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Nice! I built a very similar prototype a few years ago when I was working on a mobile app. My test suite would upload screenshots, and I would have a gallery wh

Nice! I built a very similar prototype a few years ago when I was working on a mobile app. My test suite would upload screenshots, and I would have a gallery where I could see all the screenshots that had changed. It was incredibly useful, and I wanted to turn it into a side-project or startup. But I was always worried that CircleCI or TravisCI would add the feature and make my service obsolete. I think I was wrong to worry about that though. Percy launched a little while ago and seems to be doing really well: https://percy.io https://percy.io My new startup has a very large number of competitors, and I've learned the lesson that competitors are generally a good thing. Appraise looks much more polished and ready to use. I'll definitely be trying it out for my current project. I had a bad UI bug recently where I forgot about scrollbars on Windows (I used offsetWidth instead of scrollWidth.) I would like to take a lot of screenshots on different browsers and platforms, to make sure I don't have any regressions. I'm going to look into using Appraise for that.

hobofan 9y ago
I've actually started building a side-project (imagetest.io, the landing page is still pretty bare-bones) in the visual regression testing space, because I didn't couldn't find percy.io or Applitools (the two main services right now) after quite some searching. Once I discovered the others, I was already too into the project to abandon it, and I also think that there is quite some room for improvement in the space. If you are interested in testing it out, you can reach out to me at the e-mail in my profile. I'm especially interested in making it work for use-cases that a lot of developers have to solve, but are somewhat underdocumented right now, like testing on Windows/IE10 (I have the exact same requirements at a current freelance client).

hobofan 9y ago

I've actually started building a side-project (imagetest.io, the landing page is still pretty bare-bones) in the visual regression testing space, because I didn't couldn't find percy.io or Applitools (the two main services right now) after quite some searching. Once I discovered the others, I was already too into the project to abandon it, and I also think that there is quite some room for improvement in the space. If you are interested in testing it out, you can reach out to me at the e-mail in my profile. I'm especially interested in making it work for use-cases that a lot of developers have to solve, but are somewhat underdocumented right now, like testing on Windows/IE10 (I have the exact same requirements at a current freelance client).