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by mpotter 4576 days ago
Sure! We use a web driver to simulate browsing in an actual client, so Javascript, etc. is executed as it normally would be.
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3am 4576 days ago
WebDriver/Selenium? That's not really visual, like some kind of CV/OCR tool like Sikuli would be. It's a nice tool, I would be more inclined to use it if it supported more robust test environment provisioning (eg, if the pull request is a schema migration) and it gave more control over how to define my own tests, like Sauce Labs.

edit: never mind, I realized you're probably using the built in screenshot features with webdriver and just diffing the images.

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jawns 4576 days ago
But what about content that changes on each page load, like a timestamp or a rotating banner ad? Would that be flagged as a regression?
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mpotter 4576 days ago
Yeah, it's not perfect but right now we're solving this with tolerance thresholds on the image diffs.
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maerek 4576 days ago
Can you share any more details on how the image diffing is done? BBC has a github repo called Wraith that uses ImageMagick and PhantomJS to accomplish a similar task (without the awesomeness of on-demand testing environments). Always curious to learn more about how people are solving the GUI testing problem on the web.
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dbarlett 4576 days ago
There's also Depicted (dpxdt)[1] - more workflow, Python instead of Ruby.

[1] https://github.com/bslatkin/dpxdt

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