Track Website Changes With Visual Regression Tests - Try this WordPress plugin

08/12/2022 41 min
Track Website Changes With Visual Regression Tests - Try this WordPress plugin

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Episode Synopsis

In this episode, you'll learn how to use visual regression tests in WordPress to track website changes. We explain the benefits of visual tests, how they'll help you detect critical issues and how you can set up visual regression tests with software libraries or WordPress plugins.VRTs WordPress Pluginhttps://vrts.appHighlights00:00 Intro00:22 What are visual regression tests (VRTs)?01:39 Why we build a VRTs plugin for WordPress04:54 Experience with BackstopJS11:40 Questions to consider before building a tool14:22 Why don't we use an existing tool?18:02 Why did we need visual regression tests for our websites?19:00 Reason 1: Automatic Plugin-Updates24:45 Reason 2: Code-Changes25:28 Reason 3: Unnoticed Changes30:31 How does our plugin work?33:47 The technical structure37:35 Don't miss the promo code and get 50% off :)38:58 Why VRTs is so simpleLinksVRTs WordPress Plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/visual-regression-tests/BackstopJS: http://garris.github.io/BackstopJS/Selenium: https://www.selenium.dev/PhantomJS: https://phantomjs.org/Puppeteer: https://pptr.dev/Playwright: https://playwright.dev/Storybook: https://storybook.js.org/Flynt Starter Theme: https://flyntwp.com/More from BleechBlog Posts (WordPress Development)Flynt (WordPress Starter Theme)VRTs (Visual Tests for WordPress)Siegfried, deploy! (YouTube Channel)