

Update: We have recently released a new, native Slack integration. For additional details please visit our step by step guide for Applitools & Slack integration. One of the great things about Slack is the long list of integrations available. Whether it’s an integration as foundational as Google Drive, GitHub, or Zendesk — or as whimsical as Lunch […]

What does it take to add UI tests in your CICD pipelines? On March 12, Angie Jones, Senior Developer Advocate at Applitools, sat down with Jessica Deen, Senior Cloud Advocate for Microsoft, held a webinar to discuss their approaches to automated testing and CI. 

Applitools realizes the complexity of visually debugging an application and introduced the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) module on their Test Manager Dashboard to help quickly identify the root cause behind visual UI changes. In this article, I will demonstrate the Applitools RCA feature by walking you through a complete step by step guide to visually test a Vue.js app with Storybook and Applitools.

If developer-check-in-to-prod works for your organization, then you should do it…provided you understand the risk. This risk manifests in two big buckets: cost of change and cost of failure.

You can easily integrate visual UI tests into your CI/CD workflow. Simply add an additional task in the workflow to run the visual UI tests. Typically, the CI Provider runs the automated tests and sends the results to the Visual Testing Provider. The Visual Testing Provider analyzes the testing results and reports them back to the SCRM on that specific PR.