Author: Bilal Haidar

With the advent of automated visual UI testing, people went about discovering the best way to integrate Automated Visual Testing in the DevOps workflow to speed up the process.

Applitools Ultrafast Grid grabs a screenshot of each page, compares it to its baseline screenshot, and determines visual differences and the root cause unpinning them. In less than a minute, your cross-browser testing is done and your developers have what they need to fix any visual bugs.

Visual UI testing is more than just testing your app on Desktop browsers and Mobile emulators. In fact, you can do more with Visual UI testing to run your tests…

You can easily integrate visual UI tests into your CI/CD workflow. Simply add an additional task in the workflow to run the visual UI tests. Typically, the CI Provider runs the automated tests and sends the results to the Visual Testing Provider. The Visual Testing Provider analyzes the testing results and reports them back to the SCRM on that specific PR.

While Cypress.io lacks support for cross-browser testing, Applitools supports it via their Applitools Ultrafast Grid. You can combine the best of both worlds by using Cypress.io to write your integration and E2E tests and letting Applitools Ultrafast Grid handle cross-browser testing for you.

How Cross-Browser Testing is evolving

Applitools realizes the complexity of visually debugging an application and introduced the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) module on their Test Manager Dashboard to help quickly identify the root cause behind visual UI changes. In this article, I will demonstrate the Applitools RCA feature by walking you through a complete step by step guide to visually test a Vue.js app with Storybook and Applitools.

In this article, I will go back to basics and share a step by step tutorial on how to UI test for native JavaScript applications using Applitools and its powerful integration with the Selenium WebDriver library. Applitools is an automated visual regression testing framework. It focuses on the visual aspects of your app and plays a significant role in exposing the visual differences between baseline snapshots and both current and future snapshots.

Cypress and Angular make a great combination. Angular is a useful and broadly-adopted front-end framework, focused on single-page applications. Cypress makes it easy to set up, write, run, and debug…

ReactJS provides a library of reusable components for building JavaScript applications. When combined with Storybook and Applitools Eyes, you can validate the visual appearance of your React components in a controlled testbed. With Applitools Ultrafast Grid, you can run your visual validations across a range of browsers and viewport sizes across multiple screen combinations simultaneously. Together, React, Storybook, and Applitools make you much more productive by developing once in React, testing once in Storybook, and rapidly validating everywhere in Applitools.

ReactJS provides a great library for app JavaScript development. Cypress is a great app functional UI test framework. Add Applitools, and you gain productivity in visual testing that allows you to deliver visual testing your app across a  range of browsers and operating systems. Put them together, and React plus Cypress plus Applitools is a great combination to develop, functionally test, and visually test your application.

So, you want to know about visual testing for your Vue.js app in Storybook using Applitools? So did I! In this article, I’ll walk you through a complete, step-by-step guide…