Company
Date Published
Author
The Cypress
Word count
1751
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The webinar, hosted by Cypress and Percy, delved into the integration of end-to-end functional and visual testing for web applications, demonstrating their utility through a fun Angular pizza ordering app. The session highlighted the capabilities of Cypress in providing efficient browser-based functional testing, while Percy was introduced for visual testing to detect UI changes without writing fragile test cases. The use of visual diffs in Percy enhances the detection and review of visual regressions, allowing developers to maintain robust codebases. The webinar also covered the integration of Percy with CI services like CircleCI, enabling seamless visual testing workflows, and discussed how Percy allows for visual reviews directly from pull requests, simplifying the process of identifying and approving UI changes. The session emphasized the ease and reliability of merging and deploying changes with confidence, facilitated by Percy's infrastructure and testing platform.