Fighting Layout Bugs in 2014

[Michael Tamm]

Hi all,

I just read the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar of January 2014
and found the following interesting Paragraph:

Growing complexity in web applications has increased the

awareness that appearance should be tested in addition

to functionality. This has given rise to a variety of visual

regression testing tools, including CSS Critic, dpxdt,

Huxley, PhantomCSS, and Wraith. Techniques range from

straightforward assertions of CSS values to actual screenshot

comparison. While this is a field still in active development we

believe that testing for visual regressions should be added to

continuous delivery pipelines.

Each of these projects looks really interesting to me and therefore

I wanted to spread the word to all, who subscribed to the FLB group.

Although none of those tools can find layout bugs automatically

(i.e. without human help) they can all greatly improve the process

of manual testing for layout bugs: All of the above tools only show

layout differences to manual testers! So if a new release of your
software has no layout change, you don't have to inspect all pages
manually. And if  only a view pages have changed, you will be
directed to them.

I wonder how fighting layout bugs looks like in 5 years ...

Kind regards, Michael

[Patrick Lightbody]

Thanks for sharing!

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