Also keep in mind that there is a GSoC participant doing a very similar project on behalf of the Language team:
Vikas S Yaligar Automatic cross-language screenshots for user documentation On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Tomasz Finc <[email protected]> wrote: > Great. Eager to see us test with this. > > Do we have any of its early screenshot comparisons up? > > --tomasz > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Juliusz Gonera <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I conducted a little bit of research on visual regression testing, mainly > > for the mobile team for now, but it could be easily reused for other > teams. > > I had a look at three existing solutions that seem somewhat popular and > are > > actively developed: > > > > * Wraith (https://github.com/BBC-News/wraith) > > * PhantomCSS (https://github.com/Huddle/PhantomCSS) > > * Huxley (https://github.com/facebook/huxley) > > > > They all have their own pros and cons, but in my opinion they share one > > important disadvantage: they can't be easily integrated with our current > > browser testing setup. For all the aforementioned tools we would have to > > create from scratch a completely separate set of tests just for visual > > regression testing instead of extending our existing browser tests. > > > > I spent a few hours in my spare time tinkering with an alternative idea > > which would enable us to add visual regression testing to our > Cucumber/Watir > > tests. The result is a small prototype available at > > https://github.com/jgonera/photographer. There is no docs or anything > yet, > > but I prepared a simple demo patch for MobileFrontend: > > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/126878/. > > > > The idea is to add a new method for Cucumber steps (snap) that takes a > > screenshot of the current browser state and compares it with a screenshot > > taken in one of the previous test runs. To update screenshots that are > used > > as a reference you run tests with env var PHOTOGRAPHER=update. If newly > > taken screenshot differs by too many pixels from an old one, the test > will > > fail. > > > > It's still only an early prototype, but I'd appreciate any comments about > > this idea. > > > > -- > > Juliusz > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mobile-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > > _______________________________________________ > QA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/qa >
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