Appraise
Dev tools
visual regression testing
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How HN took it
2 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.
Idea: 1 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Looks more polished than a commenter's similar prototype.
From 1 comment
Nice! I built a very similar prototype a few years ago when I was working on a mobile app. My test suite would upload screenshots, and I would have a gallery where I could see…
nathan_f77 on HN
Appears similar to tools like FitNesse and works in a Markdown-friendly way.
From 2 comments
Author here - Appraise is a new opensource tool for visual test automation. It’s like FitNesse, but for visuals, and working from Markdown that shows up nicely in GitHub…
adzicg on HNThis looks pretty neat! A few questions: 1. Are there plans for a multi-browser (especially mobile web) test runner? 2. Are there plans to detect change provenance (eg. if I…
bcherny on HN
Objections
Diffing PNGs may be fragile and prone to false positives.
From 1 comment
This is diffing PNGs? That sounds like a recipe for disaster. Here is what this looks like in the much denigrated Java Enterprise world:…
revelation on HN
Visual test failures are hard to separate from real failures.
From 1 comment
Oh good I look forward to deleting mountains of these kinds of tests in a couple of years when the shine comes off the apple and people realise the effort of separating the flake…
iamaelephant on HN
Requests
Multi-browser and mobile web test runner support.
From 1 comment
This looks pretty neat! A few questions: 1. Are there plans for a multi-browser (especially mobile web) test runner? 2. Are there plans to detect change provenance (eg. if I…
bcherny on HN
Integration with WebPageTest.
From 1 comment
Bravo! Sounds fantastic. Curious whether you’ve considered possible paths to integration with tools like WebPageTest.
chrisweekly on HN
Prebuilt rules for material design guidelines.
From 1 comment
Would be good to have prebuilt rules for eg material design guidelines. Would it be even possible to test the material design rules across and entire page without having to…
sarthakjain on HN
Questions
How does it differ from niffy, happo, or Huxley?
From 3 comments
Very Nice! Can you tell me how this could be different to a tool like niffy (https://github.com/segmentio/niffy)?
lunarcave on HNHow is this different than happo?
felipellrocha on HNThis looks pretty neat! A few questions: 1. Are there plans for a multi-browser (especially mobile web) test runner? 2. Are there plans to detect change provenance (eg. if I…
bcherny on HN
Can it diff PDFs?
From 1 comment
Could this be used to diff pdf's?
alkonaut on HN
Alternatives named
Percy
From 1 comment
Nice! I built a very similar prototype a few years ago when I was working on a mobile app. My test suite would upload screenshots, and I would have a gallery where I could see…
nathan_f77 on HN
Applitools
From 1 comment
I've actually started building a side-project (imagetest.io, the landing page is still pretty bare-bones) in the visual regression testing space, because I didn't couldn't find…
hobofan on HN
niffy
From 1 comment
Very Nice! Can you tell me how this could be different to a tool like niffy (https://github.com/segmentio/niffy)?
lunarcave on HN
happo
From 1 comment
How is this different than happo?
felipellrocha on HN
RCPTT
From 1 comment
This is diffing PNGs? That sounds like a recipe for disaster. Here is what this looks like in the much denigrated Java Enterprise world:…
revelation on HN
Huxley
From 1 comment
This looks pretty neat! A few questions: 1. Are there plans for a multi-browser (especially mobile web) test runner? 2. Are there plans to detect change provenance (eg. if I…
bcherny on HN