Your Tests Lack Vision: Adding Eyes to Your Automation Framework
summary
Demonstrates adding visual testing to a Cypress suite so screenshots become assertions, using a machine‑learning visual service to compare baseline vs regression images; one line of CSS flips the UI and breaks user trust while DOM checks still pass; tests shrink to a few lines and catch layout and visual regressions (or miss them if scoped poorly); shows eyes.checkWindow usage, layout match level for order‑insensitive checks, and cross‑platform runs that parallelize visual checks.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 2:33WHODUNNIT?
- 3:58inattentional blindness
- 5:19what about the look and feel?
- 11:58visual validation can be automated
- 14:10highlight only what matters
- 15:09let's add it!
- 34:24Ultrafast Grid
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