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1. Automatic Visual Testing of Web Applications

   July 25 2008

   The topic of automatic visual testing returns to me like a boomerang.

   There are a lot of tools for automatic testing of the back-end (unit tests, integration tests, etc...) in every programming language you can possibly imagine. They even have the whole methodology of Test Driven Development. For testing the front-end we have Selenium or Ruby based Watir, but still all they test is the functionality of the web application or a website, and not the visual look of it.

   I'd like a tool, that will automagically tell me, if my web application still looks how it was intended to look. I need to know if my CSS refactoring didn't break the whole thing somewhere on a page I don't even look at, when I'm manually clicking.

   Is it really possible to automate visual testing? And if it is, will it be useful?

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   written by Bartek Szopka about

   • dev,
   • selenium,
   • testing,
   • web
   • and everything.

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