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by mrmondo 3883 days ago
Nice, I've written a few scripts to do things like this such as creating heat maps of areas of change between two sites and giving you the percentage of difference for CI builds etc...

Do you have any plans to open source this? That's the big factor for a lot of organisations decisions as to whether they'll make use of software or not. For example we have a policy that we won't rely on any proprietary software within our build / test pipeline.
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michaelstewart 3883 days ago
We have been considering going down that route and releasing Diffd as an open source project while offering a hosted version that is the easiest way to do things in parallel and across multiple browsers and operating systems.

However, we expect that initially most will add Diffd as a manual step at the end of their pipeline. So, it's not like their ability to push code is completely dependent on a third party, it's just another check.

Taking a dependence on Diffd is going to be less risky than depending on a third party for your CI server like Travis CI, CircleCI or CodeShip.

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mrmondo 3883 days ago
We don't depend on a third party for our CI though? We use Gitlab-CI to build all our code / Docker images and run our tests which not only works very well but is also extremely fast.
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