Where I’m Going From Here…

For the past few months I have put a lot of effort, a long with the help of others in creating more efficient and useful automated tests.

After a bit of tinkering, I created a system that will take screenshots of webpages over time (or as code changes) and will compare them – and highlight the differences. While I didn’t think of an official name for it, I did take to calling it AVIS – Automated Visual Inspection System.

Tonight I was thinking about how to make this system more useful, and I think an immediate tweak would be to capture the code that returned the page and also compare that.

As a first though pass, I figure the best way to do this would be to get the revision number the code base is at, then diff the file changes and add that to a folder with an image. While this would be good on a small-scale, if there is alot of code pushed then this would not be so efficient.

More to come soon.