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Visual regression testing - move fast and try not to break things

My slides on automating visual regression testing, from Front End North 2016.

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September 27, 2016
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  1. Move fast and try not to break things Visual Regression

    Testing @furzeface bit.ly/df-vrt-slides

  2. @furzeface bit.ly/df-vrt-slides Move fast and try not to break things

    Visual Regression Testing

  3. @furzeface bit.ly/df-vrt-slides "Regression testing is a method of software testing

    that checks functionality that already exists against new changes that have been made to a codebase, to catch regressions." (Thanks, Wikipedia!) What?!

  4. @furzeface bit.ly/df-vrt-slides Why?

  5. @furzeface bit.ly/df-vrt-slides CSS is hard

  6. @furzeface bit.ly/df-vrt-slides Testing is boring (sorry)

  7. @furzeface bit.ly/df-vrt-slides When?

  8. @furzeface bit.ly/df-vrt-slides Where? Test ALL the things???

  9. @furzeface bit.ly/df-vrt-slides How? Sounds like hard work…

  10. @furzeface bit.ly/df-vrt-slides How? Pick some software BackstopJS PhantomCSS OcularJS CSS

    Critic Galen

  11. @furzeface bit.ly/df-vrt-slides How? Install npm install phantomjs casperjs -g npm

    install --save-dev backstopjs (requires Python)

  12. @furzeface bit.ly/df-vrt-slides How? Generate a config npm explore backstopjs --

    npm run genConfig

  13. @furzeface bit.ly/df-vrt-slides How? Generate a config "scenarios": [ { "label":

    "Styleguide", "url": "http://localhost:3000/styleguide", "selectors": [ "body", ".site-header", ".article", ".site-footer" ] } ] backstop.json

  14. @furzeface bit.ly/df-vrt-slides How? Generate reference screenshots npm explore backstopjs --

    npm run reference

  15. @furzeface bit.ly/df-vrt-slides How? Generate reference screenshots

  16. @furzeface bit.ly/df-vrt-slides Break your CSS How?

  17. @furzeface bit.ly/df-vrt-slides

  18. @furzeface bit.ly/df-vrt-slides How? Test npm explore backstopjs -- npm run

    test

  19. @furzeface bit.ly/df-vrt-slides

  20. @furzeface bit.ly/df-vrt-slides

  21. @furzeface bit.ly/df-vrt-slides

  22. @furzeface bit.ly/df-vrt-slides How? Fix and re-test

  23. @furzeface bit.ly/df-vrt-slides How? Bonus automation "scripts": { "bless": "npm explore

    backstopjs -- npm run bless", "openReport": "npm explore backstopjs -- npm run openReport", "reference": "npm explore backstopjs -- npm run reference", "test": "npm explore backstopjs -- npm run test" } package.json

  24. @furzeface bit.ly/df-vrt-slides Who? Everyone! Front-end developer Back-end developer Designer QA

    engineer

  25. @furzeface bit.ly/df-vrt-slides Summary Hurry up! Straightforward set up Peace of

    mind Works for many people Improve confidence

  26. @furzeface bit.ly/df-vrt-slides Thanks! You rock.

  27. @furzeface bit.ly/df-vrt-slides Blog post bit.ly/df-vrt GitHub demo bit.ly/df-vrt-demo Slides/Transcript bit.ly/df-vrt-slides

    Feedback bit.ly/df-vrt-feedback Further reading