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by sthambyah 4332 days ago
Huxley is a great tool for testing. I think there is a big problem to solve around visual regression testing (I also think visual "unit testing" could be an interesting concept).

Obvious.io is focused on website monitoring, if you think about New Relic monitoring your backend and perhaps Pingdom monitoring your webserver, then Obvious.io is about the customer - does your website look like it should for them? And does it look right consistently over time.

On a side note though, we do have an API in the works so technically if you wanted to plug obvious.io into your CI pipeline, you could do that quite easily. E.g. you want to check that your release into prod is visually the same as the one that's currently in UAT.

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Very cool. I suppose Huxley could be scheduled to run repeatedly to keep track, but then you'd have to build a whole monitoring system.

I'll definitely look into this tool, thanks.