Applitools

Applitools automatically validates the look and feel and user experience of your apps and sites. It is designed to integrate with your existing tests rather than requiring you to create new tests or learn a new test automation language. Validate entire application pages at a time with a single line of code. Applitools, the All-In-One Next Generation AI-Powered Testing Platform revolutionizing the way businesses approach quality assurance and test automation.

Applitools is a fully-packed automation framework for visual UI regression testing. Whether you’re already serious about visual UI testing and looking for an easy way to automate this type of testing for your web and mobile applications, or you’ve just started looking into visual UI testing techniques, you may want to give Applitools a try to discover the advantages this tool provides in terms of automating your visual UI tests with regression-testing at the core.

Visual UI Testing

Automated visual UI testing is a form of regression testing that follows certain steps in order to validate that screens or pages have not changed unexpectedly from one test run to another. The figure below depicts a typical test case simulating a user’s actions for opening the “Wikipedia” website and searching for “Software” as a keyword.

How Applitools works

Applitools uses the same approach as above by providing the tools that you can use to take snapshots, send snapshots to the Applitools cloud and run AI logic to compare the snapshots with their corresponding baselines.

Applitools Test Manager

In addition, Applitools provides a rich test Manager dashboard to help you manage all the tests you run. You can run multiple test cases within a single batch.

For each test case, you get a list of all the snapshots taken throughout the execution of the test case. The dashboard will notify you of any test cases that are unresolved, meaning the snapshots generated by the test case might be different from those stored as baselines. The dashboard provides the tools to mark those changes as accepted and updates them as the new baseline snapshot, or rejects the differences and marks those changes as bugs for the developers to address.

Applitools is a visual test automation platform that offers many benefits, including:

• Automated visual validation Compares the actual visual output with the expected checkpoint to detect visual differences. This ensures the consistency and accuracy of the application's visual elements.
• Cross-browser testing Tests apps across different browsers, devices, and viewports using the Ultrafast Test Cloud.
• Integration with testing frameworks Integrates with popular testing frameworks like Cypress, Selenium, and Appium. This allows visual validation to be performed as part of the existing testing process.
• Collaboration features Allows teams to collaborate on testing projects using the cloud-based infrastructure.?
• Automated maintenance Uses algorithms to automatically analyze the differences detected across all tests and generate a concise report.?
• CI/CD integration Integrates directly into development pipelines for more regular feedback and regression.
• Test Manager dashboard Manages all the tests that are run.
• Cyber security Eliminates the requirement for tunnel configuration and allows the user to choose where to deploy the tool.
• Root Cause Analysis Tells the user exactly where the regressions are without any unnecessary information or jargon.