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Re:Visual UI Regression Testing with WebAssembly and the Kan... by no_gravity on Thursday August 23, 2018 @11:04AM (#17827823)
A nice way to do a quick visual regression test on the command line:

    cmp -s <( cutycapt devserver.com/somepage  ) \
           <( cutycapt liveserver.com/somepage )
At Product Chart, we use this in a small bash script that reads a config file with a list of pages and tests them all for regressions:

https://www.productchart.com/blog/2015-07-19-urldiff

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Re:Visual UI Regression Testing with WebAssembly and the Kan... by Ulrich1 on Friday August 24, 2018 @11:42AM (#17835618)
Nice link, this is an interesting blog post. But note that Kantu does much more than just binary screenshot comparisons:

Kantu allows you to select specific areas of the website to test, and - especially important - the image comparison is error-tolerant. That means that (smaller) changes in image and font rendering do not break the test. So a test case created on the Mac works on Linux and Windows as well. In this respect it is similar to Sikuli (http://www.sikuli.org/ ) - but all inside a Chrome and Firefox browser extension, with no external installations required.

Edit: More info about the choice of WASM for image search here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17574862

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