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Re: Show HN: Percy.io, a continuous visual integration tool

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This looks promising. Our project has a plethora of selenium tests, but they're focused on functionality only, not appearance. We can tell there is a table, button, link, form, etc. and click it. On that side we're reliable. But we really let ourselves down sometimes with regressions to the look and feel of the application. Are there any competitor tools for this visual testing ?

ghostinspector.com (one of the products from my company)

Re: Show HN: Percy.io, a continuous visual integration tool

#26

Has anyone used visualdiff.com? The services seem pretty similar.

I think they might only do live sites, the thing about Percy is that it can be integrated earlier into your feature/browser tests for all pages, even those behind logins.

Re: Show HN: Percy.io, a continuous visual integration tool

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I wasn't a fan of giving you github permissions just to sign up for an invite.

I would have agreed with this, but the permissions they ask for are pretty benign and clearly relevant to their mission.

I'm a member of organisations that may not be comfortable with me giving permission by proxy.

I couldn't find a way to sign up and exclude private repos or organizations.

Re: Show HN: Percy.io, a continuous visual integration tool

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post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would have agreed with this, but the permissions they ask for are pretty benign and clearly relevant to their mission.

I'm a member of organisations that may not be comfortable with me giving permission by proxy. I couldn't find a way to sign up and exclude private repos or organizations.

Fair enough, but I think that's a limitation of Github rather than a problem imposed by Percy.

Re: Show HN: Percy.io, a continuous visual integration tool

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I've been working on VisualReview (https://github.com/xebia/VisualReview), an open source project for visually reviewing a (web-)application as part of a pull-request, very similar to percy.io.

We're releasing our first version somewhere next week which includes a basic comparison GUI and testing api's. PR workflow planned in the release after that. Interesting to see we're not the only ones with this idea.

Re: Show HN: Percy.io, a continuous visual integration tool

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post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a member of organisations that may not be comfortable with me giving permission by proxy. I couldn't find a way to sign up and exclude private repos or organizations.

Fair enough, but I think that's a limitation of Github rather than a problem imposed by Percy.

You can sign up for the mailing list instead: https://percy.io/#updates

And yes it's a GitHub limitation, we request some limited readonly access and no code access (we don't need it).

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