Episode 179: Visual Testing with Ramona Schwering

Recording date: Thursday, March 24

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Ramona Schwering @leichteckig

• AG Grid

• Narwhal

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• Ramona’s website
• Article over Testing Pipelines for Frontend developers
• Testing trophy
• Cypress testing
• shopware AG
• Dan Wahlin on End to End Testing with Cypress.io
• Spot the Difference
• What is visual testing
• Test Cafe
• Visual testing with Storybook
• Once Upon a Storybook - Web Rush 110
• Visual testing with Percy
• Playwright testing
• AppliTools for visual testing
• Testing Pyramid
• Jiminy Cricket
• Toastr JavaScript library
• Run Disney

• 00:34 Hiking and puppies
• 03:05 Guest introduction
• 05:45 When do I want to use this kind of testing?
• 08:31 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 09:34 When do you enable visual testing?
• 17:03 Can you ignore areas of the display if you don't want it to test?
• 18:14 How do you test for responsive design?
• 21:42 What about Applitools?
• 23:12 Sponsor: Narwhal
• 23:44 When a difference is spotted, how do you work with that?
• 25:36 What issues have come up when learning about visual testing?
• 29:36 How do you fit visual testing alongside other testing?
• 36:03 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.