For image comparisons I have used perceptualdiff[1], there is also
wraith[2] from BBC and automated-screenshot-diff[3]

Erik B

[1] http://pdiff.sourceforge.net/
[2] https://github.com/BBC-News/wraith
[3] https://github.com/igorescobar/automated-screenshot-diff


On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]>wrote:

> I believe the Java Selenium driver can take screenshots. No idea about
> performing comparisons.
>
> Kaldari
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I just wondered if anyone doing MediaWiki development had any
> > experience in catching CSS regressions?
> >
> > We have had a few issues recently in mobile land where we've made big
> > CSS changes and broken buttons on hidden away special pages -
> > particularly now we have been involved in the development of mediawiki
> > ui and moving mobile towards using them.
> >
> > My vision of how this might work is we have an automated tool that
> > visits a list of given pages on various browsers, take screenshots of
> > how they look and then compares the images with the last known state.
> > The tool checks how similar the images are and complains if they are
> > not the same - this might be a comment on the Gerrit patch or an
> > e-mail saying something user friendly like "The Special:Nearby page on
> > Vector looks different from how it used to. Please check everything is
> > okay."
> >
> > This would catch a host of issues and prevent a lot of CSS regression
> bugs.
> >
> > Any experience in catching this sort of thing? Any ideas on how we
> > could make this happen?
> >
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