Visual Testing Strategies

I have been testing Analytics for the past 10+ years. In the initial days, it was very painful and error-prone, as I was doing this manually. Over the years, as…

Applitools lets users inspect the entire document, or just selected pages. The scope of comparison matches the needs of the test. Users can target specific sections of a PDF for testing and ignore sections that are not relevant to a test. And, armed with the Applitools layout algorithm, users can validate a PDF layout even if the internal text has changed.

Applitools provides a number of SDKs that allows you to easily integrate it into your existing workflow. Using tools like Cypress, Espresso, Selenium, Appium, and a wide variety of others,…

Thunderhead is the recognised global leader in the Customer Journey Orchestration and Analytics market. The ONE Engagement Hub helps global brands build customer engagement in the era of digital transformation.  …

Using AI to intelligently identify discrepancies between a base image and the test run, capturing the DOM for easy debugging, controlling A/B testing for variants of your application, and integrating with CI/CD pipelines and Jira…I could go on.

This experience has turned me into advocate for Applitools. I see a lot of potential of this kind of testing. I recognize the benefit for the current project my team is working on. And looking back I see there were many cases over the years where it would have helped QA Engineers I have worked with.

If you read my previous blog, Fast Testing Across Multiple Browsers, you know that participants in the Applitools Ultrafast Cross Browser Hackathon learned the following: Applitools Ultrafast Grid requires an…

The truth is, that using POM does no harm in Cypress and can be really helpful. But I like that Gleb has made a strong argument for other options. Because using them unleashes some Cypress superpowers. In this post, I’d like to explore and describe both of these options

What do you think about cross browser testing? Developers likely develop on only one browser – and maybe only one operating system. How does an app maker ensure that defects…

There is a lot of buzz around Visual Testing these days. You might have read or heard stories about the benefits of visual testing. You might have heard claims like,…

Every year, pundits and critics offer their predictions for the year ahead. Here are my predictions for Test Automation in 2021.

As we complete 2020, we want to share our take on the past year. We had a number of achievements in 2020. And, we celebrated a number of milestones.