Here at Applitools, we are relentlessly focused on making software testing easier, faster and more reliable. Our industry-leading Visual AI, trained on more than a billion images to deliver 99.9999% accuracy, can automatically detect visual and functional bugs just as a human would. The blazing fast Ultrafast Test Cloud, powered by our Ultrafast Grid, makes cross-browser, cross-device and cross-platform testing a snap. And we’re not done there, as we continue to grow and innovate along the path to autonomous testing.

Don’t just take our word for it though.  Hundreds of clients have determined that Applitools is the best visual testing tool and are using Applitools today, including nine of the top 10 software companies in the world, seven of the top 10 banks in the US and two of the top three retailers. We’ve empirically measured the impact of Visual AI and we know that the results – 5.8x faster test creation, 5.9x more efficient code (in terms of lines of code), 3.8x improvement in test code stability and 45% increase in effectiveness catching bugs early – speak for themselves.

We know that Applitools can make a dramatic difference in the lives of our customers – but again, you don’t need to just hear this from us. Numerous organizations have recognized the value Applitools brings just this month.

Update 1/19/22: We’re excited to share that we have also just been named the Best Testing Service/Tool in the DevOps Dozen² Awards for 2021. We’re honored by this latest recognition as well as the ones below!

Applitools Awarded Leading Vendor in Testing for North America

Software Testing News recently named Applitools Leading Vendor. This award is granted only to the vendor who receives top marks for both their product/service and customer service. Software Testing News specifically looked for commitment to a high quality product with excellent customer satisfaction, strong value for its cost, rock-solid reliability and ease of use, and proof of thought leadership that can drive the software testing/QE industry forward. 

It’s not easy to score highly on each of those metrics, and we’re thrilled that Software Testing News has recognized us with this award as the as the leading software testing vendor.

Applitools Named Fastest-Growing Software Testing Vendor in North America

It’s one thing to be recognized for product innovation and customer service – and make no mistake, we are proud of that – but when the rubber meets the road it is only the businesses that are growing that can meet the increasingly complex needs of more customers over the long term. That’s why we’re so excited to be named the fastest-growing software testing vendor in North America by Deloitte. 

This placement on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 is a testament to the demand in the market for a solution that can make the demanding lives of test engineers easier and significantly increase the reliability of software.

Applitools a Leader on GetApp and Capterra

We’re always grateful to the testing community and our customers for their feedback, and we’re pleased that many of them are not shy about sharing their love for Applitools and how it helps make their lives easier and more productive. That’s why we’re a Category Leader in Automated Testing on GetApp and have a strong 4.6/5.0 rating on Capterra – with no reviewer giving us fewer than four stars.

Our commitment to our customers is ironclad. We know that it’s only by our continued dedication to giving our customers exactly what they need that we can continue to win awards for growth and innovation, and we’re honored that our customers choose to share their experiences with the world.

Try it for Yourself

See for yourself why everyone from our customers to market-defining publications are calling Applitools a leader in automated software testing and showcasing the tremendous impact we’re having on the software testing industry. Get your free account and dive in, or reach out to schedule your demo today.

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We are proud to announce our position as the top ranked software testing vendor on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, fintech, and energy tech companies in North America.

Here at Applitools we know that when people experience the power of Visual AI, they fall in love, and that there is a large and growing demand for this technology in the market. We’re proud to share our recognition as the fastest-growing software testing company on the continent as a part of the Deloitte Fast 500. This long-running list, now in its 27^th year, provides a ranking of the fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, fintech, and energy tech companies — both public and private — in North America. Technology Fast 500 award winners are selected based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth from 2017 to 2020.

It is an honor to be the top ranked software testing vendor on the 2021 Deloitte Technology Fast 500. And, it is a testament to the growing demand for Visual AI technology. From healthcare to transportation, digital experiences are becoming central to companies’ success. Applitools makes delivering flawless digital experiences simple, ensuring brand integrity is never compromised. Thanks to all of the hard work and dedication from the Applitools team that made our ranking on the Technology Fast 500 possible.

Gil Sever, CEO and co-founder, Applitools

How Does Applitools Help?

Modern software development teams are rapidly delivering innovation to market through more frequent and shorter release cycles, but they struggle to fully test the customer experience due to increasing application complexity and an explosion of device/browser combinations.

Applitools is helping over 400 of the world’s top digital brands release, test, and monitor flawless mobile, web, and native apps in a fully automated way. Our Visual AI mimics the human eye and brain to avoid undetected functional and visual bugs, minimizing false positive bug alerts. The Ultrafast Test Cloud can instantly validate entire application pages and detect issues on even the most complex and dynamic pages. When development teams are confident they can fix functional and visual bugs faster, they can push more high-quality code faster than ever before.

Applitools’ Visual AI modernizes critical test automation use cases — functional and visual regression testing, web and mobile UI/UX testing, cross browser / cross device testing, localization testing, PDF testing, digital accessibility and legal/compliance testing — to transform the way businesses deliver innovation at the speed of DevOps without jeopardizing their brand.

An Honor to be Recognized

The Technology Fast 500 list is an impressive list of top companies in the tech space, and we’re honored to be recognized and proud of our placement as one of the fastest growing companies in North America.

Each year the Technology Fast 500 shines a light on leading innovators in technology and this year is no exception. In the face of innumerable challenges resulting from the pandemic, the best and brightest were able to pivot, reinvent and transform and grow. We celebrate the winning organizations and especially the talented employees driving their success.

Paul Silverglate, vice chair, Deloitte LLP and U.S. technology sector leader

“The pandemic has underscored the urgent need for tech solutions in a variety of areas across health care, fintech, energy tech, entertainment, to name a few, so reliance on innovators like the winners of the Technology Fast 500 is more important than ever,” said . “These companies are not only at the cutting edge, transforming the way we do business, but most importantly, recognize the strategic importance of ongoing innovation, especially in the ever-changing world of technology.” 

Christie Simons, partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP and industry leader for technology, media and telecommunications within Deloitte’s audit & assurance practice

Thank You

Many dedicated team members have worked long and hard here at Applitools to achieve this ranking, but it is also the direct result of the feedback and collaboration we’ve had with our customers – we could not have done it without you. Thank you for trusting us to deliver flawless automated testing for you, and we’re excited to head into the future of testing together.

Learn more

For more, you can read our full press release, or schedule a demo and see for yourself how Visual AI is helping industry leaders delivery visually perfect digital experiences.

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At Applitools, we are deeply saddened by the horrible bushfires that have scoured the Australian continent over the past several months. Bushfires in Australia started in late 2019 and have continued through 2020 damaging more than anyone could have imagined. The economic damage from the bushfires devastating Australia’s eastern seaboard is likely to exceed the record $4.4 billion set by 2009’s Black Saturday blazes. So far, the fires have charred at least 8.4 million hectares across the whole country, compared with the 450,000 hectares burned in the Black Saturday fire. With some Applitools team members working in Australia, we are also personally impacted by the devastation happening there.

We have not taken this situation lightly and want to extend as much support as possible to the local communities. As part of this, our CEO Gil Sever has donated funds to the Red Cross and WWF, with others in the company donating to additional rescue and recovery organizations. We are also hosting a MeetUp event in Melbourne on Thursday, February 13. The MeetUp aims to bring together the local QA community to help raise additional funds for bushfire relief. To learn more about the event and how to donate for entry and show your support, visit: https://www.meetup.com/Melbourne-Transformation-Meetup-Group/events/267861287/.

While it seems the blazes have been downgraded in recent days, we hope the devastation comes to an end soon. Not one person can do everything, but everyone can do something. Please extend your support alongside Applitools to those impacted as the recovery process begins.

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Recently, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) Managing Research Director, Torsten Volk, released a new research report featuring Applitools entitled, “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Optimizing DevOps, IT Operations, and Business: EMA Top 3 Report and Decision Guide for Enterprise“.
We were selected based on our AI-powered ability to solve for the complex problem of Automated Visual Testing in DevOps.

Download your free copy of the EMA Top 3 Report here.

To view their report and gather a bunch more information on the research methodology, visit the EMA Top 3 web portal. This research provides guidance for enterprises seeking to optimally leverage today’s AI/ML capabilities, depending on their individual situation and priorities.

What is an EMA Top 3 Product?

The EMA Top 3 Award is presented to products that convincingly resolve DevOps, hybrid IT, and business challenges through the innovative use of artificial intelligence or machine learning. EMA identified these products through a sequence of briefings, demonstrations, customer interviews, technical discussions, and often the use-case-driven deployment of the product by EMA staff and partners.

Applitools was among the top 3 companies named in the “AI for DevOps” category and specifically featured as a top product for the AI-driven Test Optimization section. This was based specifically on Applitools’ ability to accurately and comprehensively provide automated visual testing coverage both pre- and post-production. According to the report, these EMA Top 3 products enable continuous and comprehensive software testing for DevOps. As enterprises are striving for continuously releasing and validating new software capabilities, these EMA Top 3 products help provide quality assurance of these releases.

Watch our CTO, Adam Carmi, discuss Continuous Testing for DevOps with Torsten Volk:

Applitools developed the first and only AI-powered automated visual testing technology that mimics the human eye and brain to streamline UI visual testing of web and mobile applications. The Visual AI engine only reports visual differences that are perceptible to users and reliably ignore invisible rendering, size and position differences. The algorithms can instantly validate entire application pages, individual components, detect layout issues, and process the most complex and dynamic pages.

Applitools Eyes lets DevOps teams implement visual testing finds bugs that traditional functional testing misses. Combining visual and functional testing into a DevOps toolchain results in better app quality.

To increase speed, users can leverage AI to highlight only significant visual bugs, ignoring visual differences that won’t matter to customers. The result: QA never wastes developer time on insignificant visual bugs.

To get started with Applitools, sign up for a free Applitools Eyes account.

Why AI/ML is Disrupting Every Industry

The disruptive character of AI originates from the core expectation of AI/ML technologies enabling enterprises to make optimal data-driven decisions that are aligned with their corporate strategy, immediate priorities, and compliance obligations.

Enhancing human capabilities through AI: Complexity is the most critical challenge for employees in DevOps, IT operations, and business. Decision makers are faced with a rapidly growing number of data sources, technology options, and competitive requirements. Optimal decision-making requires the ability to quickly identify how all of the different data sources can be put together into one big picture that shows the outcomes of alternative courses of action. Artificial intelligence can act as this “complexity reducer” by identifying potentially relevant trends and anomalies in these vast bodies of data and by revising its output based on human feedback and past project outcomes.

AI-driven automation: AI-driven automation can eliminate simple repetitive tasks to enable staff to focus on activities where human intuition, creativity, skills, and situational awareness are critical. AI-driven solutions that best include humans into their decision and automation workflows have been significantly more successful in the market compared to solutions focusing on a black box approach to AI-driven automation.

If you don’t get a chance to dig deeper into the research above and want to learn more about AI and Machine Learning for DevOps, reach out or sign up for a free Applitools account and get started with Applitools AI-powered visual UI testing platform today!

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Red Herring Top 100 recognized the most promising privately-held companies in North America, and Applitools was recognized for its Application Visual Management market expansion leveraging AI Powered Visual UI Testing. 

It’s always an honor to be recognized for your hard work. So when the 2018 Red Herring Top 100 North America Awards were announced, and Applitools was included, we were both excited and humbled to be included on this prestigious list alongside some amazing and innovative growth companies.

With tens of thousands of users from more than 300 customers around the globe, Applitools helps Test Automation Engineers, Developers, Manual QA experts, DevOps Teams, and Digital Transformation executives holistically support all visual aspects of software applications. With increasing demand for digital products and experiences, companies must leverage Application Visual Management (AVM) as a strategic advantage to shorten application delivery cycles while improving software quality.

The Red Herring Top 100 has been a noteworthy award in our industry since 1996 when the accolade started as a means for discovering and advocating the most promising private ventures. To win the award, organizations must go through a rigorous three-step process during which Red Herring looks at more than 20 criteria to determine the winners. In addition to a thorough report from the company, there is also an interview process where the CEO has a conversation with a Red Herring judge. If the judge determines the company’s business model is deserving of further attention, they move forward. If not, the process stops there. The Red Herring Top 100 is extraordinarily thorough and detailed and is not an easy award to win.

Applitools is a relatively young company, and as we look around at the table at the team in place (we are thrilled to add Dave Haeffner and Manoj Kumar to the team), we have an incredible opportunity ahead. And, we are just scratching the surface of what we can accomplish in this space.

This is a recognition we share with everyone who makes Applitools the company that it is today – from our customers and end-users to our partners and investors – congratulations on a job well-done.

To learn more about Applitools’ visual UI testing and application visual management (AVM) solutions, check out the tutorials on the Applitools website. To get started with Applitools, request a demo, or sign up for a free Applitools account.

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Award program recognizes the leaders in the software development space, and this year, Applitools brings visual UI testing to the community. 

Recently, SD Times, the leading monthly magazine for Software and Development Managers, DevOps teams, Test & QA professionals and CIO’s announced their annual SD Times 100 awards, and Applitools was named a “Best in Show” for the software testing category.

We spoke to David Rubinstein, editor of SD Times, back in February about the most recent updates to Applitools Eyes and the introduction of Application Visual Management (AVM), and then again in April, once we closed our latest funding round. It has been a pleasure to work with the SD Times team and we always appreciate the opportunity to share our insights for what lies ahead in the ever-exciting world of software development.

We’d like to give a special shout out to the other innovative companies recognized in the testing category: Eggplant, Mobile Labs, Parasoft, Perfecto, Rainforest QA, Test IO and Tricentis.

Want to learn more about Application Visual Management (AVM)? Check out our whitepaper, “Automate Visual UI Testing In Just 5 Lines of Code: The Rise of Application Visual Management”

Background on the SD Times 100

According to the editors of SD Times, they identified the industry’s top leaders, innovators and influencers, and broke them out into 10 separate industry segments. Some companies lead in one category, others in more than one. In each category, one company has been spotlighted as a star deserving of special notice.

When choosing the SD Times 100, the editors carefully considered each company’s offerings and reputation. They also listened for the “buzz”— how much attention and conversation we’ve heard around the company and its products and technologies — as a sign of leadership within the industry.

The SD Times 100 judges looked for companies that have determined a direction that developers followed. Did the company set the industry agenda? Did its products and services advance the software development art? Were its competitors nervously tracking its moves? Were programmers anxiously awaiting its developments? Those qualities mark a leader.

Subjective? Of course. But leadership and innovation can’t be measured by stock valuations or analyst reports. The SD Times 100 represents what we believe to be the best of the best…

We felt an immense sense of pride being included in the SD Times 100 for the first time. Looking back on where Applitools started to where we are now, none of it would be possible without the hard work, dedication and incredible tenacity of our employees, partners and most importantly – our customers. What we’ve seen growing at our organization over the past few years is nothing short of amazing, and to have this independent and well-respected third-party look at what we’ve accomplished and say, “That’s award-worthy,” — well, that really means something.

To learn more about Applitools’ visual UI testing and application visual management (AVM) solutions, check out the tutorials on the Applitools website. To get started with Applitools, request a demo, or sign up for a free Applitools account.

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We just released version 10.3 of Applitools Eyes on our Application Visual Management (AVM) platform and would like to tell you about three great new capabilities we added:

1. UI Version Control
2. New View: Apps & Tests
3. New View: List View of Test Baselines

1. User Interface Version Control

UI Version Control lets you view the history of an application UI over time, and see how it has changed, what has been changed, and by whom.

Up until now, Applitools has only shown baselines in the context of test results from the test results manager, and you’ve never been able to view the history of a test baseline.

Now in Applitools 10.3, you can see the history of all your test baselines in each branch, compare them to prior versions of your baselines, and revert to an earlier version if necessary. You can do this by selecting ‘Save as latest’ from the baseline options menu. So, if you accidentally accepted a baseline that you shouldn’t have, you can undo your mistake.

You can also merge baselines branches just like you merge your code changes. This gives you a lot of flexibility around baseline management.

This capability is essentially version management applied to the concept of the visual aspects of your application’s entire user interface. We call this User Interface Version Control, or UIVC. And we are the first company to build this.

Another benefit of Applitools’ UIVC is that it gives you a system-of-record to understand how your product’s UI has evolved. We found it amazing that, in 2018, with so many businesses driving the bulk of their revenue through their app or website, there wasn’t a place to go to see the visual evolution of your product. So, we went out and built one!

Here’s a demonstration from our CTO, Adam Carmi, of our new UI Version Control:

2. New View: Apps & Tests

The second new feature in Applitools 10.3 is Apps & Tests View. In Applitools, visual tests have always been associated with their respective baselines and been part of an application group. However, there hasn’t been an easy way to visualize this taxonomy of apps, tests, and baselines from the test results manager.

In 10.3, a new user interface screen labeled Apps & Tests now lets you:

• View a list of all applications and their corresponding tests with the ability to filter, rename, or delete in the application list or the test list.
  • Note: any time you rename an application or test, you should also update your test script so that Applitools doesn’t create a new test during subsequent runs.
• View details on each test such as the last test execution date and baseline update by user.
• View all baselines for a test by selecting Show Baselines from the options panel for a test.
• View last executed or saved result for a test in the Test Results Manager from the options panel.

3. New View: List View of Test Baselines

The third new update in 10.3 is a list of all baselines for a given test. You can get to this screen from the Apps & Tests screen by clicking on a test, as well as by clicking the options icon for a given test.

The screen lets you:

• Group baselines by various parameters
• Filter baselines by branches, name, and status parameters
• View related details such as properties, last saved date and total tests run
• Drill into the history of any baseline from the options panel

To learn more about Applitools’ visual UI testing and application visual management (AVM) solutions, check out the tutorials on the Applitools website. To get started with Applitools, request a demo, or sign up for a free Applitools account.

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Digital Transformation drives rapid market expansion of Visual AI from automated UI testing and monitoring to holistic support of all visual aspects of software applications

SAN MATEO, Calif., April 17, 2018 – Applitools (https://applitools.com), the leader in Application Visual Management, today announced it has raised $31 million in Series C funding led by OpenView, the expansion stage venture firm, with participation from its existing investors Sierra Ventures, Magma Venture Partners, iAngels, and La Maison. Applitools will use this investment to fuel market expansion of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Powered Visual Testing and Monitoring solution by scaling its R&D, Operations, and Sales. With tens of thousands of users across more than 300 companies, Applitools Eyes recently crossed a total of 100 million visual comparisons and one billion component level validations. Since it was founded in 2013, Applitools has raised more than $46 million. 

Read more about the next phase of Applitools’ company journey at: (https://applitools.com/blog/the-next-phase-of-the-applitools-journey).

“Our mission is to help customers automate all visual aspects of application delivery, and address the growing importance of providing exceptional digital experiences across any device, browser, operating system, and language,” said Gil Sever, CEO of Applitools. “We are excited to partner with OpenView to scale our enterprise-grade platform to support digital transformation with the velocity and quality that businesses demand.”

Applitools developed the first and only Visual AI Engine that mimics the human eye and brain in a reliable and scalable fashion. Applitools Eyes (https://applitools.com/features), the company’s Automated Visual AI Testing and Monitoring Platform, leverages the largest data set of UI validations in the world and achieves 99.999 percent accuracy, i.e. less than 10 false detections in a million comparisons. The company’s AI engine continues to evolve through machine learning by analyzing millions of new images on a daily basis.

Applitools’ Automated Visual AI Testing and Monitoring Platform v10 is available now. To learn more and open a free trial account, visit: (https://applitools.com/users/register).

“If there’s a single commonality of the fastest growing companies it’s that they understand their brand is the sum of every experience a customer has with you,” said Bill Macaitis, former CMO at Slack, Zendesk and SVP Marketing at Salesforce. “The need to deliver delightful, incredible digital experiences to millions of customers, 24/7, on a breadth of devices, browsers, and operating systems can be daunting. Applitools makes it easy via their Application Visual Management (AVM) approach, which enables automated validation of every aspect of the visual user experience. Applitools is a game changer.”

“OpenView is thrilled to partner with the Applitools team as they solve for one of the few remaining bottlenecks in the continuous delivery process – visual testing,” said Jim Baum, Venture Partner at OpenView who joins the Applitools board. “For modern enterprises, a web or mobile application is the face of their brand and Applitools provides a crucial protective layer.” Jim will bring world class operational experience to Applitools’ Board of Directors, as he was CEO of Netezza and took the company public and later drove its acquisition by IBM in 2010 for nearly $2B.

To help guide Test Automation Engineers, DevOps Teams, Front End Developers, Manual QA experts, and Digital Transformation executives, Applitools created Application Visual Management – a new category framework that simplifies and automates all visual aspects of application creation, testing, delivery and monitoring. The goal is to help shorten application delivery cycles and improve software quality because what the customer sees is what matters most. By helping prevent visual flaws from occurring in the application delivery process, teams can avoid the issues that frequently result from events such as browser and operating system updates, new devices penetrating the marketplace, and the effects of dynamic content on the web.

Today’s DevOps toolchain only supports the functional aspects of modern application delivery in areas like testing, monitoring, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), accessibility, security, bug tracking, collaboration, source control, and more. AVM applies Visual AI technology to add automated visual validation of all the visual aspects of application delivery to the DevOps toolchain, allowing acceleration and full automation of the entire delivery process. Fortune 100 companies have already realized significant benefits through the use of Visual AI technology and those benefits can now be offered to any Enterprise or SMB. This round of funding will be used to expand the offering with new capabilities and to target users across the entire software development, delivery, and monitoring toolchain.

To learn more about AVM, download the Application Visual Management whitepaper for free at: (http://go.applitools.com/AVM-Category-Whitepaper.html).

About Applitools

Applitools is on a mission to help Test Automation Engineers, DevOps Teams, Frontend Developers, and Digital Transformation Executives release, test and monitor flawless mobile, web, and native apps in a fully automated way that enables Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI-CD). Founded in 2013, Applitools uses sophisticated AI powered image processing technology to ensure that an application appears correctly and functions properly on all mobile devices, browsers, operating systems and screen sizes. Applitools has more than 300 customers from a range of verticals, including Fortune 100 companies in software, banking, online retail, insurance, pharmaceuticals, and more. Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com.

About OpenView

OpenView, the expansion stage venture firm, helps build software companies into market leaders. Through its Expansion Platform, OpenView helps companies hire the best talent, acquire and retain the right customers and partner with industry leaders so they can dominate their markets. Their focus on the expansion stage makes OpenView uniquely suited to provide truly tailored operational support to its portfolio companies. Learn more about OpenView at openviewpartners.com.

Applitools Media Contact:

Jeremy Douglas
Catapult PR-IR
303-581-7760, ext. 16
jdouglas@catapultpr-ir.com

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Check out this in-depth post about integrating Appltiools Eyes Automated Visual Testing with SilkTest – including code examples.

From the post: 

When working with complex web applications, you want to ensure that the app’s layout remains stable, while the underlying implementation of the web application changes.

Or you might want to ensure that the contents displayed on the web application are not unintentionally changed, while the layout of the application is modified.

Applitools Eyes is an online solution for semantically comparing screenshots, which allows you to effectively perform the previous tasks.

You can integrate Eyes into Silk4J or Silk4NET through the corresponding Java- and .NET APIs, which are exposed by Eyes.

This blog entry describes how you can use Eyes and Silk4J to ensure that the layout of a web application remains stable over time.

***Read the full post, including code examples, right here***

To read more about Applitools’ visual UI testing and Application Visual Management (AVM) solutions, check out the resources section on the Applitools website. To get started with Applitools, request a demo or sign up for a free Applitools account.

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Check out Applitools Eyes awesome new features, making automated visual testing better and faster! 

(1) Optimize image download when viewing test results (download scaled down images)

In order to make test result analysis even faster, we’ve improved loading time of images: a smaller image will load so you can see the results faster, and larger image parts will be downloaded only when zooming in.

(2) CheckRegion in nested frames for Selenium SDKs

Testing frames within nested regions just got a lot easier. Applitools Eyes helps you identify and test regions within nested frames quickly and painlessly – by automatically changing the webdriver context to the target frame, scrolling and stitching to capture the entire contents of the region and reverting to the original context – all with a single CheckRegion command.

(3) Allow setting an explicit baseline to enable cross-browser visual testing

Cross-browser testing is much easier with this new feature. By default, the test is automatically compared with a baseline that is specific to the execution environment (e.g. browser, device, screen resolution, etc.) of the application under test.

Cross-browser testing requires running the test across different execution environments; therefore it’s required to circumvent default baseline matching mechanism.

Setting an explicit Baseline name forces a test to run against that baseline – allowing the comparison a screenshots from different execution environments.

To learn more about this feature, read Dave Haeffner’s post: How to Do Cross-browser Visual Testing with Selenium.

(4) Added API to download an image with highlighted differences

For those of you who want to embed Applitools Eyes’ test results in your own custom reports, we have added an API that allows downloading test step images, which also include the highlighted differences, and embedding them into your existing reporting dashboard.

(5) Javascript and Ruby SDKs support full page screenshots

This important capability has now been ported to our Javascript and Ruby SDKs, and allows capturing full page screenshots even for browsers which only produce screenshots of their viewport.

(6) Handle retina displays by Javascript SDKs

Enhanced support for visual testing on retina screens: full page screenshots are no longer skewed, and are easily comparable to images obtained from non-retina systems.

(7) Applitools Eyes Express Chrome Extension: Using Pre-defined Scenarios

Test scenarios can now be loaded to Applitools Eyes Express Chrome Extension. This allows manual testers to easily follow pre-defined test scenarios, automatically setting each step as the test name (thus avoiding default names) – making 1-click visual testing even faster. This also allows QA managers to track testing process according to the defined scenarios.

(8) Applitools Eyes Express Chrome Extension: Comparing URLs against .png Images

Applitools Eyes Express Chrome Extension now allows verifying a web page/ web application against a given image (e.g. a PNG file from the designer). Simply click on the “Compare to image…” button in the “Baseline…” panel, and then select the image you want to compare to. After that, navigate to your web page, and simply run a test. The image captured from your web page will be compared against the image you previously selected.

Check out these new features yourself: Login to your Applitools Eyes account now.

To read more about Applitools’ visual UI testing and Application Visual Management (AVM) solutions, check out the resources section on the Applitools website. To get started with Applitools, request a demo or sign up for a free Applitools account.

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These Twitter mentions made us very happy indeed, so we would like to thank these Applitools users that gave us a shoutout, telling us and their followers how much they enjoy our visual test automation solution!

Andreas Tolfsen 

WebdriverIO

Shahar Talmi

Julien Muetton

Thank you all for the mentions!

If you also enjoy using Applitools Eyes, be sure to mention us on Twitter, so we can give you a shoutout on our next “Thank You” blog post, or simply re-tweet any of the above mentions.

To read more about Applitools’ visual UI testing and Application Visual Management (AVM) solutions, check out the resources section on the Applitools website. To get started with Applitools, request a demo or sign up for a free Applitools account.

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“Applitools helps Visual Studio developers solve real, challenging problems for testing with a unique and innovative solution,” said Mitra Azizirad, General Manager, Developer Tools Marketing and Sales, Microsoft.

“Applitools Eyes, integrated with Visual Studio 2013, enhances Coded UI and adds automated visual testing for mobile and web apps, while also tying into our application lifecycle management tools.”

Tel Aviv, Israel, December 10th, 2013 – Applitools, innovators in Automated Visual Testing, announces being a Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 partner with Applitools Eyes, the first Cloud Service for Automated Visual Testing of Web, Mobile and Desktop applications, based on proprietary Cognitive Vision technology. 

“In today’s world, UI is the face of any application and a key to successful user experience (UX)” says Gil Sever, Co-Founder and CEO of Applitools. “The tremendous evolution in modern app environments such as multi-device, Agile, Continuous Deployment and more, is posing new challenges to developers and testers which are not being answered by any of the existing functional test automation tools. Applitools Eyes enables app developers and testers to bridge that gap and automate this process. We’ve presented Applitools Eyes to testers, developers and industry experts and received great feedback. “

Applitools Eyes can add value to Visual Studio users in three ways: First, it easily integrates with CodedUI and immediately enhances it with a unique and unprecedented Automated Visual Testing capability.

Second, once integrated with Coded UI, Applitools Eyes can be run and managed by Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) along with all the other functional tests.

Third, when Applitools Eyes detects visual and UI problems in the Application under Test (AUT), it returns an error notification to Microsoft TFS and a link to the visual log of the failure, which provides the user an immediate, exact and easy-to-understand description of the root cause of the problem. Since Applitools is a cloud service, it can easily integrate with the Cloud version of Microsoft TFS (Microsoft Team Foundation Service).

Applitools Eyes includes SDKs for CodedUI and Selenium .NET, which allows developers and testers that use Visual Studio, to use Applitools Eyes very easily. Applitools Eyes is compatible with Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 and easily integrates with MTM and TFS.

“Applitools helps Visual Studio developers solve real, challenging problems for testing with a unique and innovative solution,” said Mitra Azizirad, General Manager, Developer Tools Marketing and Sales, Microsoft. “Applitools Eyes, integrated with Visual Studio 2013, enhances Coded UI and adds automated visual testing for mobile and web apps, while also tying into our application lifecycle management tools.”

To read more about Applitools’ visual UI testing and Application Visual Management (AVM) solutions, check out the resources section on the Applitools website. To get started with Applitools, request a demo or sign up for a free Applitools account.

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