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🕶️ A curated list of resources around the topic: visual regression testing
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Jan 06 - Jan 12, 2025
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Browser automation
- Cypress.io - An automation framework that runs in-browser.
Tools and frameworks (a-z↓)
- AET (⭐149) - Scalable testing tool providing visual regression testing, accessibility and performance validation, markup analysis and more.
- basset - Open source platform for generating and reviewing visual differences. Supports multiple browsers, integrations for github and slack.
- Chimp (⭐799) - Develop acceptance tests & end-to-end tests with realtime feedback.
- CodeceptJS (⭐4.2k) - Modern Era Acceptance Testing Framework for NodeJS.
- Differencify (⭐636) - A library for visual regression testing using Puppeteer (⭐91k).
- ember-visual-test (⭐25) - Simple visual regression testing for Ember.
- FuncUnit (⭐573) - A functional test suite based on jQuery
- Galen (⭐1.4k) - Java framework based on Selenium (⭐33k).
- Hardy (⭐323) - Selenium-driven, cucumber-powered CSS testing.
- jest-image-snapshot (⭐3.9k) - Jest matcher that performs image comparisons using pixelmatch
- jest-puppeteer-react (⭐72) - Visual regression testing with Jest and puppeteer for React components
- Karma - A test runner by the AngularJS team, that fits all our needs.
- Loki (⭐1.9k) - Visual regression testing for Storybook using Chrome in docker et al.
- Look-alike (⭐35) - Chrome Extension for taking and comparing screenshots.
- Lost Pixel (⭐1.5k) - Holistic visual regression testing for full pages, components (via Storybook and Ladle integration), and custom shots (e.g. via Cypress).
- Muppeteer (⭐66) - Visual regression testing framework for Chrome using Mocha and Puppeteer (⭐91k).
- Needle (⭐593) - Needle is a tool for testing visuals with Selenium and nose (Python).
- Nightwatch (⭐12k) - Automated testing and continuous integration framework based on Node.js and using the Webdriver protocol.
- OSnap (⭐162) - The speedy and easy to use Snapshot Testing tool for your project (1200 snapshots will run in under 3 minutes).
- Protractor (⭐8.7k) - E2E test framework for Angular apps.
- Puppeteer (⭐91k) - Headless Google Chrome Node API.
- qd_screenshottests - CasperJS-based UI regression and functional testing focused on Drupal 8 sites.
- reg-cli (⭐384) - Visual regression test tool which output easy-to-read single file html report.
- Shoov (⭐40) - UI regression and functional testing focused on Drupal 7 sites.
- Spectre (⭐460) - Provides image comparison capabilities and an admin interface for managing screenshots.
- test-crawler (⭐33) - Visual regression testing, by crawling a website and providing snapshot comparison reports.
- TestCafe (⭐9.9k) - Automated browser testing for the modern web development stack.
- vrtest (⭐16) - JavaScript library for running visual regression tests on your components cross browser via selenium.
- wdio-visual-regression (⭐3) - Visual regression tool for webdriver.io
- Wendigo (⭐152) - Test-oriented browser automation library based on Puppeteer.
- Wraith (⭐4.8k) - Easy to use ruby tool with docker support.
- Zombie.js - Insanely fast, headless full-stack testing using Node.js.
Online services (a-z↓)
- Argos - The open source visual testing platform for modern engineering teams.
- Axcept - Testing for the whole team. Up to 100 tests in parallel. Endpoint Mocking. Code Coverage.
- browserling - LIVE interactive cross-browser testing.
- BrowserStack - Free for Open Source. Supports Selenium Webdriver (⭐33k).
- BugBug.io - Lightweight test automation tool for web applications. Easy to learn and doesn't require coding. It's free, with unlimited tests. For an additional monthly fee, you also get cloud monitoring and CI/CD integration.
- Diffy - Cloud based visual regression tool that focuses on Drupal and WordPress. Full page screenshots and minimal number of false positives. Just provide URLs of your sites to get started. No coding required.
- Happo - Cloud-based screenshot testing service with support for multiple browsers.
- HeadSpin - HeadSpin's Regression testing gives you a powerful comparison tool for analysing degradation across new app builds, OS releases, feature additions, locations, and more.
- LambdaTest - Perform Automated and Live Interactive Cross Browser Testing on 2000+ Real Browsers and Operating Systems Online.
- Meticulous.ai - Easily create frontend tests without writing code. Use Meticulous to record workflows on your web app. You can then replay those flows on new frontend code, and create a test by diffing two replays.
- percy.io - Continuous visual reviews for web apps.
- Pixeleye - Open-source, multi-browser visual review and testing platform with the option to self-host. It has first-class support for Storybook, Cypress, Playwright & Puppeteer.
- Preflight - Easiest Visual regression testing and Automated Web Testing tool. (Limited) free use.
- Reflect - Visual regression testing and test automation tool.
- screener.io - For React, looks open source.
- screenster.io - Cloud based automation testing platform for web and mobile UI.
- TestGrid - Perform End to End test automation be it cross browser testing, mobile app testing, performance testing or API testing on cloud or on-premise.
- TestingBot - Provides +3600 browsers to run automated visual tests. Free for Open Source.
- Testomat.io Reporter (⭐139) - Allows to collect tests to a Test Case Management System (TCMS) like testomat.io and sync manual and automated tests in one place.
- Vidiff - Cloud-based visual regression testing across stages.
- Visual Knight - Cloud-based visual testing platform with realtime results for testing tools.
- Visual Regression Tracker (⭐633) - Open Source selfhosted service for visual regression testing
- VisWiz.io - Flexible visual regression testing service.
Blog posts (a-z↓)
- Chromeless, Chrominator, Chromy, Navalia, Lambdium, GhostJS, AutoGCD - Headless Chrome is shaking up traditional approaches to test automation.
- Everything you need to know about Visual Regression Testing in 2022 - Intro to visual regression testing with tools updated as of 2022.
- Garris Shipon: Automating CSS Regression Testing - Tutorial using BackstopJS.
- Garris Shipon: Visual Regression Testing For Angular Applications - Tutorial using BackstopJS.
- Keeping a React Design System consistent: using visual regression testing to save time and headaches - Using percy, and jest puppeteer to visually test a React component library.
- Kevin Lamping: The 5 best visual regression testing tools - Compares: Wraith, PhantomCSS, Gemini, WebdriverCSS and Spectre.
- Make visual regression testing easier - Introduction to Differencify (⭐636) and how to use it.
- Pavels Jelisejevs: Visual Regression Testing with PhantomCSS - Introduction to PhantomCSS.
- Phillip Gourley: Making visual regression useful - Why you should use BackstopJS.
- Poor man's visual regression testing - Improved manual visual regression testing with the PerfectPixel chrome plugin.
- Visual Regression Test with WebdriverIO & WebdriverCSS - Tutorial using WebdriverIO and WebdriverCSS with Spec Reporter
- Visual regression testing for Hugo with Github-CI and BackstopJS - How to automate regression testing for Hugo with BackstopJS
- Visual regression testing using Jest, Chromeless and AWS Lambda (⭐17) - Tutorial using Chromeless and jest-image-snapshot.
- Visual Regression Testing with Puppeteer & Jest - Tutorial to setup visual testing with Puppeteer, Jest and VisWiz.io.
Slideshows, talks and videos (a-z↓)
- Cypress in 100 Seconds - Introduction video by Fireship.
- Screenster Tutorial - Tutorial on how to create visual automated tests with Screenster.
- Visual Regression Testing with PhantomCSS - Talk by Jon Bellah on how to use PhantomCSS during wordpress development.
- Visual Regression Testing with Shoov - How to setup shoov and get your first test written.
- Visual Regression Testing: Sanity Checks With BackstopJS - Screencast with code demo and best practices.
Deprecated (a-z↓)
- CasperJS (⭐7.2k) - Navigation scripting and testing utility for PhantomJS and SlimerJS. (archived 2018)
- Chromeless (⭐13k) - Chrome automation made simple. Runs locally or headless on AWS Lambda. (archived 2018)
- Huxley (⭐4.1k) - Python framework based on Selenium Webdriver (⭐33k).
- Navalia (⭐966) - Browser Automation based on headless Chrome and GraphQL. (archived 2018)
- PhantomCSS - Visual/CSS regression testing with PhantomJS or SlimerJS. No longer maintained since 22 Dec 2017.
- PhantomFlow - Experimental approach to UI testing, based on Decision Trees.
- PhantomJS (⭐29k) - Scriptable Headless WebKit. No longer maintained since 2 June 2018.
- Visual Review (⭐275) - A human-friendly tool for testing and reviewing visual regressions.
- WebdriverCSS (⭐613) - WebdriverCSS sits on top of Webdriver.io (⭐9.5k) and hooks into Selenium (⭐33k).
Jun 10 - Jun 16, 2024
Tools and frameworks (a-z↓)
- Happo (⭐204) - Visual diffing in CI for user interfaces.
Aug 14 - Aug 20, 2023
Online services (a-z↓)
- VRTs - Visual Regression Tests – WordPress plugin auto-updating screenshots on content updates, preventing false positives.
Nov 07 - Nov 13, 2022
Online services (a-z↓)
- testRigor - E2E functional test automation tool for web, mobile, and desktop tests.
Oct 24 - Oct 30, 2022
Deprecated (a-z↓)
- trifleJS (⭐824) - Headless automation for Internet Explorer. (last update 2016)
Sep 12 - Sep 18, 2022
Blog posts (a-z↓)
- UI Visual Regression Testing with Micoo - Introduction about how to do visual regression testing with Micoo service
Jun 20 - Jun 26, 2022
Tools and frameworks (a-z↓)
- Touca (⭐502) - Open source continuous regression testing without the hassle of managing snapshot files.
Apr 04 - Apr 10, 2022
Online services (a-z↓)
- Preflight: Cypress Recorder - Create AI-powered Cypress Tests/POM models in your browser and automate Email & Visual testing for Cypress.
Feb 15 - Feb 21, 2021
Online services (a-z↓)
- Micoo (⭐191) - Open source service for all UI application visual regression solution
Nov 16 - Nov 22, 2020
Tools and frameworks (a-z↓)
- Creevey (⭐405) - Cross-browser visual testing with magic. Feature-rich tool with UI Runner, Tests Hot Reloading, Docker and Storybook integration.
Oct 05 - Oct 11, 2020
Tools and frameworks (a-z↓)
- Selenide (⭐1.9k) - Framework powered by Selenium WebDriver for writing easy-to-read and easy-to-maintain automated tests in Java.
Aug 31 - Sep 06, 2020
Blog posts (a-z↓)
- theheadless.dev - Blog with practical guides and runnable examples on Playwright and Puppeteer.
Jul 06 - Jul 12, 2020
Deprecated (a-z↓)
- Gemini (⭐1.5k) - Feature rich framework with support for Selenium (⭐33k) and CasperJS (⭐7.2k). Gemini is deprecated, use hermione instead.
- OcularJS (⭐7) - uses PhantomJS (⭐29k).
Feb 17 - Feb 23, 2020
Tools and frameworks (a-z↓)
- Playwright (⭐75k) - Node library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
Feb 10 - Feb 16, 2020
Blog posts (a-z↓)
Apr 15 - Apr 21, 2019
Online services (a-z↓)
- Fluxguard - Screenshot pixel and DOM change comparisons and regressions.
Oct 22 - Oct 28, 2018
Deprecated (a-z↓)
- dpxdt (⭐1.4k) - End-to-end testing with Python.
Sep 24 - Sep 30, 2018
Tools and frameworks (a-z↓)
- AyeSpy (⭐213) - 44 image comparisons in 90 seconds.
Jul 02 - Jul 08, 2018
Slideshows, talks and videos (a-z↓)
- CSS Regression Testing with Wraith - Screencast: Basic introduction to wraith, a screenshot comparison tool.
Apr 16 - Apr 22, 2018
Slideshows, talks and videos (a-z↓)
- Visual Regression Testing - from a tool to a process by Nikhil Verma - How the Mobile Web team in Badoo converted and integrated PhantomCSS into their workflow and connected it to their CI process.
Jan 29 - Feb 04, 2018
Tools and frameworks (a-z↓)
- ResembleJS (⭐4.6k) - Analyse and compare images with Javascript and HTML5.
Deprecated (a-z↓)
- DalekJS (⭐695) - Automated cross browser testing with JavaScript. No longer maintained since 4 Jun 2017.
Dec 11 - Dec 17, 2017
Tools and frameworks (a-z↓)
- reg-suit (⭐1.2k) - Visual regression testing suite which compares images, stores snapshots, and notifies the difference to your GitHub repo.
Oct 09 - Oct 15, 2017
Slideshows, talks and videos (a-z↓)
- Look-alike - visual regression testing tool - Demo what the Look-alike Chrome extension is, how it works and how and why it was build.
- Screencast on CSS critic - a lightweight testing framework for CSS - How to write your first CSS test with CSS critic, make it pass, break it, and make it pass again.
Aug 28 - Sep 03, 2017
Browser automation
- Selenium (⭐33k) - Browser automation framework and ecosystem.
- SlimerJS (⭐3k) - Scriptable browser like PhantomJS, based on Firefox.
- Webdriver.io (⭐9.5k) - Node.js bindings implementation for the W3C WebDriver protocol.
Tools and frameworks (a-z↓)
- gatling (⭐56) - Integrated visual RSpec matcher which makes real visual testing easy (Ruby).
Online services (a-z↓)
- applitools - Cloud base visual tests.
- Browser Shots - Screenshots only.
- CrossBrowserTesting - Manual & exploratory testing on 1500+ real browsers and mobile devices.
Aug 07 - Aug 13, 2017
Tools and frameworks (a-z↓)
- Nightmare (⭐20k) - High-level browser automation library based on Electron.
Jul 24 - Jul 30, 2017
Tools and frameworks (a-z↓)
- BackstopJS (⭐7k) - Config-driven automated screenshot test framework.
- CSSCritic (⭐489) - Lightweight CSS regression testing.
- grunt-photobox (⭐278) - Plugin to prevent your project of broken layout via screenshot photo sessions of your site.
Blog posts (a-z↓)
- Angela Riggs: Visual Regression Testing with BackstopJS - Tutorial using BackstopJS.
Jun 26 - Jul 02, 2017
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